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Comment Good! We need a return to a trust based society (Score 1, Interesting) 132

Here in the UK, a crime and shop lifting ridden total surveillance state, the police now insist that hospitality locations (pubs, bars etc) have customer facing cameras installed. (Someone is making money from this.) Good! Huge scope for misuse, trust based society! We are headed towards a world prophesied in movies whereby career or genetically violent or sexually 'active' humans are inserted en mass into society (Spain in the last week), UK, France, Sweden over the last few years, creating fear in us civilised types. So the politicians and authority figures, with interests in surveillance technology exploit this and roll out equipment across our nations, creating an ugly privacy invasive society. Meanwhile, they live in gated communities, away from the detritus of their making. A few years ago, a young sailor went missing in a UK town, and sadly, his body was found in a trash container a week or so later. CCTV cameras showed all his movements since leaving home, and this was broadcast on national TV and the Internet. A huge breach of his privacy, and evidence, if any, that total surveillance does nothing to deter, prevent or solve crime. What does prevent crime is street level dicipline, cops on the beat, who when not chasing shop lifters, are giving directions to lost tourists, as I witnessed in Notting Hill in London about 15+ years ago. We must fight this awful future, with a return to family values, sound mental and physical health and return to a trust based society.

Comment And free of woke historical revisionism lies (Score 0) 114

There, I said it. Glad to be of the generation bought up and educated (70s-1982) when it was all about facts and science, not dangerous dishonest manipulative revisionism. A rational AI, similar to say, Encyclopedia Britanica of old, would be ideal. if an AI is to be political/biased, then it needs to be branded /sold as that, like a newspaper. We all know The Guardian here in UK, NYT in USA are liberal, whilst Daily Telegraph here in UK is more to the right (I subscribe to it), although I have no idea which paper in the USA is not liberal! And that is a problem!

Comment So, a robot! (Score 1) 106

:) A few things like this has been tried before, mainly from Japan and China, with a few from that Dinosaur robotics company in USA, WowWee? I recall this, like the Ferari Luce, is being designed by Love From, correct me if I'm wrong. I sense it will be amazing, creepy and yet invaluable, like a hybrid PA, nanny and parent.

Comment Re: Kick 'em outside (Score 1) 59

Ditto. Else we would hover around mum in the kitchen asking if we could lick the cake mix spoon and then use teaspoons to 'clean' the mixing bowl! Go play outside. Dad chose a large house in the centre of a large surround garden next to a large forest. We had bicycles and local friends so it was a fantastic life. And then I built my first computer (ZX-81) followed by Spectrum and we were then given gaming rules. A balanced lifestyle. We grew up healthy and level headed.

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