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Re:Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday October 24, 2019 @12:03PM (#21345962)
Do you work as a writer for Black Mirror by chance?
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Re:Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars by Jun8 on Thursday October 24, 2019 @03:31PM (#21348351)
I take that as a compliment :-)

It's not clear how the BM cookie technology works (https://black-mirror.fandom.com/wiki/Cookie) but is understood to be hardware based, i.e. not brain in a vat, biological technology I described above.

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Re:Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday October 24, 2019 @03:36PM (#21348392)
I was speaking more to the general theme of callous disregard for suffering.
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