VR-ing: using transcranial magnetic stimulation to induce Venkatesh-Rao-like states of mind
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isnt this just the plot of the giver?
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See "Fair Witness" in Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, 1961.
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authentication is already its own service in the digital world that's beginning to gain importance. In a post-platform economy, authenticators will be the new gatekeepers. You can produce/consume any content on any platform, but the value addition will be based on auth protocol.
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I literally had this thought for the first time in the last week. Was triggered by a re-read of Goldstein from 1984 and his observation that only war made a society confront its relationship with reality, and of course war planning and tech was reserved to the inner party.
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Scientists seem to be pretty reliable truth experts. They at least are aware they possess blind spots and approach things in a systematic, testable way
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Yes. It seems that technology has been already redirected from 'fixing the world' to 'producing a believable image of a fixed world'. Even Musk's Starman demo is less "we're going to stars" and more like "yeah we totally could if we wanted".
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