I think it's validation. Consider if you were wanting to perfect AI to be very hard to distinguish, what better way than to crowd source it by putting on social media? The fear is when it's perfect and someone puts you in the middle of a very illegal situation; prove it wasn't you.
> The fear is when it's perfect and someone puts you in the middle of a very illegal situation; prove it wasn't you.
At least in the US, while the law is followed, this is not legal, the State will have to prove it wasn't AI. They're required to assume it's not you, and prove that it is.
The system is flawed of course and I'm not saying it always plays out like this in the real world, but the more we remember and repeat the laws they are supposed to follow, I think anyway, the greater chance we can hold those in power to the laws to which they are supposed to be held
I have no problem with call center worker with accents, I have a problem with call centers that are basically a human reading me an FAQ with no power to solve my problem. They have basically become heatsinks for frustration, not a way to get help.
The accents bother me when I cannot understand what they are saying despite asking them to repeat themselves multiple times. Nobodies fault, just difficult communication. Anything that can help this is welcome.
It's not just the accent, I wish people would make this differentiation more often. When someone has a completely different way of communicating due to cultural or upbringing reasons and happen to have an accent the thing to focus on here is not the accent. Arnold Schwarzenegger has one of the thickest accents you can find yet he's also one of the most easily comprehensible human beings ever lived.
Funny you should mention Arnold Schwarzenegger. Despite him being a native speaker of (Austrian) German, his voice is dubbed in German by a voice actor because of his non-neutral accent.
>I have a problem with call centers that are basically a human reading me an FAQ
There is so much terrible design in both automated and human customer support. For instance, you ask a question in chat and there is no response for a few minutes. After a few minutes, you'll see the 'typing ..' indicator, but it'll be some generic bullshit platitude about how they value you or something. This is frustrating to no end. Even in voice systems, there is so much drivel. "It'll be just a moment while a look this up ", and then some keys clacking in the background. Who falls for this ?
But now they will read the FAQ with a perfect white "american" accent.
Now many years ago someone said that in US 2 people from 2 different neighborhouds (of the same city) can not underestand each other so i wonder how this accent will sound like.
Helps with salary gaps within those countries, but salaries are still laughable compared to US software engineering salaries. Does anyone know why that is?
Demand: US has much more investment in pure-tech. In EU a lot of SWE are working in IT offices of non-tech companies. So the job market in the US is more competitive.
Supply: In the EU university is easily accessible, meaning that there are thousands of universities pumping hundreds of thousands of graduates a year. Plus, now they even invented the Blue Card to make it easy for skilled second/third worlders to immigrate to the EU.
Listen to the MBAs and they'll tell you there's a shortage of developers everywhere. What they really mean is that there's a shortage of devs willing to work for what they're willing to pay.
I actually love how multiple profiles are implemented in Firefox.
I have a keybinding on my system to launch "firefox -P" so that I can pick which profile to launch an instance of right away. I juggle between 5 different profiles at any time and it works exactly as I'd like it to. Additionally, it is much easier to do than setting up a complex multi-account container setup.
We should switch, not because it raises or maintains productivity, but because it's the right thing to do. Framing the debate in terms of productivity plays into the hands of those who would maintain the status quo. If laborers were properly organized, we could dictate the 4-day or 3-day workweek,
On what principle? I had always thought that a job and its pay arose strictly from negotiation. But if you say one way is "right" and another isn't, that implies some reason that transcends anyone's preference.
This does seem to be where the US government is heading: Conservatives are doing everything they can to destroy federal power so they can create communities around traditional values (or just exploit deregulation to socialize the costs of getting rich), which leaves local governments to step into the void. When you take the idea much further, there are a lot of troubling implications:
Who has power in the areas between the cities? What rights do urbanites have outside their city and who upholds those rights? How do we avoid rural areas devolving into economic wastelands or being exploited by monied interests in the cities? What criminal code could we agree on on a large scale and who enforces it? How can a rural community control access to abortion (for example), when such a service is a short drive away? Would the difference in wealth and opportunity just create a permanent rural underclass without redistributive social policies to offset it? How would a city state respond to something like wage slavery on its doorstep? Who pays for and protects federal lands, parks, and the commons? Who feeds the city? How do cities defend themselves?
That last part is my question. What prevents a group from taking up arms and attacking a city in it's own interest? IN the case of the U.S., certainly not the U.S. Military (no such thing exists.
Wtf. The US military does indeed exist, even to quash internal rebellion. The national guard is the branch that would deal with such a threat. The number of armed citizens alone might suprise you as well. So all in all, I am not sure what you mean. Anyone could 'attack a city in their own interest', but there are quite a few organized parties very invested in resisting that with their lives.
