I'm basically in the same boat. There is no practical way for me to avoid having my picture taken 6 or more times every single day. I flip the camera off each and every time I drive/walk by it. It's infuriating.

Maybe you need to pick up a box of black plastic bags next time you pass by the grocery store?

In this particular case, because criminals can hack Flock's databases. You can tell whether I'm leaving to go to work, coming home for lunch, figure out my patterns, and schedule a robbery. There are PLENTY of other reasons why I don't appreciate having a camera sitting at the end of my driveway, I wasn't notified about their decision nor had any input so it feels a bit intrusive, but surely you can appreciate that no system is 100% secure and that's why these persistent surveillance gear are so troubling.

This argument has been shot down so many times, it's a wonder anyone bothers to bring it up without googling it first.

So you would be okay with me personally tracking everything you do and recording you 24/7 then right? Because if you aren't doing anything wrong...

Because I'm not a criminal, so why should I put up with being treated like one?

Show me the man and I'll show you the crime

If you fully understand the disbelief, you'd understand why you, being the one advancing the claim, should provide the source(s) you are using for your Bayesian priors so that, assuming those information sources are of sufficient quality, we can also have the benefit of your knowledge. Until then, it is only rational that people reject your claim.

I'm not sure what all that sophistry is about seeing as this is easily available information that anyone can find out about with literally 2 seconds of googling. Anyway heres a report from the bbc https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2r2ejlvm1o .

Maybe the smart money shorted on the tank. After all, if you know there's going to be a downturn in a known time period that's a smart move. I believe it's worth analyzing who sold what and when, if not for insider trading, then at least for historical knowledge.

That's not constructive for the purposes of this discussion and has been repeated here at least as long as your account has been active. Importantly, it involves the data security of many Americans and I first found out about this (not) shocking development from this HN post so I'm grateful it was submitted.

Between this(I already opted out but) and their work with Palantir, I definitely am not going to increase my subscription. It is making me reconsider paying, even using, a technology I've found transformative, and I expected(okay hoped) better from Anthropic.

I feel like this level of opprobrium is disproportionate. At least Claude has enabled me to live a more full life, spending extra time with those I love more while being able to rubberducky my random thoughts(who are they to judge what fleeting thoughts I allow myself?). I've been burned by AI falsehoods and read the same slop, sure, but I also went through the same with search engines and even books before that. This tool would have unlocked so much more of my potential had it existed 30 years ago and I'm excited(maybe a lot of dread too) to see what the next 30 years will bring.

Meanwhile Claude is helping me build a robot and is also writing the code that runs its subsystems but okay. Sure, I could do it all myself(maybe?) but not nearly as quickly or in the interstitial moments of life.

Sounds more like you're helping Claude build a robot.

I have more hands and a larger context window. It's a collab(/s). But it's cool that I can do it more or less solely with that tool and not necessarily use Google or other resources(obviously for any source, from Google to the Encyclopedia Britannica, one must evaluate the quality of the information).

What are you getting out of this though? Do you think this robot is going to have some kind of positive economic impact? Will you turn it into a business? Do you anticipate it will solve a personal need, like folding your laundry for you? Because a lot of people do robot projects in their free time to learn, but you're doing it without the learning part...so what's the point?

It's a hack. Not everything has to have commercial value, not everything has to solve a need, there's no inherent purpose in anything, this is just how I choose to spend my time.

My brother built a robot when he was 14

In these times I'm always reminded of that web comic : "Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."

It's easier to fantasize about civilization collapsing than to put in the hard work to build and maintain community cohesion, and as you're busy fantasizing the collapse, you're not meeting people with different opinions and broadening your horizons.

Exactly; I rather enjoy telling those who would have me leave my home that they should set the example first. After all, they're the ones pushing for changes they want to see, they can go do that over somewhere else.