Re:Child Porn Allegations at Patreon After Security Team Fired
by api on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @12:52PM
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> 2) In a near future neuroscience will cure pedophilia and ,partially, psychopatic tendencies with artifical empathy generators in your skull.
This will be the first application of so-called "desire engineering": the elimination of desires that people do not desire to desire.
From there though the implications get... interesting. What happens when you can also add or tweak desires? What do you want to want? What do you want to want to want? Raises a lot of philosophical questions, some of which may be troubling.
Re:Child Porn Allegations at Patreon After Security Team Fired
by anthk on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @08:41PM
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They are troubling now. Is it a criminal accountable for its acts, or the determinism due to the unstoppable chemical connections making its braincommit the crime?
This will be the first application of so-called "desire engineering": the elimination of desires that people do not desire to desire.
From there though the implications get... interesting. What happens when you can also add or tweak desires? What do you want to want? What do you want to want to want? Raises a lot of philosophical questions, some of which may be troubling.