true

but they might just go whole hog on it when then need it

This is one of the dumbest possible things to worry about.

Yes, but that would be useless.

it does not have to be a repeating thing

It would backfire spectacularly.

it could be an ace in the hole thing as well

Also, there is no evidence that its effects even last beyond the stimuli. So you could get caught, then not even meet your goal.

This is one of the dumbest things you could possibly worry about, especially next to tech censorship and the other sneaky shit those companies pull off.

If it were any use at all, it would be useful for small organisations, typically cults, and on their own membership.

Or in places like NK and Eritrea, even China would have trouble with it.

(Plus, China has a brilliant new way to not bother with any of that, the social credit scheme. Get your population to oppress each other, easy peasy.)

I actually know how to go about building a proper mind control protocol that involves neurostimulation. I can tell you, worse than useless unless you are already North Korea, or a Cult.

Scientology would have a field day for sure.

Its applications are firming up the already faithful, preaching to the choir, preventing apostasy and further oppressing the already extremely oppressed.

But, non mind control related uses of neurostimulation could be shortening training time for soldiers, which would be especially useful to rebels who don't have much of that to go round.

@esotericpazuzuism Another application would be in combination with a drug protocol to permanently raise IQ, working memory, and other cognitive abilities. Much like weaponry, this would be useful both to despots and freedom fighters.

Reminds me of the god helment

You'd have to hold me down to get those eletrode on my head

>but things are so stressful, wouldn't it be better if you could just turn off the parts of your head that signal that there's a problem

Transhumanist garbage

@tin That is not how it works. Activity very quickly goes back to basal, the depression helmet would be trying to induce neurogenesis in a way safer than ECT.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulation

Adverse effects of TMS are rare, and include faintingand seizure.[7] Other potential issues include discomfort, pain, hypomania, cognitive change, hearing los

If someone is deciding between this and killing themselves sure, but don't act like it's the same as drinking coffee

Coffee also has rare adverse effects...

lol

I guess

I'm not strapping my head into the giant magnet machine

I'm not a technophobe, so I don't find its risks shocking compared to other shit we do all the time.

I'm pretty worried about the shit we are just accepting as cool without testing. Cell phone radiation for instance

lol

Vaping

5g

Cell phone "radiation" doesn't worry me in the slightest, I've read the studies on it.

Vaping on the other hand seems to have immunosuppressive effects.

The shit that we eat

Mircroplastics

anytype of smoking does

My advice is to either vape or smoke, don't do both.