• Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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    7 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

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 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.

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          7 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.

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          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.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      7 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