I worry that rational takes like this end up completely lost in the battle between motivated parties who yell far louder, but have minimal investment in actual outcomes for those who will be depending on these technologies. The debate over self-driving vehicles is another example.
One minor off-topic comment, I like the quiz at the bottom of the article. It could be neat to have sites implement something like this to discourage people from commenting without reading and absorbing some of what they've read. It seems it would be fairly straightforward to implement with an LLM summary/questions.
Maybe this is a dumb comment, but couldn’t you just turn the phone off? You’d have to trust that the setting to disable Bluetooth when powered down is reliable and configured correctly, but if your use case is that sensitive even carrying a smartphone seems questionable.
I don’t know that it’s accidental. iRobot really promotes hacking their devices even going to the extent of making non-vacuum devices similar to their base units that are designed to be modded. https://store.irobot.com/default/create-programmable-program...
I worry that rational takes like this end up completely lost in the battle between motivated parties who yell far louder, but have minimal investment in actual outcomes for those who will be depending on these technologies. The debate over self-driving vehicles is another example.