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Like stealing money under threat of force from many individuals and handing it over to some random scammer?

That kind of immoral act? You might not be as decent a person as you might think.


I'm not Christian and I don't want a federal ID. I don't even want a state ID but I will eventually be taken to prison if I continually get caught driving without one.

Coincidentally and/or anecdotally I've never had my identity stolen.


Can't a raspberry pi (or similar) emulate a USB keyboard? Feed it any text and the key strokes will look real to your editor.

I guess you could require a special encrypted keyboard in your plan.


Isn't Android Linux based? The development of chrome on desktop Linux have any benefits for mobile Linux?

The other way around.

"development of chrome on desktop Linux have any benefits for mobile Linux?"

Android is the big market, that gets prime support.

Otherwise android and linux desktop just share the kernel (and not even the same one).

So the developement of chrome on android probably makes it a bit easier to target linux desktop, but not much.

(I still don't have WebGPU on my linux desktop but since quite a while on my old android phone)


Dolphin Browser was the go-to in the late 2000s for Android.

Why especially women? Is the only thing stopping a person from being harmed is that their location isn't known? Especially women?

Maxims like "within-group variance is larger than between-group variance" don't help in physical combat, you know.

because women are commonly stalked by men, if it must be said. if any idiot can plug any picture into chatgpt and ask "where was this picture taken?" while being able to successively narrow the scope, the potential for stalking - especially of the parasocial kind - goes up.

But it will bring some percentage of good and some percentage of bad. Which ain't half bad, if you ask me.

What do you do when it flags you or someone you know who's innocent? Blindly trusting these models without any verification will put innocent people in prison. Normal people don't understand why they are so confident. They're confident because they believe all the data they have is correct. I forsee a future with many faux trials because they don't understand critical thinking.

> Blindly trusting these models without any verification will put innocent people in prison.

I don't think anybody is suggesting this. But if the models can gleam information/insights that humans can't, that's still valuable, even if it's wrong some percentage of the time.


This is what happened with dna testing at the beginning. Prosecutors claimed it was x percentage accurate when in fact it was hilariously inaccurate. People thought the data was valuable when it wasn’t.

I don't see that as particularly analogous. The average person will have had LLM technology in their own hands for years, whereas with DNA it was completely foreign to them and their only choice really was to trust the experts. And on top of that DNA testing matured and is very useful now.

If you are interested in the history of pseudoscience in the courtroom and methods for deciding what should be permitted in court, see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daubert_standard

It is, and will continue to be, a hard problem.


What a quip! What if it's 51% bad?

You're automating the 1's and 0's. There could be millions of people in an assembly like line of buttons, being paid minimum wage to press either the 1 or 0 button to eventually trigger the next operation.

Now all those jobs are gone because of you.


Stop buying those products.


Right? People need to learn to read the small print. “Needs valid subscription for all features to work” no thanks. If something like this isn’t informed before the purchase you have a valid reason for a return/ refund.


My sister worked for the post office years ago. If her office received live birds, and thought they might die (because the owner couldn't be reached to pick up or whatever), an employee could take them home and care for them.


That's how a lot of military personal move their belongings. Just slap an address on their suitcase or duffle bag and mail it.


Or a TON of checked bags. Ran in to a guy in the airport once checking 10 bags. He bought the cheapest suitcase sets he could find, packed what he could, and sold the rest.


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