[ExI] memo

[John Grigg]

Bill w wrote:
To all family members
Re:  Jennie's brain.

"Her sexual feelings will now trigger a feeling of being quite cold, the
sexier the colder (the hotter the colder, get it?).  This should strongly
interfere with any sexual activity.

I also paid for an app that will reset her appestat.  She will effectively
be on a diet, as she is getting rather chubby.

You older folks need to be reassured that these changes can be reversed
just by changing the program controlling the implants.

Best wishes,
Garcia Kwame Goldstein

Now - what year is this?  For the tech?  For the moral implications?"

I agree with Ben, except for his date. I would add twenty years, but he
could be right.

I have read a lot of science fiction over the course of my life, and also
seen a number of documentaries about the evils of the Holocaust. And I
continue to have a bad gut feeling that the worst horrors that humanity can
unleash onto itself are still yet to come. I suspect that with the
extremely advanced technologies of the centuries ahead, and with the huge
populations that may exist, spread across the galaxy, that we will
eventually see sadism and mass murder on a scale that Hitler, Stalin and
Mao could only dream of in their most fiendish thoughts. But hopefully I
will be wrong.

I recall a novel where women are captured by slavers and electronically
brainwashed so that they become extremely willing sex slaves. And once the
process was done, it was essentially impossible to reverse. Unless humanity
changes a great deal, such a technology would be embraced by criminal
cartels around the planet and beyond. Another dark technology was from the
Gene Wolfe "Book of the New Sun" series. A device could plant an order into
a human brain, which at first felt like a mere tickle of an urge to tear
one's eyes out of their head. But it grew over time, to the point where a
month later, the strongest willed person would give in and rip out their
own eyes! And these two examples are merely drops in the bucket of future
potential human cruelty.

John


On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 2:18 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 07/11/2021 01:36, bill w wrote:
>
>
> To all family members
> Re:  Jennie's brain.
>
> Her sexual feelings will now trigger a feeling of being quite cold, the
> sexier the colder (the hotter the colder, get it?).  This should strongly
> interfere with any sexual activity.
>
> I also paid for an app that will reset her appestat.  She will effectively
> be on a diet, as she is getting rather chubby.
>
> You older folks need to be reassured that these changes can be reversed
> just by changing the program controlling the implants.
>
> Best wishes,
> Garcia Kwame Goldstein
>
> Now - what year is this?  For the tech?  For the moral implications?
>
>
> Heh, that's easy.
>
> For the tech., say 2045.
>
> For the morality, that depends what culture you live in. If Islam is still
> around then, say 2045 (or any earlier year, of course) in an islamic
> theocracy. In a Chinese communist dictatorship, any time at all. In the
> west generally, maybe 1845.
>
> Ben
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