It may be their branding but anker has gained some trust despite some issues… I ordered a battery bank that was recalled, sent it back for a new one. Then a few months later the replacement battery bank was recalled which is not great. That being said I do trust they will recall a protect and notify me when there are issues with their products which is reassuring.
I think this concept could be adapted to a wider audience. Personally I struggle with routine. Body Doubling (doing something with another human holding you accountable) helps me a ton.
I would definitely use this if instead of the parents as the reviewer it was possible to have a friend/multiple friends approve, rate and comment on tasks and vice versa. Like a sort of social media for mundane routines.
I did consider that early on, but decided against it for now. Adding social features would be a privacy nightmare (especially with kids involved) and would significantly complicate both the UX and codebase
you can buy hardware for this over radio. just google your model, year, and remote start kit. some of these have 400ft range. i bet most of your remote starts are within that range anyway
i’ve been looking for something just like this to make my website. I’m a graphic designer with light coding experience and this looks perfect. I would love to see a way to self host this as that is the only thing holding me back from using it.
if your talking cloud backup Wasabi (which uses S3) is the cheapest i could find it’s pay as you go and they don’t charge for upload/download. The pay as you go is $6.99 per TB which would be pretty pricey at 28 TB, but it’s super cheap for my 4tb NAS.
Very easy to post things on Reddit as a marketer, particularly when working with a small group who can respond to each other to season threads. Plus you can pay trusted Reddit account holders to post items for you.
A great marketing tactic is to pose as reddit users. If you have just 2-3 realistic accounts, you can ask a question as account 1, and write your answer with account 2. Now imagine a company with $$$. They can guide an entire thread.
I'm sure there are marketers on Reddit, but the nature of virality itself makes it pretty robust against attempts at manipulation.
(You have to astroturf really hard or be a part of an existing wave, astroturfing reads different, so the best you can hope for is bending the narrative a step or two)
now imagine entire countries spreading influence and manipulation through reddit. add in extreme bias and hivemind. only a select few topics where reddit would be a good place to learn from
This reminds me of the murder bot book series by Martha Wells. The main character (an advanced ai robot) started really enjoying human media and even used media as a bargaining chip to work with other bots. One striking moment was when the main character was discussing a rogue and violent robot with a transport bot.
“ART said, What does it want?
To kill all the humans, I answered.
I could feel ART metaphorically clutch its function. If there were no humans, there would be no crew to protect and no reason to do research and fill its databases. It said, That is irrational.
I know, I said, if the humans were dead, who would make the media? It was so outrageous, it sounded like something a human would say.” -Martha Wells, Artificial Condition
Although fiction, it’s very thought provoking in evaluating where a truly sentient AI might place its motives. On one hand the research transport bot (ART) is motivated to protect its humans because it would be functionless without them. While the main character (a security unit, who is typically treated badly by humans) sarcastically but partially truthfully places its motives to not kill humans in funding its curiosity of TV.
Would implementing curiosity in a sentient AI act as a safeguard possibly?
Would curiosity arise as a byproduct of sentience without being directly programmed?
I've been reading through the series this week and this is the first thing that popped into my mind. A series about an AI who doesn't care about its job or its clients, and achieves a level of personal liberation by hacking itself, just so it could download TV shows and watch them when no one was looking.
Curiosity as a safeguard is an interesting thought. An AI might be disinclined to kill all humans for whatever reason if it considers the result boring. On the other hand, maybe it would also want to force humans to be more interesting for its own entertainment...
