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Are there any pictures of you online?

Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it.

Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts.

I'm Dexter Thomas, host a Kill Switch, a podcast about how living in the future is affecting us right now.

Police, they are trusting the software with this magical ability to lead them to the right suspect.

In this episode, we dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition,

and sometimes getting it wrong and putting innocent people behind bars.

So if your accuser is this algorithm, but you're not even being told that it was used, let alone given any of the details about how it works history of philosophy is a simple one.

What is it like to be a bat?

It's not a famous question because anyone cares particularly about bats, but because they wonder

how our senses shape our experience.

If you had dramatically different ways of perceiving the universe, would your mind form a very

different mental picture? Do blind animals even have a mental picture? Or is our reliance on vision

showing our bias already in the phrase mental picture. I wonder about bats, but not as

much as I wonder about aliens. What is it like to be an alien? Do they have some version of our

set of senses? Is their experience as alien to us as bats might be? Or is it much more alien?

I'm curious about this, not just because it's a fun thought experiment, but because I wonder

about how it shapes alien science. If they have a very different mental picture or sonogram

or concept of the universe, how does that affect how they study it, what questions they ask, and maybe most

crucially, how they express their answers, their understanding. This is one slice of a larger

question that I dig into in my new book, Do aliens Speak Physics, where I imagine what it

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