>I have several relatives that, in the realm of political thought, don't seem to have anything more in their head than a GPT-3 models trained on Fox News (that, just like GPT-3, can't detect any logical contradictions between sentences).
If more people were to realize that we're all probably like this, trained on some particular dataset (like mainstream vs reactionary news/opinion), I wonder if that would lead to a kind of common peace and understanding, perhaps stemming only from a deep nihilism.
Many people actually think that connecting a Ring to the local police is a good thing. Someone even announced this as a great feature at our department wide standup the other day.
Was kinda shocked, but how can I be the guy to go against having more safety? All everyone wants is more safety.
SideCar was the reason I was excited for Catalina. But alas, the feature is not supported on 2015 Retina Macbook Pros, only the newer ones with the horrible keyboard, pointless touchbar, only one kind of port, etc.
> The tech firm had said it was aware of civil rights concerns but had not received any reports of law enforcement clients misusing its Rekognition tool.
This really depends on their definition of "misuse", which can be molded to suit their financial goals. Eventually reports of questionable law enforcement use will come in, and I have serious doubts that any large corporation would willingly cut off sales to a large set of existing government clients. This area desperately needs regulation.
How about physical buttons that can't be remapped to anything other than their proprietary Bixby service? If you don't like it you can turn it off and have a useless button.
I have a 2015 Retina Macbook Pro and it is still fast enough for me. When it fails I will either buy another of the same model or get a PC and put Linux on it. What Apple has done to this product line is awful. At best it's just bad design, at worst it's exploitative.
This won't help if a woman making a false accusation simply deletes the exonerating messages. If they used encrypted/ephemeral messaging, the phone/app company can't turn them over either. If the victim is lucky they'll still have their own copies.
"it is nearly-impossible for any actor to block access to this content because it is replicated around the network automatically, using peer-to-peer encrypted connections that would be very hard to identify and block at the ISP level. Maybe China could do it, but Spain definitely cannot."
If more people were to realize that we're all probably like this, trained on some particular dataset (like mainstream vs reactionary news/opinion), I wonder if that would lead to a kind of common peace and understanding, perhaps stemming only from a deep nihilism.