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Assigning morality to facial recognition, a task most humans can do is more than a bit bizzare in my opinion. I tend to operate on a "free extended thought" mod

Assigning morality to facial recognition, a task most humans can do is more than a bit bizzare in my opinion. I tend to operate on a "free extended thought" model when it comes to processing available publically available inputs. I am certainly not oblivious to the abuses of it and it being a Morton's fork in practice - if it is inaccurate you get many innocents harmed by idiots treating a screening tool as a unique identifier. If it is 100% accurate you can trace anyone perfectly. Personally I see the cynicism as an acknowledgment of their apparent capabilities as lacking. Claiming moral high ground for what you aren't capable of isn't exactly meaningful. A dyscalcic janitor boasting about their morals not getting rich designing missles for the military industrial complex doesn't mean much because they would be incapable in the first place. Assigning morality to it just gets silly.

sgift 6y ago
> Assigning morality to facial recognition, a task most humans can do is more than a bit bizzare in my opinion. I tend to operate on a "free extended thought" model when it comes to processing available publically available inputs. The problem with that is that while in theory you could use a million people to do things like facial recognition on the scale allowed by technology, in practice, this would be incredible expensive, so it doesn't happen. If I can do it do my neighbor it is vastly different from me being able to do it to my whole city. It has very different consequences and should be weighted on its own.
- bondarchuk 6y ago
  >The problem with that is that while in theory you could use a million people to do things like facial recognition on the scale allowed by technology, in practice, this would be incredible expensive, so it doesn't happen. Rather, I would say that if you use a million people to do this, it would be morally abhorrent as well. Just look at Stasi informants in the DDR.

sgift 6y ago

> Assigning morality to facial recognition, a task most humans can do is more than a bit bizzare in my opinion. I tend to operate on a "free extended thought" model when it comes to processing available publically available inputs. The problem with that is that while in theory you could use a million people to do things like facial recognition on the scale allowed by technology, in practice, this would be incredible expensive, so it doesn't happen. If I can do it do my neighbor it is vastly different from me being able to do it to my whole city. It has very different consequences and should be weighted on its own.

bondarchuk 6y ago
>The problem with that is that while in theory you could use a million people to do things like facial recognition on the scale allowed by technology, in practice, this would be incredible expensive, so it doesn't happen. Rather, I would say that if you use a million people to do this, it would be morally abhorrent as well. Just look at Stasi informants in the DDR.