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... And you can't 'escape' it. Eventually a lack of data on you will be suspicious in and of itself.

There's an easy way around that, though: speak, act, live and think in a manner that's patently inoffensive to anybody.

* I guess I'm being too subtle with my sarcasm, huh. Well, I'll be Larry Literal from now on.

It wouldn't surprise me if that, in and of itself, was an identifier.

I find myself thinking of coin-flip experiments, where it's trivial to discern who ran some sort of legitimately random test, and who just made up Heads and Tails, because humans are terrible at approximating randomness.

The usual solution to that is automation. While it is obviously nontrivial to automate creating all the data of a normal human life, it's hardly impossible.

Yes, exactly what every corrupt regime likes, people who don't need to be pushed around, but instead get out of the way of their own accord.

People like that invite tyranny upon themselves.

Unless you have an AI living a low key, nonthreatening virtual life for you.

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