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Comment by lioeters | Hacker News Reader

Funny and scary that you describe it as a Pandora's box, as an author of a related patent! "Advertising is about to get surreal." Minority-Report-style ads, here they come..

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I realized the potential, and wanted to steward the deployment in such a manner that civil society is not subjected to fake news, or privacy attacks such as public and private persons inserted into media against their will. The ultimate reason I was unsuccessful was a firm stance against pornography, which VC, media partners and angels insisted on an ability to exploit.

I'm sure it's little consolation, but kudos to you for sticking to your ethics. I sure wish more in the tech community would take this approach!

And what approach is that? Delaying the inevitable? :)

By around 15 years, not bad?

How long will it be before a resourceful individual will be able to meaningfully engineer a biological or synthetic pathogen that could wipe out a good portion of the human race? 1000 years? 200 years? 50 years?

There's nothing wrong with buying a little time while society catches up with the technology.

Much respect to making a moral stand! I suppose it's true that others will continue developing the "full potential" (including ethically questionable applications) of the technology, but at least one can make the choice to not contribute to undesired directions.

Personally, I'm waiting for AR UBlock. That would put the "augmented" in AR. :)

Would AR UBlock allow you to replace all the people in ads with people of your choice? So all spokesmen for me could be Gilbert Gottfried in a neon colored t-shirt?

I imagine it’d just cancel or black the ads out, I’d hope.

Someone here on HN had recently shared some hairstyles, facial accessories, and alterations that prevented common face detection implementations from recognizing your head, which seemed relevant and pretty cool from a tech punk perspective, too.

I wouldn't really blame a person for not realizing, back almost 20 years ago, the full extent to which this technology could be used, when coupled with similar tech for audio processing, cheap compute, and the world consuming information primarily from the Internet.

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