Comment by brookst
9 hours ago
As someone with pretty good prosopagnosia, I am also unsettled and disturbed at all of y’all’s hardware acceleration for facial recognition.
I was 30 before I realized that when people recognize each other, it’s not from clothes and hair, or voice, or some kind of cognitive memory like “Bob has big ears and a wide nose”.
So, while I’m sympathetic and supportive of concerns about AI glasses, please also realize that to a subset of the population (about 1% IIRC), most of you already have a weird and privacy-violating skill, right there in the neurons.
We don't continuously share and sell the info we gather, and none of us have any hope of recognizing more than a tiny fraction of the population.
Comparing a natural ability to some kind of privacy-violating skill sounds a bit a hard sell.
Kind of like selling hard won skills as some kind of gate keeping.
Improving the quality of life of people cannot be done at the expense of the basic social needs of everyone else.
I wasn't saying any of the words you seem to be putting in my mouth.
I was simply noting that there's a natural range of both abilities and expectations in this area, and it is a little entertaining that even the hint of a suggestion of an implication that maybe face recognition is perceived differently by different people provokes such a strong, fact-free response.