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I am having the same feeling as @Whizbang Dustyboots here who beat me to it. Up to some price points, there will be impulse buying. Even the sum of these impulse buying is huge, it will feel painless. That's the model of, say, mobile games micropurchases. People wouldn't necessarily spend 30$ on...

While I totally agree that the impulse to save a family member at the cost of one's live will be greater than a random stranger, there is also a bia here: the probability that the entire group of person observing someone drowning is a family member is quite high, given that many drowning victim...

I think it's not uncommon, but this isn't just a question of a tendancy to help people in need we're discussing here, but risking one's life in the uncertain hope of saving another. I'd agree that I can see most people using an extinguisher on someone who's caught fire instead of walking past to...

In most stories of heroic savings I heard of, it was one person intervening and a crowd of people passively doing nothing, possibly cheering (or worse using their smartphones to film). But I gladly accept that most people are going to sacrifice their lives selflessly for others and I just got my...

To get back to the topic at hand, the proposed bill is stalling, according to the EFF. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/california-ab-412-stalls-out-win-innovation-and-fair-use

I am not sure all people would prefer to have died for the slim chance of saving someone they don't know. Their child? Sure. A child they know? Maybe. A completely random child? Not so sure. There have been extensive tests on this type of scenario leading to the conclusion that people wouldn't...

Their odd of being ran over by a self-driving car will remain, I hope, awfully low.

Indeed, so we should rationally use the system that lessens the overall damage. However, I think perception will prevent that. If at some point in the future, it is demonstrated that a full self-driving car would reduce the number of overall injuries, I am pretty sure there will be people to...

My trust of humans, who connected something it was testing to a production database, eroded to the point that humans shouldn't really be used for mission-critical tasks. This article made the news worldwide: Replit AI tool says ‘I destroyed months of your work in seconds’ after wiping entire...

Or, most probably, if (big if!) the EU was going to write a directive covering that, it would be worded as preventing a person having the rights to use an interactive digital entertainment product to be contractually deprived of the possibility of doing X and Y. It would apply irrespective of...

I think the video is overhyping the position of the EU Parliament VP. It's a sign of political support, but there is a strong chance the potential end result, if any, would be disappointing and not cover all online games. I also agree that the change won't come from court. The courts interpret...

Sure, but I don't know exactly how telehealth system work, but if they are drop in replacement for general practitioner appointment, the latter just send you to a laboratory for most exams (like blood and urine samples), gets the result and then discuss it back to you. It is possible that some...

This is a valid observation, though (unfortunately?) telehealth is probably the way of the future in developped countries (aging population with more health need and lowering younger population among which to train doctors). The difference in safety between in-person visit and telehealth is...

I'd say it's an example of the opposite. Instead of imposing a regulation on everyone for the stupidity of a few (for example, cars are dangerous, let's ban cars), it's a kind of law that responsabilize them (you want to be a moron with a car, sure, go for it, but then bear the consequences). A...

Not sure. Overprescription of antibiotics also exist in countries where top customers would go to jail instead. Though the rise of this overprescription predates the stricter rules on bribing doctors. Maybe the perception of antibiotics as magic by the general public (hey, before antiobiotics...

I am slightly more pessimistic. I think the population prioritize environmental concern that don't affect them. Say, with numbers used just to make a sentence: 2% of the population are commercial fisherman and 40% of the population don't care and have no political consciousness, and 60% of the...

I wish I were as optimistic. I think you regain public trust when the generation that knew about not wearing seatbelt has passed away and everyone is putting their seatbelt out of habit... Once lost, I don't think you can regain public trust over a reasonable time, since well, you're showing the...

I don't think (but maybe it's possible/will be possible) for a chatbot to differentiate between the two. You can lie to the chatbot and tell him that you inquire about symptom A in general, then of symptom B, get it to say that these symptoms can be associated with a list containing thirty...

As long as enough don't, we're golden. The glue on pizza and taste-testing mushrooms are the exploding pressure-cookers of decade pasts, a risk that existed, but is no longer assessed again, in the future. They are all corrected and yet will be talked for years. Right now, LLMs are lacking...