<div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="x-unicode"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Bill w wrote:<br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">To all family members</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Re: Jennie's brain.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">"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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">I also paid for an app that will reset her appestat. She will effectively be on a diet, as she is getting rather chubby.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">You older folks need to be reassured that these changes can be reversed just by changing the program controlling the implants.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Best wishes,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Garcia Kwame Goldstein</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Now - what year is this? For the tech? For the moral implications?"</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">I agree with Ben, except for his date. I would add twenty years, but he could be right.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">John</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 2:18 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 07/11/2021 01:36, bill w wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">To all family
members</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Re: Jennie's
brain.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I also paid for
an app that will reset her appestat. She will effectively
be on a diet, as she is getting rather chubby.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">You older folks
need to be reassured that these changes can be reversed just
by changing the program controlling the implants.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Best wishes,</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Garcia Kwame
Goldstein</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Now - what year
is this? For the tech? For the moral implications?</div>
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<p>Heh, that's easy.</p>
<p>For the tech., say 2045.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Ben<br>
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