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- inactive, on 01/13/2008, -4/+75Oh, I'd love to have these mechanisms placed on candidates during the Presidential debates!
- trotskyist, on 01/13/2008, -1/+48I knew this tinfoil helmet would come in handy.
- brainwash, on 01/13/2008, -2/+46Did anyone else think 1984 when reading this? We won't even have privacy in our own minds, great.
- pbaehr, on 01/13/2008, -3/+40Giuliani: "Nine-eleven, nine-eleven, 9/11, september 11th, nine eleven, igloo, 9/11, nine eleven"
- inactive, on 01/13/2008, -4/+29Giuliani: "9-11 9-11 9-11 9-11 9-11 9-11 9-11 ..."
- chrisinsocalif, on 01/13/2008, -1/+26I would be afraid to read peoples thoughts, especially the type of people who like that video 2girls1cup.
- Hipple, on 01/13/2008, -0/+14That's not really how it works...
- mailthev, on 01/13/2008, -0/+13"**************************************************************************************"
that's what you wrote - trotskyist, on 01/13/2008, -1/+13The sad thing is, I can't tell if you're being serious or not.
- karmakanic, on 01/13/2008, -1/+13One. The middle one.
- mattb5, on 01/13/2008, -1/+12Don't think about monkeys . . . you did it, didn't you? You thought about a monkey. I know you did.
- goldenratiophi, on 01/13/2008, -0/+11I don't need to read your mind to read what you wrote.
- thevelvetsun, on 01/13/2008, -0/+9Yeah you can force them into the MRI, but you can't FORCE a murder suspect to think about a murder weapon. If they know what the machine does, they will use every ounce of energy to think of anything BUT that thing. Baseball...food...Donald Trump naked (ew)....
"Damn it! Sonofabitch is thinking in Japanese!" "Hey! Why are you thinking in Japanese?!?" - inactive, on 01/13/2008, -0/+9I'm afraid I will get sued for mentally undressing the women.
- KaiUno, on 01/13/2008, -0/+9More likely: "... cry damn you... cry... dead kittens... CRY!... "
- gfunk84, on 01/13/2008, -0/+9Uh.. it's 2 letters away.
- spacecoyote1966, on 01/13/2008, -0/+8Bush:
- SiNN4R, on 01/13/2008, -0/+8This device violates my fifth amendment rights. BAN IT!
- monospaced, on 01/13/2008, -2/+10FTA: "The more detailed the thought is, the more different these patterns get, because different people have different associations for an object or idea," says Haynes. "We're much closer to this than we were two years ago, but still far from a universal mind-reading machine." How far?
A computer scans a stable brain and subjects are asked to think of certain items. The possibility of mapping the entire brain and how it forms conscious thought seems pretty weak to me. - Modiga, on 01/13/2008, -0/+7You are some kind of sorcerer.
- smurfsahoy, on 01/13/2008, -0/+6I did, and as a researcher in cognitive psychology, I am telling you that almost all of it is suggesting that there was a revolutionary breakthrough where there was nothing of the sort. Yes, they cover their bases, but when they say things like "this will have to be verified by independent labs, of course," it is implying that that's just a formality, and a matter of time. It is not. Those labs will not verify it, because it can't be done with anything near current technology.
They say "if your brain does mostly the same thing mine does when I think of igloo..." Well it doesn't - not even close, so you can ignore all of the hypotheticals they string out after that.
They also use horribly deceptive statistics. Guessing A vs. B correctly 78% of the time, pretty much in any branch of science, generally means you failed miserably. Remember, the default is not 0%. The default is 50% - that's what you get if you have no clue as to what the person's thinking. This is a common and well known tool used by newspapers to twist things into sounding sensational. A responsible article would word it as "this tool is 28% better at rooting out criminals than random guessing,"
The whole thing is just full of half truths, deceptions, or things that are flat out wrong. And the end message that we will probably see this put to use sometime very soon (or that if we don't, it's only for ethical reasons) is especially wrong. - NOFXY, on 01/13/2008, -0/+6dobut it, the machine will probably break or the computer will crash.
- ChiRolla, on 01/13/2008, -0/+6The Party says 5... so I'll go 5.
- bwpayne, on 01/13/2008, -0/+6After they make a dictionary for thoughts then they are one more step to forcing patterns into the brain...
The Matrix
You are now breathing manually. - oojamaflip2006, on 01/13/2008, -0/+6This made me think that George Orwell was on to something. Interesting how Newsweek is just a single letter away from Newspeak. (puts tinfoil hat on)
- MasterInsan0, on 01/13/2008, -2/+8I wonder if Ron Paul's dick has gotten soggy at all from the number of mouths sucking on it?
- pimpofpixels, on 01/13/2008, -0/+6The people deserve to know it their candidates are thinking about hammers of if they're thinking about pillars.
- koicho, on 01/13/2008, -0/+5"Minority Report" coming live 2020?
- bs0l, on 01/13/2008, -0/+5How many fingers am I holding up?
- inactive, on 01/13/2008, -0/+5thats not true sylvia brown could always read my mind before this...
*sarcasm* - ShogunWarPig, on 01/13/2008, -2/+7Hilary: Can not compute....
- bs0l, on 01/13/2008, -0/+4Just because the party says? Then you don't believe.
One more knotch higher for you. - megadan76, on 01/13/2008, -0/+4This is pretty enormous. 10, 20 years ago, this would have been 100% science fiction. Now we're close to making it reality. The future really will be complex. I can't wait.
- rickbauls, on 01/13/2008, -1/+5Welcome to 1984
- SomeImagination, on 01/13/2008, -0/+4oh *****! I'm screwed
- slearwig, on 01/13/2008, -0/+4Does anyone else think it's time to include telepathic devices in our privacy laws, for instance requiring the consent of the subject, just so it's in place before the irresponsible go overboard with this wonderful toy?
As long as it is limited to use as an aid for the physically impared under license and regulation then I have no trouble with it, but I wonder who will be responsible for regulating its uses?
Also, what's to stop the developers from recording human impulses and abusing
others with them, like something out of Star Trek; the Vulcan Mind Meld, etc.? - searcade, on 01/13/2008, -1/+4I Was already paranoid about my girlfriend ready my mind sometimes, now that this came up...
- lancert, on 01/13/2008, -0/+3I KNEW they were going to write this article...
- phrozted, on 01/13/2008, -0/+3"...still far from a universal mind-reading machine."
Rats! And I was gonna buy one with my lunch money. - slearwig, on 01/13/2008, -0/+3It's closer to "Brave New World" with the potential for "the feelies", or perhaps an electroneural Soma.
- Nichiren, on 01/13/2008, -0/+3Although the prospect of even accomplishing what they've done now wouldn't even have been thought possible 10 years ago. Who knows what they could do in another 10? Scientists seem to think that it has enough merit to further continue research in this field.
I for one would welcome a device that would act as a universal translator... so I wouldn't have to try so hard at learning Mandarin as I am now... - blindhammer, on 01/13/2008, -0/+3I knew you were going to post this.
- gcnaddict, on 01/13/2008, -1/+4interrogator: "Which weapon would be best in this scenario?" /flips MRI on
Suspect: (thinking) ***** *****, think about something. I know! BOOBIES BOOBIES BOOBIES BOOBIES...... - RAEP, on 01/13/2008, -1/+4hivemind oh shi-
- Stonekeeper, on 01/13/2008, -1/+4thought police
- ref-d, on 01/13/2008, -0/+3http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF160-The_Dreamcatcher3 ...
- neurophyre, on 01/13/2008, -0/+3In 2004 I wrote a paper for a comparative literature class, actually a survey of dystopian fiction starting and ending with Huxley, that broached the idea of electronic telepathy. Open source, no less -- see the OpenEEG project and open source games written for it that you can play with your mind.
I contend that the combination of
1. sufficiently advanced sensing technology such as a "wearable fMRI"
2. sufficiently advanced 'writing' technology such as BrainPort
3. a high bandwidth personal area network which can automatically link with nearby persons
4. assistive signal-processing software possibly using some kind of 'brain dictionary' as mentioned in the article and
5. people that grow up wearing such devices such that their brains learn to interpret the input much as a child learns a language,
could lead to the development of a form of electronically assisted telepathy. Before you dismiss me as a crackpot, read the paper: http://neurophyre.livejournal.com/233254.html
(It would help if you had read The Translator by John Crowley since this is technically a comp-lit paper, but whatever.) Bring on the abusive comments! - bagelmaster, on 01/13/2008, -0/+2Burn the witch!
- Stevethegreat, on 01/13/2008, -0/+2Why? That would be a disastrous notion. Every technology that is being suppressed fall ALWAYS on the wrong hands. You would like best for Chinese to have it, a dictatorship?
I think I have nothing to fear from technologies, but I have everything to fear from people who fear technologies, the day that we'll stop innovating we'll die and that's a rule of the thumb for the human specie. - rarson, on 01/13/2008, -0/+2Dude, chill out. It's not the end of the world if your comments get buried. It happens. If you joined digg to feel validated, you're going to be disappointed quite often.
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