Re:China’s facial-recognition systems crunch data from camer...
by steveeq1 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @12:51PM
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> I also think it would bring ~10 years of extreme societal
collapse as we would realize that most of our social
norms make no sense, and those things that we demonize
are actually quite common.
Like racism?
Re:China’s facial-recognition systems crunch data from camer...
by CaptSpify on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:31PM
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Sure. I would guess that racism is indeed probably more common than most people realize. But don't get me wrong: Just because something is common, doesn't mean we should move to just accepting it. I think it would actually highlight how subtly and unconsciously racist many people are, which would help us solve that problem.
I was thinking of things more like: functional drug users, sexual-practices, etc.
Re:China’s facial-recognition systems crunch data from camer...
by steveeq1 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @02:38PM
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> I think it would actually highlight how subtly and unconsciously racist many people are, which would help us solve that problem.
One can make the same argument about height-ism, ugly-ism, or money-ism.
I don't think it would work if we didn't apply it to everyone equally. I don't care what your job is, or how many "state secrets" it deals with, no exceptions.
I also think it would bring ~10 years of extreme societal collapse as we would realize that most of our social norms make no sense, and those things that we demonize are actually quite common.
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