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China is Now Monitoring Employees' Brainwaves and Emotions (fastcompany.com)
From a report: The Orwellian-as-all-get-out practice is being conducted using "emotional surveillance technology" by both businesses in China and the country's military, reports the South China Morning Post. The tech uses small wireless sensors embedded in employees' hats that can monitor brainwaves. That brainwave data is then analyzed by AI to tell when an employee is tired, anxious, or even full of rage. One company using the brain-monitoring tech says profits have increased by $315 million since rolling it out way back in 2014. Other uses of the tech include monitoring drivers of trains to tell if they've fallen asleep or are at risk of doing so. It's important to note the technology cannot read people's thoughts.
We barely understand how emotions work and now we want to monitor emotions in people who have every reason to hide them?
Good luck...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
You can never have enough ways to detect impolitic/subversive thoughts, right Leftists?
It's important to note the technology cannot read people's thoughts.
YET!
This is China, so let me fix that for you.
"It's important to note the technology cannot read people's thoughts... yet."
It's important to note the technology cannot read people's thoughts.
That's what the government would like you to believe, sheeple.
What about face? Doesn't this invade the very deep social concept of face?
apk is polish? that explains so much, like how stupid the hosts file thing is
They made fun of me decades ago, but who's got the last laugh now!
Probably because the biggest Chinese corporations are in fact state run...
What I don't understand is why idiots seem to forget that China is still a totalitarian regime with no real concept of human rights. Slather as much lipstick on that pig as you like, its still a place where if you don't show proper deference to the ruling party you can end up in prison or worse. Heck the forced abortions only stopped in 2k13 and we kinda take their word for it they really have stopped.
Repeal the 17th Amendment TODAY! Also Please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Love how the little Nazi-punk wannabe (((APK))) idolizes the very ones who would of wiped his little "tribe" of Untermenshen right off the map & kicked over the traces if they had only been given a couple more years....
Their publicly disclosed net income went from about $130 million in 2014 to $160 million in 2016 and then dropped considerably to about $65 million in 2017? Couldn't possibly be exaggerating or just plain lying right?
That might be a great idea if 100% of the people are required all to use the device except for Trump. He has no brain waves to study at all.
This is what L. Bob Reif was after in snowcrash, I'm not sure I want to live in this future
~corporate tool, but employed~
So the next step is to create device sending fake brain waves :-)
"It's important to note the technology cannot read people's thoughts."
then it's also important to note that it doesn't violate the first law of thermodynamics or relativity.
and that you shouldn't feed the hats after midnight, or accidentally walk under a ladder while wearing one.
because "important" has clearly switched meanings.
If the Chinese system can actually detect emotions, I see the following benefit: it will reveal that many of the people accused of "hate speech" are not actually motivated by hatred, but that the individuals who make the accusations of hate speech are themselves motivated by hatred.
"The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain."
Dr José Delgado,
Director of Neuropsychiatry
Yale University Medical School Congressional Record,
No. 26, Vol. 118 February 24, 1974
https://www.wireheading.com/jose-delgado.html
Thank God for the robots, now THEY can program/control the robots and leave the humans alone.
"China" (referring to the country and/or the goverment and/or companies/corporations within the country of China) are increasingly treating human beings like insects in a hive. Chinese citizens, how much more of this bullshit are you willing to endure? Your humanity is being stripped away little by little until you'll be no more than automatons, worth nothing more than what the chemicals that make up your bodies are worth. Humans aren't meant to live the way you're being made to live, why put up with it?
Itâ(TM)s only a matter of time before Zuck starts handing out free hats and makes it a thing.
AI has already happened. You just live in a semantically-distinct world from the rest of us.
Those of you not aware of the Chinese 16-Character Policy probably should be...
I have a "Zero Policy" tolerance.
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Great question you fat retard. How have you learned to breath with your head stuffed inside a Cheetos bag?
But at the same time, I also lament that tech like this could actually work for our betterment, if only we could find a way to ensure it was deployed by trustworthy people with adequate safeguards against misuse. For example this could identify people who need some form of support to get them out of whatever rut they are in (rather than labeling them as undesirables, throwing them on the trash heap, and hiring someone else o retrain from scratch). It could be as simple as them having a crappy sleep environment but not having the knowledge to figure that out and fix it. An investment of under a grand and they could be at the top of their game in weeks. Instead things just drone on as they are, no progress made.
It seems most cultures have disastrously undervalued the things that build up such communal trust, especially now in the Social Networking age. Corrosive practices like trolling have everyone thinking the worst of everyone else, and even explicit efforts to build trust webs (like China's social ranking system) backfire and only serve to bring out the worst competitive backbiting behaviors. Truly a shame.
Someone had to do it.
Big Brother wants to keep tabs on its employees, and Yu have been selected to join in the alpha stage of the program. That's right; all employees with the surname Yu (about 1 million in this office building alone, right before the entry ways, and on the lower two floors only) will take part in these tests for which you will be duly compensated. No shots will be administered; please indicate your willingness to participate by putting an X in the box below. We will make every effort to keep things as simple as x-y-z.
China forgot that Black Mirror is a TV show, not an instructional video.
"Forget the engineers." -Carly Fiorina, briber of MIT Technology Review.
Supposedly the right and left loves of the brain control the left and right limbs, respectively. Thus left handers are rightminded. That is what you meant by leftists, right?
Next up based on your brainwave evidence you will be arrested for drug evasion. I'm looking at you thx1138, you dumb threep.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
More fun than tinfoil, put it in cat ears!
"It's important to note the technology cannot read people's thoughts." YET. Or maybe it just classified or expensive.
China Uses Pseudoscience as Excuse to Punish Employees
Hmm....pretty complicated to detect things like depression with an EEG cap. Stress, may be easier...Still, I'm skeptical that this "huge boost in profits" doesn't just come from scaring people into thinking that their thoughts are being read.
...before going postal.
One company using the brain-monitoring tech says profits have increased by $315 million since rolling it out way back in 2014.
This company makes and sells brain-monitoring equipment.
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This scam is as old as the hills. It's easy to get the government to buy a bunch of garbage, here in the USA they sell airport security machines and "lie detectors"
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Because The People's Republic of China is a communist entity that is doing things.
The US is doing stuff way beyond this. Like full-blown mind reading, invisibility, and much more. Are we free if the govt can invisibly walk up to you and fire microwaves into your head? Remember what happened to the diplomats in Cuba. They felt like they were being attacked by ghosts. No one wants to live in a world like this, so we all create a protective bubble of safety around us that becomes our reality.
Anyone knows where can you get those hats? I would like to try them out.
How do you get a one armed Polock(apk) out of a tree?
Answer: Wave to him. o/
I repeat: If you think there are "sides", you're already a lost cause.
How so-called "people" still go for such memes is baffling. Left?? Right?? REALLY??
There are more shades than black and white!
There are fuzzy borders!
The borders *fluctuate* constantly!
The entire scale is relative!
There are many, *many* more dimensions/factors! (hence the former)
You're a grown man. Get real! Seriously, this is not funny anymore!
... stopping China from becoming India!
They were "Don't fuckin have more than one child, or we'll fuckin drown in our own shit or starve!"! So yeah, if you have one anyway, you are literally trying to kill everyone else to some extend!
Meanwhile, Americans still are SO delusional that they believe in *literal* infinite exponential growth! Including popilation, resource usage, corporate. As if that was a good thing, and would not *literally* make is an explosion of a planetary pathogen!
No, Chinese leadetship aren't the ggod guys, and neither are you btw. But they are thinking on a *massive* scale. Because they (unfortinately, to me) reject individualism, in favor of seeing society as a whole as one lifeform. And I'm sorry, but in that aspect they are kicking your dog-eat-dog society of literal psychopaths' *ass*.
I think the plan is to encourage people to focus on left vs right. That way, they are not thinking of replacing the whole corrupt system. There's also the divide and conquer technique which is always in play.
Cells.
In America we already have something better than that. We have hats that NEGATE brainwave energy, making DETECTING and INTERPRETING it unnecessary. The technology in the American version renders the wearer dull, boring, and stupid, with the frequent side-effect that it does fill some wearers with rage. You can tell which hats do this, because they're red, and have the words "Make America Great Again" printed in white letters on them.
On the other hand, I may have the cause and effect mixed up here.
Be assured that this will be coming to liberal socialist companies in America in the near future. FaceBook, Apple, Microsoft, and Google will pioneer this requirement for all employees. Governments will try to require this intrusion upon truck drivers. Then it will be on to auto drivers.
I'd like to think that Chinese companies want to ensure that their workers remain happy and don't burn out. Too much stress and the boss comes over with a nice cup of tea and some biscuits. Is that the idea?!!