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What's going to happen when (not if) it becomes cheap and simple to mock up your own head and you "present" that in multiple locations, simultaneously ? It's i
by rsync 4y ago
What's going to happen when (not if) it becomes cheap and simple to mock up your own head and you "present" that in multiple locations, simultaneously ?
It's interesting to think about how these systems (and their human operators) will react when their system recognizes, with certainty, that X is in two places (or 15) at once ...
... or if X is recorded somewhere (Zurich) and then two hours later at an impossible distance (San Francisco) ...
In a way, it's the opposite of the "Sigil" plot device in Gibsons _Zero History_ wherein the wearer was invisible to security camera networks.[1] Instead, the operator of this network of clones aspires to be on as many cameras as possible.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_History
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- smaudet 4y agoIndeed - the (security/social/economical) issues these systems will pose are nearly boundless, something as ill considered and will in hindsight be as obviously shortsighted and the early naivete of the first internet users, who saw no issue with unencrypted communications, centralized unscaling systems, and complete lack of security credentials...