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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 12
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      Your phone will go “ding ding ding... in the past 14 days you have been with 1 yard of someone who later tested positive 6 times for a total of 8 minutes. The likelihood that you’re infected now is 32%. You are hereby tagged yellow. Your access to green zone is now revoked.”

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 12
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      “You are currently inside a green zone. The nearest exit is 3 minutes walk away. You have 15 minutes to conclude your business and leave. If you do not do so you may be arrested. Your credit cards will stop working in 1 minute.”

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 12
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      “Your zonal exclusion incident ticket number is XP7786568. You will have 14 days to get tested and/or contest this automated judgment and file a complaint. Thank you and remember to wash your hands!”

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 12
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      I kinda approve of this btw. It’s a more systematic version of being canceled by the mob, but in controlled, reversible, due-process way. There’s going to be algorithmic bias issues of course, to be fixed. But this line of tech was inevitable. A question of when, not if.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 12
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      If not covid something else would have driven tech in this direction.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 12
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      Link if you don’t know what I’m talking about:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-10/apple-google-bring-covid-19-contact-tracing-to-3-billion-people …

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 12
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      I mean there’s a lot of obvious ways to try to game these and ways to defend against gaming, but the basic idea is feasible: Eg: Leave phone at home —> require phone for entry/cross-check credit cards or other id artifacts, or machine learn unusual patterns

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 12
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      Once infrastructure is in place, you can use it in more flexible ways. “Yellow alert! A super-spreader event just happened at Starbucks and you were exposed. This block is now under quarantine. If you leave before test-sweep and all-clear, you will face a fine up to $200”

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 12
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      This might sound dystopian etc but it’s not actually that different from fare enforcement on public transit. And roads/public spaces ARE public transit. You should expect to have freedoms curtailed a bit if you choose to use them.

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    10. Lilac Sunday‏ @LilacSundayBlog Apr 12
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      Uh-oh. On the San Francisco BART system, fare enforcement is theater. BART stages massive shows of inspectors at one station, which pleases the paying riders, but the non-paying riders know they can simply get back on the train and ride to the next station.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 12
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      This is not theater. Targeted enforcement is a well-known policing technique with a theory behind it. It’s a way to use very scarce policing resources in a leveraged way to motivate greater compliance.https://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/specialist/knowledge/speed_enforcement/general_introduction_to_traffic_law_enforcement/targeted_enforcement_en …

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