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OpenAI boss Sam Altman wants $7tn. For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it
(www.theguardian.com)
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Before he was a thundering asshat at Y Combinator, he started a mobile company that sold your location to brands called Loopt. He's a piece of work.
I am thinking of getting a tomtom. Tired of my phone trying to throw a fit when I disable location after I've figured out my way to my destination.
So much of this advertising economy depends on it and we just give it away.
Just learn how to navigate properly with a map. You know where you are (hopefully) and you look up where you're going. Do your own routing, it's not hard and once you've been doing it for awhile you'll have instinctive routes you use to link different areas. No location permissions required.
If you use navigation all the time you can become like my ex-wife. Lost without it, in her own city. Exercise your brain by finding your way around with landmarks and signage, I have never used navigation apps because I know my way across three provinces, and can navigate the major cities just based on my instinctive mental maps of them.
Edit: I don't mean a paper map. But being able to use your phone's map software to find a route without it dictating every turn to you is a valuable skill that is apparently getting lost. What are you going to do if your phone dies, will you be able to go anywhere?
"exercise your brain" lol. Another way to look at it is using precious brain power that could be used on other things. Also, it's cringe to take pride in being able to navigate without a map. It's useless knowledge in most cases. We all have phones.
Other things like what, driving the car? Chatting with your passengers? Orienting your cheeseburger properly? Hopefully you can handle all of these at once and still not miss your turn.
Are you so inept in your life that you need your phone to tell you where you're going?
Where I live the roads have no names and the cell coverage is marginal. Some roads are flooded, some covered with snowdrifts... Some haven't been passable for years. I don't know a single person who uses the navigation features of their smartphone.
Until you don't. Battery dies. Phone get stolen. During an emergency if you struggle to navigate that's embarrassing.