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Re: Nearby Glasses

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Post by burkaman »

tantalor wrote: post #4

I'm a bit torn on this because (at least in the sci-fi utopia stories) when a critical mass of people are recording full time then interpersonal crime and anti-social behavior is strongly discouraged. It's like an honor-based culture at scale.

Mass recording discourages social behavior, not anti-social behavior.

Re: Nearby Glasses

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Post by drawfloat »

burkaman wrote: post #11
tantalor wrote: post #4

I'm a bit torn on this because (at least in the sci-fi utopia stories) when a critical mass of people are recording full time then interpersonal crime and anti-social behavior is strongly discouraged. It's like an honor-based culture at scale.

Mass recording discourages social behavior, not anti-social behavior.

Recording people going about their day is anti social behaviour.

Re: Nearby Glasses

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Post by tamimio »

Need an iOS.

But I think very soon the whole detection won’t be enough, because most people will have glasses, phones, CCTV, etc., I think the best is protecting yourself, so a cloak mask or similar, where for humans it’s barely visible but for machines it blocks you from being scanned or recorded.

Re: Nearby Glasses

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Post by tantalor »

phoronixrly wrote: post #9
tantalor wrote: post #4

I'm a bit torn on this because (at least in the sci-fi utopia stories) when a critical mass of people are recording full time then interpersonal crime and anti-social behavior is strongly discouraged. It's like an honor-based culture at scale.

Which sci-fi utopia stories exactly are you referring to? Please remind me, because all the scifi with ubiquitous surveillace I recall are about dystopias instead.

I can't recall exactly but it may have been The Light of Other Days

Re: Nearby Glasses

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Post by pityJuke »

tantalor wrote: post #4

I'm a bit torn on this because (at least in the sci-fi utopia stories) when a critical mass of people are recording full time then interpersonal crime and anti-social behavior is strongly discouraged. It's like an honor-based culture at scale.

Yes look at this article showing all of the wonderful anti-social behaviour prevented by smart glasses: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx23ke7rm7go

(hint: smart glasses encourage anti social behaviour for online clout.)

Re: Nearby Glasses

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Post by mrbluecoat »

Add satellite imagery, nearby self-driving vehicles / Google maps cars, line-of-sight ring doorbells, peripheral street surveillance cameras, police equipment, people in your proximity with a smartphone camera, and various-purpose drones and then you'll have the perfect paranoia alerter.

Re: Nearby Glasses

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Post by p_ing »

The dichotomy between the statement in the repo "False positives are likely" and the app message "Smart Glasses are probably nearby" is interesting.

Re: Nearby Glasses

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

tantalor wrote: post #4

I'm a bit torn on this because (at least in the sci-fi utopia stories) when a critical mass of people are recording full time then interpersonal crime and anti-social behavior is strongly discouraged. It's like an honor-based culture at scale.

from my recollection in most of the stories that is the primary starting point of the narrative but as the story goes along it turns out what you have is a dystopia, which is what it looks like we would actually get.

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Post by jibal »

tantalor wrote: post #4

I'm a bit torn on this because (at least in the sci-fi utopia stories) when a critical mass of people are recording full time then interpersonal crime and anti-social behavior is strongly discouraged. It's like an honor-based culture at scale.

That's the opposite of honor-based, and those stories are warnings about going down that path.
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