What if technology gave us an incentive to tell the truth?
This is a fascinating new way to help groups make an honest valuation of something they will share: check if their brains say "that's fair" when they assign a price for their portion.
It seems to me this could really be a legitimate use of neurotechnology on the social scale--although I never thought I'd say that. New power comes with new responsibility, as always.
My slightly cautious attitude comes from Isaac Asimov's short story Franchise (1955) in which the 2008 election is determined entirely by a computer with the aid of a single man, randomly chosen, to help add stochastic inputs (presumably incalculable elements of the human will) to the results of the election algorithm.
Having read that story, it feels really weird to me to accept that it is now technologically feasible to determine the value of a public good given neurological data from a sample of the population. If it's now feasible, will we eventually accept it?
