As a libertarian, I'll stop calling them fascists when they stop calling themselves conservatives and actually adopt some kind of honest label for what they stand for. But that would require them to stand for something constructive rather than simping for whatever destructive looting Dear Leader has divined this week.
It's a good sales job. Someone sold them a "high tech" solution for a problem that's already been solved. We had attendance rolls long before we had computers.
I generally don't think that's it's good or just for a government to collude with manufacturers to track/trace it's citizens without consent or notice. And even if notice was given, I'd still be against it
The arguments put forward by people generally I don't find compelling -- for example, in this thread around protecting against counterfeit.
The "force" applied to address these concerns is totally out of proportion. Whenever these discussions happen, I feel like they descend into a general viewpoint, "if we could technically solve any possible crime, we should do everything in our power to solve it."
I'm against this viewpoint, and acknowledge that that means _some crime_ occurs. That's acceptable to me. I don't feel that society is correctly structured to "treat" crime appropriately, and technology has outpaced our ability to holistically address it.
Generally, I don't see (speaking for the US) the highest incarceration rate in the world to be a good thing, or being generally effective, and I don't believe that increasing that number will change outcomes.
Gotcha, thanks for the explanation. I think that personally, I agree with your stance that it's a bad kind of thing for government to do, but in practice I find that I'm in favor of the effects of this specific law. (Perhaps I need to do some thinking.)
> ...of an LLM is that it can help my poor wife with her research, she spends all day every day in small town archives pouring over 18th century American historical documents.
> I'm still not transcribing important historical documents with a chat bot and nor should he
Doesn't sound like she's interested in technology, or wants help.
I still remember 14 years ago or so, when applied science posted his diy electron microscope build and a handful of top comments were low effort nerd snipes and criticisms.
Nothing to do about it, I don't think. Its the warty culture here.
The guy in the video disagrees with you. From his other video, 23 mins in,
> next, rinse aids. use them. this isn't a scam.
I'll trust the dishwasher expert until there's some proper citations.
You have to realize that every time you sip a glass or eat off a surface that's provided by a commercial entity, you're getting items that have come in contact with industrial appliances that dispense rinse aid.
I have a difficult time believing that something so ubiquitous is as harmful as you claim, but I'm open to being convinced.
The US by and large can (and does) assert authority outside of its jurisdiction, from which another country can choose to capitulate.
Most of the time countries do, because they are all swapping data on their citizens between themselves to skirt various laws.
In the case where the US really wants something, and the country won't yield, they'll fund contras or destabilize the government (if small enough to be bullied) or impose sanctions so drastic it's effectively a soft act of war.
This is all to say that, the US has nearly unlimited authority while it stands as the world's defacto superpower.
If the violent, untrustworthy, Americans choose to go to war with their former allies over some data then that's their choice. Better than just giving these warmongers everything they want.
For anyone reading this that thinks anything this person is saying is compelling, I urge you to do your own due diligence.
The sentiments mindslight are expressing are harmful, and could someday land you in a lot of trouble (but I hope you never have to deal with anything like it).
It's simple: never talk to the police. They are not your friends.
They occasionally do stupid things like this, the other day I asked Codex to make some changes to a few files and it refused because it was too much work.
That's one of Codex's few warts. At the same time, A strong self-estimation of one's abilities within context is ostensibly a feature and not a bug, and that the more self aware it is to the task, the better execution path it can create for that task. But practically, yes, I agree. It's very annoying. I run into the same issue.
