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protonbob commented on Class-action suit claims Otter AI records private work conversations npr.org/2025/08/15/g-s1-8... · Posted by u/nsedlet

brendang_sd · 8 days ago

That’s the problem though, getting the email with a copy of the recording may be the unwitting participants first indication that the call was recorded without their knowledge or consent.

Otters defense is that it’s up to their users to inform other participants and get their consent where necessary, the claim of the lawsuit is that Otter is deliberately making a product which does not make it obvious that the call is being recorded, and by default does not send a pre-meeting notice that it will be joining and recording.

protonbob · 8 days ago

If it is just a tool then a tape recorder company should be liable as well. It doesn't do any sort of notice or make it obvious that someone is being recorded.

protonbob commented on The electric fence stopped working years ago soonly.com/electric-fence... · Posted by u/stroz

ethan_smith · 11 days ago

Chesterton's Fence applies to institutional/societal structures with unknown origins, not personal relationships where the history is known to you. The principle encourages understanding before removal, not perpetual inaction when reasons are already clear.

protonbob · 10 days ago

Tread carefully doesn’t mean inaction

protonbob commented on The electric fence stopped working years ago soonly.com/electric-fence... · Posted by u/stroz

protonbob · 11 days ago

> The fence isn't there. It never was. It's just the memory of some childhood rejection, some social rule someone made up, some fear that caring more makes you matter less.

Chesterton's Fence would say that maybe there is a reason and you should tread carefully. Sometimes a relationship died because it should have. Maybe you feel uncomfortable messaging someone because they have given nonverbals that they don't like your company.

protonbob commented on April Fools 2014: The *Real* Test Driven Development (2014) testing.googleblog.com/20... · Posted by u/omot

bathtub365 · 13 days ago

Now we can simply sit back and assume the computer is doing a good job while we fold laundry

protonbob · 13 days ago

Man. I wish the computer did the laundry and let me do the coding. What happened here?

protonbob commented on LLM Inflation tratt.net/laurie/blog/202... · Posted by u/ingve

spencerflem · 20 days ago

I think requiring in-person physical interactions is more likely

protonbob · 19 days ago

This was obviously a joke

protonbob commented on LLM Inflation tratt.net/laurie/blog/202... · Posted by u/ingve

MontyCarloHall · 20 days ago

The only definitively non-renewable resource is time. Time is often spent like a currency, whose monetary instrument is some tangible proxy of how much time elapsed. Verbosity was an excellent proxy, at least prior to the advent of generative AI. As you said, the reason Bob needs to write 4 paragraphs to get a new PC is to prove that he spent the requisite time for that computer, and is thus serious about the request. It’s the same reason management consultants and investment bankers spend 80+ hours a week working on enormous slide decks that only ever get skimmed by their clients: it proves to the clients that the firm spent time on them, and is thus serious about the case/deal. It’s also the same reason a concise thank-you note “thanks for the invite! we had a blast!” or a concise condolence note “very sorry for your loss” get a lot less well-received than a couple verbose paragraphs on how great the event was or how much the deceased will be missed, even if all that extra verbiage confers absolutely nothing beyond the core sentiment. (The very best notes, of course, use their extra words to convey something personally meaningful beyond “thanks” or “sorry.”)

Gen-AI completely negates meaningless verbosity as a proxy of time spent. It will be interesting to see what emerges as a new proxy, since time-as-currency is extremely engrained into the fabric of human social interactions.

protonbob · 20 days ago

A proof of time spent cryptocurrency is the only way I can see a way out of this.

protonbob commented on Why do victims of massacres go to their deaths? benlandautaylor.com/p/why... · Posted by u/jger15

protonbob · a month ago

Especially for those who believe in an afterlife, why would you fight while siting on the edge of a mass grave (a hopeless situation) when you think you have something better waiting for you?

protonbob commented on Army will study how blasts of rifles, anti-armor and artillery impact brain taskandpurpose.com/news/a... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

quantified · 2 months ago

Regardless of the outcome, we will still need to train with and use these weapons so long as adversaries are willing to do so. Otherwise we will simply lose.

Unless new tech like drones obviate them, analogous to how guns made armor obsolete.

protonbob · 2 months ago

Most soldiers wear ceramic armor. But I know that’s not what you many.

protonbob commented on Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck ordep.dev/posts/writing-c... · Posted by u/phire

OvbiousError · 2 months ago

LLMs are so easy to use though, it's addictive. Even as a senior I find myself asking LLMs stuff I know I should be looking up online instead.

protonbob · 2 months ago

Why look it up online when good results are buried under ads and the websites themselves are choked with astroturfed content. The exception is when libraries have good documentation.

protonbob commented on Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase cnbc.com/2025/07/02/adp-j... · Posted by u/ceejayoz

IshKebab · 2 months ago

No, but if I had 1000 people to interview and interviewed 200 of them at random then absolutely yes.

I know right. Statistics.

protonbob · 2 months ago

The key is "at random". Businesses are not randomly assigned to use ADP