I'm sure it must have been terrifying but overall I'd rather have the real war, Poor v Rich , than the deluded Poor v Poor. It would be over quickly and we won't even lose anything of value.
Great point. I find culture itself is 'brainwashing'. It is just influence on your thoughts/who you are. The term brainwashing brings a good amount of negativity and polarism. It's not something that happens to 'us' but 'them'.
We are all brainwashed to an extent. Knowing that can at least prepare you to bring a good scrub and soap on your washings.
>We will just have to figure out other ways to stop the terrorists.. (or stop creating them in the first place)
Other ways? All this mass surveillance has hardly helped so far. All you get is nice footage after someone blew something up.
By the way these surveillance cameras and systems are stupidly expensive. For most installations they're so expensive you could pay for a police officer permanently stationed for years at each of those public spaces and subway stations you were going to surveil. That would actually help making them safer.
On top of that there's many other ways to use that money to save lives where it matters.
For instance you could use the money you were going to use on surveilling public places to make them physically safer instead: less accident-prone, install public access defibrillators, etc. Statistically you're going to save so many magnitudes more lives that way, it's not even funny.
People seem to assume that heart attacks is something that happens to other people, while terrorism of all things is a personal threat to them.
And we have a lot of parasitic security companies that induce heavy costs on taxpayers without tangible results. The problem is that "feeling safe" has become a metric because people are bad at math and understanding risks.
I had an idea for a product: A semitransparent material that acts as a face covering when you are in public places like airports that allows you to be seen completely, but when imaged by a sensor like a camera products an unintelligible result.
At face value this is physically impossible. Light either goes through and can be picked up by human eyeballs and cameras, or it doesn't.
However if you used a material that is only transparent at certain angles, you could make use of the fact that cameras are generally placed somewhere near the ceiling.
A baseball cap kind of solves the same problem though.
I mean, I just flew Delta from JFK and to board I had to use a face scanner at the gate .... instead of just scanning my ticket. There didn't appear to be a way to opt out at the time, and with a few people behind me in line, I just _gave up whatever rights I had._ On my return trip, if I see the scanner I'm going to talk to the gate before I board to see how to opt out.
Then simply refuse to remove either. It's about creating a shelling point: face scanner work on the pre-covid premise that most people were NOT covering their faces, so it required no action on their behalf.
Fortunately, the situation changed: the shelling point prefers the existing status-quo, so it will be seen as an unreasonable expectation to ask you to remove your mask, unless it's a TSA agent checking your id... and it's not.
> Hilariously, they asked everyone at the gate to remove their masks to get scanned. AFAIK, everyone before me did, as did the few I saw behind me
Say out loud "But I don't want to catch Covid and die!"
Pretending you care more about public health works very well!
If they insist, say their disregard for the FDA guidelines just to play with they new tech toy is not acceptable, and say you will denounce this blatant endangering of everyone health.
The fear of monetary liabilities from Covid is a great way to make most business dance the way you want.
Recurrent games in game theory require the reliable identification of the players. The social order is just a tangle of these games played with variation.
If you remove reliable identification as a feature you will push the equilibrium to some other state. Are you sure you want to live in that state?
You are replying to the article to which I agree with you. But I was replying to the comment which suggests as significant reduction in one persons ability to identify another.
Why does this sound like a Skynet brief on the next target? Kudos to this amazing human. Makes the rest of us look horrible I know, we can at least show some support. Best of luck Ms Vestager!
Will there be any brains left to communicate with this interface by then? Can't we just make a pill that makes me want to buy things and skip out on this pervasive future?
It sounds like a great application for medical issues but does every consumer need one? The quotes from the guy from Magic Leap don't give me any hope that this won't be used to further program our race into some mindless consuming turds.
I wish I could sit and hype and wonder if/what can be done, but does anyone around these 'pioneers' ever ask them if they should?
You just need bank to make bank. He serves as a figure of greed to be idolized. If it wasn't him it would be some other (y)uppie in the valley.
Seems like every industry has their rockstar figures to pull in new interest. Good or bad, it's a talking point(I assume some modern marketing technique everyone eventually will read about).
True, but you still need an X-enabler to actually make the requirement to claim yourself as at least a millionaire. Who's honestly going to make themselves a millionaire when we are all being paid incomes that are worth a pittance after taxes and so on?
I'm just fed up with such people running the show and showing no compassion to those outside of such and getting away with it with no consequences. For someone who wants to reach a further planet and showing no care or decency for the planet we live on is just despicable. And a personality type of that such is just sad.
I think we are mainly silenced by the hype folks who can't not tell the rest of the internet about their excitement. I'd like to think OP's opinion is the majority, hard to tell on a startup forum where most folks are hodling TSLA.
I would guess that most people on here are cautiously optimistic. Given the progress that has been made over the past decade on all things AI my priors are telling me this will eventually work.
Note that it doesn’t mean I love it; I just expect that they will figure it out.
Which also makes it easier to find the patterns in its multiple(or just divide by the extra multiple) say 1/14 starts .07142857142857. Multiples with 3 don't give us the common repeating 1428 but still repeats in its own way.. but 1/49 is pretty cool. 1/49 looks to do what 1/89 is doing but with the powers of 2. Nice!
edit: Dont know the format for proofs but heres a try.
Isn't it obvious? adjusts tinfoil cap The ruskies have figured out a way to attack anyone who has breathed in our freedom air. They pumped their censored/locked air with specific anti-freedom(terror loving) characters which causes immediate discomfort to our free minds. Freedom.
I can understand smugness from those who contribute/maintain (what I understood by FOSS community), I don't understand the entitlement money brings.