The Free Software people were right - a device this intimate needs to have publicly available, verifiable source code.
It also induces different states by way of imperceptible stimuli and measured the response.
The tweet got increasingly dystopian the more I read; spine-chilling stuff. Had this been about the Quest, people in this thread would be reasonably apoplectic. Imagine what Saudi Arabia or a Gambling or News app could do with this.
Fuck it, I'm going Thiel, anyone want to cofound a security startup, HMU (law enforcement experience advantageous) - we'll make the Apple Vision the best interrogation tool on earth. Fifth amendment? Pssh, the suspect won't need to say a single thing.
Are you sure? Am I missing that part? I see this:
>Other tricks to infer cognitive state involved quickly flashing visuals or sounds to a user in ways they may not perceive, and then measuring their reaction to it.
But that doesn't say they're inducing states but rather trying to figure out the state. Trying to understand if someone is mad does not seem quite as dystopian as trying to make someone mad.
Classical conditioning has been known since Pavlov and his experiment with a dog.
For starters (apart from a very few outliers), if you own any Apple product, you have fallen into the trap of paying more for something that you believe is more valuable to you, but in reality, that feeling is artificially created. You aren't paying extra for features, you are paying extra because you believe that those features are worth that much, which is not your own thought.