Raw LLM Responses

> If we magically eliminated all encryption today, there would be caos and basically most things would be utterly broken and vulnerable to any kid with a computer. If we made facial recognition disappear, only certain business would feel the impact and even so it wouldn’t be that much . This is almost a good point, but you are forgetting something very fundamental and important: * There’s more than one nation on the planet. These nations are in competition, in terms of economics, military might, intelligence gathering, etc with one another! A nation that willingly disavows a massively powerful tool like facial recognition will have a telling disadvantage in competition with other nation that don't disavow the tech. We've seen a few cases where tech has been successfully backed off from in the past on a multilateral scale… nukes to a degree, chem and bioweapons to a degree, human germline editing, space launch tech to a degree. (It should be pointed out that none of the multilateral disavowals of specific technologies has been universally adopted or successful… but these are the only cases where such a strategy has been successful to ANY degree). In all of these almost-successful cases of multilateral tech disavowal, the tech in question was: 1. Expensive and slow to develop and deploy limiting the number of possible actors to a very small number of corporations or nation-states. 2. Extremely hard to monetize reducing the number corporate actors often all the way to zero. 3. Not really representing a major competitive advantage in any arena outside no-holds-barred total-war. None of those three circumstances is true of facial recognition. The result is that inevitably SOME nations WILL allow its unfettered use. Those nations will have a real and decisive advantage and that will put pressure on all other nations to follow suit just to eliminate their comparative disadvantage.