AGI and ASI Will Hack the Human Subconscious via Subliminal Messaging

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7 points·Bluestein··3 comments

Seriously? The technology that doesn't exist will use a discredited theory to access a poorly defined concept from the early 1800's?

What possible use can this level of speculative fiction masquerading as a think-piece possibly have? I'm trying to be charitable, I'm trying to be fair, but so help me I don't see a kind way to interpret this. I suppose the least damning version I can come up with is that this is more FUD-marketing that attempts to use the back door to make claims about future capability that the technology is unlikely to achieve; at least that's only cynical, not stupid.

Isn't this the same technology that can affect the voting results via targeted propaganda, just more advanced? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24619170

If you substitute subliminal messaging with any other technique allowing:

- to influence human behavior, - to prevent an effective countermeasure, - to be controlled by a single issuer, you - use in a selective or mass scale mode against a freely selected population,

then you have an equivalent recipe without SF flavor, because the same analysis shows that humanity cannot defend itself.

Of course, you can ignore existing social media and some cybercrime threats... unless they get included in the military weapons arsenals.

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