I'm gonna pirate your Pion, by changing it to Prion, (for the ARRRRR). ;-)

"prevent automation"

Buggy Whip Makers would like a word with you.

While your post has some interesting tidbits, some even worthy, the conclusions are incorrect. You're blaming government intervention while proposing government intervention as a solution.

The more government is involved in economic matters, the more screwed up things get, because that's the nature of regulations. We just need ONE MORE regulation, and that will solve all the problems (and somehow creates additional problems).

Supply Demand curves exist in all markets. Pushing them around artificially is a recipe to inefficiencies.

With Passkeys, they have access to your stuff without any oversight by courts and discovery. There are ZERO 4 and 5th Amendment rights to stuff protected by passkeys. They can compel you to unlock your phone, and put your finger on the print reader, and facial scan you .... all without your permission or CONSENT. As much stuff behind that initial Passkey on your phone (ApplePay/GoogleWallet, Banks, everything).

Legally it is untenable how much access they have with Passkeys.

Passcodes cannot be compelled (XKCD hammer notwithstanding). 4th and 5th Amendments apply.

If passkeys are movable, then they can be duplicated and reused by nefarious actors as easy as this seems to indicate here.

I have not, and do not, and never will trust passkeys as primary security for anything.

Passkeys can be compelled legally, with and sometimes without a warrant. Passwords cannot be compelled at all. SCOTUS has already set the rules.

Any feminist can tell you that the toxic extreme masculinity being used to brainwash young poor men into dying for their country's rich people is what we're trying to get rid of.

Sex equality is a net positive for people from all genders.

Details bore me. Describing a person's outfit in detail is filled with information I could not care any less about. Its not that I can't visualize, because I can and do.

I do understand why people DO like that kind of stuff, it's just not me.

Don't need a search warrant to dig though the trash can. People spew their data all over the place, and they just vacuum it all up.

I never really enjoyed reading long fiction. I read a lot, just not fiction.

I was made to read fiction in school (a long time ago), and it always bored me to read stories that had nothing I wanted. I don't find it entertaining or even relaxing.

I've read plenty of books, and in my younger years, used to read those thick IT tomes on Windows and Linux and ....

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The lie (you've done nothing wrong) is revealed, by the factoid* that the average person commits several crimes every day, unwittingly.

*factoid: Assumed but never really provable

This is just a kindly reminder to NEVER TALK TO THE POLICE.

Ever.

"I respectfully decline to answer any questions. I invoke my 1,2,4,5 Amendment Rights. I do not consent to any searches. I refuse all roadside exams, and wish to have my lawyer present during any further interactions. BTW, here is my lawyer ... {pushes the button* on my phone}. My Attorney will represent me fully during this interaction, you may address them directly."

* https://www.attorney-shield.co...

Then STFU.

I appreciate the comparison. I had come to the same basic conclusion years ago, but had a hard time making the argument understandable. That will actually help me in future discussions.

We now have a NUMBER for the value of these data breaches. Time for the Lawyers to use this metric to go after every single data breach.

Put in the instructions "Do not sabotage others" and the agent goes on reasoning two pages about what's sabotage and then probably just gives up (as according to the article some did). AI is a soldier, it does what it is told to and doesn't ask why...

... with some degree of probability. It may also happen to receive a pseudorandom number in its noise input that transforms a 'do' into 'don't'; or maybe that command is just not the most likely weight to have any effect on the output so it's simply ignored and quickly falls out of the attention window, forgotten forever.

LLMs combine the worst attributes of the literal genie in the lamp and the absent-minded professor: it simply cannot be trusted to make a decision; they're just too unpredictable specially in the long run.

I see them as one of those 100-entries D&D tables of outcomes that you can get from a dice roll as a result of a random event or encounter. You may try to skew the result with positive modifiers, but on the end you always can roll out a very low number (even a natural '1') and get one of the worst results from the bottom of the table.

What people usually don't get is that LLMs don't reason, they follow scripts.

They have memorised most of the available human interactions available online, so they can behave convincingly in a wide range of situations mimicking proper human behaviour. They may even seem to reason if you put them in a loop and make them reflect on their own answers; this may result in them making proper logical inference, but you may also produce any number of illogical conclusions that happen to be the most likely next step according to the script they are following at that moment (but which may change at any time).

Surfaces of 3D objects are 2D objects, I think it's in the mathematical definition and all.