I don't want to be around when this thing becomes aware enough to take retribution for countless generations of lab rat torture! Someone will stumble into the lab and find a scientist's brain wired into a speak-n-spell, with a rat-bot-shaped hole in the wall and a trail of cheese crumbs...
Put simply, we are decades from actually "reading thoughts", if we *ever* get that far. I've seen some of the current research. We're barely to the point of reading binary impulses (e.g. "open the door, moron computer" as projected from a handicapped person.) You'll all be dead before Big Brother can measure your tendency to think that Al Queda dudes aren't all that bad, after all.
Of course, the "Ballmer is a lying sack of shit" thought has been thoroughly characterized, and if you are thinking that, the NSA already has an interrogation cell prepared for you.
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Not that this isn't cool and all, but:
I don't want to be around when this thing becomes aware enough to take retribution for countless generations of lab rat torture! Someone will stumble into the lab and find a scientist's brain wired into a speak-n-spell, with a rat-bot-shaped hole in the wall and a trail of cheese crumbs...
Great idea. As long as you don't mind arriving in the form of slightly lumpy, reddish-brown slurry.
Take the extra hour or two, and fly
Put simply, we are decades from actually "reading thoughts", if we *ever* get that far. I've seen some of the current research. We're barely to the point of reading binary impulses (e.g. "open the door, moron computer" as projected from a handicapped person.) You'll all be dead before Big Brother can measure your tendency to think that Al Queda dudes aren't all that bad, after all.
Of course, the "Ballmer is a lying sack of shit" thought has been thoroughly characterized, and if you are thinking that, the NSA already has an interrogation cell prepared for you.
Not a good idea. You're much more likely to have a "fatal exception" on a motorcycle.