No, the Jawbone still isn't there. There was talk of building a fibreglass version (probably the best option.) Animal rights people complained about it apparently.
Edinburgh Council has a habit of taking things into storage and not putting them back.
One pleasant exception: the Ross Fountain. That's back in Princes Street Gardens and is a) now working and b) looking better than it did back in the eighties and nineties.
I use a card, I have limited recourse to "I didnt want to do that" about my decision to buy.
I give a store use of a card. The bank and the store have to duke it out if I say "I did not give permission to use the card like that"
I use a card online: see above. But, there's at least some protections in the scheme, if not as many as people think.
I give an AI agent located who-knows-where, under who-knows control, with who-knows KYC and AML control over the fate of my card.
* who pays if I disclaim?
* who has liability to cover the gap?
* what about card interest on the debt? The card issuer, the card bank, all kinds of people are now in the loop on deciding. Is the AI host liable at all? Why not?
I'd be super uneasy. Even in an age of 0.0003c transactions I'd be uneasy about machines spending people's money, with no clear legals about who and why can repudiate or block the transaction.
If I was a bank, I'd want the customer to have to come into my system, and set limits in ME about their spend ceiling, frequency, repudiation limits, you-name-it
I muse about the disconnect of people terminally online (myself included) and their tendency to assume their position is the overton window centre, and my experiences talking to people in real life about things like mandatory age checks for social systems.
I get it. People want to keep their (pseudo)anonymity and details private.
I also get it. People in the real world are scared shitless, legitemately or not, about the effect social media has on young minds.
Some of us say when SunOS stopped being BSD based and went SysV into Solaris, we knew the end was coming.
I actually appreciate many things post Solaris were net beneficial. The scripted install stuff presaged a lot of what emerged as puppet/chef/ansible/helm type processes. (this is pre YAML/JSON) -The disk/drive/segment labelling scheme has been completely normalised, the BSD device/partition scheme had limits.
Solaris 2.4 and earlier was a little rough. I no longer remember the exact details, but 2.5.1 was the first release I felt comfortable running instead of SunOS 4.x.
Strong agree with the ideas. Have commented here frequently about a "boiling the frog slowly" trend of using Anthropomorphisms to soft pass the idea of AGI.
Neologisms are awful, but so are analogies. if I write "I think" its not an analogy, it's a literal truth. I just thunked it. If I write "the AI thinks" then it begs questions. It isn't literal truth, its analogous, its a linguistic normalisation of describing what it did. Did it think? Who knows!
For the LISP amongst us, "thunk" goes all the way back to 1961 and ALGOL 60. And it was a neologistic analogy even then.
The diversion from matters of importance continues.
Whatever else the White House is good at, they are masters of making us look "over there" instead of answering the hard questions put to them by a decreasing pool of journalists.
Whatever you do, try not to chose a name which collides with nostrodamus' predictions about .. (ok, he actually used "Hister" to refer to the Danube it seems, but popular legend has another take which is .. unfortunate)
Is the Jawbone coming back?
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