- If I put a digital camera in a school classroom connected to a microchip and use facial recognition to automatically get class attendance, that is dystopian and scary
- If I put a biological camera in a school classroom connected to a lossy neural network and use facial recognition to manually get class attendance, that is normal and ok
What's the difference? In one case we "feel better" because unlike a computer it is difficult/impossible to move/copy memory out of the human brain. If we ever developed a technique to losslessly extract memories from the human brain, then people would feel very nervous about that tech since it could make anyone eidetic which could infringe on their privacy, etc.
- If I put a digital camera in a school classroom connected to a microchip and use facial recognition to automatically get class attendance, that is dystopian and scary
- If I put a biological camera in a school classroom connected to a lossy neural network and use facial recognition to manually get class attendance, that is normal and ok
What's the difference? In one case we "feel better" because unlike a computer it is difficult/impossible to move/copy memory out of the human brain. If we ever developed a technique to losslessly extract memories from the human brain, then people would feel very nervous about that tech since it could make anyone eidetic which could infringe on their privacy, etc.