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No, it’s not. Good lord…

jprete 3y ago
There are already businesses tracking their employees' fitness for insurance purposes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/with-fitness-trackers-in-the-workplace-bosses-can-monitor-your-every-step--and-possibly-more/2019/02/15/75ee0848-2a45-11e9-b011-d8500644dc98_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/with-fitness... EDIT: There's also a national legislative proposal to mandate that all cars have a system to monitor their drivers and lock them out on signs of intoxication. https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1053847935/congress-cars-drunk-driving-auto https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1053847935/congress-cars-drun...
- ceejayoz 3y ago
  The fix here is banning these sorts of potentially abusive uses, not hoping the technology itself doesn't develop.
  - jprete 3y ago
    I would agree if I didn't think there were really strong incentives and precedents for abuse of the technology.
    - ceejayoz 3y ago
      There absolutely are, but when’s the last time that stopped us advancing new tech?
    - valine 3y ago
      We have laws that prevent people being subjected to brain surgery against their will. The credit score concept is ridiculous. The real battle will be with law enforcement who get a warrant to look at your brain in an MRI.
      - Jensson 3y ago
        You don't need brain surgery or an MRI to scan a brain, this just uses an EEG.
      - redeeman 3y ago
        yeah, and then we remember the videos from the good old downunder where the cops assaulted parents, chased kids around, pinned them down, and injected them with experimental drugs that turned out to cause worse outcome for their agegroup.. this was a couple of years ago.
    - squigz 3y ago
      There's really strong incentives to abuse any technology or system that gives people more power. This doesn't just apply to cutting-edge computer science like mind-reading, but to even our basic institutions like law and government; yet most people would agree the solution isn't to basically give up and hope for the best, but to be vigilant and fight back against that abuse.
- WendyTheWillow 3y ago
  Neither of these things are even remotely related to what the person I replied to suggested, but nice equivocation.
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There are already businesses tracking their employees' fitness for insurance purposes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/with-fitness-trackers-in-the-workplace-bosses-can-monitor-your-every-step--and-possibly-more/2019/02/15/75ee0848-2a45-11e9-b011-d8500644dc98_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/with-fitness... EDIT: There's also a national legislative proposal to mandate that all cars have a system to monitor their drivers and lock them out on signs of intoxication. https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1053847935/congress-cars-drunk-driving-auto https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1053847935/congress-cars-drun...

ceejayoz 3y ago
The fix here is banning these sorts of potentially abusive uses, not hoping the technology itself doesn't develop.
- jprete 3y ago
  I would agree if I didn't think there were really strong incentives and precedents for abuse of the technology.
  - ceejayoz 3y ago
    There absolutely are, but when’s the last time that stopped us advancing new tech?
  - valine 3y ago
    We have laws that prevent people being subjected to brain surgery against their will. The credit score concept is ridiculous. The real battle will be with law enforcement who get a warrant to look at your brain in an MRI.
    - Jensson 3y ago
      You don't need brain surgery or an MRI to scan a brain, this just uses an EEG.
    - redeeman 3y ago
      yeah, and then we remember the videos from the good old downunder where the cops assaulted parents, chased kids around, pinned them down, and injected them with experimental drugs that turned out to cause worse outcome for their agegroup.. this was a couple of years ago.
  - squigz 3y ago
    There's really strong incentives to abuse any technology or system that gives people more power. This doesn't just apply to cutting-edge computer science like mind-reading, but to even our basic institutions like law and government; yet most people would agree the solution isn't to basically give up and hope for the best, but to be vigilant and fight back against that abuse.
WendyTheWillow 3y ago
Neither of these things are even remotely related to what the person I replied to suggested, but nice equivocation.

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