Re:Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy
by 999900000999 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:43PM
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Ok.
But strictly in a hypothetical, a state actor could develop a sadness ray ?
I could imagine a B52 or something flying over a major city and beaming out sadness (or whatever emotion you want).
On the other side, once this science is understood better you could have recreational brain wave modification. A happy beam if you will.
Any books you can suggest on the topic?
Re:Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy
by frereubu on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:00PM
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I can't quite tell if you're pulling my leg, but if not, you're thinking of electromagnetic waves, which are entirely different. Brain waves are fluctuations in the activity of the brain's electrical circuits and couldn't be influenced in that way.
Re:Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy
by 999900000999 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:31PM
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I’m not making this up, there are some theories that this technology might already exist to an extent.
> The team of three experts concluded that incident was a widescale use of electronics to carry out a so-called neuro-weapon attack
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2018/9/6/ex...
No, not in the sense I think you mean it. But if someone you thought was very attractive did nothing but stood next to you that would affect your brain waves, yes. It's one of the things about brains - they respond to the environment, so pretty much anything can affect brain waves, that's what so difficult about understanding the data.