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We are all easily programmed meat machines. If you have not accepted this idea, well...

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Privacy & Agency Rant:

While we missed the boat on Internet tracking, there is still time to avoid sailing through the final frontier of neural tracking.

You might think that I am joking, you sweet summer child.

Thanks to the BCI, we will soon we will be offered the trade of our privacy for the convenience of password-free login. Next, there will be a quick TSA neural scan prior to boarding.

Then, thought crime will become a literal thing. If particular thoughts are not outlawed outright, they will at least prevent you from certain activities.

> Proposed neuro-rights include the right to identity, or the ability to control both one's physical and mental integrity; the right to agency, or the freedom of thought and free will to choose one's own actions; the right to mental privacy, or the ability to keep thoughts protected against disclosure; [0]

For a great breakdown on the SOTA (2023) tech, and the long term implications, please see this podcast with full written transcript.

> Sean Carroll & Nita Farahany on Ethics, Law, and Neurotechnology [1]

[0] https://www.cirsd.org/en/horizons/horizons-winter-2021-issue-no-18/its-time-for-neuro--rights

[1] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/03/13/229-nita-farahany-on-ethics-law-and-neurotechnology/