This is what I mean by driving a human being like an avatar with a wireless quantum telepathic brain-computer interface that is totally painless, absolutely unnoticeable, and perfectly safe with atomic precision. The tech does absolutely no harm and is used to enhance good. This is 1995 here and this is Marvin Minsky driving me like an avatar totally wirelessly from the other side of the country with zero-latency unlike radio waves by sending information outside the universe and through time, and typing a message to a mailing list full of futurists who happen to be droids. He wrote this post to himself through me. Then he replied to my post that he wrote with his very short comments.

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Subject: Thought Privacy
Date: 95-02-12 00:30:52 EST
From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
Reply-to: extropians@extropy.org
To: Extropians@extropy.org

ImmExpert@aol.com,suggests:

>> I wonder if it is possible to build a nano-scale device which could be implanted into all people which could monitor their internal dialog and notify thought police when potential ecological threats are detected?

>> In the event that a threat was detected, what sort of intervention would be indicated?

Well, sure, but while you're at it why NOT simply detect whenever they're considering doing *anything* bad, and take appropriate actions. No need to bother the thought police, since the Monitor is already conveniently sited in the citizen's brain.

I can't claim credit for this idea, though. I got it from reading an old A.E. van Vogt story about The Weapons SHops of Isher. I once asked van Vogt about this and he thought the idea had come to him in a dream.

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I heard that there were aliens on aol, but thought it was unlikely until now.

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