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Now I am really worried for Chinese kids. pls don't build generation of machines. This will not help at all to Great China. This looks like Gattaca - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca

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I have always wondered why they put so much trust in that biometric scanner. Job interview? No need to ask the candidate about his qualifications just an "ok" from the scanner and you are good to go, who needs critical thinking anyway. No one asks, "does this scanner even work?". What if the brain-wave tracker is just snake oil?

For what it's worth, Snopes did an article about these brain-wave trackers: https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/05/03/activists-skeptical-c...

tl;dr is that they kinda work, but not nearly as effective as advertised.

It also raises the point that even if it didn't work, all you need to suppress people is for them to believe that it's working.

Any US company that sells technology to China supporting these sorts of big brother population control should be held criminally liable for its end use.

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