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Comment Re:Start paying people normal salaries (Score 1) 189

Except Uber, Doordash, Instacart, etc don't think of gig workers as people. Definitely not employees. They're parts of a system that is continuously being optimized for increased revenue. While they're trying to optimize the shopper/driver experience to make sure they make as little money as possible without quitting, they're doing R&D on projects to replace the people in the system altogether.

Comment behavioral segmentation (Score 1) 56

Behavioral segmentation is a long-time favorite of machine learning/data science product developers. Clustering users on behavior without using any private or protected information like race, gender, age, etc may have similar outcomes to just using private data. Instacart is another terrible Y-Combinator "disruptor" that is trying to solve one (non)problem without thinking about all the other problems it creates.

Comment Re:More ads (Score 1) 90

I hate to break it to you, but she ain't real. You can go generate your own on Sora or whatever they're using to create these fake models.
I was considering getting those cat tights for my GF, but I realized they probably don't look as advertised, because AI, and crocheted tights would get caught on everything and probably would not be worn outside of the house. Then I realized I don't know if my GF is a human. She could be an AI generated hallucination.

Comment Re:fools... (Score 1) 42

This works well-ish on Nintendo Switch. I have access to almost all of the Nintendo titles from the old days, plus a lot of independent games that are retro-style.
I pay for a few months of subscription here and there, not all the time since I don't play games all the time.
All of the past titles should be playable on new consoles, since it should be bytecode compatible. I don't see the problem with a subscription service where you can play any and all titles whenever you want.
Playstation screwed up entirely by cutting off PS1,PS2 titles on the PS3 due to incompatible media or whatever. I don't know if those older titles would be bytecode compatible even if you could load the discs. That may have hurt PS3 adoption a little bit, but in the long run it really didn't make that much of a dent.

Comment intelligent design material (Score 1) 30

"Our idea is to treat intelligence as a new design material and imagine what becomes possible when it is abundant, capable, and human-centered"

Shoes made of pure, abundant intelligence. I imagine that becomes possible. Or bum paper made of abundant, capable, human-centered intelligence that tells humans what kind of foods they should avoid and what they should eat instead.

Comment Re:My honda does that now (Score 1) 254

IDK, The only trucks in the US that get 20-24 mpg avg are hybrids AFAIK. Base model/NA L4 or V6 trucks should be the best at mileage, but 13-14 mpg is probably the average for base model trucks without the added cost of hybrid drivetrain, turbos or Diesel engines.
Even if I drive exclusively at highway speeds, the 3 to 5 liter displacement engines are always between 13 and 20, but rarely 20 in real driving where traffic etc is involved. Maybe we're talking about different trucks here; I don't know what the small displacement 4-cylinder trucks make, like the Tacoma or Maverick. Maybe they're 20-24 in real life driving.

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