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I actually met Max while we both happened to be in Thailand in 2015. We spent the day on bicycles following the directions his script told him, without hesitati
by reustle 9y ago
I actually met Max while we both happened to be in Thailand in 2015. We spent the day on bicycles following the directions his script told him, without hesitation. Regardless of where it was in the city, that's where we went next (a laundry mat, daycare, cafes, and the zoo iirc). Nothing was skipped, because it was what the software told us to do.
Here are some pictures from that day https://goo.gl/photos/gyCNRz2rs7zLJrt79 https://goo.gl/photos/gyCNRz2rs7zLJrt79
- dopeboy 9y agoThat's really interesting. I was thinking of doing a social experiment that's similar but the script would be crowd sourced and determined at the last possible moment.
- tdb7893 9y agoIf you followed a crowdsourced script wouldn't that essentially just be "twitch plays pokemon" for real life?
- maxhawkins 9y agoYou might like Lauren McCarthy's work: http://lauren-mccarthy.com/Social-Turkers http://lauren-mccarthy.com/Social-Turkers
- jimjimjim 9y agocrowd sourced... boaty mcboatface.
- davidcelis 9y agoThe app took you too a daycare? Where people leave their children? Did you actually enter it, or just move on? I'd feel pretty uncomfortable with a random stranger and his friends showing up to my kid's daycare. I hope the apps have gotten better location filtering in place since 2015.
- ng12 9y agoJust imagine if it took them to a park or candy store where there were also children around. Terrifying!
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- ctrl-j 9y ago> I'd feel pretty uncomfortable with a random stranger and his friends showing up to my kid's daycare. I hope the apps have gotten better location filtering in place since 2015. Wouldn't this be the onus of the daycare? To allow/disallow strangers? If the app points them to a high-security military installation, they're not going to get in. Other strangers not using the app can still show up at the daycare...
- codyb 9y agoAnd presumably as soon as you see it's a day care you can say "neat" and move on to the next location.
- dexterdog 9y agoI'd be less worried about a few guys showing up because a randomness app told them to than a guy showing up because he wanted to.
- eljimmy 9y agoWould you feel uncomfortable if the author was a woman? It is sad that in today's society men are immediately perceived as a potential threat to a child. The fear mongering is getting ridiculous.
- davidcelis 9y agoI made no mention of the fact that the author is a male.
- 33W 9y agoReminds me of a "game" some friends would play in the early days of turn-by-turn GPS. "Garmin Knows Best", where you input a location and follow the GPS exactly. Driver beware.
- giggles_giggles 9y agoMichael, that's a lake!
- notdang 9y agoJust stay alert, in some parts of the world it can end tragically: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/07/british-woman-shot-after-family-stray-into-brazil-favela https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/07/british-woman-...
- corobo 9y agoOh damn wait, she made it? I read the article with the context "it can end tragically" - I love reading the news when the twist is someone survives.
- jpatokal 9y agoWhat does accidentally making a wrong turn into the bad part of town and getting carjacked have to do with the original article?
- coldtea 9y agoObviously the concern of the grandparent is that if you do like the article says and you blindly follow some randomized scripts to where they tell you to go, you can easily end up "into the bad part of town".
- Kiro 9y agoWell, you obviously don't jump into a volcano just because the app tells you to. Unless you're going full Dice Man with it.
- coldtea 9y agoNo, but you obviously also don't necessarily know if some streets it asks you to go to are in bad areas, unless you know about the city/country it has you visit in a lot of detail.