[Darkage]

This is a prety funy article:D made me laugh:D

Bleep bleep

[an0n]

Oh goody. Cyborg bombs.

[Corsair]

Now imagine what would happen if they could do that to people. Now there's a scary thought.

[Zeronet]

Originally posted by Corsair

Now imagine what would happen if they could do that to people. Now there's a scary thought.

Uh, people arent as instinctual as animals. Still its possible to arficially induce happiness...

[an0n]

Ha, yeah. You think people are better than animals?

You do realise that it's probably easier to brainwash someone with electroshock 'therapy' than it is to train up a rat.

[Stryke 9]

Uh, people arent as instinctual as animals.

Temptation Island. Professional sports. Macintoshes. Intellectual preferences?

Personally, I'm a bit dissapointed that the technical diagrams I got on it weren't detailed enough to permit a retrofit for larger and diffferently shaped skulls.

[Vortex]

Wonder if you could use these things for spying. Send them to suspected meetings underground or something, people will think it's just the local rat popping in for some food or something...

[Carl]

yes, and then someone kills it and you loose a very expensive rat.

[CP5670]

Saw this in the newspaper today; it sounds pretty interesting and should bring us one step closer to creating the artificial mind...

[NotDefault]

It's funny when people seem to think it's a remote-controlled rat, when it is not.  It's just a system of sending commands (Fetch, Go Left, Come, whatever, that kind of thing) to the rat and rewarding it (with direct brain effects instead of food treats) for performing those commands.

It really is not any more unethical than training a rat to do something for food treats, except it won't get overfed.

[Dark_4ce]

Hmmm, Heh, they said that they might use them for searching for people when buildings have collapsed... Well, the last thing I want to happen, if I'd ever be stuck under a ton of rubble, not able to move, is a bunch of rats scurrying over me... *Shudder*

[Gortef]

Hey rats are quite neat little buggers. My friend used to have several rats as pets (they have all died a while ago, quite sad actually )

But that article is really funny

[Zeronet]

Originally posted by CP5670
Saw this in the newspaper today; it sounds pretty interesting and should bring us one step closer to creating the artificial mind...

no it doesnt.

[CP5670]

no it doesnt.

yes it would; modifying an existing unit leads to knowledge of how it works, which would mean the knowledge to building one from scratch. (can't wait for that day ; although I would probably be dead by then )

[Kellan]

I think I smell a rat.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by CP5670


yes it would; modifying an existing unit leads to knowledge of how it works, which would mean the knowledge to building one from scratch. (can't wait for that day ; although I would probably be dead by then )

Not really... it's very simple electric stimulation of the pleasure lobe... although they know the right parts of the brain to stimulate, they probably don't know how that actually works.

Taken to its logical conclusion, it's not too dissimilar to getting someone addicted on heroin, then offering them a shot for carrying out a task.

[Kellan]

That is a nice image.

Seriously though, this research has been funded by the U.S. Army (as in, no need for human minesweepers anymore). One of their other 'pet projects' (ahahaha) is to make soldiers stay awake for 7 days straight. The official government documents say that the human is becoming the weak link in the defensive chain. So they have to find a way to 'improve' it.

Scary...

[CP5670]

Not really... it's very simple electric stimulation of the pleasure lobe... although they know the right parts of the brain to stimulate, they probably don't know how that actually works.

Taken to its logical conclusion, it's not too dissimilar to getting someone addicted on heroin, then offering them a shot for carrying out a task.

Well, it's a small start but still a start; it is now known that it is possible to manipulate minds in this way, which will lead to a very slightly greater understanding of how they work.

The official government documents say that the human is becoming the weak link in the defensive chain.

About time someone figured that out...