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Re:You Can't Refuse to Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognitio... by bryanrasmussen on Sunday November 02, 2025 @02:08PM (#45792605)
>Reminds me of the whole discussion around self driving cars. About how people wanted perfection,

sure, if an expert in self driving cars came in and said self driving cars are untrustworthy.

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Re:You Can't Refuse to Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognitio... by TrololoTroll on Sunday November 02, 2025 @03:40PM (#45793242)
As someone who has dealt with humans all your life, do you think humans are trustworthy?

That's the magic with not setting a mathematically verifiable acceptance criteria. You just fall back to that kind of horrible argument

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Re:You Can't Refuse to Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognitio... by bryanrasmussen on Sunday November 02, 2025 @06:18PM (#45794288)
somehow it seems not as magic as setting the mathematically verifiable acceptance criteria that fails 99% of the time. (percentage chosen to show absurdity of claiming that mathematically verifiable acceptance criteria is inherently superior)

no I don't think humans are trustworthy, I think the procedures discussed are more secure than the alternative on offer which an expert in that technology described as being untrustworthy, implying that it was less trustworthy than the processes it was offered as an alternative to, and then gave technical reasons why which basically boiled down to the reasons why I expected that alternative would be untrustworthy

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