Re: Savior Machines? (was Re: Future Technologies of Death)
Michael Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Sat, 03 Jan 1998 18:13:21 -0500
Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin wrote:
>
> > From: "Nick Bostrom" <bostrom@ndirect.co.uk>
> > To: extropians@extropy.com
> > Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 00:00:52 +0000
> > Subject: Re: Savior Machines? (was Re: Future Technologies of Death)
> > Reply-to: extropians@extropy.com
>
> > "Michael M. Butler" <butler@comp*lib.org> wrote:
>
> > > Another problem: someone commits a heinous crime, then doses
> > > eirself with (say) a Rohypnol-Scopolamine cocktail that scrambles
> > > long term memory fixation. Chemically-induced amnesia. What does a
> > > brain scan reveal?
> >
> > Realistically, mind-scans will probably not be possible until we are
> > digital, and then it would be even easier to forget at will. So one
> > could only scan for evil intentions, not for memories of commited
> > crimes.
>
> Well, you *could* scan for memories of completed crimes, and you'd
> occasionally catch an idiot.
Fortunately the law does not read "the presumption of idiocy until
proven otherwise.."
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