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Skye Gill's avatar

Converting a coherent thought process into speech with enough eloquence to be well understood by another person is no easy feat. Even if you possess the godlike ability to stream your consciousness adeptly via your mouth, you still have no guarantee that your recipient has the prerequisite context to correctly parse it.

Tools enabling translation from one person’s contextual understanding to another would reduce disputes to an immeasurable degree. But on the flip-side, much of the world’s variety comes from the differing customs of a language or culture. Engaging in another culture with the use of one of these tools would rob you of the joys of a new experience.

Absolutely right to question the more nefarious consequences of such a powerful technology. What if the “Skip Ad” button becomes a “Share Thoughts to Skip Ad”? Advertisers learn how to better target your emotions next time for the sake of your current convenience.

A very thought provoking piece.

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André Figueira's avatar

Cheers mate, yes indeed, I actually had a project I was doing which involved training a neural net on your brainwaves using the neurosity crown, actually got it to work, but yes, no easy thing to achieve.

It's going to be a very strange world, imagine this for police interrogations, or in dystopian dictatorships where we control what people think.

The future just seems to be getting weirder and weirder...

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