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Chapter 1: What is solipsism?
Are there any pictures of you online?
I'm not just talking about Google. I'm talking anywhere. Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts.
That database is now being used by police departments all across the country to match criminal suspect photos. And sometimes... it makes mistakes.
So in this one case, two of the search results that I think were in the top 10 of the search results were Michael Jordan, a picture of Michael Jordan. But cops are still using it to make arrests. Police, they are trusting this software to lead them to the right suspect. But you're not even being told that it was used, let alone given any of the details about how it works.
This is not Minority Report. This is happening right now. People are getting arrested and doing actual time in jail after being picked out by a computer. I'm Dexter Thomas, host of Killswitch, where every Wednesday we explain the right now of living in the future. You can turn off the computer, but do not let the computer turn you off.
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I'm Clayton English. I'm Greg Glod. And this is season two of the War on Drugs podcast. Yes, sir. We are back.
In a big way. In a very big way. Real people, real perspectives.
This is kind of star-studded a little bit, man.
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Chapter 2: How does solipsism challenge reality?
Oh, wow.
And let me know if you want any recommendations for decent beers while you're here. And that is from Jan.
Man, that's awesome. That was a great email, Jan. Yeah, I think we should take Jan up on that finally, Chuck. I want to go to Germany.
We've had enough people saying come to Germany. I think we have to go to like Berlin and Munich just to see what the heck is going on. Two, huh? Yeah, we could do the big city style and then Bavarian city style.
Okay, let's do it then. It is settled. And that was from Jan, J-A-N? Yeah. I'm glad you said that because for my whole life I've been saying, well, first I said Jan, and I grew up and I thought Jan. I did not know it was Jan.
Well, this is what, I mean, J-A-N in this letter said it's pronounced Y-U-N-N.
Yeah, that's Jung for sure.
That's Jung.
But anybody's name pronounced Jan reminds me of a quote. Have you ever seen Johnny Suede, the Brad Pitt movie? I never saw that. Yeah, but there was a classic line in it where he's at dinner at like his date's house and the date's dad says, you know, John, if we were in Sweden, your name would be Jan Suede. And he says, no, sir, it'd be John. Johnny Swain. Always has been, always will be.
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