Q&A: How DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain andturned her into a sharpshooter

Re:Q&A: How DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain andturned ... by grepLeigh on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @11:40PM (#36147352)

One of my most San Francisco experiences, about a month after moving here:

I used an app to find a therapist after experiencing some gnarly trauma. Twenty minutes into the consult session, the therapist asks me if I'd be interested in trying an "experimental treatment proven to help process traumas." She pulled a device out of her desk drawer, and it looked kind of like a beanie hat made from electrical wires.

So, that's how I found out she was using the therapy matching app to find volunteers for her research. The literature she showed me was all related to TDCS (hadn't heard about TDCS previously).

I left pretty quickly, before the session ended, which I remember because my car was TOWED.

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Re:Q&A: How DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain andturned ... by etrautmann on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @11:42PM (#36147359)

Seems like a Silicon Valley plot line

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Re:Q&A: How DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain andturned ... by im_down_w_otp on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @11:45PM (#36147374)

I’ve never successfully made it through a full episode of either Portlandia or Silicon Valley because they’re both just too real for me not in a good way.

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Re:Q&A: How DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain andturned ... by nico on Thursday June 01, 2023 @12:05AM (#36147461)

I love the SV series, watched it twice end to end

And you are 100% right, pretty much everything in it is very real, portrayed in a cartoonish way, but so real

I’ve met real life versions of almost all the characters in it and even have attended a birthday party in Alcatraz (it was actually a ton of fun, although definitely weird and eerie too)

Hopefully you get to someday laugh at all this stuff

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Re:Q&A: How DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain andturned ... by joshu on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:01AM (#36148004)

i struggle with the episodes and i was a consultant on the show. very traumatizing.

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Re:Q&A: How DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain andturned ... by nico on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:05AM (#36148021)

So interesting. How was it working on the show? What makes the episodes so hard to watch?

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Re:Q&A: How DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain andturned ... by bsenftner on Thursday June 01, 2023 @07:31AM (#36149772)

Nonsense tech deadline PTSD

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Re:Q&A: How DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain andturned ... by im_down_w_otp on Thursday June 01, 2023 @11:51AM (#36152892)

The VCs and the founders.

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Re:Q&A: How DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain andturned ... by red-iron-pine on Thursday June 01, 2023 @01:22PM (#36154369)

Same idea (mostly) with Mr Robot

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Re:Q&A: How DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain andturned ... by carabiner on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:59AM (#36148301)

How much did it cost to get your car back?

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Re:Q&A: How DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain andturned ... by grepLeigh on Thursday June 01, 2023 @11:25AM (#36152479)

Around $700.

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Re:Q&A: How DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain andturned ... by carabiner on Thursday June 01, 2023 @03:14PM (#36155961)

DAMN.

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