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The problem is that if AI enables mass spying, then the costs will no longer be prohibitive to target an individual because the infrastructure could be built ou
by ilovetux 3y ago
The problem is that if AI enables mass spying, then the costs will no longer be prohibitive to target an individual because the infrastructure could be built out once and then reused to target individuals at scale with AI doing all of the correlation behind the scenes.
- ben_w 3y agoThat would resolve the spying cost, but not the punishment cost. My go-to example here is heroin: class A drug in the UK, 7 years for possession and life for supply, so far as I can see nobody has anything good to say about it, and it has around three times as many users in the UK as the entire UK prison population. Could implement punishment for that specific crime, at huge cost, but you can't expand that to all crimes. Well, I suppose you could try feudalism mark 2 where most of the population is determined to be criminal and therefore spends their life "having to work of their debt to society", but then you have to find out the hard way why we stopped doing feudalism mark 1.
- barrysteve 3y agoA computer owned society doesn't really need jails. You can deny 90% of services to a criminal and track and limit their movement digitally. We are already in the jail.
- ben_w 3y agoI think prisoners are usually denied voting rights? Might be wrong about that. Certainly don't get many travel opportunities.
- hruzgar 3y agothey most likely already do this and honestly it's really really scary