From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Mar 05 1999 - 10:11:19 MST
Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> More suggestions?
Well, now that Algernon's Law 1.1 is out, I can join in.
If an advanced civilization has published the neuroanatomical targets,
neurohacking can be done with a small 1980s shop (or even earlier, but
direct electrical current can produce chemical byproducts in the brain).
If you're willing to take casualties, you can learn the targets on a
pretty low budget. I don't know whether you'd want Specialists or
people with Reengineered emotions in the campaign, but, realistically
speaking, they'd be there on any Libertarian colony. Once there are a
few high-profile successes with neurohacking, nobody is ever going to
give it up.
And on any non-Libertarian colony, or even a Libertarian colony where
they weren't welcome - perhaps due to a conflict on Old Earth - they'd
be there, but hidden. Working for a Singularity behind the scenes?
Kept as slaves of a few dark conspiracies? Badly neurohacked geniuses
working at their own insane purposes? All of the above? Only time will tell.
http://pobox.com/~sentience/alger_non.html
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