Why stop at "jam the camera"? *Spoof* the camera (feed it false but plausible data, perhaps inculpating someone else, or perhaps just showing an uppity empty Naugahyde `:chair): a real- time, animated analogue of the photoshopped stills we now have learned to expect everywhere.
> Ah. The equivalent of the bank Robbers mask. Jam the camera. N > > > > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Parks, Raymond > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 3:26 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Re: Privacy vs Open Public Data > > > > Nick, > > > > My point is that there are things we do not want to be public that are not > illegal nor shameful. An example of such a thing is a behavior or statement > that seems to contradict one's relationship with another human. It's > perfectly reasonable, but that other human can and frequently does feel > emotional pain if they find out about it. Another example was brought up in > the thread of how humans manipulate their social environment to prevent > social pressure or improve their social situation. > > > > BTW, I find it interesting if not ironic that the very systems that allow > for ubiquitous surveillance are the same systems that allow for > indiscriminate self-exposure - computers. Here's a prediction - someday > there will be an app that will turn off surveillance cameras as one passes > by them. That may be a black-market app - but it will exist. It's harder > but not impossible to do the same for UAVs/RPAs/regular aircraft. The > hardest type of surveillance to turn off is satellite - but it's also the > easiest to predict. > > > > Ray Parks > > Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager > > V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 > > NIPR: rcpa...@sandia.gov > > SIPR: rcpar...@sandia.doe.sgov.gov (send NIPR reminder) > > JWICS: dopa...@doe.ic.gov (send NIPR reminder) > > > > > > > > On Jan 17, 2013, at 12:12 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > > > > > Sorry. I wasn't asking whether we lie or not. Or even whether it eases > some social situations. I was asking for a theory of why lying greases > social situations. Why is the NET effect of small lies positive? I can > think of some reasons. Like chimpanzees, we live in a fision-fusion > situation. The size of the lie that one can "honestly" tell probably > depends in many cases on the frequency with which one sees the person one is > lying to. And then there is the distinction between speech as stroking and > speech as conveying of information. I get that wrong, a lot. > > > > I am having a hard time thinking how this is related to my original question > about whether there should be a law against using public data to track > individual behavior. I know that I opened up the subthread about shame and > guilt, so I stipulate that it is my fault that we are talking about it. And > I actually think it is related. I just can't state the relation. I am > thinking we might be moving toward a belief that truth is like arousal . > life goes best when one has a moderate level of it. There was a wonderful > study done some years ago about he relation between truth and the best > marriages. Married folk were asked to play The Dating Game together .. > i.e., guess what spouses answers to personal questions would be, > preferences, what have you. Three categories of respondents were > identified: spouse pairs that had an unrealistical enhanced view of one > another, spouse pairs that had an unrealistically jaundiced view of one > another, and spouse pairs that had a realistic view of one another. As you > might expect, the first group maintained the most enduring marriages. > > > > But this just brings me back to the need for a theory of why a society is > better is there is just a bit less truth in it. A pragmatic notion, but > not, I fear, a Pragmatic one. > > > > Nick > > > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
