Pure deregulation can lead to a bit of anarchy, but a more measured approach that ensures that the regulation doesn't act as a way to decrease supply and increase profits for the industry would make sense. Probably something for Lina Khan to look into.
Isn't the other way around? Take a fireman, he's running into a burning building, whereas I'd think the first impulse would be to run away, hence he's reflecting on his first impulse to be brave.
I heard the old "Thinking fast and slow" dichotomy all over: You have snap impulses, and you have the ability to override them if you recognize them. Also "elephant and rider" from Haidt's books.
A fireman spends time training his "elephant" (impulses) to be helpful in fire situations, first by overcoming his impulse for fear in the face of fire.
This takes time.
A person who is predisposed to contemplation might appear smarter on tests or be smarter in actuality (see TFA), but that doesn't have much to do with someone who has faced and conquered their fearful impulses enough that they are dampened.
It's kind of both ways. Your impulse is controlled by your amygdala. Fight or flight, where "fight" in this instance represents running into a building to save others.
However, being able to reflect on your first impulse means you will sit back and assess the situation: "Can I get in?", "What are my chances?", "Am I protected enough?", "Will the structure collapse soon?", etc.
So your first instinct may be to run in, but you hesitate because you want to do that critical thinking first.
Came here to say this. I could see people with mild social anxiety (mild enough that it doesn't require professional help) using this to improve themselves.
Replying to you and parent - thanks both for these comments, and it's a really great idea. I could see a product today (maybe even this) being helpful for practice. But I think to make genuine claims about assessment and improvement, off-the-shelf AI isn't there yet, because there's such an incredible amount of information in the way something is said. Basically the entire study of prosody. Then, there's all the body language---which, if you believe anecdotes, conveys a high % of the received information. Long term, it's a great goal.
I used to use Skype for this when I was traveling outside the US. I also imagine you can set up something simple with Twilio as well, IIRC they have a no-code configuration tool for this kind of thing (simple forwarding, text to email, etc.)
My kid is too young for tech so far so I haven't fully dived into the issue yet, but one thing I've already done for him to start him off on the right foot is set up with a Proton email account on the family domain name.
It's great because family members have been sending notes for him to read when he grows up and we have been cc'ing him on baby pictures, medical records, and vital stats. And when you think about it, our email accounts are the foundations of our online identities, so it's kind of messed up that we normalize surveillance of our children's online activity from Day 1 by setting them up with inboxes from Google, etc. and you owe it to your kids to give them privacy and, eventually, agency.
I'll turn over the keys when he's old enough (of course I'll probably make a backup of things first)!
I would add that having open source gen AI will enable the creation of content for metaverse / AR / VR, which will improve the chances that all of that will take off.
Right, exactly this. Ratcheting the costs down two orders of magnitude in both dollar and expertise/human costs is going to make huge changes. You better believe FB is thinking about this hard.
Not obtuse at all! It’s actually not so easy to describe what this is and it took us a while to come up with correct language, and understanding of how to express it even after we knew what it was and had built it: it took us some time to figure out how to communicate that.
To answer you: I believe these instrumentation/automation protocols/methods like Selenium/W3C WebDriver Protocol/Remote Debugger Protocol, do not themselves provide user interfaces for controlling their functions, but rather expose APIs.
BrowserBox itself uses such a protocol under the hood, but also provides a user interface (that funnily enough looks like a regular browser~~because I wasn’t creative enough to invent a better set of UX interactions/affordances than those already expressed in regular web browser, heh :)).
In effect, BrowserBox turns the browser experience into a client server application. And BrowserBox is to those instrumentation/automation APIs, as a front end Client is to a Web application API.
That’s a slight simplification because BrowserBox contains a significant server component, however, it’s a useful way to think about it.
