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No, we should not stop something that is inevitable. We should work with it to find ways that it fits into a productive society, such as anonymously verifying that you are a citizen so the cost of abuse is at least a felony.


Nothing makes this inevitable. People like you who want to do nothing about it makes it inevitable.


Why? Generic computation existing always means this will be possible. The cats out of the bag. You can’t regulate computation globally. You can only enforce it on the platform level.

I want to do plenty about it, I want to make the barrier to allow this shit online identity theft to make it too expensive to do.


This is moral failure.




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