The US of A has become a nation of Buttinskis. It must be quite satisfying to live a life so perfect that one has all the time in the world to meddle in the business of others.
Given that the technology is available, or nearly so, are we certain we really need to do this?
If the head and the body agree to it, who are we to say no? : - )
I wonder if they can put it on backward. That would really freak out the kids on Halloween.
Other observations on the sociology of “Fox Brain”.
Juliet Jeske, author of the highly recommended Decoding Fox News newsletter, is one of the world’s foremost experts on that condition.
“Propaganda is a very difficult thing to erase from somebody’s brain,” she told me. “Some people just want to be in that Fox News rage spiral. They’re riding a rollercoaster of fear, paranoia, and hate. And people enjoy that. They enjoy sitting in their homes and being angry at the world. I don’t understand that mentality at all. But that’s what Fox provides them.”
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“I would say that based on the comments I get online, most Fox viewers probably still think the 2020 election was stolen, but a lot of them don’t know anything about the Dominion lawsuit and they don’t care because Fox never talks about it,” she added.
“Because Fox never talks about it”. Fox is extreme, but not alone in this regard, as we see that the Washington Post sat on the Alito upside down/insurrection flag story for 3+ years.
Because human’s can do something far fetched… like a head transplant that saves memory and abilities does not automatically mean they should.
An example. In the latter 1930’s scientists puzzled about plutonium and uranium as the makings of weapons of mass destruction. Along came WW2 and the weapons were created and used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Look at the result of “what we humans could do”
Because we can does not necessarily mean we should…
But if we shouldn’t, that means we will!
(snicker)
More’n likely
This perfectly captures my feelings about AI and entertainment by professional contortionists.
I can’t remember the source, but this morning I was reading an excerpt from WP story about when they knew about the upside down flag and the reporter’s interaction with Sam Alito. My take-away was that back then Sam threw his wife under the bus, and then the reporter wasn’t going to do the story because heck it wasn’t Sam.
All the reporting now shows Sammy in a very poor light. 
“… a rollercoaster of fear, paranoia and hate. People enjoy that.” This is why we have Halloween. For some, having Halloween everyday is entertaining.
I would assume by “professional contortionists” you mean those in the “news media” among whom are those who twist themselves into human pretzels to bring us "both sides’ of issues that have many sides and are complex enough to defy simplification
No. I mean this kind of contortionist:
Very clever.
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The heart transplant surgeon I used to work with would join me in spirited “bioethics” discussions in the nurses station when there was down time. Darr, I always made your point: just because you can doesn’t mean you should. His rejoinder was always something along the line of, “If there’s a question, I say ‘Cut,’ because that’s what I do.” Science and engineering have given us many useful things; but have not been competent at telling us how or how not to use them.
The Cruz family already did this with a young Rafael. The results were not satisfactory.
Hahahahahahaha!!!
I don’t know. It happened more than once on Star Trek and we all know how prophetic that show has been…
I was thinking more along the lines of my personal opinion of, for example, Fox news or the others on that side…
