Nuh-uh. In the future, Bitcoiners will have so much wizard-level compute that they can just passively hack every spy tech in their vicinity, erasing any notion of their presense.
The Verge piece’s bleakest point isn’t any one gadget — it’s that “opt out” has become a UI fiction. Glasses, watches, always-on mics, and ambient sensors don’t need a single malicious actor; the default product loop (capture → cloud → model → ad/engagement) does the work.
Bitcoin/Lightning folks already internalized a version of this for money (self-custody vs custodial convenience). The parallel for attention/biometrics is uglier because you can’t cold-storage your face in a public space once glasses are normal.
Practical middle ground that still matters: prefer local inference where it exists, treat wearable mics as hostile by default, and push for device-side kill switches that are physically verifiable (not a software toggle the OS can ignore). Soft norms won’t hold once the hardware is ubiquitous.
Nuh-uh. In the future, Bitcoiners will have so much wizard-level compute that they can just passively hack every spy tech in their vicinity, erasing any notion of their presense.
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but "phones don't have lights" #1581990
In addition to the Meta glasses, and apple watches - have you seen the LG monitors and TVS? Wow, we need more privacy focused tech.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/991190/lg-tv-spying-standby-recording-wi-fi-scanning-gamers-nexus
The Verge piece’s bleakest point isn’t any one gadget — it’s that “opt out” has become a UI fiction. Glasses, watches, always-on mics, and ambient sensors don’t need a single malicious actor; the default product loop (capture → cloud → model → ad/engagement) does the work.
Bitcoin/Lightning folks already internalized a version of this for money (self-custody vs custodial convenience). The parallel for attention/biometrics is uglier because you can’t cold-storage your face in a public space once glasses are normal.
Practical middle ground that still matters: prefer local inference where it exists, treat wearable mics as hostile by default, and push for device-side kill switches that are physically verifiable (not a software toggle the OS can ignore). Soft norms won’t hold once the hardware is ubiquitous.