Jyek

Absolutely not. These are all massive human rights violations and none of them should be disregarded in favor of any other one. And the participants and benefactors of Epstein's island should all be severely punished. There is no amount of wag the dog that will change the fact that children were routinely sexually abused for blackmail on the rich and powerful.

It is strictly NOT an ID. It is an account number. Your bank account number is not an ID either. This is the same idea, except ID is what it is being used for.

Same

SSN are not an ID. Well they aren't meant to be an ID. It's just a number assigned to every citizen eligible for an account with the Social Security Administration. It just so happens that this is a convenient, unique number that every citizen has to use to get a job (employees pay into social security with each pay check) so it's been used to identify people by their numbers.

Far and away, business is the primary use case for PCs, education second, art and design art likely third, and gaming (while always growing) is still niche use case for PCs worldwide.

At best, gaming has over taken media consumption as a PC task but I think that has more to do with media becoming primarily, a mobile device activity in the last decade.

This is the exact same thing as the law that makes products world wide say this product contains materials that may cause cancer according to the state of California. It's a nothing burger. It will be a very minor inconvenience and a joke that people harp on about for decades to come.

God damn these comments are bleak.

Maybe. That's certainly not my field of experience. But LLMs will never produce thought the way a human brain does. Certainly not without substantial change in how the tech functions fundamentally.

Large language models are not intelligent. They are predictive text applications with massive dictionaries of circumstantial sentence structures to choose from. Nothing more. They do not feel and do not think for themselves. The only time they do anything is when the API calls them to produce more text with an updated context string.

Ah yes, the daylight savings donut. The most confusing bite of desert you'll ever have

Ah, the Mr Bean approach.

But they can cook