Bitcoin Goa
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FROM RED LIGHT CAMERAS TO FACE FREEZES We have to think through digital dystopias to figure out how to defend against them. As further context: 1) The west already has red light cameras for automated ticketing based on license plates, but this would be next level. 2) China is more capable of doing this with faces because they have a better state-level facial recognition database 3) And they’ve begun deploying face recognition glasses to their officers[1] 4) A “face freeze” like what I just described can be done by one officer with one click. Or even a drone. 5) The officer just needs a suitable camera plus access to the state’s AI and face recognition database. It’s “just” a noisy join, mapping each face in a crowd to their personal details. It’s also totally asymmetric — the crowd can’t do it back to the officer. 6) For good measure, the officer could send a push notification to every person in the crowd with their arrest, penalties, and court details. 7) They could even auto-debit their WeChat digital wallets for every minute they remain in the crowd. Like the ultimate red light camera. 8) Masks may help but gait detection can work around it, though that may be hard in a crowd. 9) Really the only true countermeasure is to put at least some of the person’s digital resources outside the control of a centralized state. To decentralize. 10) As context, police have wanted nonviolent crowd control for a while. Bullhorns don’t necessarily work. And tear gas has side effects. But a “face freeze” like this is scalable, nonviolent, asymmetric, and extremely effective. It really shifts the power to the state. Which is why we need to decentralize. wsj.com/articles/chine…








How the hell is someone supposed to do retirement planning with such stupid changes in taxation every few years. Equity taxation changes every few years. REITs used to be fairly attractive but not anymore. MLDs are gone. And now Debt funds.





















