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How? Step 1 is kinda problematic for that, no?
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They would use the software with their current inventory of state/interstate highway cameras, if that wasn't clear.

Not like, take over your camera, or install their camera on your property.


Stop trying to develop shit society clearly can't be trusted with. Government will pick up any decentralized solution, and centralize it*. See Skype for precedent.

There is an upper bound on "top down efficiency" one wants built into a government system, because anything too effective draws corruption to it like no one's business, probability 1.


“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” - Thomas Jefferson, May 27, 1788.

Cameras and ALPRs aren't going away. It's commodity hardware and software at this point.

I'm only spitballing potential solutions for how to manage the inventory.


Cool. So you're going to completely leave out the cautionary context where it was in reference to the natural hazard presented by government's tendency to centralize literally being a vehicle for the taking from a producer rather than doing the producing oneself?

Jefferson acknowledged the phenomena in the sense of it being a degenerate pathology of thought or behavior to be aware of or guarded against. Not as an endorsement of "Nah, fuck this liberty shit, put cameras everywhere so we can record everyone's coming and goings. After all, Tyranny is the natural order of things".

https://www.monticello.org/encyclopedia/natural-progress-thi...

Nothing I hate more than people who grab nuanced Jeffersonian writings and try to use them to sell the legitimacy of an antithetical belief that stands in contrast to most of the contents of the political philosophy he espoused at the time.




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