There is a serious question of why people get so upset about glasses that record as opposed to cell phones, etc. I have a theory on it and that is that, despite all the emphasis on eye contact, humans actually find it really aggressive and threatening. Traditional camcorders, cameras, and taking cell phone video all either outright block the eyes or at least the eyeline. You are not staring at them, you are staring at your phone. I think that is, at least in part why devices like smart glasses make people more aggressive than other recording.

The clear counterargument to that though, in the case of face mounted recording devices, is that they don't force a choice between helping/calling police or filming. True, that should not be a real dilemma, the obvious choice should be to help. The thing is, that problem in crowds of no-one stepping forward to help does not exist purely because of people recording. There are lots of reasons people don't put themselves forward in situations like that. One of them is the assumption that someone else will be able to handle it better than them, or simply waiting for someone to step forward and lead, etc. There are also concerns about liability, possibly about self-endangerment and a dozen or more anxieties and neuroses that can cause the problem. Recording with a cell phone probably exacerbates the issue though, by giving people an activity that, in the moment, their mind can rationalize as doing something. If recording is a less active and more passive process, leaving people free to actually do something and taking away their excuse for rationalization, it might encourage more people to actually help.

Mileage may vary, of course. On balance though, it seems like head mounted recording devices are more of a solution to the problem you were talking about than an exemplar of it.

Mod parent up!

Yes! Just Say No!

I blame Alanis Morisette.

Anyways, I'd say yes to ironic, especially if people do not recognize that within themselves (regarding what ragebait is and how it works).

Well said.

Well played. You are truly a master ragebaiter.

If you're referring to the Carlin quote, he recognized the difference but had to deliver the line to an audience made up of a goodly portion of people who were already drunk and/or stoned.

If you're referring to what I wrote, the IQ test (which I recognize is not actually accurate because of cultural bias, but it's a phrase that everyone understands) then an IQ of 100 is designed to be the midpoint, with half the population above and half under. Unless it's changed in the last quarter century, it was intended to measure the mean.

There seems to be little doubt that the majority of voter suppression in the US comes from the Republican party (see various court cases that have ended up with, for example consent decrees that are later ignored). So, logically, unless they are really, really bad at planning it, it seems pretty clear which way they sway election. Also, consider your claimed position, that claiming a stolen election will sway independent voters away from the party whose members make the claim. Considering all of the activity from the Republicans (and specifically the ones in actual positions of power, like Trump) over claims that the 2020 Presidential election was somehow stolen, compared to the relatively minor activity over claims that the 2024 election was stolen, how do you justify that as a reason for votes to shift towards Republicans to Democrats?

Oh, carp. Posting to fix bad mod.

And what about the half of the population which has an IQ lower than 100? Dumb people need to eat too, and if they can't they pick up pitchforks and torches (metaphorically). When robots run by AIs are washing dishes and picking strawberries the people who previously did those jobs are not going to be doing things requiring "human creativity and judgement".

Indeed, so the more the insurance cartel can charge the more profit they can suck in. That's not a hard equation. Perhaps if there were actually some minimal amount of competition allowed in the business prices might be lower, but that's just crazy talk . . .

Yep. There are ultrasound wands that can plug into your phone, and AIs that can analyze the scan, for under $3000.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/mems...

Don't mistake ChatGTP as representative of all types of AI, because it's not. And you shouldn't mistake "highly-trained jobs" as being only ones requiring extensive education, it takes years of training to run the largest heavy equipment but China already has fully automated open pit mining. AI is automating drafting of building plans, logistical planning, and purchasing, all fields where 'hallucinations' would be catastrophic and yet it doesn't occur. The lack of education about this exceedingly important field, even among those who one would expect to be more technologically knowledgeable like SlashDot users, is appalling.

Thanks for pointing that out, far too many people think that ChatGPT is representative of all AI. There are a LOT of exceedingly important uses AIs of various types have been put to, this being one one of them. Robotics for example relies on it completely, the days of writing thousands of lines of code just to get your robotic quadruped to walk in a straight line on a level floor are gone (thank goodness). Atlas can do a backflip and Picklebot can unload a truck of random boxes because they are controlled by a properly trained AI.