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Re:Darpa Wants Brain Implants That Record from 1M Neurons by sillysaurus3 on Monday July 10, 2017 @11:47AM (#14736984)
I agree. Once we develop the ability to upload and modify brains, it will be easy to morph them. We can extract the primal desire to defend yourself, to become angry, to want to own property. These emotions will be reserved for the founders.

It will take time to get there. Many will resist, so we have to keep our goal a secret. But people are gullible. With our morphogenic brain technology, we can give people experiences they've only dreamed of. Think of it. The high of heroin, with none of the downsides. The ability to know instantly when any of your loved ones are in distress. The ability to shape yourself and your children into any form you desire.

If we appeal to base emotions, if we appeal to their need to control, to own, to shape, then we can implement our plan.

Re:Darpa Wants Brain Implants That Record from 1M Neurons by ghurtado on Monday July 10, 2017 @02:28PM (#14738435)
I hope you're being 100% sarcastic.

If you're not, I must ask: is your name Andrew Ryan perchance?

Re:Darpa Wants Brain Implants That Record from 1M Neurons by lossolo on Monday July 10, 2017 @12:06PM (#14737154)
> Many will resist, so we have to keep our goal a secret.

This is not democracy. Every dictatorship begins with "I know better what is good for you than you do".

You should watch movie "Equilibrium" with Christian Bale. I don't think you really want that, it only sounds good in theory.

Re:Darpa Wants Brain Implants That Record from 1M Neurons by sillysaurus3 on Monday July 10, 2017 @12:08PM (#14737180)
Well, it was firmly tongue in cheek. :) I've been thinking of trying to write some short stories pulling from various themes in technology. Most ideas have been done to death, but with a bit of skill it might be possible to write something worth reading.

A tangent, but: I've been wondering how a novelist builds their skill. They're not born with it. One idea would be to watch a movie and write it like a book, transcribing it scene for scene. I'm not sure whether that'd help, though.

Re:Darpa Wants Brain Implants That Record from 1M Neurons by SubiculumCode on Monday July 10, 2017 @01:10PM (#14737766)
No ideas about the second, but an aside on the first.

'Most ideas have been done to death' is a central reason I have stopped reading novels that much. Ah its one of those, he will do this. Ah yes, I see the twist. its one of those.

Re:Darpa Wants Brain Implants That Record from 1M Neurons by bllguo on Monday July 10, 2017 @04:20PM (#14739295)
I highly empathize with this. These days I'm just interested in imagination. I don't care if a book or novel or movie is good. I will most likely never consume it. I'm looking up synopses and scanning them for innovative ideas.
Re:Darpa Wants Brain Implants That Record from 1M Neurons by hellbanner on Monday July 10, 2017 @12:17PM (#14737272)
Re tangent: Steven King's "on writing" or Ray Bradbury's "en in the art of writing"

write 1000 words a day, be crap for decades, eventually you get skilled.