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I just saw a post about mindreading tech. Has there been/is there going to be any interest among the LW community to consider the likelihood of such technology being within reach or if it's even already here and well-developped through Manhattan style projects?
It's a very murky subject and I'm curious how LWers would approach it.
My intuition is that what's holding us back from it is measurement, not analysis -- ie if we could extract a sufficiently high quality signal of brain state/activity, the rest of the problem will fall quickly. The state of the art currently seems to be either noninvasive highly sensitive magnetic measurements, or Neuralink-style "stick a couple wires in them", neither of which seem to be yielding much, at least by way of loud/mainstream advancements. Imagine giving a modern CPU to a scientist from the 1930s -- theoretically they have the ability to underst... (read more)