I've now had the opposite problem where some are too bright and didn't come with a dim enough setting. It's actually so bright it dazzles my eyes and I can barely see the thing it's pointing at.
The only way we'll save ourselves is if we're lucky enough to have some no name genius be born that somehow makes off world colonization possible. Our existing structures will not accomplish this.
Humanity has, in my opinion, only lasted as long as it has because every so often people were able to just walk away from a failed, corrupt society and start over somewhere else. Now that we've basically claimed the entire planet, that's no longer possible. Only by being able to colonize other worlds do we regain that.
Existing human biology/neurology doesn't seem to scale properly for governing existing populations. It just doesn't work and the failure rate keeps accelerating.
Had a similar issue with a dishwasher. Unhooked it without asking us, refused to reinstall it. Bonus is that for whatever reason we apparently have a complicated dishwasher installation (it's not next to a sink like they normally are). $300 to redo it.
New rule, billionaires must maintain a horde of gold and jewels worth at least 100 million at all times. If it gets stolen they have to make a new one. Anyone can try to steal it, but the billionaires can set lethal traps.
I personally don't think that's cause they forgot, I think that's cause Americans are way more fascist than most left leaning folks are willing to admit to themselves. The idea the left pushes is that most people are good, but just apathetic and don't vote. I think many Americans are horrible fascist assholes. We can't depend on the silent majority, because they suck too.
My parents and grandparents will routinely give me directions to the restaurant we're all going to. In the past I tried to stop them as I can never remember them anyway and certainly don't use the same landmarks. Now I just nod my head and pretend like I got it all on the first try and then just use Google maps like a sane person.
Ya know, I'm really beginning to think that we live in the age where there is no longer a 'customer' anymore. At least not a human one. When even car companies are selling your data to advertisers now, I think the only 'customers' left are ad networks.
Except even advertisers don't care either, because probably their whole company is just a shell game with money that rich people play against other rich people trying to see who will be the last one holding the stocks when the company goes under from incessant short term decision making.
Also training data works on consistency. It's why the art AIs struggled with hands so long. They might have all the pieces, but it takes skill to take similar-ish, but logically distinct things and put them together in a way that doesn't trip human brains up with uncanny valley.
Most of the right wing pundits are experts at riding the line of not saying something when they should or twisting and high jacking opponents views points. I think the AI result of that sort of training data is going to be very obvious gibberish because the AI can't parse the specific structure and nuances of political non-debate. It will get close, like they did with fingers and not understand why the 6th finger (or extra right wing argument) isn't right in this context.
Definitely not true for me personally or anyone I know well enough to know their financial info. Most people I know are barely able to stay in place, with their 'raises' almost immediately consumed by inflation and higher rent everywhere.
Sorry I'm out of touch with this these days, but does the esrb even matter anymore? At least on PC a lot of games aren't even rated. Or if they are, it's barely a factor. And lots of kids just play mobile games, which also aren't rated by the ESRB either.
Doing research that is significantly funded by the government, but then you get to keep sole control of it and abuse that position to harm subjects of the government that made 'your' patent even exist is a problem. I'm absolutely ok with the government threatening to take that control back. If you don't want that threat, then entirely fund it yourself. If you don't want the government to actually execute the threat than charge reasonable prices. You still get your control and your profits, you just can't be a dick about it.
Turns out most of the US government relied on norms, traditions, and basic human decency, but very little of it was actually codified into law. Which in this day and age is like having no rules at all since no one has any shame anymore
When literally every car manufacturer does it and does it on something that is technically a luxury, but most people have already got used to (like heated seats or apple carplay). The public has long revealed that they have basically no immunity towards these sorts of high level collusion tactics. And the government agencies meant to stop it seem to think it only counts if all the car manufacturers met in some sort of 'let's be evil' conference to plan it out, instead of, you know, just copying off what everyone else is doing.
The fact that I'm forced to buy a car just to participate in modern life, but then not really own that car is infuriating. I'd rather just have functioning public transit, not this abomination of capitalism that electric cars seem to herald for us.
I've now had the opposite problem where some are too bright and didn't come with a dim enough setting. It's actually so bright it dazzles my eyes and I can barely see the thing it's pointing at.