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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Maybe Harvard should make ethics mandatory before you can start the rest of your education?

Like the amount of world ending evil that's come out of there is astounding.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Americas capitalism-fueled narcissism is terminal. You can tell because they elected a child sex-trafficking pedophile, financed by a Russian dictator... and they can't ban guns, but they can ban video games... and they can't fund health care or education, but they can wage eternal culture wars, and cut taxes for billionaires.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mean I did not go there but I find it hard to believe they don't have an ethics requirement given the age of the institution.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Its ok to punch anyone wearing these

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  • If people keep making consumer spy products I'm gonna start making consumer anti-spying products.

    Take Benn Jordan's anti-AI noise generator, stick it in a pair of stylish glasses with ultrabright IR lights. Boom.

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  • Nothing scarier than a headline with "Harvard dropouts"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Snow Crash is the torment nexus that keeps on giving.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Honestly, if it wasn't for the fact that we KNOW it's going to enshittify and sellout our data in a year or two, this would be a great product.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm pretty sure recording every conversation around you is illegal in several states.

    Also who controls what information it shows? Someone says Trump and does it show a flattering or true summary?

    This is a terrible idea

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I should have the right to not have my voice or likeness recorded and sent to some unknown, private company without my consent.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Isn't your reaction pretty much because you know they're going to enshittify and abuse your data?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Not necessarily. Maybe because I'm old, I don't think being out in public and having that delivered to an audience way bigger and further outside that area without consent is right. If I'm walking by in a shot or something, I don't mind at all. But if it's someone sitting nearby when I'm at a restaurant or bar or something, that starts to get weird for me. I did also have a stalker once which definitely did shape my view on this more.

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    [–] 101 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Tl;dr two over privileged teenage psychopaths stole a stupid idea from Meta/google that was hated by many and are going to make it worse by going all-in on the reasons people hate them.

    Let's get these guys some money!!!

    Fuck these talentless twerps.

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  • [+] -37 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I mean they are a bunch of things but I wouldn’t call them talentless.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    I would. They're making an entirely unoriginal product with an entirely unoriginal sales pitch and, presumably, an unoriginal surveillance-based business model.

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  • [+] -24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Is it really unoriginal? If it is patentable then it is as original as one can get in an already very developed technological market. I’m not saying I want this out there, but that doesn’t mean that what they are doing is wholly unoriginal, especially if no one has done it before.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The only difference between their concept and Alexa, for example, is that you wear it on your face and tether it to a phone. Oh, I guess it also has a display you can read. Massive innovation right there.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think the facial recognition bit of it is what makes it novel.

    Under your argument the smartphone was not an innovation, it’s just a computer you carry in your pocket. And actually computers are not an innovation they are just calculators that can make a lot more calculations at one time.

    It’s kind of disingenuous.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    Is there anything whatsoever a privacy-minded person can do about something like this, in terms of personal protection?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    There's a big social stigma against this. Every other version of this that has come out has failed due to the combination of expense and stigma. I suspect this is nothing to worry about.

    Very few people are going to pay hundreds of dollars to be socially isolated. Kill the market, kill the device.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    “The AI listens to every conversation you have and uses that knowledge to tell you what to say … kinda like IRL Cluely,” Ardayfio told TechCrunch, referring to the startup that claims to help users “cheat” on everything from job interviews to school exams.

    “If somebody says a complex word or asks you a question, like, ‘What’s 37 to the third power?’ or something like that, then it’ll pop up on the glasses,” Ardayfio added.

    The product sounds like just another shitty AI assistant but on your face. The problem might fix itself when only 5 idiots buy them.

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  • Yes, the problem I'm having is too much privacy from tech-bro douchebags, how did they know?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yet another reason I should flee the US.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Illinois requires two party consent for recording in-person conversations at least.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Being a dropout doesn’t make you special

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Anybody can 'launch' a 'startup'. Alway-on recording has been around since the 60s. 'Smart' glasses? Har. Guess they never heard of 'glassholes'.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Won't be leaving the house if everyone starts using them haha

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Slashdot comments hating hard on this, good!

    Its absolutely fuckwittery to want this trash.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Everything has already been invented. So we get this shit to invade our lives and ruin the last little bit of anything good.

    FUCK CAPITALISM.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    That's not true, but this kind of devices has been subject to extensive thought experiments in science fiction and philosophy and found lacking actual use.

    It's like a watch implant. You need to know time, looking at tower clocks and wall clocks isn't too convenient. Wrist watches and in general portable watches were a thing of beauty, but also quite useful for military commanders, sailors and pilots. But this progression doesn't lead you to implanting a watch into your hand, so that you'd always have it.

    Similarly, this progression doesn't lead humanity to needing such devices, or honestly much of modern computing. It's just a personal computer. Even smartphones are honestly a less than convenient form factor, approaching minimal usable size.

    All this is just a way to spend resources in some other way than actually building a unified humanity with access to good medicine, education, connectivity, food, political and labor rights. That's not even because those powerful people are evil, - I think it's more because doing anything real with such implications can get you killed. Even a supposed rich psychopath isn't usually evil, doing a good thing weighs about as much as doing a bad thing with the same amount of resources for them. We live in a time when those resources are actually present in the world, - 100 years ago this wasn't yet true. Which makes improving anything for real a dangerous endeavor, because every such improvement destroys someone else's base.

    A bit like a capitalist version of late USSR's deadlocks.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    What else would you expect from a bunch of dropouts ?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Remember how cell phones spread, and even people in poor countries with limited infrastructure?

    This will be the same or worse. No, you won't be able to avoid being recorded by other people. This will change in the future, if it ever does, only when a large majority understand how the devices are being abused by power to control us and keep us enslaved. But, even upon that realization, if people find enough value in using the tech, they'll put up with being enslaved if they're still comfortable enough. It's a balance, and power knows it. They're working out the details as they go.

    This is what's coming. My suggestion is don't have kids.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    What is the value of recording everything?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    To feed the data centers with yummy personal data. No dataset is to big, no picture of the side of someone's arm is too pointless. We must consume all data

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Now would be the time for a scramble suit startup.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I'm starting to think a lot of these college people don't even attempt to solve problems that face the working class.

    They just come up with more bullshit for us to waste our money on.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Oh, it will join that very successful startup that was doing a pin that did something similar. It had AI in the name, I bet it does great and the product is very successful

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