This isn't the future, this is now. This is what people are doing, today, and in the past. I would question instead is if we want AIs to be like humans, or actually be better morally to strive for a better future, not just to continue on the same path we're on right now.

They did absolutely nothing that is new, or hasn't been in the news, and keeps being done with minor penalties that make it worth it to do.

I imagine it has something akin to a clutch for power generation like many things do, like turbine steam bypasses and other things.
I'm only guessing though, is what you're saying what they said it does?

It was pretty clear. If you need an analogy - Using a socket wrench to unbolt tires to steal them - bad. Socket wrench refuses to do it. You try to use a socket wrench to unbolt your own tires so you can swap them to winters. The socket wrench refuses to do it because you could be stealing those tires. The socket wrench is useless. Criminals will find a way to convinece the socket wrench that it's not doing that thing and use it to unbolt and steal tires anyway.

I did. It was cheaper over the next two years to purchase it directly than any kind of payment scheme. In Canada they'll take a price of a flip that is say, 1700$ from samsung, say the MSRP is 2400$ at a telco, cut the price in half with a up-front "credit" since they can't do cancellation fees etc, so the phone is 1200$, then have you pay equal payments over 2 years of 50$ a month + whatever expensive plan. Then if you want to keep it, you have to pay the up-front credit of 1200$.

By buying it directly I saved 700$, plus being able to use a much cheaper plan and not locked into a contract. So I probably saved a fair amount more, paying 35$ pe rmonth for the plan rather than the 70$ they want typically.

It's very predatory, trying to conviencep people with less means to have the status / fancy devices that other people have while making their life a lot less affordable and they don't see it.

I'll add they may not even offer better prices. They'll just remove it from the google store and require you to install their store and get more direct advertisements for their crap, and they can make agreements that the software doesn't work without enabling notifications.

I would agree if it was actual competition, where maybe the new stores don't do the same crappy tactics that google does regarding data, but it's not. So I would argue it's not better, it's the exact same thing. Now you'll have extra stores the manage, it'll get more bloated, and I'm sure things won't place nice with each other, and seperating out subscriptions for apps further, and payment portals etc.

It's not going to be better either, for consumers. This isn't competition. I refute that. It's the same service except another company gets a share of it. They're not going to offer us better prices overall, just short term ones to get you to switch over. It's the same game with all the game launches, they want their own egosystem, split everyone up to it, and they offer incentives until they lock you in, then dick with your prices or even access.

All it is, is companies complaining that google gets to exploit, steal peoples data and make a bunch of a money from it, and they want to do it too! It's not fair that only google can!

Zero fucking interest in this as it has nothing to do with making things better or more fair for consumers.

Oh damn I see what happened, you got me. I don't know if you're a person or a bot but that's EXACTLY what I'm talking about. Also why I use slashdot less and less too.

Like many things it's a short term gain. Initially I would respond and comment on some things that seemed outlandish and off base. Once I realized it was intentionally targeting me with something I would disagree with, I stopped responding as I realized it wasn't people and I wasn't having a discussion with anyone, that it was just a bot getting attention, wasting my time, I moved on and it's one of the reasons I've signfiicantly stopped using it.

Having your feed flooded with it makes it obvious, as usual, someone ruined the rage bait as now everyone is doing it. Like anything else, you come up with a good idea, it may not last long as everyone will copy it and 'ruin' the market for it.

Both can be true. It might have burned out the same regardless if bots were present or not, but now we'll never know.
I used to respond to some posts and try to give it a grounded response but I quickly realized I was just being farmed for attention and every post was rage bait, and often the exact same posts but from all these 'differen't' people, who totally just share that opinion.

Well everyone isn't, but I noticed the same exact posts and exact words by many accounts as if it was their own sharing, or 'meme' text, but you know, the image and borders are slightly different, but constantly? No, that's be bots.

People have figured out that rage bait is the major way to drive interaction with posts, Facebook knew long before, there was a report about that.
It's clear it's senseless bots spamming narratives for whatever side you don't like targeting you to get you to engage.

There is zero point in responding, it's a bot farming for a attention. Again, common sense not applied. They always think their little pet projects will keep the peasents engaged, but as usual, it's failing.

So...Human makes AI that acts like human. Finds it does things like human. Stay tuned!

Let us not be under the illusion that business owners would lower their prices if it wasn't for those 'dang fees'. Once they realized you'd pay the hire price, if the fees are gone, the businesses are just going to go 'yummy more money for me'.

It's absurd right? Can you imagine if aircraft required trained people to fly them, filing flight plans and permission for every flight to launch? Yeah sure it would make the air space safer to prevent them crashing into each other and people on the ground but man.