• @[email protected]
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      96 days ago

      The nonsense system they’re talking about in the OP article that’s supposed to read your mind and tell whether or not you’ve experienced taking part in the crime they’re describing when they question you.

      • Aatube
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        46 days ago

        wait what did you mean by “We were afraid of mind reading tech when we should have been afraid of polygraph 2.0” then

        • @[email protected]
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          66 days ago

          It doesn’t read your mind. It gives output, that’s not the same thing as mind reading any more than the polygraph was lie detection. The real threat was and always has been cops and the state.

          • Aatube
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            46 days ago

            when were we afraid of it besides being afraid of it for being polygraph 2.0

            • @[email protected]
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              106 days ago

              I was talking about the historical presence in sci fi and pop culture of fear of mind reading machines in general, as opposed to this specific one. But I mean, do you think cities are spending tens of thousands of dollars because they don’t think it works like that? They at least believe they can convince people that it reads minds.

            • @[email protected]
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              36 days ago

              People really just got annoyed about you missing the context of a comment (science fiction and cultural depictions of the future) and asking clarifying questions until you got it.

              • Aatube
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                26 days ago

                time to get annoyed about somebody’s addiction to idioms!

        • The Quuuuuill
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          26 days ago

          science fictiun has been warning about a surveillance state that becomes so pervasive it penetrates your thoughts for decades. but we never really wrote any speculative fiction about the state planting evidence of thoughts on you