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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by chongli on Thursday August 14, 2025 @05:10PM (#44905735)
No, “the purpose of a system is what it does” implies that the original intent of the creators of a system was for it to become corrupted.
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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by arrowsmith on Thursday August 14, 2025 @05:26PM (#44905892)
That's one way to read the literal meaning of the words, but it's not what the phrase means as originally intended.
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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by chongli on Thursday August 14, 2025 @05:38PM (#44905998)
Right, but then we apply the phrase to itself and this is what we get!
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