Comment by hnthrow0287345

Comment by hnthrow0287345 2 days ago

A nice use of AI would be to learn what kind of interruptions I hate and suppress those as much as possible. The trick would be installing it to the level of authority to ignore stuff from the companies making the phones and OS too without having complicated jailbreak/hacking procedures.

The reality is that we just have shit consumer protections for our time and attention, because it's revenue for the companies, which lawmakers don't want to infringe upon. They can't even go after the relatively small markets of phone call/mail spam.

Y444 2 days ago

iOS has it to some extent, you can enable "Intelligent breakthrough and silencing" in Focus settings, and it should (supposedly) learn which notifications are important for you and which can be skipped.

In practice it doesn't do it very well.

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plagiarist 2 days ago

Phone spam would be so so easy. If you get a contact you don't like, SMS some magic short code and legally receive $1 from the sender. If the sender is foreign and cannot be held accountable, the entry point domestic carrier is liable for the $1.

All it takes is a mild amount of accountability for the shitheads delivering these. It would be gone overnight.

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direwolf20 2 days ago

In Europe, every phone number is linked to someone's passport. This really cuts down on spam. It's hard to round up enough homeless guys to use their ID to buy SIM cards to make it worthwhile to spam from.
If you received spam and you can prove in court, you can sue them, they look up whose number it is and they have to pay a fine.

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- plagiarist 2 days ago
  
  It's really not complicated. All it takes is for the regulatory body to be merely grifting off of taxpayers instead of completely owned by billionaires.
  
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