Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"

knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Haven’t you heard? Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race.

  Trump’s current Science Advisor gave an interview back in ~2019 where he kept insisting the U.S. was at a disadvantage to China bc we didn’t have access to the level of surveillance data China had (which it turns out we fucking created and sold to them). He also used this point to argue against any regulations for facial recognition tech because again, it would put us at a disadvantage.

  But don’t worry, because the goal is to have an authoritarian surveillance state with “baked in American values,” so we won’t have to worry about ending up like China did with the surveillance tools we fucking sold them.

  I’m not sure what values he’s claiming will be somehow baked into it (because again, we created it and sold it to China). My mind conjures up scenario of automatic weapons and a speaker playing a screeching bald eagle, but maybe we’ll get some star spangled banner thrown in there too.

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• cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I haven’t heard of academics and/or media from China advocating for applications of phrenology/physiognomy or other related racist pseudosciences. Have you?

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