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rutabaga 1 point ago +1 / -0

Can you remember every part of your life in exact detail and replay things? Can you share dreams with other people? Can you relay a thought in an instant instead of the time it takes to speak? Can you know where everyone in your group is without pulling out a map, a phone, or speaking out loud?

If not, you're not going to make a good reporter, a fun gamer, part of any think tank, or even part of the military in the future.

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NotQuiteHuman 2 points ago +3 / -1

Can you relay a thought in an instant instead of the time it takes to speak?

That's not how thought works.

But sure, for the sake of the argument, let's imagine that's how it works. Yes, that's going to make everyone so much more efficient: an open comm where your every thought is getting transmitted to everyone else.

"I think I have a yeast infection." "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" "If that faggot Rogers doesn't quit grabbing my ass, I'm cutting off his balls and shoving them down his cocksucking throat." "Hockey stick hockey stick hockey stick" "This is a bug hunt, man, a bug hunt!" "Wife wants me to pick up three gallons of milk, a pound of lard, and a dozen condoms..."

Seriously, you don't want to know what's in anyone else's head, nor do you want them knowing what's in yours.

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rutabaga 0 points ago +1 / -1

That's not how thought works.

It is, especially if you speak multiple languages. You learn to think in concepts, not words.

an open comm where your every thought is getting transmitted to everyone else.

That's not how thoughts work. If it was, why wouldn't you just say all those things out loud? Some people do, but they have neurological disorders. Those same neurons that are stopping you from saying all those things out loud would be the ones used for stopping you from transmitting those thoughts.