Throwaway-tan

Throwaway-tan t1_jdmow4m wrote

5th amendment only protects you from incriminating yourself in potential criminal proceedings.

It does not prevent your employer from mandating you use it at work and then any data gathered being subpoenaed.

Or let's say it becomes something more ubiquitous like a smartphone, everyone uses it daily and all that data is gathered - your 5th amendment isn't going to do shit.

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Throwaway-tan t1_jdmlriq wrote

What? I'm not sure what your criticism is targeting... Is it that society is run by people?

Society has generally been a net positive for everyone. We went from subsistence and survivalism to plenitude and philosophy.

Even a feudal society is preferable to no society in my opinion.

It's not perfect, but I much prefer the fucked up society we have now when compared to "return to monke".

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Throwaway-tan t1_jdmktew wrote

External "read only" brain wave monitoring is one thing. Internal direct interface chips is a whole other can of worms.

Computers are inherently insecure, and now you want to intrinsically tie your existence to one. OK when someone ransomwares your free will, the government fires off a kill switch or a rogue brain worm sends everyone into a bath salts style murder rage I don't want to hear a peep from the optimists.

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Throwaway-tan t1_j0x0p7b wrote

This is dumb. Pinning the tail on the donkey is easy, but do it blindfolded and spin around a few times and see how much more difficult it is.

Also most people think about changing the future by going back in time and doing one of the following:

  1. Killing someone who did something bad
  2. Manipulating games of chance to make themselves rich

Neither of thesr are exactly recommended courses of action to take without the context of hindsight.

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