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Author: welcoming to knowing. This is unavoidable. Outside of extreme measures that will themselves mark, the network effects of use will overwhelm any effort to evade.

The question I think is how too navigate and what consequences will follow. We could use these capabilities to enslave but we could also use them to free and empower.

Scams rely on scale and the ineffective scaling social mechanisms to achieve profit. Imagine if the first identification of a scam informed every potential mark to which the scam began to be applied. Don't forget to concern yourself with false positives too, of course.

The injustice of being unable to take action in disputes due to a lack of evidence would evaporate. Massive privacy, consent, and security risks and issues result so will we be ready to properly protect and honor people and their freedoms?

At the end of this path may lay more efficient markets; increased capital flows and volumes; and a more fair, just, equitable, and maximized world more filled with joy, love, and happiness. There are other worse options of course.



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