I noticed that as well, it's a bit frustrating. I personally think if you're allowed to do something legally, you should be allowed to do it using technology.

It's seems silly to me that you can have a human being eyeball someone and claim it's so and so, but you can't use incredibly accurate technology to streamline that process.

I personally don't like the decay of polite society. I don't like asking a worker for a key to buy some deodorant. Rather than treat everyone like a criminal, why don't we just treat criminals like criminals. It's a tiny percentage of people that abuse polite society and we pretend like it's a huge problem that can only be attacked by erecting huge inconveniences for everyone. No, just punish criminals and build systems to target criminals rather than everyone. If you look at arrests, you'll see that among persons admitted to state prison 77% had five or more prior arrests. When do you say enough is enough and we can back off this surveillance state because we're too afraid to just lock up people that don't want to live in society.

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/acceptance-of-crime-is-a...

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nemomarx 5 hours ago | parent [-]

How does facial recognition reduce the surveillance state there?

	▲	bko 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If you flag the dozen or so people that come in to your business once a week to steal, you don't have to have as much surveillance in the store otherwise. Just check them out when they enter, very simple. For instance, Costco has a much lower theft rate (0.11–0.2% of sales) compared to other supermarkets (1-4%) simply because they manage to keep criminal out through membership fees. Control the entrance, target the known criminals and we can go back to a high trust society.