Red Ice TV - February 24, 2023


They Want To Read Your Brain Waves


Episode Stats

Length

6 minutes

Words per Minute

161.11865

Word Count

989

Sentence Count

92

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary

The future is a world where we can use brainwaves to fight crime, be more productive, and find love. It s a future that has already arrived, and it s already here today. In this episode, we re looking at how technology is already here, and how it s going to change our lives.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Listen, we've, remember, I've mentioned this multiple times, like, they need to know what's in your brain.
00:00:06.140 They need to know what your thought pattern's in, is that they're never going to rely on you just saying something.
00:00:11.960 Total control, ultimately.
00:00:12.880 Total control, ultimately.
00:00:13.640 We need to know everything, including your goddamn brainwaves.
00:00:16.860 Listen to this here.
00:00:18.580 First off, a video.
00:00:19.880 It's going to make you see the future and understand a wonderful future where we can use brainwaves to fight crime, be more productive, and find love.
00:00:28.260 It's always that.
00:00:28.820 It's for your safety.
00:00:29.660 Be more productive.
00:00:31.360 For your safety.
00:00:32.040 Here it is.
00:00:32.440 Sensing your joy, your playlist shifts to your favorite song, sending chills up your spine as the music begins to play.
00:00:40.380 You glance at the program running in the background on your computer screen and notice a now familiar sight that appears whenever you're overloaded with pleasure.
00:00:50.260 Your theta brainwave activity decreasing in the temporal regions of your brain.
00:00:54.940 You mentally move the cursor to the left and scroll through your brain data over the past few hours.
00:01:01.460 You can see your stress levels rising as the deadline to finish your memo approached, causing a peak in your beta brainwave activity right before an alert popped up telling you to take a brain break.
00:01:14.880 Your mind starts to wander to the new colleague on your team, whom you know you shouldn't be daydreaming about, given the policy against intra-office romance.
00:01:24.900 But you can't help fantasizing just a little when she checks your brain activity and shift your attention back to the present.
00:01:34.160 It's disgustingly Pavlovian.
00:01:37.760 You know what I mean?
00:01:38.060 When the email she sends you later that day congratulates you on your brain metrics from the past quarter, which has earned you another performance bonus.
00:01:47.800 Oh, but it's always that, the gamification of life.
00:01:50.820 You got three coins.
00:01:52.060 You are a perfect robot.
00:01:53.200 Yep, exactly.
00:01:53.980 You arrive at work the next day.
00:01:56.040 A somber cloud has fallen over the office.
00:01:58.780 Along with emails, text messages, and GPS location data, the government has subpoenaed employees' brainwave data from the past year.
00:02:09.120 Is this a joke?
00:02:10.340 No, and they think this is a good thing.
00:02:12.700 These liberals love it becauseā€¦
00:02:14.100 Maybe I'm being hoodwinked.
00:02:15.020 Maybe this is a joke.
00:02:16.500 I can't tell anymore.
00:02:17.580 I can't tell.
00:02:18.760 Is it a joke?
00:02:19.900 It says seized on the coffee pot.
00:02:22.720 Seized.
00:02:22.740 Why is that?
00:02:23.340 The coffee pot too?
00:02:24.420 Oh yeah, look at that.
00:02:25.680 It had illegal brainwaves.
00:02:27.740 They have compelling evidence that one of your co-workers has committed massive wire fraud.
00:02:34.340 Now, they're looking for his co-conspirators.
00:02:37.820 You discover they are looking for synchronized brain activity between your co-worker and the people he has been working with.
00:02:45.040 Oh my gosh.
00:02:45.680 While you know you're innocent of any crime, you've been secretly working with him on a new startup venture.
00:02:51.940 Shaking, you remove your earbuds.
00:02:53.860 You may be surprised to learn that it's a future that has already arrived.
00:02:59.260 Everything in that video that you just saw is already here today.
00:03:03.420 Artificial intelligence has enabled advances in decoding brain activity in ways that we never before thought possible.
00:03:11.200 The newest way to monitor attention is through a device like this one.
00:03:15.340 These are ear pods that are launching later this year.
00:03:19.900 These ear pods, looks like the video you watched earlier, are ear pods that can pick up brainwave activity and tell whether or not a person is paying attention or their mind is wandering.
00:03:29.860 Don't you know your own mind?
00:03:31.280 Well, you might think.
00:03:32.420 No.
00:03:32.800 Fine.
00:03:33.380 No, they don't.
00:03:34.320 Can't you know when you're feeling something and something's happening in your own brain?
00:03:38.960 No, you have to go check back on this Fitbit-like device.
00:03:41.840 What was my brain doing today?
00:03:44.120 But even if we can tell whether a person is paying attention or their mind is wandering, you can't tell what they're paying attention to.
00:03:51.500 You would be wrong.
00:03:52.160 It turns out that you can not only tell whether a person is paying attention or their mind is wandering, but you can discriminate between the kinds of things that they're paying attention to.
00:04:02.900 Whether they're doing something like central tasks, like programming, peripheral tasks, like writing documentation, or unrelated tasks, like surfing social media or online browsing.
00:04:14.760 Someone had a good comment there in the Odyssey chat.
00:04:17.560 The future is a bunch of retards and VR helmets bumping into things.
00:04:20.600 Basically, yes.
00:04:21.400 You got it.
00:04:22.240 We might soon even use the technology to help people wake back up.
00:04:27.080 This is a haptic scarf that MIT Media Lab has developed, which uses brainwave technology in a responsive way to give a person a little buzz.
00:04:36.220 A buzz.
00:04:37.320 There we go.
00:04:38.120 There's the shock collar.
00:04:40.000 Remember theā€¦
00:04:40.880 Bzzz.
00:04:41.500 Your brain wandered.
00:04:42.400 Well, but it's the opposite, right?
00:04:43.560 It's like, no, we'll give you pleasure.
00:04:45.420 It's like that mouse experiment.
00:04:47.000 Remember that?
00:04:47.400 Like, all they could do was likeā€¦
00:04:48.780 Hitting the pleasure button.
00:04:49.660 Yeah, put the pleasure button, you know, and they're like, they starved.
00:04:51.420 They didn't do anything else.
00:04:52.780 That's what this is.
00:04:54.020 You'll sit in your matrix pod and just press that, you know, pleasure button with your haptic scarf.
00:04:58.680 I'm giving you the positive use cases because what I don't want the reaction to be is, let's ban this.
00:05:05.480 How many of you will willingly share your data?
00:05:11.040 Give us your brain waves.
00:05:12.460 Continuous monitoring of your brain.
00:05:13.640 All right, I think that's it.
00:05:14.560 All right, I think that's it.
00:05:17.500 Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay.
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