Philosopher Rebecca Roache […] said, […] “you could imagine developing a pill or a liquid that made someone feel like they were serving a 1,000-year sentence”
I can’t fathom why this is report-worthy. Was April 2014 such a boring month?
Maybe they didn’t have the source. Again, we’re on the shitpost community. I think it’s unreasonable to call someone a jackass because they don’t research the sources for every meme that they find and shitpost. Especially when they’re a power-user like OP and post 30-some times a day.
This philosopher hack has also written about eugenic BS aimed at sculpting humanity to have a smaller carbon footprint. I’m ok with op not actually linking to her crap.
Okay but if there was a way to pump information into your skull at the same time, would you take one of those pills and spend 1,000 years learning all of the information in the entire world?
Naturally, this is the type of thing in sci-fi where we assume it’ll be used to generate massive amounts of income to benefit society in a magnificently short amount of time, and then some bastard comes around and says, “What if we incarcerate people for millenia?”
Or would they be so filled with rage when they come back to reality that they go on a rampage? I would find whoever created the tech and kill them then kill myself so they couldn’t torment nexus me again.
If there was a way to check I'd bet each of the major superpowers has at least a few of those already (though likely not as sci-fi as the post).
Just from the shit CIA did and was deemed safe enough to declassify I shudder on a thought of what powers with open, complete disregard for humanity did in pursuit of interrogation and control methods.
Without knowing more about the research, my gut tells me that it has been a tad sensationalized. Very little research is actually directed towards a specific goal in mind from the get-go. Normally, there are people researching a specific topic, reporting their findings, and then speculating on potential applications.
So if I had to guess, there’s some company/institution/organization researching neural interfacing pathways or brain augments or something like that, a hypothesis that introducing X, Y, and Z conditions can alter one’s perception of time, and then under potential applications they list “accelerated prison sentences” as one such possibility. Then suddenly you have sensationalist news articles about how researchers are developing a dystopian system to make 1000 years pass in 8 hours for prisoners.
This is likely going to end up in the same manner as the dozens of “Scientists may have discovered a cure for cancer” articles that turn up every year.
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