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This is like reading an argument against multicellularity. The evil neurons are enslaving all the rest of us. Mind reading tech would obviously just be a new ki

• mcphage 2mo ago
  > It's not nazis with brain scanners. Why not? Where do you suppose the nazis would go, once they got ahold of some brain scanners?
  • bigyabai 2mo ago
    To modify the scanner to lie? Authoritarian states don't want the truth, it threatens their totalitarian ambitions. You are making the same mistake as the author, gesturing towards the Nazis as if they were hamstrung by ethics and due process. They were not, they summarily executed their opponents without a chance for appeal. This is not the type of government that is systemically concerning itself with accuracy or collateral damage. The Wehrmacht was much more interested in the shock-and-awe style of terrorism that the V1 and V2 weapons afforded, there was no point in scrutinizing the German population further because their biggest interior threats had already been pogromed.
    • mcphage 2mo ago
      You’re probably right. The nazis, if given the opportunity to use this technology to root out dissidents, would probably just say “no thanks, we’re already so good at killing, we don’t need to bother with this new technology.”
    • throwaway_19sz 2mo ago
      You are mixing up what authoritarian leaders want to know with what they want the public to know.