Posted on 10/12/2016 11:46:06 AM PDT by sparklite2
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Has anyone been waterboarded using VR or is that also considered to be a violation of human rights?
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Bizarre hypothetical.
Has anyone been waterboarded using VR
Every time you go to sleep and then wake up, you can never be certain that you have woken to reality, or were drugged while asleep and then inserted into a VR contraption.
You could wake up and walk to the office and engage in a meeting discussing corporate confidential secrets only to realize that you were in a VR machine and just gave all your company secrets to a competitor.
Similar scenarios if you have important knowledge or you're just a wealthy person with a Swiss bank account.
It will be some time before that happens and there might be countermeasures.
Some of this was gone over in Inception and other sci-fi movies/books/etc.
This all plays into the current notion that we all might be part of some sophisticated computer simulation.
VR within VR within VR.
Interesting to contemplate, but generally more depressing than illuminating.
In the Tom Clancy novel Cardinal of the Kremlin, he creates a situation where sensory deprivation was used against a spy by the KGB. It was remarkably effective and almost made the subject insane.
It could only be used on a healthy person because it could in it’s later stages induce a heart attack when the panic set in.
More like: standard neo-luddite hysteria.
I’ve seen it for decades over nearly every major new technology.
Conceivable yes, but practically preposterous.
I think the biggest instance in history of something happening as you describe was when the first test blast of the A-bomb was made at White Sands. They wondered whether it would set the atmosphere afire. But they did it anyway.
Of a similar vein was the possibility of CERN (I think it was) producing a black hole that would devour the earth in time. But they did it anyway.
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But those concerns were inherent to the thing. Probably wouldn’t happen, but given the humility of knowing there may be consequences you don’t know, they considered those possibilities - and decided they were worth the risk.
This thread, however, implies the whole technology should be foregone because somebody might do something bizarre with it to someone else. From someone who has been following VR from the beginning (I still have an iGlasses in my attic) and has seen plenty of hype/hysteria about it, my reaction is: [groan] shut up already, that’s stupid. Might make for an interesting movie plot, that’s about as far as that “threat” is going. The concept fixates on the VR part, overlooking (like with criminals & guns) the bullies part: their goal is to abuse someone somehow, VR or not, with plenty of ways to do it.
The whole notion is silly, but in keeping with the Mommy state we seem to crave. I’m looking forward to trying VR, but suspect the graphics will be wholly inadequate.
the 21st century version sensory deprivation
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