Brain implant may lift most severe depression (BBC) - What could possible go wrong?
tag > Ethics
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High-profile autism genetics project paused amid backlash (nature)
Study aimed at collecting DNA from 10,000 people with autism and their families has drawn criticism for failing to consult the autism community.
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"Nie dürft ihr so tief sinken, von dem Kakao, durch den man euch zieht, auch noch zu trinken." ("Never should you sink so low, to drink the shit, through which they are dragging you.) - Erich Kästner
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China's Giant Ionosphere-Zapping Radar Is a Defense System Masquerading as Science
The Navy and DARPA ran a similar facility–the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in Alaska. The South China Morning Post recently revealed plans for a new Chinese radar facility on the island of Hainan, China’s southernmost point. Described as a “high-powered incoherent scatter radar,” this installation will bounce radio waves off the Earth's high-altitude layer of charged gas called the ionosphere. Although the project is in step with the county’s other mega-science projects, experts think the new facility is more interested in military matters than discovering the secrets of Earth’s upper atmosphere.
Related: ⚔️ Strongest U.S. Earthquake in 50 Years Hits Alaska ⚔️ Unprecedented floods hit central China ⚔️ HAARP is reborn ⚔️ Russian parliament concerned about US plans to develop new weapon ⚔️ Chavez: US 'Tectonic Weapon' Caused Haiti Quake ⚔️ Environmental Modification Convention ⚔️ etc.
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Today in "the fall of western civilization": The 2021 "Global Emerging Technology Summit" of the "The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence" (NSCA) (8h Video)
#Comment: This gathering of western military, business and political "leaders" (50%+ spooks) is in essence a total shit-show of the very worst kind. "Diverse" participants - from sleazy used car salesmen, loony dr.strangeloves, to soulless think-tankers and political puppets - are discussing things like A.I, info-warfare and killer robot efforts, all in the name of preserving the "rules based international order" and "democracy" (what ever that means). Fantastic comedy!
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The Rise of Neurotechnology Calls for a Parallel Focus on Neurorights - By Nayef Al-Rodhan
Chile is leading the way with a bill that offers protections against abuses and inequities that could arise from technologies that augment human capacities.
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'This is not science fiction,' say scientists pushing for 'neuro-rights' (Reuters)
Scientific advances from deep brain stimulation to wearable scanners are making manipulation of the human mind increasingly possible, creating a need for laws and protections to regulate use of the new tools, top neurologists said on Thursday. A set of “neuro-rights” should be added to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations, said Rafael Yuste, a neuroscience professor at New York’s Columbia University and organizer of the Morningside Group of scientists and ethicists proposing such standards.
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"Mathematician: An individual willing to assume anything but responsibility."- Theodore von Kármán
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Researchers generate human-monkey chimeric embryos
Investigators in China and the United States have injected human stem cells into primate embryos and were able to grow chimeric embryos for a significant period of time--up to 20 days. The research, despite its ethical concerns, has the potential to provide new insights into developmental biology and evolution. It also has implications for developing new models of human biology and disease.
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José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado (1915 - 2011) was a interesting person
"We need a program of psychosurgery and political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. "The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. "Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electrical stimulation of the brain." - José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado, Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society, Harper & Row, 1969.
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If tech giants perfected one thing, it is the fine art of hypocrisy
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France Grossly Underestimated Radioactive Fallout From Atom Bomb Tests, Study Finds
From 1966 to 1974, France blew up 41 nuclear weapons in above-ground tests in French Polynesia, the collection of 118 islands and atolls that is part of France. The French government has long contended that the testing was done safely. But a new analysis of hundreds of documents declassified in 2013 suggests the tests exposed 90% of the 125,000 people living in French Polynesia to radioactive fallout -- roughly 10 times as many people as the French government has estimated.
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"Science needs to be lived alongside religion, philosophy, history and aesthetic experiences; alone it can lead to great harm" - Joseph Needham in "Science and Civilization in China
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The ten points of the Nuremberg Code
The Nuremberg Code is a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation created as a result of the Nuremberg trials at the end of the Second World War.
- 1. Voluntary consent on matters relating to human health.
- 2. Procedures yielding positive results that benefit individuals and society.
- 3. Procedures based on positive experimentation results.
- 4. Physical and mental suffering prohibited.
- 5. Whatever risks death or disability is forbidden.
- 6. Risks taken should never exceed sought benefits.
- 7. Proper preparation in suitable facilities should precede procedures followed.
- 8. Only scientifically qualified individuals should conduct them.
- 9. At any time during treatment, individuals may cancel it at their discretion.
- 10. Scientifically qualified individuals involved must terminate procedures if too high a risk of harm to human health exists.
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Talk by Herbert Simon at the Earthware Symposium, Carnegie Mellon University (Oct.2000, one year before his death) - reflection on how technology and knowledge will continue to shape the world
