You're basically ignoring our entire Financial system and how it's built and designed. If any of what you describing is successful in your life then you have a 401k because we heavily encourage them through a combination of tax write-offs and in the case of employers matching contributions as a benefit to attract employees.

You can't just say, just ignore the entire system and live outside of it and be successful outside of the system you're born in. I mean you can but frankly that makes you an insufferable twat. Speaking of which, how are the libertarian primary debates this year?

It won't even slow it down if anything it will accelerate it because in the panic people will vote fascists into power like they always do. Democracy does best during stable times and struggles the most when money and food and shelter are in short supply.

It's one of the things the left wing really doesn't like to think about. Like how the biggest gains in the civil Rights movement happened in the 60s and 70s which happened to coincide with a period of economic prosperity.

It really really pisses off the left wing that people under Financial duress can do nasty evil things without really thinking about it. What the cool kids call the banality of evil.

It's because that fundamentally clashes with the left wings belief that people are ultimately good.

It doesn't really if you understand what's happening. It's not the people are experiencing "economic anxiety" and then becoming fascists. People didn't vote Trump because they were worried about the economy but doing just fine which is frankly what the phrase economic anxiety has come to mean in American politics.

The actual problem is that when people aren't doing well financially and are struggling to feed and shelter themselves they don't react to that by being smart and rational. When human beings are put under pressure we make bad decisions. We fuck up. A lot.. pressure doesn't make diamonds it makes garbage more compact.

It's not that people are becoming evil or even just plain assholes, it's that they're trying to solve the problem and they're fucking up because people don't actually perform well under bad conditions no matter what TV and movies tell you.

And that's the basic problem the left wing and frankly most people have. Too much TV too many books too much anime and video games and you start to believe that shit. It's especially bad for the left wing because they are kind of insufferable and they get really into the whole art imitates life bullshit.

I was occasionally looking at things there, but that has become a non-option now.

And the LLM assholes fully deserve that. The rest of the AI field, not at all.

Absolutely correct. I have watched it happen twice in my lifetime:

-When I was in highschool, the older kids could smoke. There was a smoking area on campus, but incoming years were not allowed. Within a few years, there was no smoking allowed on campus.

-When my son was in highschool, they phased out letting students leave campus for lunch. Again, starting with the incoming freshmen class. Within a few years, it was a closed campus from morning to end-of-day.

This change will take longer, but it will become normal for everyone to link their government ID to their internet usage within a generation. Only us old-folks will think anything of it.

Since Reddit sold API access to Google, and Google has integrated its AI into search, the Reddit answers to web searches will be presented in the AI answer. Most people will be unable to get past the AI answer to see the rest of the Reddit discussion thread: just take the AI answer and move on, do no further research. A win for Google, and a loss for Reddit.

There is a data privacy bill in committee right now in the House. I don't expect we'll see movement on it soon but it's still there.

https://www.congress.gov/event...

Not my experience.

No argument about that. Blockchains have good uses.

I'll admit that I laughed harder at this than I should have.

The other 9 out of 10 should be locked out as well. Frankly, it wouldn't be the end of the world if everyone regardless of age were also barred, but legal adults can make their own choices and engage in unhealthy lifestyle behaviors if they want.

I can only wonder in horror at what kind of even worse mind-rot shit the next generation will complain about their youth spending all day on.

Ok, fine. I'll just cry at work. Thanks.

It's just used an excuse for censorship is the main problem.

Like every single South Park episode has its own page but several public intellectuals who spoke out against lockdowns suddenly became "not notable".

"Trust the Experts" / "You're no longer an expert"

Abuse is inherent in the system as currently defined.

They could use some proxy like view counts, but that would be objective, not subjective.

Yet every once in a while I look up some obscure biological molecule or plant that hardly anybody cares about, mostly for the external references because the articles are so short, and I'd hate to see those get purged. I've found some odd and rare flora growing in my forest and appreciate the information.

Say what you want about LLM's but they could probably be tasked with policing for defacement.

> that old computer or phone that has had a factory wipe

Don't trust old phones with too much value.

There are hardware bugs on Bluetooth, WiFi, and SS7 that are fairly easy to hack with the right setup and SS7 especially is built into the same baseband controller so main memory can be exfiltrated over cellular even without an active SIM.

Keeping it turned off most of the time reduces the attack surface, of course.

A few phones do better - switchable modems, etc. but very few and even some phones that meet GrapheneOS specs are imperfect.

An old ThinkPad with LibreBoot is probably OK if you want to get really nerdy. Yet 0.00001% of the population can handle that.

Hot/warm/cold is of course another layer of protection. But again, very few people can manage this.

Still, if you are transferring $200 to your dedicated phone to go out shopping, it's not very tragic if it gets lost.

We really don't have a good solution for the 99% yet. So companies like Binance step in and make a profit (as long as they can assume liability and responsibility for losses).

It sounds like that devops laptop had /way/ too much access. Where's their multisig for billions of dollars? I would never have guessed Binance would be one so lax. Doing it right is way cheaper than a shareholder lawsuit.

Maybe dead internet. But they can't survive this. Reddit is already kinda useless. You need rage bait and outrage porn to engage people on the internet enough to keep advertisers happy and get enough engagement so that you can mine data and train AI with posts.

They are supposedly going to make it so you can curate your feed better though. I gave up on Reddit because I could not get it to stop giving me rage bait posts. YouTube has the ability to just block them but Reddit doesn't let you do that. I know why it's better for engagement and that's all they care about.

That's the fundamental problem in the internet even more so than AI sloppification. It is heavily optimized to make you angry and keep you angry because that's what keeps you glued to the screen the longest.