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oh my god now there's a "future of prison" startup that says it will use AI and brain implants to plant fake memories into the brains of criminals, "rehabilitating" them in minutes instead of years and I am going to spend the rest of the day screaming now
sciencetimes.com/articles/509...
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JD Bunchanumbers
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The outer limits revival came up with a similar idea in the 90s. STOP BUILDING THE TORMENT NEXUS ASSHOLES!
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Silly B Man
@lawnerd.bsky.social
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StevenMatheson.bsky.social
@stevenmatheson.bsky.social
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Philip K Dick on Line 1
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Drew Melbourne
@drewmelbourne.com
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This sounds great* until you realize that to train the LLM, they will need to scrape millions of memories. *Also, it does not sound great.
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Cory
@riotrhythm.bsky.social
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cyberpunk 2077 was not an instruction manual why are these people so dense
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Res ipsa locutus of borg
@masbackward.bsky.social
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The torment nexus is over-used as a metaphor but with the DS9 episode this is literally just that tweet.
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Odie
@theodeity.bsky.social
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it's reassuring that it's basically impossible, but horrifying that they're willing to try
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Royal 👑
@royaltheartist.bsky.social
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This article describes all the tech in the present tense but there's absolutely no way the vast majority of what's described in this article exists
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e.w. niedermeyer
@niedermeyer.io
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you can feel your brain melting watching this video about "The Prison Of The Future"
youtu.be/YFUv4_lCBLY?...
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SlugTales
@slugtales.bsky.social
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I'm not sure what the Minimum Daily Requirement of Dystopia is, but whatever it is, I just reached it.
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andycrain.bsky.social
@andycrain.bsky.social
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Michael Maris
@edrobot.bsky.social
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The sad thing is that would still be an improvement over the American incarcerial system.
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Gwen C. Katz
@gwenckatz.bsky.social
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Ethics aside, this is nonsense, they have zero of the technology to actually implement any aspect of this, they may as well found a startup to use AI to make monkeys fly out of my ass
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Zanne
@kennazus.bsky.social
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This is the result of twenty years of pedagogy devoted to STEM fields with no humanities or arts education.
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@scottwithrage.bsky.social
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I saw this episode of Star Trek.
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Kim 🌸
@eurydice-krg.bsky.social
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They seriously need to stop stealing from sci-fi.
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JeanPapaoute
@jeanpapaoute.bsky.social
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Either rather late or very early for an April Fools ! Either very late or rather early for an Halloween horror movie !
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@mtar925.bsky.social
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Anybody working on this project should be put on some kind of watch list.
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Alan "the Truth shall make ye flee" J
@n5iln.bsky.social
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We’ve seen this movie before, or one with a very similar plot. “The Mind Of Menno”. It doesn’t end well.
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beloved character on brand new adventure
@guntoucher.bsky.social
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also what for profit prison corporation is interested in this kind of turnaround if it were even possible (which it isnt) or ethical (which it wouldnt be)
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Sarah with an H
@trianglesally.bsky.social
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What the fuck did i just read
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Kevin J. Rogers
@kevinjrogers.bsky.social
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I found some footage of this writer at work.
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy
@elandobbs.bsky.social
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“Revolutionary Prison Concept [Doesn’t] Use[ Anything] to [Do Anything]”
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy
@elandobbs.bsky.social
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Rap Sheet
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Seth Masket
@smotus.bsky.social
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"Let's mine the most disturbing plot devices of Deep Space Nine and make them real"
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Pyke Redrock
@pykeredrock.bsky.social
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EVEN IF the technology 1) existed and 2) worked, I’m pretty sure literally every example of this tech in science fiction has been like “Yeah, this is how prisons in dystopias are set up, because it’s actually torture and almost always goes wrong.”
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Katie (Brassafrass)
@brassafrass.bsky.social
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What could possibly go wrong?
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‘stina is a shiny special one
@stinapag.bsky.social
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The Loony Liberal - Writer / Content Creator
@loonyliberal.bsky.social
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Isn't this the plot of many, many, MANY action movies, horror movies, and graphic novels?
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toastfuker
@toastfuker.bsky.social
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I think they may be skipping a few steps...
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independence toast
@toasty.cx
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we gotta find a way to make sure people like this do not have money and influence to do shit like this
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Andrew C 💯
@arc315.bsky.social
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"creative scientist" is the first red flag and it's right in the first sentence. This guy Hashem Al-Ghaili's whole schtick is science-flavored short vids, right?
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Christopher Shea
@lordshark.bsky.social
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Finally, Doc Savage's Crime College becomes a reality.
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Irontuna
@irontuna.bsky.social
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Pro: Taco Bell Con: the shell thing
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Orpheus Condescending
@maryscottoconnor.com
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NO NO NO NO NO.
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Gavin Lux Enjoyer
@luxenjoyer.bsky.social
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Mop Bucket
@mopbucket.bsky.social
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Has no-one else looked at the front page of sciencetimes.com?
This is either a hoax, attention-seeking trash, or part of an ad campaign
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Robert Ward
@rtward.bsky.social
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Everyone is comparing this to the DS9 episode Hard Time when they should be comparing it to the VOY episode Ex Post Facto, which is a much closer match to what this startup is pitching. I won’t take this Voyager erasure!
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@ratchetwrench.bsky.social
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Hells bells! I am rereading Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy for the first time in many years, and this is literally what it is about. Except they are doing it in a mental institution. Torment Nexus indeed.
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sammy 😗
@postsronin.bsky.social
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"why don't we just torture them" ~~ some techbro
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Om
@om64.bsky.social
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I also believe in magic and fairies.
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Nicky
@menickybeth.bsky.social
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But how will they extract free labor with this, isn't that the entire reason prisons exist
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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫
@vegetablegremlin.bsky.social
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it would be cool if some bullshit startup saying crazy shit was not treated as science news
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tweety fish
@sifu.tweety.fish
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the good news is this doesn't appear to be a company, just some dude who makes insane videos and fake? press releases? as promos for his videos? The bad news is wow his videos are EXTREMELY insane
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@darthgoat.bsky.social
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That's almost verbatim the plot to Demolition Man.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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every time i read a story about an "A.I. concept"
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Ur Multimedia
@urmultimedia.bsky.social
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Why not use that fancy AI to reduce/remove criminogenic circumstances instead?
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SexCollusionPotatoes
@sexcpotatoes.bsky.social
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Yes, prison, that historically rehabilitative place where people all come out as their best selves.
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🏳️⚧️🔞Bunny Bismuth: Bun To Be Wild🔞🏳️⚧️
@bunny.bismuth.gay
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THIS WAS LITERALLY AN EPISODE OF DEEP SPACE NINE AND IT WAS HUGELY TRAUMATIC
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Dan Turner
@ddt.bsky.social
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FFS, someone read Squadron Supreme and Identity Crisis comics and took the same goddamn "let's build the torment nexus" lesson.
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Screenlight
@screenlight.bsky.social
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Yeah and in the finale an evil genius takes over the tech and suddenly all the criminals are good citizens with insatiable urge to buy a Tesla.
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Carolyn
@carolynp.bsky.social
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Literally a horror episode of Star Trek come to life! memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Hard_Ti...
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Desiccated Cephalopod
@codasquid.bsky.social
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It’s like they’re just actively scraping Black Mirror for ideas
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Dire Sloth
@magneticsara.bsky.social
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I feel no obligation to listen to VC AI bullshit. It's frustrating because there's really interesting stuff to be talking about, but no we hear every gory detail of the Clippy phase of a new technology.
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Mathew
@golds.bsky.social
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I do believe Philip K. Dick was psychic ugh
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ML2
@ml2.bsky.social
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This is the most *obvious* grift I've ever seen, and that's saying a lot.
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Jim FR 🔭 🍻🌳⭐️⭐️
@jfritte.bsky.social
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I saw this on the startrekmemes subreddit a couple of days ago - there was a Deep Space 9 episode where O’Brien was incarcerated in this way
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@golvio.bsky.social
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I’m pretty sure experimental brain surgery that didn’t even pass (dubiously legal) animal testing counts as “cruel and unusual punishment.” 😬
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sharp
@sharp.bsky.social
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I think that "sciencetimes.com" is one of those websites that pirates content in an automated fashion, having GPT rewrite it automatically.
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Andrew Glasgow
@lordoflemmings.bsky.social
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Fuck all the memes are coming true
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TitaniumMan
@titaniumman.bsky.social
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What could possibly go wrong? A Clockwork Orange, perhaps.
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Joe Koch
@horrorsong.blog
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What in the clockwork orange
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thadeus
@thadeusk.bsky.social
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Maybe I can get one that will plant fake memories of years and years and years of observing human foibles and coming to a clear conclusion about why humans keep doing so much stupid ass shit like this
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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"Revolutionary Prison Concept" is a hell of a sentence.
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Emerence
@damemyniah.bsky.social
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That was covered in The Outer Limits & Star Trek DS9
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Carl Pavlock
@carlpavlock.bsky.social
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They are so close to understanding
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High How Are You, Rat
@fractus.bsky.social
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What I don't quite understand are the people financially backing them. They're the real rubes, right? "Yeah we can implant memories. That's a technology that's real." Them: "Really? Here's a billion dollars."
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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This whole company is obviously making shit up and selling snake oil, but also it is important for everyone to understand that it is morally good to set fire to this company's headquarters
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Baj Mihal
@bajmihal.bsky.social
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Symbo1ics
@symbo1ics.bsky.social
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this can be used in the ex-billionaires' prison and nowhere else
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Symbo1ics
@symbo1ics.bsky.social
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"revolutionary" they keep using that word…
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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦
@mackuba.eu
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![Lauren McKenzie [free 🇵🇸]'s avatar](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:ohrghfm2tnjqyyxjh5y3224n/bafkreiccnwhiztx2emhqp2lu6qgg7rj3iv5u7pv6k64m2kiyas2nl7ukue@jpeg){kind=small}
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Lauren McKenzie [free 🇵🇸]
@themckenziest.gay
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Hi I’m here to be completely outraged and mock this openly :)
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Greg ”Shalashaska” Kinnear 🏳️🌈
@tedcruzinusa.bsky.social
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Some idiot somewhere: wouldn’t it be cool if ____ Publications of a not inconsiderable size: _____ is here and real!
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Nephrite Heart
@nephriteheart.bsky.social
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LONG JAUNT! LONGER THAN YOU THINK!
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🌻 ☮️ ᗪIᗩᑎOᗰIGᕼTY ☮️ 🌻
@blopeep.bsky.social
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so VCs are speed-running "Clockwork Orange" now? *wipes palms on jeans* welp, time to go
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Michael
@mykld.bsky.social
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Richard Condon “When I wrote The Manchurian Candidate, I intended it as a warning.” Tech-Bros “We are delighted to announce we are working on a product inspired by The Manchurian Candidate. “
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E-W
@edashw.bsky.social
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I've seen this one.
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Lars Hansson
@romabysen.bsky.social
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"are transforming" nothing is being transformed because this tech doesn't exist. This is an outright lie. The AI bubble is going to burst so hard.
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Andy Fraser
@andyfraser.bsky.social
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Maybe they can trial it on techbros and see if it can make them achieve a basic sense of morality
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@ohbluevote.bsky.social
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Bouba O'Kiki
@bleary.bsky.social
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For serious though, there should be a "no AI in criminal justice" law immediately. This sci-fi stuff is PR packaging of more insidious ideas like automated sentencing.
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whet moser
@whet.bsky.social
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👏torment👏nexus👏
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Kim
@kimoco.bsky.social
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Rich VC people will avoid investing in anything that might actually help society cut crime that would work.
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Noah Brand
@noahbrand.bsky.social
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Jesus Christ, everyone here referencing DS9 and BLACK MIRROR, like they had the idea. Doc Savage was doing this bit approximately a hundred years ago. This isn't even about recycling sci-fi tropes, it's about literal pulp morality.
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Susieus Maximus
@susieusmaximus.bsky.social
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Jesus Fucking Christ. The slim ray of hope I'm feeling is that I've had to read and write copy for projects seeking funding*, and this reeks of that prose style. It's very slim, that ray of hope. *TOTALLY DIFFERENT KINDS OF PROJECTS FROM THIS ONE
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Curtis Wilde
@curtis.wilde.one
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Pitch: What if the prison was literally in your head? VC: No conceivable downsides to this one, how many billions would you like?
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CK DexterHaven
@ckshowalter.bsky.social
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WAP
@wetasspword.bsky.social
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Hey I've seen this one before
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a7h13f
@a7h13f.bsky.social
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I've had existential crisis inducing nightmares about this concept. I'm sure this is fine and won't go horribly wrong in any way. As everyone knows the US criminal justice system is perfect and incapable of making mistakes or doing harm... Right?
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Megaweapon
@megaweapon5.bsky.social
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This would have made season 1 of “Andor” even better.
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Octocryptid 🜬
@octocryptid.bsky.social
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Even if this was possible the carceral system would never accept it
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Billy Suter
@suterb42.bsky.social
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Looks like somebody's been watching too much DS9.
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En Buen Ora
@enbuenora.bsky.social
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sure, no problem, we can't do any of that stuff even in labs at this point but, sure, VC money here we come
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@troyliss.bsky.social
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According to the original Daily Mail article, this is a short film by a molecular biologist-turned-filmmaker and “science communicator.” He has a few SF shorts to his credit and this is the latest. It’s not a start-up, it’s an attempt to go viral with a Black Mirror fan film.
hashem-alghaili.com
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Roberta Ecks
@robertaecks.bsky.social
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Literally one of the most creepy aspects of the 1930s "Doc Savage" pulps was that he "rehabilitated" bad guys by "surgically erasing past memories" and retraining them from scratch. This is essentially the same invasive procedure.
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nonsense perpetrator
@oranmath.bsky.social
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It’s gotta be a scam though, right? Like I just don’t believe this is possible. Maybe I’m naive.
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CJ the Awkward
@awkwardleftycj.bsky.social
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Ideas for rehabilitating people with antisocial tendencies: 1) torture 2) slavery 3) brainwashing Yep, looks like we’ve tried everything!
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Lisa
@lisathelibrarian.bsky.social
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YOU CAN'T IMPLANT MEMORIES!! It's impossible! "AI and brain implants don't exist" This isn't a thing!!! ::screams into void::
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time abolitionist 🚤🚤🚤
@aflightybroad.bsky.social
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loving the volume of different sci fi stuff getting dropped in the comments here because it’s like ten thousand stories lmao
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Antonio H
@ahard.bsky.social
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Ahhh…this must be the plot to 3rd Dune movie but the story is too dumb for human writers.
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Dawn Xiana Moon
@dawnxianamoon.bsky.social
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Tech Bros: Get ideas from science fiction. Also tech bros: Totally forget that science fiction decided that this was a Very Bad Idea. * Babylon 5 literally did this plot 30 years ago!
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Woj
@swojack.bsky.social
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I appreciate that these tech fascists aren't even bothering to pretend that they are making a product they hope people will use voluntarily. They are just skipping to selling it as state forced fascist brain programming.
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Jeff Flanagan
@shazbat.bsky.social
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You can relax. It's a grift. They're promising the impossible as they try to part VCs and their money.
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Portland Man
@erikgunderson.bsky.social
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What could possibly go wrong?
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Pyrito Hedron
@pyritohedron.bsky.social
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State prison administration as it intersects with the private sector is so corrupt that the backers of this venture are probably right that they'll be able to grift a lot of money.
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Bren
@bren43.bsky.social
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I read that, it was a Hugo-nominated short story
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MrLeville
@mrleville.bsky.social
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Harder to publicly look for investors if you present your tech as "new torture & brainwashing device"
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scott dagostino
@scottdagostino.bsky.social
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Good grief, this was literally the plot of a 1971 DOCTOR WHO episode and it was silly *then*
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Sean Eric Fagan
@kithrup.bsky.social
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I saw that episode of DS9 and new Outer Limits.
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Don Macfarlane
@revmod.bsky.social
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Wait a minute. This IS the Torment Nexus!
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Andrew
@andrewbub.bsky.social
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I see that @greatdismal.bsky.social hasn’t been on in 4 months and if/when he ever comes back it’s just going to be a mountain of notifications of him being tagged about news like this
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Hermes Pissmegistus
@aleph.bsky.social
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i am once again asking that we not invent the Torment Nexus
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Fakehappy Minus One
@fakehappy.monster
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One thing I fully support is that it says they’re going to collect information from prisoners’ brains to find out why people commit crimes. Hopefully we can finally understand precisely the mechanism by which the devil inserts evil thoughts into our minds on a neuronal level
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Fakehappy Minus One
@fakehappy.monster
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I think everyone involved in the for-profit prison system would agree that prisons being expensive is a huge problem they’d desperately love to solve
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Fakehappy Minus One
@fakehappy.monster
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“Aha! Now that I know what it feels like to be chainsawed in half, I realize it was actually a bad thing to do”
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Firk
@theflyingfirk.bsky.social
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Will they remember that there are then no /actual/ consequences?
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El Topo
@eltopo71.bsky.social
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I'm pretty sure there's also a Black Mirror episode for that.
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El Topo
@eltopo71.bsky.social
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If only someone had written a book about this sort of thing that later got turned into a movie... Clockwork Orange, 2001: a Space Odyssey, etc.
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Norbizness
@norbizness.bsky.social
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We don't need to move off one of the four fundamental forces of nature concept so quickly.
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The Bricktosser
@bricktosser.bsky.social
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It's the Torment Vortex meme!
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blackmask/nyc
@blkmsk.bsky.social
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Fuck the concept for a sec, how do these experts assume that the problem with violent criminals is that they've never experienced a violent crime?
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Amy Hoy
@amyhoy.bsky.social
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love how headlines now always state impossible things as if they exist and work as promised New Unicorn Method Cures All Diseases SF, CA — Unicornio has announced a $6b raise to locate a unicorn, whose virtuous horn is hailed for the ability to to cure all human illness
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Madness Table
@rollforphobia.bsky.social
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Ghoulish dystopias only slightly leavened by how the understanding of technology is on the level of asking the fairies
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𝚂𝙿𝙾𝚁𝙺𝙱𝙾𝙾𝚃
@sporkboot.bsky.social
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finally a real life torment nexus that will never be abused
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Cadbury Crème Negs
@itshard.bsky.social
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This was literally an episode of deep space 9, at the end of which miles O’Brien put a phaser in his mouth…
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Free people read freely
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Prison which they are wholly convinced they will never be in, then one day ... they will be so very indignant, saying: "I didn't mean me!" Oh, hi, SBF.
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Victoria Woodhull
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Jack of The Shadows
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Definitely wouldn’t turn into 1000 years of torture being rewritten into brains for stealing food.
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Greta HaffandHawf
@gretahaffandhawf.bsky.social
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And what exactly would this do to folks whose only crime is being gay and/or trans?
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Nice Footpaws
@ionotter.bsky.social
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Does NOBODY in the C-suite watch movies anymore?!?
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atreides nuts
@afivegantenna.bsky.social
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why is this written as an ad that presumes not just the technical ability of them to implement it but the very validity of what they are trying to do
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Matt Gordon (He/Him, mostly) ✡️🏳️🌈
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The founder is a YouTuber with a masters degree. I do not think this is a serious idea, this looks like a press release republishing site. I don’t know if it’s even been funded?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashem_...
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Accountabilabuddy
@accountabilabuddy.bsky.social
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The company's executives have to go in first. And then nobody else, ever.
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Greta
@greta-and-stirred.bsky.social
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This level of science:
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✿🦢🩰🎃꧁🫒༺❧☽🪐🔆☾❧༻🫒꧂🎃🩰🐈⬛❀
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Bezel Folf
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No they won't. Even if the tech existed, we still don't know properly how an individual memory is stored, let alone being able to construct one
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Estarianne
@estarianne.bsky.social
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Another example of science fiction making people believe things that aren't true lol.
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Serena (she/her)
@serenawanderer.bsky.social
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Will they at least include visits from Jon Hamm in this virtual prison?
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jace cavacini
@dysamoria.com
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Science fiction. Don’t even need to read more.
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Michael Paul 🐓
@mjpaul.bsky.social
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perhaps they could implant mental associations that cause people to feel a deep sickness when they think about criminal acts
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Pete Milan
@petemilan.bsky.social
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A satisfied customer.
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proportionwheel
@proportionwheel.bsky.social
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Why is a completely imaginary science-fiction scheme with no evidence to back it up, indeed no experimental background more advanced than Musk’s extremely dubious amateur neuro-tinkering, being reported as actual fact? I mean, I do get that the article was written by generative AI, almost certainly.
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Nap Gusto, Jedi/Scoundrel
@furiouslysleepy.bsky.social
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Here comes a bloated federal contract for NeuraLink in 3....2.....
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Jack Storey
@jackstorey.bsky.social
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HappyKaijuStompyTime
@hellokaiju.bsky.social
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They warned us about this in 1962 (book) and 1971 (film). "I was cured alright"
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Dharhix
@dharhix.com
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That is just so fucking stupid. Memories won't change behavior. Gawddamn.
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jesse
@jesseltaylor.bsky.social
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this is literally how we got simon phoenix, people
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Nihilistic Wrong Hordak
@shadow27.bsky.social
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Chief Obrien has words.
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Jeffles the no-talent ass-clown
@jeffles.bsky.social
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Be right back, I'm going to throw a dart at some comic books and make a startup about it. Headline going with the fully credulous present tense "Uses" as if this were in any way a real thing people can do.
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@patter.bsky.social
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Someone just watched that "torturing O'Brien" episode of DS9 & thought it was still a good idea en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Ti...
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This Sandwichman is Tom Walker
@thesandwichman.bsky.social
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Crockwork Orange
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This Sandwichman is Tom Walker
@thesandwichman.bsky.social
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Mary Shelley's copyright has run out.
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Tim
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My tech startup idea: tubes! We will use tubes to move people around, flying through the air, underground, etc.
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Arlan Hellison (famous)
@thehell.zone
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I am extremely confident they will never be able to do any of that in the first place but the fact that they want to is more than enough
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fluids_guru
@fluidsguru.bsky.social
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Surely that’s just a Phillip K Dick novel.
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ARBco
@arbco.bsky.social
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It's a creation of a literal sci-fi author (and self-dubbed "science communicator") who does short films like the "Ectolife" which also went viral... it's not a real startup. Mind, the video is presented without context (better for clicks), but it's good to check sources on wild claims like this.
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Eat
@eateator.bsky.social
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Criminals get everything first
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Guinea
@guineaprince.bsky.social
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If but Foucault was still around.
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James
@battlehork.bsky.social
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literally an episode of Deep Space Nine
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Kathy 🇺🇦
@districtofkatya.bsky.social
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Same guy who put out this video in 2022 which went around and got Candace Owens and others mad.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2RI...
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Febriana Isnaini
@febisnaini.com
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Isn't this the plot of Black Mirror's "White Christmas"?
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UncleEraserheadbabyBilly
@lepcyrus.bsky.social
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wait until the (of all people the LAST you would expect) *warden* turns out to be TWISTED and SADISTIC and creates a criminal army!
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Reca
@recarecaps.bsky.social
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📌
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Gabriel S. Jacobs
@gsjphd.bsky.social
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the good news is that they'll never have so much as a proof of concept for this
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Q. H. Stone
@qhstone.bsky.social
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People now think you can just add “AI” to any proposal and it will somehow make it sound less absurd. This is nonsense. Anyone who invests in this deserves to lose their money.
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Mei, Warlock of the Expensive Paper
@meithemouse.bsky.social
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Haven't we had multiple movies, TV shows, and other media that expressly treated these kinds of things as studious dystopian?
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Lilah Sturges
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The good news is that this is so impossible that it’s hard to describe how utterly impossible this is with our current understanding of neuroscience
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Midnight Platypus
@midnightplat.bsky.social
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It's not really a start up or venture of any sort, it's just a vid from a "science enthusiast's" YouTube channel that ScienceTimes's writer didn't know or care to vet. It's a basically the product of a channel that's basically a much cheaper DUST pretending it's IFLScience.
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Maya Media
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Commodore Jeep-Eep
@commodorejeepeep.bsky.social
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starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Neural_...
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rainmanbun (Terribly Hinged era)
@rainmanbun.bsky.social
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yes it is abhorrent but what if we used it to fix the people who thought this was a good idea
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DaemonAAc / Bunny
@daemonaac.bsky.social
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*headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk**headdesk*
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Pyrholidon Enthusiast ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@pyrholidon.bsky.social
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oh no. the guy responsible for this was responsible for the 'birthing pod' nonsense.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashem_...
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Pyrholidon Enthusiast ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@pyrholidon.bsky.social
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This was literally a Star Trek episode.
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Isaac Rabinovitch
@isaac32767.bsky.social
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I think this might be the result of somebody telling an LLM to generate a business model, and the LLM just rewrote the plot for a Philip K Dick novel.
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David Hull 胡大衛
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John Shannonhouse
@jlshannonhouse.bsky.social
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It looks like sciencetimes dot com is not into science
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Dustin Jay Bell
@sanctumperilous.bsky.social
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Good news. They don’t know how to do this
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Darrel Plant
@darrelplant.bsky.social
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We shall call it…the Ludovico Technique
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🏳️⚧️Valkyrie Eleison
@anitmata.bsky.social
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"We have invented the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi story, Don't Invent The Torment Nexus" No you didn't
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Prof. Joey Neilsen
@joeyneilsen.bsky.social
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"We care about crime, so we're going to scorch the Earth and boil the seas in an effort to torture convicts for the rest of their shortened lives."
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smtddr
@smtddr.bsky.social
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This is pretty much the plot of "Other Life"
m.imdb.com/title/tt4693...
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Craig 'VI' Slee - Crip Greybeard: Oracular Utterings Cost Extra
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@niedermeyer.io So if you look this guy up? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashem_... He does concept videos to provoke discussion. Looks like the Daily Mail saw it and thought it was legit. Then this outlet picked *that* up.
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Jeff (no, the other one)
@jeff-notheotherone.bsky.social
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FEELING NO PAIN
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Ra's al Dolezal
@senatorivy.bsky.social
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Lets just get rid of techbros and ai lovers
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Carl Gibson 🍉
@crgibs.bsky.social
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Vicki Bryan's Bond Angle
@bondangle.bsky.social
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This perfectly represents Tech Bro grift: —appropriate others' idea as new (this is an old sci-fi idea) —promise vaguely plausible (not provable) potential —collect billions in start-up funding from Tech Bro cult (who wouldn't help a hungry child even on fire) —Rinse, repeat for years of failure.
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Hugo Y Yo
@hugoyyo.bsky.social
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AI scams / that target the for-profit prison system?
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The Dave You Know
@davefecik.bsky.social
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What could possibly go wrong?!?
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Elizabeth Roderick
@talesfrompurgatory.bsky.social
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What the actual fuck. They don’t know what memories are or how they’re stored or accessed. Nor do they know what “rehabilitation” means, much less how to induce that effect, even in years I’m so done with these “science” articles, especially about AI
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Francine McKenna
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@celendine.bsky.social
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I had hoped we'd go to Alpha Centauri *before* we invented nerve stapling but
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It's Aunt Masha to you
@mashamasha.bsky.social
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When South Park presented this idea 25 years ago, they didn't mean it as a great example that we should actually follow with real people ffs
youtu.be/26oRZCLHR1M?...
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Pat
@parisdog.bsky.social
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not all revolutions are good
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Political Punnery
@politicalpunner.bsky.social
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I have seen Virtuosity and it did not end well for anyone involved!
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Kyla Houbolt
@luaz.bsky.social
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some things are so horrible I can think of nothing to say that even comes close to matching the disgust and outrage. May this never come about. (Er, maybe it already has and this is softening us for the reveal. Would NOT surprise me.)
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Manyakitty
@manyakitty.bsky.social
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There was a brutal DS9 episode about O'Brien and implanted memories. My god. That's torture.
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Hipster Sasquatch
@hipstersasquatch.bsky.social
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Why does nobody ever come up with the Revolutionary Concept of sending nonviolent offenders home with an ankle tracker and a parole officer?
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Chad Radish
@chadradish.bsky.social
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Aww hell yeah can't wait to hack these and instantly turn everyone gay
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In the middle of the road
@skunkgunk.bsky.social
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Yep.
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Jeremy Spitzberg
@jspitzberg.bsky.social
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Isn’t that the plot of Demolition Man?
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Wendel
@wendelschwab.bsky.social
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Chief O'Brien sobbing into his beer.
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Bazza
@bazza.bsky.social
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That website looks like utter clickbait-ridden garbage. And quite apart from being something from a dystopian sci-fi horror novel, this "Cognify" thing sounds like a scam, the kind of scam that would only be entertained by that sort of website.
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e.e. yikes
@eeyikes.bsky.social
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I’m calling for a total and complete shutdown of all AI startups until we can figure out what’s going on.
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Steve Uncle
@the-barely-jew.bsky.social
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Me, about to be rehabilitated
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QimirPeered
@waywardboobs.bsky.social
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So literally White Christmas episode of Black Mirror.
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Wattle of Bits 🏳️🌈
@wattle.bsky.social
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this "article" is an ad. This must not be a reputable publication
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Nails the Tabaxi 🍉
@nailsthetabaxi.bsky.social
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But how will for-profit prisons rent out prisoners as cheap labor to corporations if they’re “rehabilitated” in minutes?
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Ted Underwood 🦋
@tedunderwood.me
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I would like to scream but
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Castle Bravo
@castlebravoli7.bsky.social
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This is literally the torment nexus
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Christof Brehmer #NAFO
@christofbrehmer.bsky.social
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If it worked, they would sell it to ANYONE with an unsavoury past. But perhaps it will first be tested on criminals before there are consumer complaints...
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🌺🌸Tigerlily🍉🔑
@tigerlily6.bsky.social
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Bro wtf??
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@docstock.bsky.social
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We need to turn Silicon Valley in a Chernobyl-like exclusion zone.
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Toxidrone
@toxidrone.bsky.social
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Oh good, time for "acres of skin 2: acres of brain"
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Max T 🇦🇺🦘 🏳️🌈
@91vaults.bsky.social
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"Why do people do bad things? It is a mystery" <- it's really not a mystery as to why most people end up in prison
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The Chillennial
@thechillennial.bsky.social
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Torment nexus lessons, etc etc etc anyway gib vc moneyz nao plz
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Kevin Kretsch
@drkevguitar.bsky.social
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Science Times, eh? “Well, anything that posts nonsense like that doesn’t sound like a reliable source. Let me see what I can find out”, I said. Turns out, no, it’s not a reliable source.
mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-science-...
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Attentive Dragon
@adddragon.bsky.social
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Oh boy, they're making the Torment Nexus again.
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joey
@consequences.bsky.social
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Reminds me of Oz, when they had an experimental drug that would just age people the number of years they would be in prison.
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aheago to the polls
@chemotaxis.bsky.social
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setting aside the dystopian aspect of this for a second it's probably the stupidest/most outlandish neuroscience pitch I've ever seen
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Josef Zens
@zens.bsky.social
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They should read or watch the movie A Clockwork Orange. Spoiler: Idea came up 50+ years ago and didn’t work. Good movie though.
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Cetsuo - The Wandering Painter
@cetsuo.bsky.social
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Isnt this literally the plot of A Clockwork Orange?
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D.N. Schmidt, Space Opera Author 🛸
@writepop.bsky.social
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Nothing in the article sounds remotely plausible. This has to be a joke, right?
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Ray Ryan
@rjrjr.bsky.social
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So Science Times just prints press releases?
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Roger Vaillancourt
@rogerjva.bsky.social
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@jrobie.bsky.social
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I read this and I had a really hard time believing it wasn't a parody
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Mad Online
@verymadonline.bsky.social
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No idea is bad enough for tech bros to stay away from it.
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Kevin OMalley
@holyshitimfucked.com
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The CTO's biography has an interesting photo.
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Kevin OMalley
@holyshitimfucked.com
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We plan to provide an utter atrocity, an ethical lapse of unimaginable horror, and we plan to do it by using technology that is so non-existent that even writing it down makes it clear that either we or our potential funders are credulous buffoons. We expect an initial round of $50 Million or so.
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The Inconsistent Dragon, Alephwyr
@alephwyr.therian.wtf
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This is literally the Ludovico technique
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Devilboy Bitch Baby (18+ content)
@desdemonical.bsky.social
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Love the use of the term "rehabilitating" as if real prison sentances result in rehabilitation... Just say "punishing," its more honest!
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Huey
@hueycallison.bsky.social
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Everyone has apparently seen the Star Trek episode, but it was also a really good Outer Limits episode in 1996.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0667...
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El Al-Killjoy
@capitalcrimes.bsky.social
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This sounds like star trek but it's just going to be lobotomies again
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John Hannen
@jhannen.bsky.social
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it's not a real thing and not a startup - it's from a self-styled "science communicator" without any links to any form of business. Just content made for the clicks There are already existing businesses called cognify that have nothing to do with this
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Ayo
@darrylayo.bsky.social
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this movie ruled
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Emo for Justice
@spernce.bsky.social
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The dumbest thing about this is that WE ALREADY KNOW HOW TO REHABILITATE PEOPLE! There’s a whole big rest of the world out there that incarcerates ppl at much lower rates AND has much less crime/violence. We could do what those places do. We chose not to.
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Kelly Barnhill
@kellybarnhill.bsky.social
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Holy shit
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Block+Move on
@honestthief.bsky.social
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They think they can implant memories and the first thing they decide is not to help people with brain issues but instead create false memories for prisoners? These people need to be put on a desert island to recreate their own civilization stop messing with ours.
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@myst1cdr3am.bsky.social
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It's a Clockwork Orange.
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@myst1cdr3am.bsky.social
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It's so cute how some people still think prison rehabilitates people.
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