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Ruth Ann Harnisch's avatar

The old movie "Village of the Damned" scared us with alien children who could read the thoughts of Earthlings and had come to take over. Their teacher practiced thinking of a brick wall, just a brick wall, brick wall, as he waited for the explosive in his briefcase to kill the entire class of alien children, and himself, to save the planet. They could see he was thinking of the brick wall brick wall brick wall and immediately became suspicious...but too late. They all perished, along with the man who had blocked his thoughts of imminent death from being read. Will the technology Nita Farahany describes allow us to think of a brick wall? Or will our brains betray us?

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William Parker's avatar

The idea that this system could end up in the hands of a psychopath or sociopath is terrifying.

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