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Indian police are trying to ‘read minds' of suspects, over neuroscientists' objections (www.science.org)

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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 days ago

I was talking about the historical presence in sci fi and pop culture of fear of mind reading machines in general, as opposed to this specific one. But I mean, do you think cities are spending tens of thousands of dollars because they don’t think it works like that? They at least believe they can convince people that it reads minds.