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Comment Re:False flag (Score 2) 237

This is exactly correct and probably what's behind the EU requirement for alternative App Stores. If you can install your app without an Apple cert your off the races and Apple can't pull your app when it's found to be spyware. It's a simular reason behind the TikTok ban, they can't get the data like they can from Facebook and others.

Submission + - Will a Robot Take Your God? (thesocietypages.org)

Mr_Blank writes: Societies grow and change all the time, but it can be tough to think about big-picture shifts when you’re living through the practical details of the day to day. Take the recent popularity of large language models (LLMs). In the short term, we face important sociological questions about how they fit into the norms of everyday life. ... In the article “Exposure to Automation Explains Religious Declines,” authors Joshua Conrad Jackson, Kai Chi Yam, Pok Man Tang, Chris G. Sibley, and Adam Waytz review the findings from five studies. In one, their analysis of longitudinal data across 68 countries from 2006 to 2019 finds nations with higher stocks of industrial robots also tend to have lower proportions of people who say religion is an important part of their daily lives in surveys. ... Respondents who read about the capabilities of LLMs like ChatGPT showed “greater reductions in religious conviction than learning about scientific advances”

Comment Wellness My Data (Score 1) 86

The part of wellness programs that made me avoid them: Onerous requirements to share my data.

I loathe the idea that for a tiny little benefit, even a cash deposit, I would have to give up data on my steps, workouts, diet, and other out of office habits. Some programs also came with an app on my personal phone. Most came with more email, which I didn't want to read, and advertisements for even more programs/ books /classes that I did not have time for. The wellness programs reduced my wellness by increasing my stress!

After trying the programs the first year they were offered, I opted out thereafter. This also increased my stress because my spouse was upset I was missing out on some cash for enrolling and sharing my data. bah!

Comment Monetize (Score 1) 37

"By monitoring tire health, tire grip, vehicle weight distribution, and other critical parameters, engineers can anticipate potential problems and schedule maintenance proactively, reducing downtime and extending the vehicle's lifespan,"

More likely: The manufacturers will use this data to sell more parts, maintenance, and nice-to-haves which really should have been included in the first place. The manufacturers will use this data to monitor customer adherence to subscriptions and to sell more downloadable content on a subscription basis. This data will be used to avoid lawsuits and expensive recalls.

Articles like this are less useful when they point out all the optimistic possibilities without talking about how those ideas make money. In my opinion, once money enters the equation, as it must to exist in the reality of our timeline, the optimism typically boils away to neutral, at best.

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