jimmydorry

hace 4 horasdiscuss

PoW barely affects the "residential proxies" aka. malware botfarms. The IPs are free for them and siphoning additional system resources for PoW doesn't matter at all for them. PoW only affects the large centralised scraping by the AI providers, which are not operating behind "residential proxies".

jimmydorry

hace 15 díasdiscuss

All it takes is a populist with a good message to make a political group. All functional Western nations have voting mechanisms that allow for radical government change, if there is enough public support for it. It might take a decade to fully manifest, but if we're entering an age of such extreme, then I would expect people to eventually vote for such change.

jimmydorry

el mes pasadodiscuss

Indexes rebalance frequently. The "correct weight" today, won't be the correct weight in a year.

jimmydorry

hace 2 mesesdiscuss

They succesfully did away with 2nd hand markets and the concept of "owning" anything. So yes, I would imagine DRM would continue to exist without piracy.

jimmydorry

hace 2 mesesdiscuss

>of the 50 most dangerous cities in the world I think ~48 are in North and South America

Why have you bundled South America with North America? Of the top 50, I see 4 from the US. Compared to about 40 (eye balling it) from South America.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_homicide_rat...

jimmydorry

hace 2 mesesdiscuss

If cheaters were capped to mimicking good players, that's already an incredible win over the status quo. The players that are walling (as an example), are playing with more information than they should and this should always be detectable with enough observation, especially in terms of them displaying super-human reaction times and being pre-positioned to their advantage... so I'm not quite as pessimistic as you are about this not having good returns.

I'm sure there's a reason why they don't, but I wonder why games don't try implementing honey pots, like rendering a fake player behind a wall and automatically banning if a player's crosshair snaps onto them, etc.

jimmydorry

hace 2 mesesdiscuss

Looking at someone cheating in a replay, it's pretty obvious the majority of the time. To me, this signals that this could be a problem that can be solved by a combination of analytics to filter out statisticaly outliers + AI. This is something Valve dabbled with before (and since) the boom in AI [0], dubbed as VACNET and VAC-LIVE. Kernel access becoming the norm is not something we should be cheering for imo.

jimmydorry

hace 2 mesesdiscuss

>"taken an administrative role"

Not GP, but no... a pension is not similar to an administrative role.

jimmydorry

hace 2 mesesdiscuss

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jimmydorry

hace 2 mesesdiscuss

That's one method, but consider what happens when someone deposits a million dollars at a bank. This million dollars can be lent out to another person as a mortgage, and guess where that person accepts that money? That's right, a bank. That same 1 million dollars could be lent out to 10 different people, expanding the supply of money many times over. The only limit to this are the capitalisation ratios legislated and enforced by government (the bank must retain some % of total outstanding liabilities as capital it can move immediately). There are a few other ways I understand (and probably many more I dont) that the monetary supply can be expanded via, but that is the simplest one to conceptualise.

jimmydorry

hace 2 mesesdiscuss

On the other hand, health care is not scaling to meet the growing demand of societies (look at the growing wait queues for access to basic medical attention in most Western nations). The cause of this is a separate topic and something that deserves more attention than it currently gets, but I digress. If AI can fill the gap by making 24/7/265 instant diagnosis and early intervention a reality, with it then bringing a human into the loop when actually necessary... I think that is something worth pursuing as a force multiplier.

We're clearly not there yet, but it is inevitible that these models will eventually exceed human capability in identifying what an issue is, understanding all of the health conditions the patient has, and recommending a treatment plan that results in the best outcome.

You may not want to receive a cancer diagnosis from an AI doctor... but if an AI doctor could automatically detect cancer (before you even displayed symptoms) and get you treated at a far earlier date than a human doctor, you would probably change your mind.

jimmydorry

hace 3 mesesdiscuss

We're lucky the EU regulators moved so slowly that the industry had already consolidated around USB-C (a standard that Apple was a key participant of and would have eventually moved to eventually). When they were first deciding what to do back in 2209, they decided that Micro-USB was the best standard. Imagine a world where everyone was forced to use Micro-USB...

The obvious takeaway here is that a country / blok can't regulate their way to innovation... so I'm not exact sure why you included it in your list of paradigm shifts. If anything, when the next paradigm shift around charging drops, the EU will be once again on the back-foot due to these short-sighted USB-C regulations they enacted.

I do share your sentiment that EU will miss the train once again on AI.

jimmydorry

hace 3 mesesdiscuss

I disagree! There very much is a distinction and every age verification process will have the same failure mode. If there is something wrong with your account or ID, the user will have to go via the manual support proccess, which necessitates sharing particulars with falliable humans and the fragile support process. The alternative is to offer no support and prevent them from using the service... which is by far the worst outcome.

jimmydorry

hace 3 mesesdiscuss

>Discord lost thousands of them, despite promising to delete them after age verification occurred (and then not doing so)

This is misleading, yet everyone seems to repeat it. Discord's implementation of ID verification did not retain IDs. Reporting on this was so poor, but what appears to have happened was that people that failed age estimation / ID checks had to raise a support ticket and get manually reviewed. That support platform was pwned and the active support tickets were leaked. Who knows how long these support tickets were set to live for, but up to 70,000 active tickets getting leaked feels like a drop in the bucket. It's also not immediately clear to me what the alternative is (other than not getting hacked), when you require human intervention to review problematic IDs. Even if the ID only lived on their server for 24 hours during manual review, across a userbase of >200 million users, that's a lot of IDs at risk at any given moment, especially during these initial roll outs of age verification.

jimmydorry

hace 3 mesesdiscuss

I don't want to touch their greasy in-store touch screens that thousands of other people touch. And those "deals" are way cheaper per user than large marketing campaigns, and probably more effective too.

I wonder how slow you can make an app before a significant number of people will just order elsewhere? Give it a few more years of downgrades to the app, and I'll have reached it.

jimmydorry

hace 3 mesesdiscuss

Yet the Maccas app in Australia is atrocious for me. Takes >30secs to load the huge ad that pops-up before you can get to the menu. Close the ad and the menu takes another eternity, then inside each sub menu, you wait another eternity for the pictures to all load. Meanwhile, all of this content could just be downloaded in the background and cached for future loads...

And the app continues to get worse each update. The checkout process used to be quick and responsive. They've since made it require additional clicks and take much longer.

jimmydorry

hace 3 mesesdiscuss

Cloudflare has a stranglehold on the internet, but its marketshare is much lower than the incumbant email giants. Aprroximately 70-90% of all email goes through Google & Microsoft. You're trading one benevolant toll keeper for another... except those two give you no recourse should you end up on a sh*tlist or don't meet their unspecified and forever changing criteria for being a recognised mail provider.

jimmydorry

hace 4 mesesdiscuss

>transactional emails from various services that you’ve signed up for

These are one of the main culprits of unwanted emails... and a toll system would make them all the more valuable for the even worse actors to take advantage of.

jimmydorry

hace 4 mesesdiscuss

>At least yet, no one can stop their top scientist to move to another country with the knowledge and just pick up their work in the new conutry.

They can and do do this routinely. Many individuals get marked and regularly go through additional screening if their travel plans raise flags. This isn't even unique to the US... most Western nations do the same. If there is a serious brain drain risk, the US government can easily go all out and have the whole company put on the no-fly list.

jimmydorry

hace 7 mesesdiscuss

Good luck finding a modern car that doesn't have a stereo. And continuing the analogy, good luck finding jeans without a zipper. When the only affordable and available options spy on you, it's simple enough to keep them air gapped from the internet... Electing not to own these devices at all is a much tougher sell.

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