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LilRee12 t1_itpm0hx wrote

Reply to comment by Heap_Good_Firewater in New Technique For Decoding People's Thoughts Can Now Be Done From a Distance by fungussa

Yeah since they’re measuring blood flow to make the predictions. Being up and active will affect those readings. But you never know

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stage_directions t1_itpp34f wrote

I do know. Jiggling while in the scanner will wreak havoc on the readings. Full on “up and active?” Forget it.

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[deleted] t1_itpu14z wrote

For now. The motivation to make this work as well as possible will have every spy agency masturbating furiously while figuring out how to fine tune this technology.

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TheBlakout t1_ittbmku wrote

Yeah, absolutely, they just have to invent room-temperature superconductors (A century of research and billions of dollars and we're still looking at slightly warmer than liquid nitrogen),

manufacture them at scale (graphene, a substance you can make by putting a piece of sticky tape on some pencil lead and pulling, has needed 2 decades and hundreds of millions of dollars to start to look like maybe we'll possibly be there in another decade or two),

develop a pocket-sized nuclear fusion reactor for power supply (go fuck yourself),

covertly position two agents equal distances apart on exactly opposite sides of the target (lol),

train an A.I. on the target after a few dozen readings compared to a profile of what they're probably thinking about at the time (double lol), and

pray to god they happen to be preoccupied with thoughts of something important while you manage to do that (go fuck yourself, again.)

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AstronautOk1143 t1_itr86fl wrote

Wait they are just measuring blood flow? That can’t be accurate at all

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Marvele10 t1_itq41j4 wrote

It's really just a matter of time at this point

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