XPost: misc.news.internet.discuss   
   From: rsw@therandymon.com   
      
   On 2019-08-01, JAB  wrote:   
   > Brain-computer interfaces are developing faster than the policy debate   
   > around them   
   >   
   > It’s time to talk about what’s possible — and what shouldn’t be   
      
   > Two years after the company announced its mind-reading initiative,   
   > Facebook has an update to share. The company sponsored an experiment   
   > conducted by researchers at the University of California San Francisco   
   > in which they built an interface for decoding spoken dialo   
   > ...   
   > Brain-computer interfaces would seem to have a lot of promise for   
   > medical uses — something that Elon Musk, who is also exploring the   
   > technology through his company Neuralink, is currently focused on. But   
   > they would also seem to carry with them a great risk of   
   > anti-democratic surveillance.   
      
   How about, a green light is illuminated every time you, consciously or   
   unconsciously, think about sex.  How about, we let Zuckerberg prototype   
   it?  That douche is intensely protective of his own privacy, for fuck's   
   sake.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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