19 pointsby root-parent4 hours ago4 comments
  • dustfinger23 minutes ago
    It would be nice to add a "right to private thought" to the Bill of Rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as well as something similar to other countries' rights and freedoms laws wherever possible.
    • ronsor15 minutes ago
      Shouldn't this already be covered by the Fourth and Fifth Amendments?
  • PMunch3 hours ago
    Having proper sub-vocalization interfaces would be so cool! A 19-channel EEG does seem a bit invasive though (from a social aspect, I understand that it's used here in a medical context).
    • WalterGR2 hours ago
      Subvocalization can be decoded from facial muscles.

      MIT’s AlterEgo project does that. It’s been spun off into a private company (with no shipping product yet.) Discussed here, with 130 comments, 11 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45174125

  • bbor24 minutes ago
    Our world is literally about to burst at its seams, and no one believes it. People are very concerned that AI is using water or might be a hoax — meanwhile, we’ve been hoisted into a brand new BCI paradigm seemingly overnight. Ditto for bipedal robotics.

    Like… how can you be planning a 401k at a time where humanoid robots and *mind reading* are suddenly possible? We’re going to have to redesign our whole society if we want to survive.

  • doodlebugging2 hours ago
    I'm not interested in seeing this technology progress any further. The ability to read someone's inner, unspoken thoughts is too easy to weaponize against them.

    I wonder whether a subject could poison the process by consciously thinking about something unrelated in the same way that public speakers used to get past stage-fright. As you look out across the audience picture something funny, like your boss in a pink tutu.

    • dr_dshiv28 minutes ago
      Id love to whisper vibe code in public. Oh well.
    • butvacuum2 hours ago
      unfortunately we already know about subvocalization.
    • ungreased06752 hours ago
      I agree. Not all topics are worth exploring. We don’t have to develop every dystopian-enabling technology. Build something else please.