I've often wondered about this - is the main goal to simply get all those with a tendency for murder to fight it out until these genes are no more - and if you can gain some territory along the way, so be it - so all countries collude to aid each other in rooting-out violence.

we are not the world police until there's an attempt to buy oil without using dollars.

This is clearly a disguised hunt for covert donut factories.

This is taking painkillers after you've stabbed yourself in the face for no reason.

Pretty much everything....

And to spawn-camp others.

What should be of interest to slashdotters isn't the irony of someone associated with cryptography losing their private key, but that there exists an open source system to securely allow voting and also to absolutely verify that the vote was counted. All while still maintaining anonymity. Barring the issue of losing private keys on the part of those administering the vote, this sort of system is very interesting, and really could be used to promote voter engagement and democracy. I had heard of it before, but kind of forgot about it.

If even Japan can see the crazy, that's saying something.

How do you know your mouse isn't faulty?

Chatbots were a lot stupider and more incoherent then, yes.

Are there eels in your hovercraft?

I get the idea why remote AI features could be a good trojan horse to get you to send your data into the cloud, but it doesn't make sense to think local AI would be such a trojan horse.

Ahh, the optimism of n00bs - I kind of miss it.

Zuboff states that surveillance capitalism "unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioural data [which] are declared as a proprietary behavioural surplus, fed into advanced manufacturing processes known as 'machine intelligence', and fabricated into prediction products that anticipate what you will do now, soon, and later." She states that these new capitalist products "are traded in a new kind of marketplace that I call behavioural futures markets."

That's the inherent problem with classes, you have to teach 30+ students the same but they're not all capable of learning at the same pace or in the same way.

Kids who can't keep up fall behind, while those that are faster get bored and start to misbehave so they get labelled as troublemakers.
You also have the peer pressure from other kids, who will mock or even bully the top and bottom percentages of the class respectively, discouraging them from participating.

Catering to each child and teaching them at their own pace is obviously going to work best, but it doesn't scale to a school system.
If one or both parents is free to teach the kids that's great, but there are many cases where they aren't - some parents don't give a shit and are happy to send their kids off to school, many parents have to work and simply don't have time to teach the kids even if they would be willing/able to do so, and some simply don't have the ability to teach.