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I can also play that game, You are effectively calling for enabling 24/7 non stop worldwide surveillance of everyone, everywhere all the time.

The big difference is my negative is concrete, possible and enabled in 2026 by GPT Astra while you’re talking about some future which we have no idea, we will ever reach.

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Easy game.

Protecting math jobs limits cancer progress even being a choice of what to pursue. You could choose to allow 24/7 surveillance, but why would you? At least with math progress society can choose what to allow from it, but slowing it down universally blocks all choices.

Lmao this guy thinks people ever decided who/what/how much things should be surveilled.

People do exactly that with every vandalized Flock camera.

It sucks that our democracy is really mostly just for show and thus such measures are required, but yes, we absolutely can decide such things if we really want to.

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