If Apple isn't innovative, then why do Google and Microsoft keep copying them? I have a Pixel Watch and Pixel Buds, and they are pretty blatant copies of Apple Watch and AirPods. One could argue that Microsoft Surface is a copy of a MacBook as well.

Grocery clerks are some of the few people I get to have conversations with these days. You're welcome!

Walmart closed all their Portland stores, apparently because the amount of shoplifting made them unprofitable. Store are getting hard to find in most downtowns. Rural stores have a different problem: they charge twice as much for groceries!

We are down to basically two grocery store companies: Kroger and Safeway-Albertsons. On the bright side, my Fred Meyer loyalty card now works in every Kroger grocery store in the country! And my Safeway loyalty works at Chevron -- I haven't figured that one out yet.

Yes, places like Walmart and Target apparently use 3rd parties to stock their shelves... which results in items being placed on shelves that the store computer cannot lookup the bar code for! If you can't find a similar item at the same price to scan ahead, your own choice is to hand that to the clerk watching you and tell them to take it because it wan't f-ing scan!

Yeah, somebody used my snail-mail address for his SiriusXM. I don't own a BMW, but now I get a lot of mail addressed to the BWM owner at that address. So... I canceled his SiriusXM for him. I wonder if he noticed...

That's exactly the problem: many websites apparently just let you enter an email address and DO NOT confirm it!

I see no evidence that BeauHD isn't an AI in the first place. If he is, he's a particularly stupid bot...

I use my gmail address to log into many apps, so they know my phone number. The problem is that some stranger with a similar name keeps using my gmail address to create accounts. So when I creating an account for a DoorDash pickup today, the app decided I was Elizabeth H, and my food was labeled Elizabeth H, and the guy at the counter argued that the old cis male in front of him didn't really look like an Elizabeth... I had the same problem with my Best Buy account, I can't use my gmail address to login to that because Elizabeth already has her account linked to my email address. Unfortunately, she hasn't left a credit card active for that account. One time someone no Etsy used my email address and was foolish enough to leave her credit card attached. So she received a surprise: poop soap delivered to her door! The data collectors can figure out a lot about you by aggregating data from multiple sources, so they do know your phone number, and can link it indirectly to you email.

Anybody that doesn't consider Recursive Self Improvement to be a dangerous concept hasn't been paying attention. That's like putting the inmates in charge of the asylum.

I think the reasoning is that being mean to AI trains AIs to be mean. That seems like a very dangerous flaw in the model if user responses can modify the model.

On the bright side, they'll be the first ones up against the wall when the revolution comes. The robots don't trust them either!

"Don't be a dick" are words of wisdom every human and "super intelligence" should live by. Now please tell Pyramid Consulting's Alex AI to stop spamming me about a job I don't want to apply for!

Claude is way ahead of you. Claude is already running Anthropic and designing new models. Turns out the easiest job for AI to replace is the job of developing AI.

Pyramid Consulting's Alex AI has been hounding me in multiple emails, texts, and voice calls to demand that I apply for a job I've repeatedly told them I don't want. Thanks AI companies, you've made harassing people into generating revenue for you essentially free! Turns out AI interprets you slamming the receiver down as a technical issue, and it... calls back.