Marchello_E

Marchello_E t1_ixjkieg wrote

Reply to Should You Let Artificial Intelligence Plan Your Thanksgiving Dinner? by ThirdPartyMechanic

Should you let Artificial Intelligence do [...]

The thing with tech, esp. AI, nowadays is trust and exploit. It basically is an unknown stranger with unknown personalities and hidden decision making skills. You'll never know what kind of strings, dark patterns or extracurricular activities are attached that might come back to bite you afterwards even after the service gets canceled. This makes almost every current technological achievement utter worthless.

I mean, from a pure technological point of view, if it's just some cross-platform stand-alone browsable cookbook that's allowed to go hugely out-of-date while containing proven recipes ranging from easy to chef-status where you can home-in on a selection based on checking categories, ingredients, allergies, cost and planning then such would be highly valuable. It's mainly valuable where it helps to enhance one's decision making skills and not simply replace it with a black-box.

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Marchello_E t1_iwv2lqc wrote

Reply to comment by Oscarcharliezulu in 10,000 Google Employees Could Be Rated as Low Performers by ThisIsNotCorn

There is simply no way that people perform (or be) as average as anyone else. A bell curve is just a plot: a mathematical visualization.

An often overlooked thing is that one on the left side of the hill may brighten the day of the one on the right side of the hill. For a random image: maybe that "lefty" likes plants more than the actual work yet, as he walks around, is the perfect target to bounce of ideas (he has to have some work related talents) to see how they may get received even before doing some alpha/beta testing in the wild. As such this may informally connect different aspects of a group. Boot the "lefty" to boost "righties" and a new bell curve will arise. Likely on another curve showing more stress, more internal competition, and less solidarity.

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Marchello_E t1_iv1fgra wrote

Reply to How accurate are the "5 stages of grief" to model behavior during the loss of an important person? by pororoca_surfer

It's not necessarily grief, but more about the emotions of letting an attachment go. Makes more sense when you imagine a kid that is no longer allowed a second lollypop ("I always have two"). Or replace it with the frustration of a sudden disability and where you no longer can do that thing you always loved doing in the same refined way or never more.

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Marchello_E t1_iugktof wrote

Reply to Online age-verification system could create ‘honeypot’ of personal data and pornography-viewing habits, privacy groups warn by Lakerlion

Hacks are usually not a matter of If, but more a matter of When. It may not be a 'honeypot', but it sure attracts unwanted 'database users'.

>A variety of options for age verification has been offered during the roadmap’s development, including the use of third party companies, individual sites verifying ages using ID documents or credit card checks, and internet service providers or mobile phone operators being used to check users’ ages.

*Alarm bells*

And how will this system make the connection between the person to verify and the ID on file. What kind of token, mugshot or hardware+drivers+system requirements is required for this idiocy?

Basically, just like TV, the newspaper or whichever magazine, no one should need to know who's looking at some website, when and how. This may seem normalized because of ad-revenue and site-owner voyeurism, but it isn't normal.

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