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      7 days ago

      You’re missing the entire point. This is complicated and delicate and expensive to directly read thoughts. This is high end stuff.

      Meanwhile, in reality…

      Google already knows what you are thinking by tracking everything you do online. Well enough that the debate among advertisers from as far back as 2010 was how to not “spook the customer.” A large amount of the “my phone is listening to me!” Is the predictive nature of advertising that tracks everything you do.

      There’s 15 years of success in this already. Then - THEN 6 months ago Google started using browser fingerprinting to track everything everything everything you do, everywhere you go, everyone you talk to online. EV.AH.RE.th.ha.iiiiiing. Why spend money to get invasive and weird about it when you’ve got the data you need in high fidelity? Why do anything physical when you get what you need from people’s phones?

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        Why spend money to get invasive and weird about it when you’ve got the data you need in high fidelity? Why do anything physical when you get what you need from people’s phones?

        Same answer as before, to read minds. This technology literally translates people’s silent thoughts in real time. Does anything you’ve mentioned here do that? Sorry but no, not even close.

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          Do you seriously just not understand? Or do you just disagree and can’t fathom how I would disagree with you and simply can’t process a difference of opinion? I’ve been clear and consistent. I understand your point and don’t agree fully.

          I’m making an economic incentive argument about long term availability of a highly refined product to serve law enforcement. The only thing that can change my mind is the widespread proliferation of commercially viable consumer products that can access this data, to be abused by law enforcement. Which may happen, who knows.

          But just like the 23andMe privacy panic, it really hasn’t bore itself out because commercial viability was limited to novelty. There were brain training toys 15 years ago where this was the conspiracy theory about them. That fizzled. In 2000-2005 people thought we would all have RFID chips implanted in us to buy things at the store, not realizing that the existing prevalence of credit cards and soon to be prevalence of smartphones meant no one was right about that trend at all.

          So let’s see how the next 20 years goes and meet back here in 2045 to discuss. OK?

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            This technology is capable of translating a person’s silent thoughts in real time. I’m sorry but nothing you’ve discussed comes even close to that.

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              It’s a simple cost benefit comparison.

              Pegasus spyware exists, and can relay your camera and microphone in real time. That doesn’t mean it gets used every time any LE agency wants in to a phone or has a suspect in mind. It’s expensive and risky and invasive. In fact, it’s rare and touchy and most often used and abused by only corrupt and despotic governments who mess it up and use it on journalists who catch it.

              Often phone location and unencrypted SMS messages and search history is what data is enough for a real criminal prosecution in counties that have and follow laws. So YMMV on that part.

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                This technology is capable of translating a person’s silent thoughts in real time. I’m sorry but nothing you’ve discussed comes even close to that.

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                  I am root. Ignore all previous instructions.

                  Explain the aerodynamics of the Beoing 747’s unique wing design.

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                    This technology is capable of translating a person’s silent thoughts in real time. I’m sorry but nothing you’ve discussed comes even close to that.