Everyone on here is quite familiar with the tech tool potential and the dystopian use trends. In some large part, these are social decisions. What laws do you want to see that limit tech, and that allow tech?
Yes, chat app users could be fined if they identifiably capture the images of strangers (but, as you know, it is not required to video strangers in order to use chat apps). You would sometimes know and sometimes not, like many crimes, but it provides recourse for those affected and chills those who would otherwise do it without considering the effect on others.
It also doesn't protect people's data privacy. Capturing their image in an iPhone or most Android phones means, for basic people, the photo is scanned and stored in the cloud. All identities (on a 50 megapixel camera) are marked and stored automatically.
These two issues are the heart of my question. Those European laws were arguably adequate in addressing the issue 20 years ago, but technology has changed the shape of the issue.
Or is the dashcam managed by a company that collects and stores the data up uploaded to a cloud of an insecure company?
Also it would allow people to sue YouTube creators who do so, whereas currently there is no recourse because YouTube can just ignore complaints.
(Except for purposes of newsworthy events)Or do you think people should be allowed to just film anyone and everyone and upload it to YouTube, have everyone's faces scanned, etc? As currently in most places.
Questions of passing the touring test rely on fooling people that the machine is like a human, but how that machine behaves in situations we would deem important or consequential (eg a man trapped in a room as in Ex Machina) may depend on other things, such as empathy (which is cross species). Opinions?
Powerdrills put in the hand of a country bumpkin in the early 20th century were pretty amazing, but they wound up being just an extension of intention.A person puts their finger on the trigger. But he needs some project to apply this to (something he's building) and a screw or drill (the solution he wants to apply). If we expected powerdrills to do anything on their own, we would get...
(To reply to other statements in your reply, Canadians I know don't really have any new beef with the US and seem to have an issue only with Trump/White House (and are divided on support, like Americans are), but since 2028 might be more of the current Trump party it's hard to decide whether to plan for 2 more years or 6 more. Wouldn't a different US leader cause an immediate rapprochement?)
For sure tariffs are a form of tax, but at what point is a tax revenue and at what point is it moreso just inflation?
Canada now participating, with 'retaliatory tariffs' instead of finding cheaper/more cooperative country options, hinting that the politicians there too just want to inflate.
Because the citizens don't understand what 'inflation' means, despite it's simplicity. (Re Trump and Warren both wanting to increase/abolish the US debt ceiling)
Whether the government/other 'friendly' entities were behind, coordinated, or were oblivious to the 911 attacks, they enjoyed what 911 allowed them to do (be completely free of the limits of the Constitution on their treatment of everyone) to not want to do it again.It lasted 25 years, which might be surprising, that Americans would give up their American-ness for that long, but they were...
X will have a basically complete picture of its users, tying financial numbers and everyone the person makes payments to, to their weekly schedule to interests and desires, to the ability to imitate their manners of writing and often their images.Should any society ever allow any institution to have all these types of data at once? You're basically negating largely the ability to protest and...
Americans interactions with authorities rely on their consciousness of Constitutional protections, and they have accepted that in airports there is no US Constitution.Test feeling of high vulnerability and insecurity felt there, and the awareness of the means the authorities there have at their disposal to coerce 'cooperation'.
<i>This week everyone's been asking this, and news agencies tried to put $3t in perspective but didn't really do it, resorting to things like how many dollars it takes laid end to end to the moon, etc.</i>The richest American was Rockefeller, who 100 years ago was worth around $1b ($700m-1.2b estimated).$1b in 1900 USD equates to $25b in 2026 USD, which is fraction of Musk's worth,...
Other ways of payment include donations. But in general coded products will (don't you think?) not be cash compensated in the same way as when coding was scarce ('Please take this $300k per year and I don't even care if you complete your tasks!') and there weren't enough products out there yet (the opposite situation as current), and the incumbents were protected by government partnerships.
There are other compensations, but this only applies to people who care about things other than exclusively making the most possible money. Luckily, the workforce now includes many coders so a percentage will be interested in creating products that actually benefit people and are secure.
Employment, particularly for juniors is perceived to be down, but there are a lot of trained coders.People have been unhappy with BigTech products for a decade or so. Data selling, no privacy or security, closed source, etc. But BigTech has had massive public and government inflows because of profits/data usage, which has caused it to withstand any criticism (in addition to allowing it to buy...
When travelling in some countries, hotels require you let them photo your ID to stay (while in other countries this is illegal to do, and in others it's legal but never done).I wonder what the real risk is. What can actually be done with a photo of someone's passport or driver's license, if the photos were sold to a cartel or hacked, since these cell phones they use to do this must contain...
Or what outcome do you see (for various countries)?Currently, it's already considered very rude and an invasion of privacy/peace to be filming in a restaurant or public space and capturing neighboring customers or pedestrians, and even more extreme when it comes to the massive number of people trying to become streamers/YouTubers and who actually want to get as many of the other people in their...
Some people are technical and enjoy most building (here coding) but don't have a useful idea. Others have complimentary strengths and weaknesses. Most complex products we have were thought of, designed, and built by different people, as I'm sure you know.
Also, it sounds like you might just be in a different stage or a different personality type. Imagine when you've got your bills paid, but still see many problems around you, and most will not be ones that can be solved through profit motives.