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Scientist Develop Effective Brainwashing

posted by martyb on Friday May 29 2015, @11:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the bias-removal-or-indoctrination? dept.

An Anonymous Coward wrote in with the news that a Sleep study raises hope for clinical treatment of racism, sexism and other biases

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.

[Original Submission - Ed.]

 
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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @11:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @11:55AM (#190073)

    How fucking stupid. Since when is "has a solution" part of the definition of "problem"?

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  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday May 30 2015, @04:00PM

    by Reziac (2489) on Saturday May 30 2015, @04:00PM (#190131) Homepage

    Since we've had so many solutions in search of a problem.

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    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @06:26PM (#190174)

      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

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2015, @06:31PM (#190175)

        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.