> very deep interests in things i was completely unaware that they existed ... say goodbye to the cognitive ability of a large chunk of future generations
I would think very deep interests in niche or obscure topics is correlated with increased cognitive ability, not a decrease.
> very deep interests in things i was completely unaware that they existed
That's just a symptom of getting old. Young people always find stuff that baffles adults. When I was a teenager, Anime itself was like this - just being "into" anime was considered some kind of bizarre, obscure affectation by adults.
I think smartphones present real challenges (and I don't get how/why they're allowed in schools), but a lot of what you're describing is normal.
It can (and likely will) just transmit standard browser signals. The AI integration is more of a UI layer on top, not something that is being sent in a request header UA string.
That lack of signals in addition to the regular human behavior patterns that something like Puppeteer doesn't have is going to make this practically impossible to block
No, historically the vast majority of communication was not recorded, and so a warrant could not be used to access the communication. The fact of the modern world is that for the first time in history almost everything we do is recorded, and so subject to those warrants.
I'm not sure what you're saying "no" to. Nothing you wrote contradicts what I wrote. Anything that was recorded was fair game. The whole point here is that you're arguing reality has changed and thus so should the legal rights people are granted, whereas this person's father is simply saying that our current legal rights imply a different conclusion. These two sides are not contradictory; they're just talking past each other.
the problem is that technology has changed so much that it's legitimately hard to apply 18th-century laws to 21st-century life:
- does the plain view doctrine allow TSA to look under your clothes with mmWave sensors? or to peek through your walls with IR cameras? to use laser microphones to listen in on a conversation? to use EM emissions from your computer to conduct a side-channel attack?
- does the third-party doctrine allow police to read your emails (unlike actual letters) without a warrant? or your papers on Google Docs? to access streaming cloud backups from your home security cameras? to buy your location data from data brokers?
- does your fifth amendment right against self-incrimination protect you from confessing your passwords? from taking a polygraph? from measuring your P300 signal as you look at a lineup? from using fMRI to reconstruct images from your visual cortex?
- does the right to bear arms include AR-15s? machine guns? loitering munitions? tactical nukes? ICBMs?
there's a scale from textual pedantry to handwavy analogies. courts are increasingly going on vibes and hacking together post-hoc justifications because the source material is too abstract and too dated to allow any straightforward reading.
If we're sticking to current legal rights when reality changes, then the state can live with their current tools when the math protecting my communication changes. Wiretap my encrypted communication streams all you want, don't suddenly compel me to decrypt them for you - the law has no provisions for that, and in fact, that violates the fifth amendment right against self-incrimination.
> They forgot about training and practice. Try it with airplanes. "The results surprised us. Given Boeing 777 they thought they will get from London to New York in 7 hours, but they actually couldn't even get off the ground. In fact they couldn't even start the engines."
If your "AI Assistant" is as hard to operate as a trans-Atlantic flight on a Boeing 777, perhaps it's not a very good assistant?
It's a tool which is like others. It has limits and needs to get used to. From my experience first attempts are overoptimistic. I tried big chunks at once. Then I learned smaller tasks work better. But the most important thing is it can do simple things in languages that I don't know and don't want to learn (due to natural brain's limitations). Just need to have things done, like simple web front end for application running its own server on some microcontroller.
I would expect that data to be mostly noise though, after all, there is pretty strong evidence towards some soft form of "set point" level of happiness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
The main difference is that all of the vulnerabilities reported here are real, many quite critical (XXE, RCE, SQLi, etc.). To be fair there were definitely a lot of XSS, but the main reason for that is that it's a really common vulnerability.
At least you should admit it's conceptually much nicer than Signal, even if they got the details wrong and/or intentionally backdoored.
I'll continue using Facebook messenger then, until someone figures out secure messaging without requiring me to hand over my phone number and/or email...
I would think very deep interests in niche or obscure topics is correlated with increased cognitive ability, not a decrease.