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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 7 points 23 hours ago

Record Everything Constantly

Which camera glasses have all-day battery life? 🤔

[–] devdoggy@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Who would have thought that people wouldn't want to be surveilled?? What the fuck?? Why???

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Because they thought everyone knew they are already doing that.

I mean, we pay hundreds of monies every 2-4 years for the privilege of carrying the latest version of a device that does most of this already.

[–] end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

Greed and sadism.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

This is a very interesting article. We’re walking right into the very dystopia that so many sci-fi authors repeatedly have warned us about. They were warnings, not a playbook.

What distinguishes a panopticon isn't merely inescapable surveillance, but the fact that you don't know when you're being watched. You simply have to live with the unbearable uncertainty that, at any moment, you could be.

Whether people realize it or not, we already live in a panopticon. Not only are there camera everywhere - on buildings, businesses, homes, streets, phones, cars, etc - but there are other sensors and mechanisms tracking things like your movement, activity, and heart rate.

…despite a growing body of research suggesting that relying on AI models leads to critical thinking skills atrophying.

There was a novel that predicted this decades ago. The main character was so reliant on his AR goggles that when they were stolen in a mugging he was nearly catatonic until his friends got it back.

This is the world we are heading toward, and I don’t know what we can possibly do at this point to minimize the harm to both our environment and our species. The worst-case dystopia seems more and more inevitable by the day.

Edit: The novel was Accelerando, by Charles Stross

[–] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Companies need to stop building the torment nexus

[–] 2deck@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

We need to stop building the companies

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I work for a company that has decided that they want to move forward with a device that will emit a frequency that allows them to track individual cell phones which they plan to use to target people with ads.
This is a hotel that will know where all their guests are at all times and will use it to tell them what to do.

[–] golli@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

No need for special equipment, when it is possible using wifi see this article for example.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sliders, the 90s sci-fi TV show had an episode that explored similar themes with VR. Also the 2020 indie adventure game Virtua Verse also has similar VR themes dominating people's perceptions of reality to the point that some people spend their whole lives in love a robot that looks like a beautiful person when you have your headset on.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From the Wikipedia page

a less obvious, though equally important theme is what Forster refers to as "the sin against the body." This occurs when people's intellectual refinement and spirituality advance to such a point that they become disconnected from their physical bodies and are unable to adapt to changing environments.

After reading the synopsis and then hitting that sentence... This Forster mofo understood something deep within us that most people today have no clue about. It's like we want to disconnect from the world we live in.

Maybe it's that our combination of self awareness and intelligence allow us to have an internal dialogue. It makes us feel like our mind a separate entity that's driving our physical body around, and isolating our minds from the messiness of the natural world lets us exist in our more pure evolved state or whatever.

I was admittedly way more into the metaverse (ala Snow Crash, not frickin facebook) and VR concepts decades ago. And I've had some great experiences in immersive games including VR. But to flip around the line from The Matrix, "the mind cannot live without the body." We need to engage all of our senses and live in our environment, and not try to pretend like we're just another computer on the network.

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[–] HumanoidTyphoon@quokk.au 9 points 1 day ago
[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As someone whose taught a fair number of undergrad classes, my nightmare scenario is a student showing up to an exam wearing one of these fucking things. When I tell them to take the damn things off, they then might protest saying they have prescription lenses and that they're the only way they can take the exam.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Can't it just be in the requirement of the exam? If they have connected glasses, they have to remove them for the duration of the exam and use them only after leaving the room. If they are spotted with them, they get disqualified instantly?

Edit: IMHO the accessibility argument would not stand for a written exam as those glasses are often used to transcribe audio. If it's written there is nothing to transcribe thus is not required. Those glasses are also more expensive than the non connected one so economically speaking if they can afford these glasses, they sure can afford the non connected ones. If they don't have a pair of non connected glasses they have to plan ahead of the exam which typically happens weeks if not months after the beginning of the semester so it's on them to plan accordingly.

TL;DR: forbid them in school ToS.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 74 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

So transformative will it prove to the human brain, the twenty-something-year-old inventors promise, that wearers will soon be not just thinking, but "vibe thinking."

End this. Go down to the Titanic, please.

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[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago

Genuinely, every person who participated in creating this should be taken out to an island and dumped there, to be forgotten about.

This is vile.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 140 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh wow! A whole new generation of "glassholes" coming up!

[–] SanctimoniousApe 63 points 2 days ago

Google Glass at least had the indicator light, and was relatively obvious - this is worse.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

"AI-powered". That alone should turn everyone off

This is worse than a prison. In a prison the prisoners cells are not normally under video surveillance unless the prisoner was super high risk for something.

Even Epstein, a true high risk prisoner, didn't have cameras inside his cell, and he was allegedly on suicide watch when he was murdered by Trump's goons to try to cover up his pedo shit.

[–] slakje@piefed.social 98 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Who would have thought that people don’t want to be recorded without their knowledge or consent?

This would be a huge setback to anyone even remotely concerned about privacy.

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[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Big Brother strapped to your fucking face.

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 68 points 2 days ago (7 children)

So I know what to look for in the future for people to avoid, the glasses apparently look like this:

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 48 points 2 days ago (5 children)

And putting Ray Ban on the "never buy a fucking thing from" list.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You should go up the chain and put the parent company of the parent company and all the related properties there

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EssilorLuxottica

[–] Corn@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago (3 children)

That's 99% of eyeglasses in the US and Canada

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[–] paulbg@programming.dev 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

imagine passing everything you see in life to openai api

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

worse, meta ai api

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Makes me paranoid now to go out.

My neighbor has several security cameras in front, covering the parking lot, the sidewalk in front of the building, and the unit entry doors. We live in apartments. Our doors are clustered in the same area, so anything that can see his door can also see my door and our other neighbors' doors.

I absolutely hate it. I can't even throw the goddamn trash out without feeling watched.

I've been like that for many, many years.

[–] PacMan@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 days ago

I remember this Black Mirror episode! Dudes wife was banging someone else and he gets wicked drunk crashes his car and replays the memory over and over again for years. Good Times! 🫠

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Are there glasses that scrambles other people's cameras that the rest of us could wear?

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I mean we could wear IR emitors. I imagine glasses with those or hyper reflective parts (like hi-vis vest) would both work to really mess up camera footage.

[–] choochooMF@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Reflectacles makes those.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If most people start doing this it might work. Until then, you'll just be "That guy"

[–] choochooMF@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

I'm okay being that guy.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cool idea. Also, maybe create a new style in response by making rave clothing for everyday wear.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I am thinking we finally make tron style clothing that lights up in that original supertight sheer leotard.
But your idea is good too.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

I mean, if we walk around with confidence, the style will catch on. That pose on the tron style is perfect. I think we're on to something.

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