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> It's insanity to imagine that if I'm not tethered to a computer chip I'm not a valid member of society. Is it? What's special about computer chips vs. id car
by spywaregorilla 5y ago
> It's insanity to imagine that if I'm not tethered to a computer chip I'm not a valid member of society.
Is it? What's special about computer chips vs. id cards?
- earthscienceman 5y agoI'll take this as a sincere question. An ID card is something I keep in my pocket when I need it and it serves one purpose and is close-to-free in financial and time costs. A computer chip is expensive, turing complete, and has enough data about me to do just about anything you might imagine.
- spywaregorilla 5y agoTo nitpick, a low end phone is plausibly less expensive and easier to acquire than a license with a processing fee and physical dmv presence requirement. It's also not obvious to me why turing complete is a bad thing Would you object to the requirement if you were running on a phone that had open hardware and open software and you felt reasonably sure it wasn't doing anything you didn't expect?