8mo ago

As mind-reading technology improves, Colorado passes first-in-nation law to protect privacy of our thoughts

www.cbsnews.com As mind-reading technology improves, Colorado passes first-in-nation law to protect privacy of our thoughts

The first-in-the-nation law in Colorado includes biological or brain data in the State Privacy Act, similar to fingerprints if the data is being used to identify people.

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8mo ago

As mind-reading technology improves, Colorado passes first-in-nation law to protect privacy of our thoughts

www.cbsnews.com /colorado/news/mind-reading-technology-improves-colorado-passes-first-nation-law-protect-privacy-thoughts/

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8mo ago

As mind-reading technology improves, Colorado passes first-in-nation law to protect privacy of our thoughts

www.cbsnews.com /colorado/news/mind-reading-technology-improves-colorado-passes-first-nation-law-protect-privacy-thoughts/

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8mo ago

As mind-reading technology improves, Colorado passes first-in-nation law to protect privacy of our thoughts

www.cbsnews.com /colorado/news/mind-reading-technology-improves-colorado-passes-first-nation-law-protect-privacy-thoughts/

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...and once again, warnings stating "DO NOT BUILD THE TORMENT NEXUS" go ignored.

Invest in aluminum foil now.
- It would be good that shit works for that but I don't think so.. let's see what happens when the NSA have access to your thoughts.
  Edit: I think they will apply the "if you didn't hide anything then there is nothing to worry about" discourse.
  
  They will just use mind control to make sure you physical can not commit a crime

It's concerning how this pseudoscience is getting so much traction, and we'll be left with a bunch of nonsensical privacy regulation. Granted I'm happy to err towards too much privacy regulation, but can imagine other privacy issues getting less traction.
- It isnt pseudoscience, theres some papers out there on locked in syndrome and they have a system that is very good at reading thoughts with something like 75-85% accuracy. Requires very sophisticated and large equipment to use though, and it has to be trained on each person individually (through things like yes/no answers with blinks or focusing on saying one word, so its not some sort of thing that can just be automatically done, it requires a great deal of consent and concentration on part of the staff and the patient). Its very possible this could be downsized and made more available in the decades to come, its still in the early phases.
- Maybe this isn't pseudoscience anymore.. I must admit I need to see these stuff working in person to believe it but according to the video this is definetly interesting at least or it could open a new era in human civilization.

Excuse me, what kind of technology...?
- Letting your neighbour know exactly what you think about his wife.
- Watch the video, there is more information about it.
  
  I just read the article and will definitely be watching the video when I can. What a wild story.

Lots of misconceptions here. Brain waves are just the communication between neurons. This is basically internal wiring, everyone is wired differently. Also nothing gets out of your brain on its own, except heat.
A tool like this can only measure regular patterns between humans and compare them. You will only get are interpretations of your brain status. It can't read your memories nor know if you're thinking about eating a burger. At most it will get a "you're hungry" alert. You can train it to be better at figuring you out (or to do other stuff, like controlling a robot), but you won't get more without a very invasive direct link to your brain (and more training). Which is more like torture at this point.
This new law is just promoting fear for something they don't even know if it's possible or not. Very sci fi law.
- Sci fi or not, I kinda want them to get this one figured out ahead of time. It is kinda like assuming that a convicted felon could never be President. You wouldn't think that rule would need to exist because come on, how could a country possibly want to elect a convicted felon? Its a completely ridiculous notion that could absolutely never happen.
  
  And Im telling you that is practically impossible to read your mind without committing other known already existing crimes. There is a rule already for it, it's called basic human rights.
  When I say sci fi law, it's because it's fiction. This new law is against fiction. Your example is for something that's not fiction. Do you understand the difference? Do you think this politician forwarding this law understands it?
  This is more akin to those old laws of banning all alcohol.
  Want your privacy? Should force/convince your countries to ban cameras first*.
- nothing gets out of your brain on its own, except heat.
  I heard a recording of a song made by reading a brain that was thinking that song. It was far from perfect, but you could tell which song it was. I'm no neuroscientist, but if that information can already be plucked from a brain, surely that's proof that reconstructing thoughts is possible to some degree?
  https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neuroscientist-pink-floyd-music-brain-activity
  
  Nice article, but it's more like reading stimulus reaction while reconstructing it in a form that's similar to the original. But it has flaws. Based on the recordings you can make out pretty much any existant song (or memorized recording) but not original thoughts. Everyone can remember the beats of a song, but also everyone makes word associations in different ways, depending on which concepts sticks.
  Very cool for an interface tho. It would be possible to use it as base for composers, if it's possible to interpret original hummings, or beats (what would I know, I'm not a musician), which would require training.
  But there is a catch
  Continuing to probe musical perception is likely to be difficult because the brain areas that process it are hard to access without invasive methods.
  nothing gets out on its own

Jokes on you, not thinking!
- You think they wouldn't be able to controll that?

You're going to have to drag my corpse into a lab to put any neuro any-fucking-thing in or on my head.
- Maybe it wouldn't be necessary to do it..

- Says the dude who uses telepathy and forces to force people to say things.

This is the best summary I could come up with:
Advances in artificial intelligence are leading to medical breakthroughs once thought impossible, including devices that can actually read minds and alter our brains.
Pauzaskie says our brain waves are like encrypted signals and, using artificial intelligence, researchers have identified frequencies for specific words to turn thought to text with 40% accuracy, "Which, give it a few years, we're probably talking 80-90%."
Researchers are now working to reverse the conditions by using electrical stimulation to alter the frequencies or regions of the brain where they originate.
But while medical research facilities are subject to privacy laws, private companies - that are amassing large caches of brain data - are not.
The vast majority of them also don't disclose where the data is stored, how long they keep it, who has access to it, and what happens if there's a security breach...
With companies and countries racing to access, analyze, and alter our brains, Pauzauskie suggests, privacy protections should be a no-brainer, "It's everything that we are.
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This has to be the most dystopian thing I've ever read. If the rich and the elites have the power to read our thoughts (outside of a lab) with 80-90% accuracy, I genuinely don't know what the point of living will be. Our eternal enslavement will be completed, they could control our emotions, desires and needs, we would literally become animals.

Never has the art of occlumency been so necessary

How about the power, to move you?

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