• @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    71 month ago

    It doesn’t read your mind. It gives output, that’s not the same thing as mind reading any more than the polygraph was lie detection. The real threat was and always has been cops and the state.

    • Aatube
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      -31 month ago

      when were we afraid of it besides being afraid of it for being polygraph 2.0

      • @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        101 month ago

        I was talking about the historical presence in sci fi and pop culture of fear of mind reading machines in general, as opposed to this specific one. But I mean, do you think cities are spending tens of thousands of dollars because they don’t think it works like that? They at least believe they can convince people that it reads minds.

      • @idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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        31 month ago

        People really just got annoyed about you missing the context of a comment (science fiction and cultural depictions of the future) and asking clarifying questions until you got it.

        • Aatube
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          01 month ago

          time to get annoyed about somebody’s addiction to idioms!