I wish for the world not to go this direction
Tencent deploys facial recognition to detect minors gaming at night
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Microsofts decision to require cameras in windows 11 except it's laptop only and only applies to systems sold by OEMs. Speaking of which, when was the last time you saw a laptop that didn't have a webcam? Laptops were pretty common even on low-mid tier laptops from the early 00s. For fun let's also exclude the niche laptops like pinebook or what have you, because I doubt buyers of those laptops need the OEM to pre-i…
> Speaking of which, when was the last time you saw a laptop that didn't have a webcam? Asus Zephyrus G14. I see it as a safety feature.
Seems more like a missing feature, you can physically cover your webcam if you're that paranoid.
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#193This is I believe the first time in human history that AI video cameras have been widely deployed, inside private homes, for the purpose of enforcing laws. Never mind the banal details: this is an incredible milestone.
The real clever kids will eventually realise you can just tape a post-it note to your head with "ADULT" written in sharpie.
The real clever kids will eventually realize that those games from Tencent are just stupid money grabbing time wasters, and then stop playing.
Sadly, most people are not that smart. Which is one reason why so many people are willing to give up their privacy AND money in exchange for the "permission" to use those services.
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I never understand to what end. Is it simply power? What is the point of it? You cannot crime or human behavior to misbehave. I wonder how long it will be until China's citizens start to crack under the pressure.
It is cultural. In Confucianism, the relationship between a father and a son, a superior and their subordinate, a state and its citizen are considered equal. Therefore it is considered normal for the state to be paternalistic. Also, collective responsibility takes precedence over individual freedom. Each person is supposed to conform to its role in society. Children’s role is to study, rather than play video games al…
> Until a few years ago, video game consoles are banned in China for the exact same reason
First time I realized I was playing my PSP, gameBoy and PlayStation2/3 games illegally
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#195Yeah, but don't forget to keep making games more and more addictive so we all get rich.
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#196Gaming addiction is absolutely an issue - but it seems to be used to push all kinds of tech that has nothing to do with it. Like, how exactly does real-name registration combat addiction?
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What government, at any level, in America has a rule mandating that children learn American tackle football?
Expected socially, not mandated. You're not mandated to drink alcohol either. It's also a top public spending priority: https://www.athleticbusiness.com/college/the-highest-paid-pu...
Hmm, I went through the American educational system from elementary through grad school, and I never felt any social expectation to learn football, either the rules or how to actual play. Maybe it's a costal city versus middle America thing? (I grew up in NY and went to California for post secondary education)
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>giving the state sole legal use of violence is one of the key advancements that unlocked society's forward advancement. The greatest economic progress occurred in the US in the 1800s when the state was tiny and anyone was free to use violence to protect their own rights.
This is not a nuanced historical analysis, and therefore unlikely to be correct or even useful as an abstraction.
Some counter examples: 1861-1865, in which the Federal government raised an Army of the Republic to enforce its (just) will, going as far as burning Atlanta.
1880s, the brief period of the classic Wild West to which you perhaps allude, and in which the Sheriff - the personification of monopolized state force - was the totem of peace and prosperity; the mythical wanton violence of Billy the Kid etc was notable as a feared exception, not a norm.
1890s, the gilded age, the exception that proves the horror and economic maladaptation of private violence: Pinkertons, privately employed, violently suppressing the mere whisper of power and stability accruing to working men.
The economic progress of the 1800s in the US almost certainly had more to do with a frontier of development pressing across a vast and wealthy continent, fueled by prodigious immigration - and by the assurance that the government was the ultimate arbiter of disputes. There were, as a rule, no private armies removed from state legitimization. When there were, as in bloody Kansas, economic growth did not increase.
Re: Tencent deploys facial recognition to detect minors gaming at night
#200This is I believe the first time in human history that AI video cameras have been widely deployed, inside private homes, for the purpose of enforcing laws. Never mind the banal details: this is an incredible milestone.
It's amazing! Hundreds of SciFi writers predicted such surveillance, I dont think many predicted it arrive by invitation - i expect many parents will support this.
Same for smart speakers. It's a hairs breadth away from complete audio & video surveillance.