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>Under this principle, I have to allow public facial recognition: any functioning human can already do it, just at a smaller scale.

So you'd be fine with mega-corps or the government tracking everyone's movements with drones, and cataloging it into a massive database? After all, you can already do that with a bunch of minimum-wage workers and a map.

>Why is my principle so important? Because the alternative conflicts with the computational enhancement of the mind, which is far more important than any illusory gains to had from banning this tech or that tech.

So basically you want technological singularity, even if it means turning the world into a cyberpunk dystopia?



> So basically you want technological singularity, even if it means turning the world into a cyberpunk dystopia?

Yes. That singularity is coming anyway and it might as well be on our terms.


Who is "our" in this sentence, Rite Aid?




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