Some human ones are also just actively really bad at it. As both a manager and applicant, I’ve seen they can hinder hiring good candidates.

Science Fiction is largely used as an allegory to explore the real human condition in a way that is parallel to political and cultural topics of the day without the inherent baggage that people would bring to exploring the real topic.

While the original quote and topic is about deploying a military as a policing force, it actually also holds true in the reverse as well, as policing forces shift towards an adversarial militarization against their community, leading directly to the issues you raised in the first comment about the failure of them to live up to the “protect and serve” motto.

While fictional events aren’t real, they are written by real people with views, desires and goals. Good writers will have internal consistency for their characters and try to ensure their external interactions have the authenticity of the ring of truth, because that’s how people will relate to the characters and story.

Good fiction is just a random meaningless story, it’s a platform for education and safe exploration of the real human condition.

Other than meeting rooms, I’ve seen some with the little privacy pods too.

I guess some people’s point is that if the automated restrictions that come with those aren’t used maliciously or commonly problematic, it shouldn’t really be a big deal for it to exist. In fact, that they do exist is probably a good thing because it prevents amateurs from making potentially hazardous mistakes, given there really aren’t any other controls on who can operate them.

From the sound of your initial post, it sounded like you were primarily building your own to evade these automated restrictions, but I’m going to assume you’re more of an enthusiast and just don’t add those features to what you build, and you build things for that intrinsic joy and customizability. If true, I think given your level of familiarity and expertise, that feels generally reasonable.

So long as the doctor isn’t otherwise or unethically benefitting from the interaction, fully agreed.

Good job admitting you don’t know the meaning of the word, here I’ll help: Accident “2a: an unfortunate event resulting especially from carelessness or ignorance"

He only realized he could no longer back out after he asked to cancel the sale when he realized all the work he’d need to do to move out.

He went beyond the point of no return without understanding or intending to have done so, that’s an accident.

Yep, even asked his agent if he could undo it after having signed all the papers.

I know of at least 1 person in this situation, but that’s because he accidentally sold his house because he didn’t want his neighbors to give him weird looks while he smoked in front of his house.

You think people in California are going to be happy waking up at 3 pm, going to work at 5pm-1am, then going to sleep at 7am?

Yes, other than a 1-time adjustment, it’s no less arbitrary than the current times they use.

People are angry that they get an extra hour of sleep one night and lose one another. 2 days out of the year.

They’re right to, it literally causes a rise in deaths, with this that goes entirely away, so yay?

You really think you’re going to sell these people on waking up at 3 pm and going to bed at 7am?

I’m not sure you’d still use am/pm, but yeah. What intrinsic negative is there? Who cares if they have to be at work at the same point relative to the local day/night cycle but it’s named something else.

Working hours being 9am-5pm PST vs 9am-5pm PDT are just numbers

They also come with the baggage of dst and timezones, part of which you list below.

Maine could be in it’s own time zone as far east as it really is. The idea that Michigan is in the same time zone is absurd. Michigan should be in CST. That would drop them back an hour. If you talked to someone in Michigan they probably hate DST. Their DST should be their current standard time and then they should fall back to CST if they wanted to do the DST switch thing. They would get a lot more sunlight in the morning.

Yeah, this is all dumb, so why not make all of these oddities go away.

The amount of sun is not dictated by what time we arbitrarily call it. People’s scheduled times for work would vary based on location, so someone in CA who currently works 9-5 would would work like 17-3. Which would be the same as the sun coverage locally is concerned.

Different employers in areas have their own arbitrary start/stop times already, time numbers are already an arbitrary concept, if someone in CA right now is working hours based on NY, when they work relative to the sun won’t change, just the numbers. The difference would be in people cold contacting others vs scheduled times. Right now if something is scheduled you have to convert it to your time, the formula for which will vary based on what time zone it is scheduled in. With this change, when reaching out to someone far away, you’d have to figure out if you’re contacting them at an appropriate time for their day/night, but that’s also inexact because people have different personal cycles anyway.

Working hours being 9am-5pm vs 1900-0300 are just numbers.

Isn’t all of that still kinda of true regardless of the age of the subjects? If they were 18 or 30 it isn’t magically better.

Revenge Porn might be a closer analogue. CSAM laws feel like they’ll get loopholed somehow, like idk if can just ask the AI to make the person aged up or whatever and get away with it.

There’s already TraffickCam, used to help fight sex trafficking, but could be dual purpose, idk how you get access.

“A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.” ~ Guy Fawkes

Yeah… I can’t blame them, the apathy is real on this one, lots of people get murdered everyday, they don’t get this coverage, I don’t care more because this guy was a rich CEO, feels like the media is overhyping it because the rich are scared that some folks are deciding they need to water the tree of liberty. Pretty sure this is only going to get worse as people get squeezed more and more.

I’m not blanket saying assassination is ok, but I’m also not saying I couldn’t consider voting to acquit this guy for jury nullification purposes if I were on the jury.

I’ve literally seen a group of wild Turkeys flutterjumping around in treetops, it broke my worldview.

Jury nullification.

My family’s considered something similar, mostly because of one of my children’s allergies that make plane travel more risky. Helps that I have lots of PTO/work remote and we homeschool the kids though. It’s only like 26-30 hours for us.