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I guess it might be a cultural thing? The shelf price is the binding price here in practice. If you get to the register at the supermarket and the price is higher, you can just let them know and they will send someone to check the price and match it.


Yes, seems to be partly regulation and enforcement partly cultural in a voluntary code of conduct that tends towards benefit to the consumer. For example,

[All the major grocery retailers] are signatories to the voluntary code of practice for computerised checkout systems in supermarkets. Generally, this means that if an item is scanned at the checkout at a higher price than it says on the shelf or as advertised, a customer is entitled to receive the first item free and all multiples of the same item at the lower price.

https://www.choice.com.au/shopping/consumer-rights-and-advic...

This practice not just matches price (dang, you caught us out this time), but incentivises minimising errors (oops, our bad, have it for free).


Maybe we are getting close to AGI then


Yes, but how did they know that before arriving?


It’s the universe governing body that any species require AGI to enter into the “circle”. You don’t get AGI, you are not advanced enough to join the group


Or - and I know this isn't a new idea by any means - perhaps AGI is the circle. Perhaps the only life that persists long enough and is robust enough to spread amongst the stars is what we would consider AI or machine intelligence, and flesh and blood beings like ourselves are only considered a necessary precursor to the real thing.


Oooh yes and this proud sibling is racing to the birth of its earth agi brother.

Fun to think about.


It is until you consider the birth of AGI may presuppose the extinction of humanity, and how aggressively we seem to be hurtling towards our own self destruction. Maybe it's an innate collective instinct common to intelligent organic life that we "breed" technology to a sufficient level then, having served our purpose, we die. That's the way it works with a lot of insects and fish.


Yep. Maybe we are the seed for REAL intelligence.

I for one welcome our machine overlords.


Yes, but it's the AGI they want to talk to. Not it's monkey brained creators


Based on current estimated trajectory, Jupiter is getting AGI before us though.


How?


... and they're delivering our membership card


I have definitely noticed these as well. Have you ever tried prompting these issues away? I'm thinking this might be a good list to add to every coding prompt


Would the remote 'stop' stop a moving car? It's scary to think that someone could have easily used this basic exploit to stop all the affected vehicles on the road.


Not as many as Go


Not as many as Go anymore. There was definitely a period in time where every new Go project had the suffix ".. written in Go", just like there before that was a period in time when projects took care to add "... written in Ruby".

I guess it could be seen as a point of maturity at this point, when projects stop adding those suffixes.


It's time to stop answering unsolicited phone calls


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