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Kaj_Sotala comments on Halloween thread - rationalist's horrors. - Less Wrong Discussion

21 Post author: wwa 01 November 2013 10:07PM

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 06 November 2013 09:22:47PM 10 points [-]

A few months back, I was half asleep and thinking about a certain person. For a moment I wondered whether the NSA now knew who I was thinking about, since thinking about someone obviously requires going online and retrieving the concept of that person from a central server.

Comment author: [deleted] 10 November 2013 04:52:15PM 2 points [-]

Reminds me of Epicurus's idea that we think about things by perceiving radiation emitted by them. I wonder, if that were how we think about things, then what would the NSA be able to glean by deploying sensors that detect this radiation?