BMI are pretty common, they're just too costly right now

So you can get one, it just takes more money than is reasonable to spend

Our phones are technically a brain machine interface

Nono I mean the whole nine yards read your mind for directions kinda thing

We applied to get one in our lab but the application's been in review forever

Yeah, it's quite disturbing that the only people willing to critically assess this technology are people like Alex Jones

There's a ton they can do to help people with physical disabilities

But it could also be used to turn people into your puppets who believe they have free will

It's an input and an output

Well they do work one-way but I don't think any we saw could do more than read- write attempts were largely out of scope considering we still don't know enough on neural structuring

Plus, read attempts are tracking the secondary effects of physical chemical motion

But we know that the military was developing it for the purpose of regulating emotions

So they clearly have it in mind

Yeah, that's true, but that also needs a lot more invasive, precise, and personal installation

For now

And while we get how some things work it's not a deep enough understanding quite yet, but once we get that understanding building AI should eclipse mind control in usefulness

All I'm saying is to be skeptical of what this technology's purpose is. Don't let your desire for the benefits blind you to the power it could potentially hold over you

There isn't a purpose but what we make for it, and the possible goods and bads don't nullify each other, as we saw with understanding needed for nukes

We also have to remember that everyone wants this, and that we may or may not be the first to get it to work.

I don't want it. I think technology only serves to further separate us from our nature and the power of our own minds when discipline is applied to it

Our monitors increase alpha brainwaves, a brain state associated with closed eyes

Eyes wide shut, so to speak

Governmentally speaking, I mean. The chinese must be starving for such fine levels of management potential.

I can definitely see how technology has sort of happened like that, but then I think that's more a consequence of people believing technology solves problems. Problems always exist, you must simply pick and choose which problems you have- technology is a tradeoff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZKD9r6_pks

Interview starts about 10 minutes in. A fairly accurate overview of what the current geopolitical situation looks like.

Strategic inertia is the best way I've heard that described

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3026784/chinas-internet-regulator-orders-online-ai-algorithms-promote

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Does Xi Jinping thought even have enough material to train a model on?

I'm guessing they profile internet traffic and then set a target for what they want to match it too

https://medium.com/incentro/rethinking-retargeting-with-machine-learning-a-technical-quest-bd7ee956da6

If it were me working with this, I'd integrate it such that it acts like twitter/google's "right bad" but with the Chinese set of programs

The point is that the potential for this technology to control our thoughts exists and we need to be eternally vigilant

That is the price of freedom

It can't control your thoughts, but it can be as good as the best human persuader

If it can persuade the majority of people it may as well be mind control

Then perhaps mind control is not such a bad thing, because most will find it acceptable in practice

Those who do not will take measures to nullify it

Also look into Dark Patterns for more on those systems and methods

If every knee does not bow, it is quite literally the system of the Antichrist from a biblical perspective

If that's predestined to happen anyways then there's no problem with it