Donald I, emperor of the world.

[Rusty Nails]

apparently the UK is considering banning perv glasses. Even sadder.

In some ways I do find this sad. These camera glasses can be a real help to blind and partially sighted people.

My son is partially sighted, and wears glasses and he has said that he would consider getting them in the future to help as his eyesight worsens.

Possibly there could be a way of making them available only via optician/hospital prescription, although I accept there will be some abuse of this.

 

[Psamathe]

This could have a pretty big impact on the stock markets, because yet again we've all been investing our pensions in things that don't make as much money or soon enough as all of the lemmings have though.

Is this the third tech bubble already?

I'm pretty obliged to have a face to face meeting with one of my two Financial Advisers (I dislike them, dislike meeting them, etc. but they do seem to make good decisions).

In advance of the meeting I asked them to report on the level of my funds invested in AI as I considered it a high risk of a bubble and unlikely to provide the returns commensurate with the investments. At the meeting they had a full A4 response and seems their investment managers have already been pulling out of not just AI but more broadly US Tech Stocks over the previous year (ie now 2 years ago) and I was then down at 8% in the broad categorisation "Tech Stocks".

 

[briantrumpet]

In some ways I do find this sad. These camera glasses can be a real help to blind and partially sighted people.

My son is partially sighted, and wears glasses and he has said that he would consider getting them in the future to help as his eyesight worsens.

Possibly there could be a way of making them available only via optician/hospital prescription, although I accept there will be some abuse of this.

I hope there would be medical exemptions, as I've read what a game-changer they are for blind and partially-sighted people.

 

[briantrumpet]

I'm pretty obliged to have a face to face meeting with one of my two Financial Advisers (I dislike them, dislike meeting them, etc. but they do seem to make good decisions).

In advance of the meeting I asked them to report on the level of my funds invested in AI as I considered it a high risk of a bubble and unlikely to provide the returns commensurate with the investments. At the meeting they had a full A4 response and seems their investment managers have already been pulling out of not just AI but more broadly US Tech Stocks over the previous year (ie now 2 years ago) and I was then down at 8% in the broad categorisation "Tech Stocks".

Yeah, mine too, without specific prompting. It's their job to see the risks (and they know I'm a cautious investor).

 

[Psamathe]

In some ways I do find this sad. These camera glasses can be a real help to blind and partially sighted people.

My son is partially sighted, and wears glasses and he has said that he would consider getting them in the future to help as his eyesight worsens.

Possibly there could be a way of making them available only via optician/hospital prescription, although I accept there will be some abuse of this.

I indirectly know of two blind people that use them (my brother does a lot of volunteer work with a disabled activity group) and they find them massively useful. I suspect the trouble is that the market size for them as a disability aid is too small to justify their development or production, at least not at sensible pricing.

Which is a shame but at the same time there are serious negatives from how some use them. Maybe it's yet another example of the negative impact Social Media has on our society?

 

[First Aspect]

I'm pretty obliged to have a face to face meeting with one of my two Financial Advisers (I dislike them, dislike meeting them, etc. but they do seem to make good decisions).

In advance of the meeting I asked them to report on the level of my funds invested in AI as I considered it a high risk of a bubble and unlikely to provide the returns commensurate with the investments. At the meeting they had a full A4 response and seems their investment managers have already been pulling out of not just AI but more broadly US Tech Stocks over the previous year (ie now 2 years ago) and I was then down at 8% in the broad categorisation "Tech Stocks".

Many of them have to be fair. Helps a bit tonhave done so.

 

[Psamathe]

Many of them have to be fair. Helps a bit tonhave done so.

<offtopic>
Despite my dislike of the individuals I have to deal with, I did find it reassuring they had been ahead of my question and in some ways confirming my views of the risks of AI. For both on mine, the individuals I have to deal with are not those making the investment decisions, they are just the customer facing side and have to go back to the investment managers for much of the detail.
</offtopic>

 

[Pross]

I hope there would be medical exemptions, as I've read what a game-changer they are for blind and partially-sighted people.

A compromise might be cameras with no recording function?

 

[briantrumpet]

A compromise might be cameras with no recording function?

Interesting thought. I know that at school there were strict protocols for the handling of recorded security footage (on private land too), so the fact that people can do this in public places with no control whatsoever is bonkers.

 

[First Aspect]

A compromise might be cameras with no recording function?

For most applications if you made them like enormous Rocket Man era Elton John glasses, it would be fine.

 

[Dorset Boy]

This could have a pretty big impact on the stock markets, because yet again we've all been investing our pensions in things that don't make as much money or soon enough as all of the lemmings have though.

Is this the third tech bubble already?

A very good reason why investing in trackers is not a good idea in many markets, prticularly the US over the last 2 +years and in the far east at the moment (where there is mahoosive concentration risk as 2 companies dominate the indices).

 

[Dorset Boy]

I hope there would be medical exemptions, as I've read what a game-changer they are for blind and partially-sighted people.

I suspect there will be medical exemptions as they do seem to be hugely beneficial to the partially sighted.

 

[briantrumpet]

A very good reason why investing in trackers is not a good idea in many markets, prticularly the US over the last 2 +years and in the far east at the moment (where there is mahoosive concentration risk as 2 companies dominate the indices).

I was happy to pay a bit more for an actively managed fund when suggested about 12 months ago, given all the turbulence likely.

 

[briantrumpet]

Laura Loomer seems to have started a PhD thesis on X overnight. Though "Trump is a senile, dim-witted malignant narcissist who's destroyed the GOP and broken all our alliances, trashed our universities, ruined the economy, embezzled billions of dollars, and started unnecessary wars, which is why we've lost" would have fitted in one tweet.