I’ve been trying it out, and it’s solid. Startpage seems to get me where I need to go a bit quicker, but this is still a good backup and I’m thrilled to have another frontend for Brave search.

That’s expensive and takes work.

Not sure if you’ve seen a government lately, but something taking work isn’t how it works. What’s the blunt, immediate, let the lawyers sort it out version? That’s what will be done.

Let’s consider some post 9/11 style Abu Ghraib Prison scenario where captors try this instead of breaking someone with 24 hour music and waterboarding torture. This gets all your thoughts, right? OK, well all my thoughts at that time would be “F you, F you, you’re all liars, I don’t believe anything you say, F you, go jump in the ocean and get eaten by sharks, F you, F you…” You have to think the thing they want you to think for this to work. Anyone anticipating that might be what could happen if detained should know how to control their thoughts. Sing the same 3 songs over and over in your head. Repeat lines from your favorite movies. Think in another language. Name things you can see in the room and think through construction methods of the building. It will very, very quickly prove useless against anyone with even moderate willpower. A genuine sociopath would excel at using it to manipulate their jailers. If anything, the tables have turned and they’re forced to listen to everything you think - now you’re torturing them!

I’m trying to scream from the rooftops that the horse is already out of the barn. We’re PAST this point already with existing technology.

Let’s say that it’s illegal to own a tiger where you live. You spend a month searching online “how to feed a tiger” “what does a tiger eat” “tiger bedding” and shopping for enclosures. Maybe you even buy tiger enclosure panels and bedding and a blinged-out tiger-sized collar. But never actually buy a tiger. Especially in the most sophisticated surveillance states, that gets close enough that you might get arrested. A crime prediction algorithm would put you as high risk for committing a crime, and if local legislation permits it, you might be charged with a crime you haven’t actually committed. “Conspiracy to endanger wildlife” even though the conspiracy is between you and Google.

However. you’re telling me that I need to be worried about the far-flung future edge case where after going through a surgical procedure, I spend 5 months training an AI tailored to my brain in particular, and then at that point I think “You know, I think I really want to get a tiger” and would be arrested. You’re going to die on the hill that it’s possible. Sure, maybe one day it will be less invasive and the training on your own brain will take hours instead of months. But for now, we have everything that’s needed to do this to a reasonable enough degree that it’s shocking to me how complacent people are.

Entirely possible. It’s not a very good index, all things considered.

There’s also a 1,000% spike at Pizzato’s, but others far below average. Seems like 2 or 3 offices working over the weekend, not everyone.

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You’re missing the entire point. This is complicated and delicate and expensive to directly read thoughts. This is high end stuff.

Meanwhile, in reality…

Google already knows what you are thinking by tracking everything you do online. Well enough that the debate among advertisers from as far back as 2010 was how to not “spook the customer.” A large amount of the “my phone is listening to me!” Is the predictive nature of advertising that tracks everything you do.

There’s 15 years of success in this already. Then - THEN 6 months ago Google started using browser fingerprinting to track everything everything everything you do, everywhere you go, everyone you talk to online. EV.AH.RE.th.ha.iiiiiing. Why spend money to get invasive and weird about it when you’ve got the data you need in high fidelity? Why do anything physical when you get what you need from people’s phones?

This is a delightful prank I need to pull on someone.

Wonderful idea.

The privacy communities might be the best place to start since self-hosting is a big topic. You’ll get answers.

Yes, 200%

It genuinely is a medical miracle, though.

The predictive nature of monitoring your internet and money use is less invasive, easier, cheaper, and overall good enough to build a law enforcement paradigm around it to surveil hundreds of millions of people. Thoughtcrime can be predicated off your searches. Why add extra steps?

The hero we need, but don’t deserve.

Especially when ObviousPlant has been doing stuff like this for so long it might round up to a decade by now.

Some sort of Satanic chicken should cover you, right?

Hey, ancient people were weird. How many ancient myths involved someone having sex with an animal? By comparison to a donkey or a swan, yeah, this doesn’t look half bad.

Making this a privacy issue is about a decade PR two early.

These devices require a surgical implant and extensive training. There’s no “thoughtcrime” potential here. This of for giving paraplegic people, victims of neurological disease, and potentially non-verbal autistic people the ability to speak.

The need to use a “public thought password” is because the AI training and system is not good enough yet to recognize the difference between internal monologue and thoughts directed for others. Likely because people involved in the research have been rendered mute for AI long they don’t know the difference anymore either.

Sure, it means both come from the same source and both can be translated. But in some SciFi future world where the cops plonk a thought helmet on you, just do what I do all the time anyway, and think “boobs boobs boobs…” over and over.

These are the same communities where large swathes of the population greedily apply for all the social safety net programs, often saying they need to get the benefits before the fictional welfare queens take them all, then immediately vote for the person saying they’re running on a platform to get rid of all those same programs.

Source: And I made it out!

Second CoMaps. Works great.

For AI use, Duck.ai is also helpful. Running one locally depends on your equipment, and theres some high requirements.

Also is not some pointy horn red devil, Lucifer and all the angels, fallen or not, are super hot and attractive.

I mean, it was one of these types of perfectly round angry little froggy guys. Common rain frog or the common sand frog most likely.