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on Monday May 15 2017, @01:58PM
from the you-didnt-just-think-at-me-did-you dept.
from the you-didnt-just-think-at-me-did-you dept.
"Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind," wrote the playwright John Milton in 1634.
But, nearly 400 years later, technological advances in machines that can read our thoughts mean the privacy of our brain is under threat.
Now two biomedical ethicists are calling for the creation of new human rights laws to ensure people are protected, including "the right to cognitive liberty" and "the right to mental integrity".
Scientists have already developed devices capable of telling whether people are politically right-wing or left-wing. In one experiment, researchers were able to read people's minds to tell with 70 per cent accuracy whether they planned to add or subtract two numbers.
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Experts Warn New Computers Could Delete Thoughts Without Your Knowledge
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday May 15 2017, @05:56PM (3 children)
Without Your Knowledge -- that is the part we should have a problem with.
Some people may want to delete some memories.
But should be done by consent.
Including the consent you give about 2/3 of the way through the ISP service agreement you signed on page 223 in the fine print. You did read it, I assume?
Next, evil left wing liberals will insist that clauses and conditions like this should be forbidden by law.
God fearing conservatives will protect our corporations from these over burdensome job killing regulations.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 15 2017, @08:31PM (2 children)
Liberals are on the Right side of the political palate.
They accept Capitalism as normal; they simply want to redistribute the wealth of Capitalists.
Leftists are Anti-Capitalists; we want to make redistribution unnecessary by eliminating the Ownership Class and concentrated wealth, leaving only Worker-Owners and well-distributed wealth from the start.
There is zero overlap between the 2.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Justin Case on Tuesday May 16 2017, @03:39PM (1 child)
There is zero overlap
Except that both are flaming criminally insane.
(Redistributing someone else's wealth or eliminating ownership are both forms of theft, which is a crime in civilized society because a kleptocracy ultimately self destructs.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @08:01PM
Nope. That's called competition.
Capitalists claim that they like competition.
The Mondragon Cooperative, as an example, outcompetes its Capitalist rivals on a daily basis.
What is needed to make a greater impact is MORE Socialist workplaces.
The trick is for Socialist types to get their own businesses started.
In Italy, they use unemployment insurance payouts (for workers idled by boom-and-bust Capitalists) to do that.
The Marcora Law [google.com]
They have thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of worker-owned cooperatives there due to doing things wisely.
Credit unions in the USA are examples of co-ops.
A lot of folks are divesting from banks that are e.g. financing oil pipelines and those folks have found a credit union to handle their banking needs.
Food co-ops in the USA continue to gain in popularity with better quality stuff and a think-locally economic approach.
There are some obvious endeavors with low startup costs where co-ops have made inroads in the USA:
home healthcare, child care, elder care.
More and more, folks in the trades have realized that a co-op is the way to go:
carpenters, masons, electricians, plumbers.
There are some IT co-ops around the globe as well.
Swedish Worker Cooperative Software Development Company Has No Boss [soylentnews.org]
Bernie isn't even a real Socialist, yet folks like that he calls himself by that tag.
"Capitalism" has become an increasingly unwelcome word in the USA; folks know that the status quo is screwing them and they want something else.
"Worker-owned" is something I expect to see on more and more business signage, with folks responding ever more positively.
Finding the folks who haven't yet got a job and figuring out something for them to do that is useful for society comes toward the end of the process of converting from Capitalism.
I've seen people who are mentally limited but who do low volume production work (e.g. limited-run silkscreened T-shirts).
At that point you've crossed over from the Socialist paradigm to the Communist notion of "From each according to his abilities; to each according to his needs".
...and AFTER you have the vast majority of folks working in and owning their own Socialist businesses, the very LAST step is common ownership of natural monopolies (electricity, natural gas, internet service, transit, etc.).
Governments buying up incumbent businesses via eminent domain on behalf of all the citizens and paying fair market value to the Capitalist owners would be one way to go.
The choices are Capitalism with its economic inequality and exploitation of workers and concentration on maximizing profits for an elite Ownership Class (making someone else rich) -or- Socialism/Communism with egalitarianism and concentration on maximizing the stability of your society with the wealth generated staying with those who actually do the work.
Like the Slave economies and Feudal economies that preceded it, folks are realizing that Capitalism is a failed system and is past its sell-by date.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]