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People complain about US govt surveillance all the time. It doesn't always lead to change but there's a healthy degree of dissent.

What I find interesting is that the labels for the perturbed images aren't completely off in all cases, eg, wool for a shaggy dog.

Unfortunately no, I don't have good evidence.

It's an instance of a more general intuition that excessive consumption of fiction distorts people's beliefs about the world. For example, at some point I saw a study that showed people who watched more TV tended to overestimate rates of violent crime significantly, but I can't find it now.

Anecdotally many people seem to think that human genetic engineering would create permanent class divisions, and they tend to refer to fiction, eg, Gattaca, when asserting this. But that doesn't really make sense. Any rational nation-state would subsidize it massively for the population once it was cheap enough.

Hanson has actually disparaged science fiction in general for purposes of futurism. I don't think he's been influenced by it much.

This was an interesting attempt but I think development kind of stalled. The original creator, quarnster, left the project.

It's essentially copying the UI of Tweetdeck, which is/was very popular w/ power users.