Totally agree with what you are saying. I would much rather interact with a human for most things most of the time. Flaws and imperfections and annoyances and all.

Especially with kids and learning.

Empathy and patients are two really important traits to learn as humans.

I donâ(TM)t feel that type of learning is best delivered by a robot.

Of course itâ(TM)s much easier to capitalize on manufacturing machines with service plans rather than paying humans a living wage.

This is all very upsetting to me. I didnâ(TM)t even know where to look. Animated squares on a black plastic face donâ(TM)t work for me.

Makes me want to destroy it, not learn from it. Robcop memories firmly in mind with all this stuffâ¦sigh.

Thanks for the recommendation. Iâ(TM)ll add it to my list. The director,
Emir Kusturica, seems like an interesting man.

I really liked Everything Everywhere All at Once and saw it twice in the movie theater. I thought it was a creative way to look at family relationships with a bit of scifi thrown in. I've never laughed so hard at scenes like - fanny pack weapon, dildo weapon, everything bagel and mother daughter rock talk with googly eyes just to name a few.

I've always liked the Daniels work though. Their brains work very differently than most and it seems to work for me.

The thing about creative work is it will move some to love it and others to hate it and everything in between.

What's a movie you have really enjoyed Mr. Dollar Ton?

Iâ(TM)m glad China is helping Cuba with renewable energy infrastructure. Humans need energy to live. Cubans are human. Humans helping humans in need is a good thing.

Yes, there are many complex geopolitical currents surrounding all that is going onâ¦however, in general, helping people in need is good behavior and making people needy is bad behavior.

We need more humans to engage in good behavior right now.

Here is the first paragraph of section 3.3 - sounds like there is economic pressure that puts high quality recycling operations out of business and rewards low quality cheaper to implement recycling solutions that cause a lot of pollution and health affects. I'm sure cultural factors are also in play. How to align health concerns with profitability sounds like their challenge. I'm so glad the US got control of this issue a while back and hopefully knowledge can be shared and implemented to keep their renewable power generation going while keeping humans safer through well known and economically viable closed loop recycling.

3.3 Economic incentives cut against safe recycling

Capital and maintenance costs for battery recycling vary dramatically depending on the operation’s
level of safety and quality. High-quality recycling operations require large capital investments,
typically costing between $4 and $10 million, to trap lead waste, with additional recurrent
expenditure to sustain adequate safety measures. The cost structure is substantially lower for
substandard industrial smelting operations, which generally require between $300,000 and
$2 million up-front. Backyard operations are far cheaper, costing just $100 to $5,000 in initial
investments, with few maintenance expenditures. Though exhaustive surveying has not been
conducted, there is confirmation of one identified plant in sub-Saharan Africa—Green Recycling Ltd,
in Nigeria—operating at high environmental health and safety standards.112 This plant has since shut
down after being economically outcompeted in the market.113

I haven't done a deep dive to check all the facts yet, but this sounds about right to me. We got a lot of problems in our country that we are not yet facing up to together. The ship is beginning to break up and those with an exit plan and ability to do so, are finding an exit. I'm not yet. Just stocking up on propane, freeze dried food and lots of water. Not digging a bunker yet or building an armory and probably never will, but we have some hard decisions and suffering to work through before we can come together again.

I feel AI technology is the most damaging to young people whose brains need lots of training doings things the long / harder way in order to develop healthy brain structure before using tools to make things easier. It is also damaging to people that WILL NOT develop good habits of double checking the information that they get to verify it's accuracy. It will also be damaging to people that previously had a habit of verifying information and then get lulled into a false sense of complacency that it is more accurate than it really is. Especially for people that catch the errors in domains of knowledge they know well vs the ones they do not.

AI technology will be incredibly damaging to people that replace real human contact with AI relationships that our anthropomorphizing brains naturally believe are equivalent to real human to human relationships.

AI technology is incredibly powerful and if used responsibly can be a tremendous benefit.

I do not trust our society has the maturity to handle this powerful tool responsibly and we will pay a huge cost learning this lesson the way it is currently being deployed.

A metaphor that comes to mind...

I'm not troubled by someone given a shovel without training to dig a hole. I'm increasingly freaked the fuck out by giving everyone access to a 100 tonne earth mover with little training and lots of squishy humans and animals walking around unprotected.

They are both tools for moving dirt, the later require a lot more responsibility than the first to use safely without harming a whole lot of people, animals and infrastructure.

Thanks for posting the link to the filling gavron.

Questioning what anyone is saying is always the best defense in life. When people choose not to, for any number of reasons, stuff like this happens and it seems to happen a lot.

That being said, this feels like a worse sort of bad because a person in a position of power/trust is abusing that position. A pastor bilking his flock smells like a firefighter committing arson to me.

Maybe his flock will help him become a better person through forgiveness after the bitterness of betrayal wears off or maybe they will seek retribution or some combination of the two.

We all fuck up in one way or another, some much, much worse than others, us being human and all.

I wonder if the Reuters article that has two anecdotal examples of Siri data being sold for targeting marketing is backed up by proof. That seems really, really bad to me and would cause me to rethinking paying a premium for Apple level "privacy."

Reuters

"Two plaintiffs said their mentions of Air Jordan sneakers and Olive Garden restaurants triggered ads for those products. Another said he got ads for a brand name surgical treatment after discussing it, he thought privately, with his doctor."

This part from the Guardian article where a contractor said the below also seems bad.

Guardian

"As well as the discomfort they felt listening to such private information, the contractor said they were motivated to go public about their job because of their fears that such information could be misused. “There’s not much vetting of who works there, and the amount of data that we’re free to look through seems quite broad. It wouldn’t be difficult to identify the person that you’re listening to, especially with accidental triggers – addresses, names and so on."

My expectation, again paying a premium for Apple level "privacy" is that there is vetting and adequate controls to ensure that contractors or employees can't listen to my private conversations and identify who I am. This seems like an easily exploitable vector to ease drop on all types of people - important and common.

I realize any device that connects online or data that gets uploaded to the cloud has a less than zero chance of being used to market or exploit me, but I was hoping Apple was different. I already employ a lot of tools to keep my data private which causes all level of problems communicating with others and conducting business online.

It feel like an increasingly unwinnable battle to use technology for convenience and efficiency while also maintaining a reasonable amount of privacy. That off grid cabin in the woods is looking ever more appealing. Grrrr.

Posting using iPhone and Firefox does not work well me on /. â¦sigh.

Maybe AI dating agents can take care of all the uncomfortable parts of dating and thinking and feeling⦠User - Is this woman a good match for me? AI - Based on your increased heart rate and pupil dilation you seem interested. User - Should I message her? AI - Let me handle that for you. AI sends msg .0003 seconds later AI - Her AI and my AI are a match and are on a date now. Iâ(TM)ll tell you all about it later. Here is some synthetic porn based on her human agent for you to enjoy in the meantime. User - Ohâ¦okay. Hey AI, how do I feel right now about all this? AI - You are very happy with your online dating experience. Iâ(TM)ll rate her 5 stars and see you in the morning.

While not ideal, I use a heavily tinted grey flip down sun visor to decrease brightness and also wear orange or yellow tinted glasses over my prescription glasses to make the white/blue light more tolerable when driving both in the day and night. It has made driving much easier on my eyes and brain and also decreases my homicidal rage (mostly kidding) towards other drivers. Itâ(TM)s going to be a loooong time until this problem goes away.

New to posting here and learning how line breaks work, or, as seen above, donâ(TM)t. Sorry for the mash-up. lol.

Transparency in general is important to me. I hate getting excited by a price for something and then the slap of fees making that price get higher and higher and it feels manipulative. How bad do you want that $100 thing now that it is $120-$150+ I try and factor it in before the emotions of wanting lock in, but damn, make it simple. Iâ(TM)ve got enough other stuff in my head. Companies that focus primarily on the bottom line know the game well and are learning to play it better and better. Thank you government for looking out for those that want to consume in a way that is less manipulative. Sorry investor and executives that you are making slightly less moneyâ¦not really. If this goes well, then hopefully something similar can happen in healthcare. The one service I must use that I never know the price of until I have already used it, no matter much research and question asking I do.