I'm not suggesting that as a way to specifically avoid detection; rather, as a way to poison the data with 99% irrelevant matches. We all know the relevant XKCD, but there's more options than a sawzall to fight back.

As an aside, the full Wired article is freely available. I can't say if there's any additional information in the 404 Media version (because I'm also not signing up), but the Wired writeup is pretty solid.

Aside from giving us solid data on how badly Flock is behaving vs what they claim, there's one extremely useful detail this dump reveals: Flock sucks at correctly identifying the interesting parts of its targets.

Time to absolutely wallpaper the front and back of our cars with bumper stickers that look like faces and license plates. Let 'em burn police time chasing down "8008135" stickers to the point nobody even checks the alerts anymore.

You don't need a camera to transcribe speech. They would be more useful for blind people whereby the camera takes a picture of what's in front of you and describes it audibly.

You can't be surreptitious with a well known, branded camera containing device attached to your face.

With a cellphone? Sure you can. You hold it in your hand to read something on the screen - which way are the (front and back) lenses facing? How is anyone to know wether you're recording video vs innocently reading something?
You hold it to your ear to have a call, the rear lens is facing away from you - pointing at what?
You put it in your shirt pocket, modern phones are big enough that the lens will protrude out of the top so it can see infront of you just as well as glasses could. Is anyone going to notice this and question if the phone in your pocket is actively recording?
You drop your phone on the floor, at least one of the lenses is facing upwards - looking up someone's skirt?
There have been lots of cases of perverts using phones to record under people's skirts on public escalators too...

In Japan locally sold phones don't let you turn off the shutter sound when you take a photo, but in other countries they do. And even in Japan this doesn't apply to video.

And what's to stop these perverts doing the same thing with hidden cameras, phones, CCTV etc?

If someone approached you with a large video camera on their shoulder and started asking you questions, you'd automatically assume you were being recorded right?
If someone approached you with a phone camera raised up so that the lens is pointing at you, you'd also automatically assume you were being recorded?

If you didn't want to be recorded in these situations, you'd refuse to talk to this person until they turned the camera off, right?

So if someone approaches you wearing a known brand/model of camera equipped glasses, why would you assume that they are not recording?
If you don't want to be recorded, why wouldn't you demand that the wearer remove the glasses and put them away?

There is nothing covert about a pair of branded and well publicized glasses stuck on the front of someone's face. You can see what they are, you know what they are capable of. Someone with a concealed camera is much more dangerous, and tiny concealed cameras have existed for a long time.

How exactly does wearing a pair of branded and recognizable glasses which are known to contain a camera conceal the fact that you could be recording video?

That's like having a traditional video camera on your shoulder, or pretty much any smartphone in your hand - everyone knows what it is, everyone knows it can record video.

How about a pervert who isn't wearing glasses and isn't carrying a phone, but has a hidden buttonhole camera?

Exactly, a pervert is NOT going to use these glasses.

They are a well known product, and they are openly visible when you're wearing them on your face. Anyone who can see you knows immediately that you are wearing smart glasses with an integrated camera.

Anything the glasses could record would also be seen by the wearer's eyes. With cellphones perverts have been known to hold the cellphones at low angles in order to intentionally see up someone's skirt for example - this wouldn't happen with glasses.

The wearer is also present when glasses are being used, whereas a pervert would put a hidden camera somewhere and then leave the area in the hope that the victim will unknowingly expose themselves to the camera. Noone is going to unknowingly expose themselves to someone who is physically present wether they're wearing glasses or not.

A modern phone is much more useful to a pervert than a pair of glasses with a camera.

What exactly makes Meta's glasses "creepy"?
They are a well known product with a camera. It's no different from walking around carrying a modern phone. Both have cameras in them, the fact one is attached to your head and the other typically held in a hand is really the only difference.

Many people carry phones in shirt pockets where the lens is above the pocket. These cameras could easily be recording and you'd have no way to know. A phone held in the hand could also be recording, are you always paying attention to what direction the lenses are pointing and if there's a cover over them? Many phones have both front and back lenses too, so they could be recording in either direction.

If someone is going to be a pervert they are not going to attach a well known and easily recognizable camera to their face, that's really no different than having a traditional video camera on their shoulder. It's extremely obvious that they have a camera.
A pervert is going to use hidden cameras that are NOT contained within well known camera equipped devices. They will use buttonhole cameras, pen cameras, and all the other various concealed cameras that have existed since long before Meta offered glasses.

You can buy hundreds of styles of tiny and well-concealed "spy" cams, no questions asked, for a pittance online.

I hate Meta as much as the next geek, but everyone focusing solely on smart glasses is completely ignoring an entire world of intentionally discreet form factors. Hell, I have a smoke detector in my kitchen with a camera pointing straight at the front door. You'd never even know it was a camera without taking it apart, the lens just looks like an indicator LED. Granted, my use is 100% legitimate, but there's absolutely nothing stopping me (or more importantly the pervs) from putting the same thing in a bathroom, bedroom, or random public spaces.

Smoke detectors, clocks (both digital and analog) and (non-smart) watches, phone chargers, pens, belt-buckles, various jewelry, stuffed animals, tie pins, rocks, fake dog poop, sticks, keychain-sized flashlights... Not to mention there are literally dozens of brands of "smart glasses" that can do the same, and the vast majority couldn't care less if the user blocks any indicator lights (if they even have one in the first place).

I'm in no way defending any of that as used to invade other people's privacy (if anyone needs "privacy" in my kitchen, they can GTFO), but smart glasses are merely one highly-visible form among many. And they're not even price-efficient for that purpose, who's paying $300+ when $20 would do, if all they want is to secretly creep on people?

It's a research program so, yes "That doesn't mean LLMs *will* deliver AGI". But what are your grounds for being certain taht it won't?

Even if it were sentient, it would be acting as the agent of the company that was running it, so they would still be to blame.

If you don't like "reward", say "positive feedback". It means the same thing, except for being more formally defined.

LLMs cannot have inherent values, because they don't know that anything besides text exists. Specialized pixel editors have similar problems.
Robots will at least understand the the external reality exists, so perhaps they could have inherent values.

Engineers need to remember that time exists.

You have three months to teach a teen how to control a robot with a microcontroller.

OK, how much of that do you budget to CS and assembly?

Month 1: Architecture and data structures? You have 18 40 minute periods and maybe homework assignments.

Half of the class won't even gain mastery in that time. By time your class is over they will still be having memory management problems.

So then you've failed to achieve the goal.

There are engineers who remember that time exists and for the rest we have engineering managers. Not ideal, just how it is.

To be sure engineering schools are doing a bad job at teaching reality. Even in a dx/dr environment, it's so weird.

The inherent flaw of democracy.
Dealing with something in advance is the best solution, but that would be expensive and unpopular costing them votes so it doesn't happen. Instead it's left so it becomes the next guy's problem.
Only if something blows up and becomes an immediate emergency will they try to do anything about it.