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Team of scientists in an undisclosed location somewhere in Argentina.
So the goal is creating a completely destroyed human being. No resocialisation or anything?
Have you met republiQan Tough-on-Crime? Suffering is absolutely the only thing they care about.
What would the purpose of this even be?
Nothing outside causing suffering.
I don’t really understand why that would be an objective for anyone.
Then you haven’t read enough history.
(That is, reading enough history will provide insight into people who think this way, and sometimes how they got to be that way).
I have read lots of history but I take your meaning.
Perhaps a better phrasing would be: there is no ethically sound reason to pursue this as an end goal.
Ah, it seems you’ve passed the litmus test of “having empathy”
I don’t want to say it, but if we ever manage to get to the point of extracting data from this, it might be used as a training base for AI.
…BRB writing up a physiological sci-fi/horror novel.
What if we are already serving our “1,000 year sentence” and instead we’re unknowingly developing a way to go deeper into the inception?
And here was I thinking locking up a murderer is for the protection of the public…
Now we have murderers who just spent the last 1000 years reading philosophy books.
Just spends 1000 years studying how no to be caught.
Not saying this won’t be incredibly lucrative once the tax dollars start rolling in but punishment can only make so much money. Give someone a thousand years exciting experience in 8 hours and people will gladly sell their remaining 16 for it.
Right? Give me a Saturday that feels like a 15 year vacation. That might help with burnout.
“Huh…ok…let me think, I know I used to remember how to do this…”
“What? I taught you last week.”
“Yeah, but that was fifteen years ago. I’ve been traveling the world for the past decade.”
This technology existing would essentially be the end of all knowledge-sector jobs, instantly. It eliminates the value of your time, which means the labor market would almost definitely use it to pay wages VASTLY below minimum wage-per-perceived hour. People would take that bargain. You only have to work ONE day a week and we pay you a million dollars a year! …that one day a week will be time chambered up to 15 years, though.
Why pay one ace coder a bigshot salary when you can pay a whole village in the developing world to spend as much time as the problem could possibly need the same price and they’ll still finish by Thursday?
The economic ramifications are just beyond my fathoming, but I know it cannot possibly work in a society which has any kind of resource scarcity.
if you haven’t seen it, I think you might like the animated series Pantheon.
Your comment made me think of it, very much.
Isn’t this a black mirror episode already?
And a DS9 episode
Exactly what I was thinking!
I have seen outer limits and deep space 9 episodes based on this idea and they definitely weren’t inspirational stories…
There’s also a terrifying short story by Stephen King on the subject.
Well that’s terrifying… I might watch the show if it ever comes out
Its eternity in there
Are we inventing it just so O’Brien can suffer?
Sure. Let’s test it on the scientists who invented it first though.
