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When the desired behavior is performed, a sound is played. When the test subjects reach deep sleep, that same sound is played repeatedly. Subjects were then more likely to perform the desired behavior.
The article, "Unlearning implicit social biases during sleep" appears in the journal Science; an abstract and full report are available.
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2015, @11:28PM
This is great! Now everyone can be programmed -- using force if necessary -- to think like everyone else.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday May 29 2015, @11:37PM
I'm ready for FLOSS self-brainwashing
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by aristarchus on Friday May 29 2015, @11:39PM
The frist step, is to admit you have a problem. A Clockwork Orange? Possibly. But this may be more like a nicotine patch, once you realize that you are a racist, and want to stop being a racist, this may give you a way out. If you don't know you are a racist, well, then you are a racist.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2015, @11:43PM
> once you realize that you are a racist,
A black swan event.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Kell on Saturday May 30 2015, @01:56AM
A black swan event.
They prefer "swan of colour".
Scientists ask questions. Engineers solve problems.
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Saturday May 30 2015, @03:30AM
A black swan event.
They prefer "swan of colour".
so you are saying all swans are british? BIGOT!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Saturday May 30 2015, @12:19AM
Racism is in the structure of institutions and the assumptions and bias of the culture.
You may "reprogram" overt prejudice - but it still won't be safe for a black man to make minor infractions of the law in USA, without risking being killed by cops.
And all the clucking by privileged ignorant people about "black family", etc.
You're betting on the pantomime horse...
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @12:56AM
So if it can't be changed, then it can't be solved and therefore is not a problem. No sense dwelling on it anymore than dwelling on how unfair gravity is to tall people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @01:21AM
> So if it can't be changed,
Because cultural institutions are set in stone.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @02:57AM
According to Cornelius there, it won't make a difference and thus is irrelevant.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @03:37AM
No, gravity is unfair to short people who can't reach high objects as easily. It also gives them a disadvantage in basketball.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @11:55AM
How fucking stupid. Since when is "has a solution" part of the definition of "problem"?
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday May 30 2015, @04:00PM
Since we've had so many solutions in search of a problem.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @06:26PM
Total red herring. Something that isn't immediately useful after its creation (a "solution in search of a problem") won't necessarily always be useless, and such things still don't redefine "problem" to include the phrase "has a solution" in any form.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @06:31PM
They're typically called problems because we don't know the solution, and if you don't know the solution, you can't say for sure that there is one. "Does P=NP?" and similar problems would no longer be problems under such a redefinition, the only "problems" would be ones for which the solution was already known, which would make them not problems at all, and real problems would no longer be addressed because they wouldn't be "problems" until their solution was known, but nobody would look for solutions since they wouldn't be problems.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday May 30 2015, @09:00AM
I like the story as it reinforces the racist stereotype I have of pit bull terriers being stupid creatures!
Read it in The Mirror, probably, so it must be true.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Saturday May 30 2015, @04:27PM
Family Guy......"Brian barks at Cleveland"
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Saturday June 06 2015, @08:23PM
The Pavlovian approach has been going on for years and is itself the biggest source of racism and other forms of extremism because people easily become racist/extreme when they realize what's being done against them. If that wasn't clear enough: not just the people who had a local heritage but also those who don't.
It's not multiculturalism but anticulturalism: the attempted removal of genuinely common culture and thus the destruction of the civil society and the nation state. Europe and the US are slowly being regressed back into tribalism; a lesser form of culture, and eventually if they survive that: stark unforgiving etnocentrism far beyond the weak anthropologist definition (the process of building a society has reset and started over, a revolution if you will) which they are guaranteed not to survive. Not that they understand it, otherwise they wouldn't do it. With this in mind the ridiculous statement of Mona Sahlin declaring “we (you) have no culture / we (you) never had any culture” starts making sense: it's a post-communist reaction of idealism in favor of the continuation of the anti-human agenda of the USSR and its western lackeys/useful idiots. That's why they simply can't comprehend no-go zones; they can't even perceive them or understand what is being said because they're not part of the relevant tribes. That's why things like modern slavery doesn't really matter to them: just as in the old days anything at all is justified by the aims. When humans don't fit ideology they prefer smashing humanity into “shape”. It doesn't work, they're already failing badly. It's why calling them “elites” always should be surrounded with quotation marks of sarcasm: they're the heirs of both Mengele (human experimentation) and Adorno (cultural marxism).
The power vacuum being created is huge and they think their own fascism (surveillance, manipulation) will fill it but completely misunderstand: one can't make an ocean by filling a hole with sand.
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(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday May 30 2015, @04:00PM
Make 'em wear an electric collar and you can achieve the desired results in a fraction of the time!
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.