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Or people with a bad memory for faces and names, who find one of the most harrowing social situations to be when someone walks up to them and says "hey, how you doing?" With no recollection of who this person is or how they know you.
You described me, and I still find those glasses creepy. It’s so much cheaper, easier, and less ethically fraught to just say “oh hey man how are you doing!” and fake it for a minute. Or tell them you’re having a brain fart and keep wanting to call them [random name] even though you KNOW that’s not it. Or, god forbid, just be upfront with people and tell them you’re face blind AF and struggle with placing faces to people outside context.
ITT: people trying to cover for their lack of social skills with the most nightmarish cyberpunk future ever put to paper.
So one should just sacrifice everyone elses safety and privacy because you're bad a recognizing faces? I get that it can be helpful, but you are literally uploading strangers faces and likeness to Meta's servers without their consent. It's creepy and predatory.
No, again, this is not what I was addressing. I responded to a comment saying these would only be of interest to "predators". You yourself say that you get how they can be helpful, that's all I was saying too. All the rest of this is arguments that are being imagined.
Oh yeah, that's a good reason to aid the expansion of global surveillance. Let's all be complicit with the police state because we can't acknowledge our social anxieties with a bit of honesty.
Not what I was addressing. I was addressing a comment that said "only predators buy those glasses" by pointing out an obvious alternative motivation.
that kind of motivation is a bit like "its winter and I'm very cold, lets set the city to fire". I guess it won't be cold anymore for you! It's not for wanting to harm other people, it's just an obvious alternative motivation.
Even if there is some legitimacy to this motivation, it is very myopic and selfish.
I don't think violating peoples' privacy and paying big tech to extend their mass surveillance network so you can avoid looking awkward to them for a second carries the weight you seem to think it does
What "weight"? I think you're imagining an argument I'm not actually making.
As someone like that, the key is to be affable, apologize, and ask how you know each other. It's not a big deal, most people aren't offended
affable? who am I, Chris Broad?
Man, some of ya really need to learn how to socialize
Normally I'd agree but that can just come with being on the autism (and other) spectrums sometimes.
Oh I'm quite aware, but state sponsored surveillance tools are not the answer to that
Oh yeah no arguments here.
Meta execs deserve the woodchopper and all.
Though it gets difficult when its someone's only available answer. I get why some people would choose it, but also agree as a whole its detrimental to society.
that's a perfect argument for trying to justify total and complete invasion of privacy on the streets
Yep!
And as cameras get smaller, pretty soon any glasses will be suspect, meaning that those that need vision correction without being able to wear contacts for whatever reason will also end up lumped in with the creeps.
This is like Batesian mimickry but stupid.
Oh don't worry. Google filed for a camera contact lens patent years ago. It's coming as soon as they can figure out the tech.
All this cybertech looks cool as hell until your eyeball cooling drivers crash and your optic processing unit hits 100C like my GPU.
optic processing unit lol. it will run in the cloud "and you will be happy"
This sounds like a bigger underlying problem that can be addressed with a long term solution that does not leave you reliant on a second fragile, expensive battery-powered device with planned obsolescence and social stigma as likely risks.