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  • It is high time we start codifying at least some protections into law

    Yes, it’s sadly true.

    For the issue you described above you wouldn’t necessarily need license plate scanners as it might be done with "correlation analysis" using CCTVs.

    China’s government, which has been the most aggressive in using surveillance and AI to control its population, uses co-appearance searches to spot protesters and dissidents by merging video with a vast network of databases.

    [In the US] no laws expressly prohibit police from using co-appearance searches […], “but it’s an open question” whether doing so would violate constitutionally protected rights of free assembly and protections against unauthorized searches.

    In Europe, Asia and Africa the situation is similar to the US afaik, which means police departments and private companies have to weigh the balance of security and privacy on their own.















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    2 years ago

    I’d agree with @jabberati here that ChatGPT is not (yet?) a threat to software engineers. Although these tools are impressive, they appear to produce inefficient (though not necessarily incorrect) code. This means that you still need human coders when you want to build something really complex. Having that said, I’m wondering whether this tech has the potential to make a programmer’s work a bit easier.


















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    I respectfully disagree with the notion of a “strong” central bank. The vast majority of the total money supply (~90%) is created by commercial banks by lending money to companies and individuals. Central banks can influence the total amount lent by reserve ratio requirements, but in our fractional reserve banking system where commercial banks hold only a small fraction of their deposits in reserves, each commercial bank loan creates about 10 times more money than its initial volume. This is just book money literally created out of thin air, it “exists” only as the sum of agreements between the commercial banks and their debitors rather than as notes and coins, and the central bank is by no means involved in this process.

    So don’t get me wrong, I don’t say we should get rid of fiat money. I just argue that we need much more complementary currency systems that we have now. Whether or not these systems are blockchain-based is a different question altogether (that doesn’t really matter imo, although I consider blockchain a good technology for this). Communities should be free to create new means of exchange. Each of these new systems will have their own drawbacks, too. So let different systems compete with each other.


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    The bubble is made by humans. I feel that complementary currency systems could have a huge positive impact on local and regional societies (as it was often the case in history), and the blockchain technology could help us to get there. The vast majority of crypto projects appear to aim at something else, unfortunately.