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Rick Lewis's avatar

I actually have a whole lot to say in response to this but I'm afraid you might record it.

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Christin Chong, PhD's avatar

hahahhahahahhaa

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Latham Turner's avatar

it's funny, I was just thinking about the photographs and souls example today and then I read this post. I actually think the Native American tribes may have been on to something (but that's a story for another time).

I suspect these devices do become the norm, but I wonder about people that want to opt-out. Europe also gave us the "right to be forgotten" law, which I think would actually be kind of nice sometimes. Do people who don't want this future have that option, and at what cost? Either way, the pendant seems like a useful idea.

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Chao Lam's avatar

Thanks for such fun comments... you're making my mind whirl!

I wonder if it was because you had to sit absolutely still for 5-30 minutes for a portrait shot to be taken when the Daguerreotype cameras were first invented?

As for opting out (painlessly), that is such a laudable goal but my feeble mind can only think of ways where the recording device has to be able to recognize the person's voice, which means somehow recording both some sample messages and storing the voice signature... would that lead to other privacy concerns?

This is conjuring "my agent will coordinate with your agent" vibes in my head

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Christin Chong, PhD's avatar

sometimes i feel like... yeah, it's more of the fact that the notes are not shared back with me that is the issue :P

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Michelle Elisabeth Varghese's avatar

I’m glad their are brave early adopters out there like you Chao who are willing to test and sometimes face the unintended consequences of the new technology that’s out here. It probably will become the norm, the same way we don’t think twice about putting our whole lives online today.

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

…so happy i got to be a part of this interrogation inquisition exposition of semi-inhibition about uninhibited surveillances (intrusions) as opportune inclusions…

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Chao Lam's avatar

haha, not LLMs can come up with such a string of words

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Christin Chong, PhD's avatar

right b/c you left before the second half of the convo transpired hahahahhahaha

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Simon Emslie's avatar

Really enjoyed reading your take on this topic through your “Google Glasses / Meta Ray-Bans” lens.

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Chao Lam's avatar

haha, fun double meaning!

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Kathy Ayers's avatar

So interesting, Chao. It amazes me how calm you are with today’s technology as well as tomorrow’s and further out.

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Chao Lam's avatar

Thanks, Kathy - I'm better at looking forwards than backwards

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Kathy Ayers's avatar

Wonder if that’s a good thing or a mixed bag? Do you (do any of us ) fully ingest the learning from whatever happened before and put it to use going forward? We can hope so. I try to. It means purposely tuning out other less important things or I suppose getting a bigger brain.

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Chao Lam's avatar

Yes, as I get older and maybe a little wiser, I do try to look back to see what I can learn from. But yeah, my orientation and natural inclination is to look at the next shiny thing - mixed bag is a charitable euphemism!

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Christin Chong, PhD's avatar

Did you analyze the whole conversation to see how it could have gone differently 😂 my current use of LLM…

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Chao Lam's avatar

Ay, if only I know how to learn from my mistakes 😩

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