Could be made a little less creepy if it had no internet access and you could load in new people as you interact with them so it uses a local cache for lookups.
Exactly! Explaining to people that I'm face-blind is a chore - people often forget! Asking them if I can take a picture of them during that first explanation (which often starts as an apology) so that my glasses could try and recognise them the next time we meet would be a much happier approach, in my view. And keeping as much as possible local to the glasses - especially the face images ... I'm struggling to see a better solution!
Tiktok will go down in infamy as the best intelligence operation in the history of mankind. Both in its potential for collection and profiling as well as psychological and behavioral manipulation
That’s a comment about as useful and shallow as an opening commentary on The View.
Please share more data on your conclusions. Sounds like you have some deep insights on what data tiktok collects about users, how that data is given to CCP intelligence, how the CCP overcomes the controls Oracle and Tiktok USDS built, and how its recommendation engine differs substantially from the content and ad matching systems other social media sites or ad-tech companies use.
Superficial repetitions of “tiktok bad because dopamine/CCP spies/cat videos” aren’t helpful. Data and specifics are helpful.
Children of Time is my favorite sci fi novel. The sequel isn't bad either, the 3rd one gets a little weird, but i thought the argument about "sentience" != "intelligence" was an interesting one. This is a prevailing theme in Blindsight by Peter Watts too, but I felt the technobabble really took away from the theme and distracted from story.
The third book of the series was my favorite thanks to those two corvid characters (the sentience versus intelligence being alluded to, for those who haven't read the book). Their little monologue (duologue? actually, monologue?) to Doctor Kern about sentience at the end of the book was so interesting.
This reminded me of Blindsight as well. The fact that intelligence does not have to present in a way that's familiar to us is important to keep in mind.
Thank you for bringing up Children of Time... off to go get it.
Third book is a bit weird, but I enjoyed the second book more than the first one. I don't want to spoil the book for anyone but new intelligent species were shocking and more interesting than spiders. Now I have have to check what Tchaikovsky will publish this year.
I'm about two hours into the audiobook version of Dogs of War by Tchaikovsky. The narration is a little rough on the non-dog chapters, but the plot and setting is interesting so far.
I'll always recommend his Shards of Earth series for sci-fi enjoyers, I love the worldbuilding in this one. And if you're really into the intelligent animal/alternate timelines tropes, his Doors of Eden wasn't a bad read either.
I've been going through his whole filmography and haven't run into anything I've disliked yet. Much of it is in an audiobook format on your local library app.
