Comment by vlovich123
10 hours ago
Prediction: even if this requires surgery, unlocking inner thought will be used in criminal proceedings to establish guilt or attempt to be used to prove innocence. It will definitely be used unethically in military/intelligence interrogations until the law catches up.
I'm not sure if this would be able to detect the difference between truthful thoughts about actual memories, and intrusive thoughts that could give the entirely wrong impression.
Yet, they still do use lie detectors, even though the things they detect can be faked, or triggered out of personal alarm or offense. So it is entirely possible, regardless.
Intrusive thoughts is a big one. Most people report some variation of this phenomenon (myself included), and are often horrified by the thoughts or images their own mind produces, very much wanting them to go away. To be judged by that is unthinkably wrong.
torture not being that effective has never stopped the US government before
It depends on your classification of effective. If it is to gather accurate information, it is ineffective. If it is to gather the justification for what you were going to do anyway, it can be most effective.
Yeah why do that when the government can just “get” someone’s google search history?
The worst: ads.
Noooo. Makes me wonder how much money do you need to buy up all the ad slots in the world and replace them with blanks.
"Hit him with this $5 wrench until he tells us the password" XKCD 538
We normally do not accept people being hit with wrenches (or a contextual contemporary) in criminal justice trials.
Being hit with a wrench seems less invasive and even preferable compared to mind-reading brain surgery.
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I don't think that the brain surgery is accepted as well.
Not yet.
My first dystopic thought was immigration counters at airports /s