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Sounds like a very expensive and time-consuming way to build something that won't work very well for a while. Is that the point?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but what is new about the pointer itself? Seems to be functionally the same as selecting + tooltips / context menus.

And whether the LED is off is false or true.

But... cows do drink cow milk, that's why it exists.

Really? If a company advertises a new red version of their widget and I excitedly upgrade because I love red, but when it comes it's gray just like the old widget, don't I have a c…

That makes sense when tools are as dumb as static notes and TI-84s. But in the (hypothetical) limit where AI tools outperform all humans, what does this updated test look like? Are…

Which app?

To be clear, the issue this article is talking about is essentially "during a video call the other party can see your eyes moving." I agree that we should be vigilant when big corp…

The technology to reproduce eye movements has been around since motion pictures were invented. I'm sure even a flat video stream of the user's face would leak similar information. …

> ‘user-spacey’ applications from the OS manufacturer shouldn’t be privileged beyond other applications I don't think that's an accurate description, either. The SharePlay "Persona…

> if Apple is providing raw eye tracking streams to app developers Apple is not doing that. As the article describes, the issue is that your avatar (during a FaceTime call, for exa…

> Exposure to regular levels of background bacteria and virus keeps our immune system tuned > While the mask likely does not protect you from background virus and bacteria If you b…

> The vast majority just . . . sit there > They're machines which must be used [...] not magic evil talismans I feel like there's a straw man in there. No one is worried about guns…

> map, and_then, etc. I think this would be called being "monadic". Strictly speaking, I think providing "map" just makes it functorial. Monadic would need a flatmap. (In addition …

Ah yes, with a delicious frackuccino.

> Arguing you can't do something because someone will be offended is also not very helpful: you can almost always find some offensive interpretation of anything You mentioned the s…

> less likely to confuse anyone than not using any flag This doesn't seem obvious to me. I don't think the word "English" is likely to confuse any English speaker. > anyone offende…

Sure, but by undershooting you can simply wait until the time is 1:59:26.53589793 to celebrate.

I think the idea is to profit off the generation of it, not the output works themselves.

But one of the lenses isn't a few steps back from the other.

> fictitious nation-state Are you referring to Cascadia? That's a perfectly non-fictional name for the region ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest ). Or maybe I missed…

> You would ask an LLM based assistant what it can do But this has the same problem that it's trying to solve in the first place: the LLM's behavior is unpredictable, and that incl…

It's still not quite what the experiment is designed to test. How many people who opt out when given the ability would stick around when not given the ability?

I'm struggling to imagine a mental model of the LLM for which that would make sense. A human who's willing to a lie a little, but comes clean when called out? A robot that mostly d…