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On the other hand there is tremendous potential for such technology. Stores will be able to significantly reduce their losses to shoplifting. A ton of jobs will be open to automation - including things that were previously too expensive to do with humans. Robotics will significantly advance. And we can virtually eliminate crime.

These privacy laws could be really damaging to progress. In some cases it basically makes it illegal to make a machine do the same thing as a human.




These privacy laws could be really damaging to progress. In some cases it basically makes it illegal to make a machine do the same thing as a human.

I don't automatically have a problem with that. Progress at any cost isn't something I take as "obviously good" and machines don't have rights to employment.

That's ignoring the fact that you want the machine to do it because it's not doing "the same thing", it's doing something slightly different.


I take objection to that. Far more harm is done by being conservative and resisting new technologies, than is caused by just embracing them. Every generation thinks the present is just fine and that the future is scary.


> And we can virtually eliminate crime.

If you make a comb with teeth too fine, it will rip out your hair.


Useless analogy.


Who is innocent of all crimes?

You don't want omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient mechanical enforcement of the law. You may think you do, but you really don't.


That's not really what this is. You can see people committing violent crimes in public. You can track the path robbers and terrorists with security cameras. But victimless crimes take place behind closed doors and are never reported.


If you think that use of such tools would be restricted to robbers or terrorists, you are incredibly delusional. If you think that all victimless crimes necessarily take place in the privacy of homes, you are so naive it seems like you are trolling.


You clearly have some strong biases against this that I can't help. But this is the future whether we like it or not. Name calling doesn't change anything.


> we can virtually eliminate crime

No, we virtually eliminate crime of anyone that isn't friends with the bureau that manages the cameras


We already have surveillance cameras everywhere and this doesn't seem to be happening.


Crime doesn't seem to be eliminated either.


How would you know if it were happening? Quis custodiet...




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