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> Much better than most of Western Europe

I doubt most of Western Europe would agree with you. They seem to feel a lot happier and healthier. They have better social mobility, and less household debt.

The number of adults, and even elderly who are forced to live with roommates is hitting record highs though so some expenses are probably shared.

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/04/nx-s1-5760948/high-housing-co...

https://eyeonhousing.org/2025/04/house-sharing-is-not-just-f...

> there really is no possibility of hiding your identity from a determined attacker.

If there's no possible way to hide your identity then as long as we're determined to identify humans and bots we already can. In truth, most people are able to hide their identity pretty well from most people most of the time. The government can pretty much always track down who you are if they feel like it. If you're using a cell phone apple and google can find out who you are. If you use windows Microsoft will have a pretty good idea of who you are, but the vast majority of websites can't get anything more identifying than an IP address and a user-agent unless you tell it to them without trying to correlate your traffic with other traffic. That's where browser fingerprinting comes in really, it tells them the same browser a person used to log in with their name and address at one website is using another website. That lets them make some educated guesses, but they can't be sure who is behind the screen and there are easy steps a person can take to make it even harder for them to guess.

The fact that anonymity on the internet isn't perfect doesn't make it useless. Giving that up because you're afraid of reading something a bot wrote seems crazy.

> I mean I think with the wiki example.. it likely will be "Atra play the game and fix any information that isn't correct" or "read the game files and correct the inforamtion. That is assuming the person wants accurate information.

Except that Astra will happily lie to your face just like it lies in the wikis. It might even "fix" things that are perfectly correct. The problem here isn't that wikis have errors, the problem is that AI gives wrong information.

You could increase that time by making the new web less ad friendly. A text only internet for example.

> Unless you are knowledgeable in a field, you wouldn’t be able to make out if something is off.

Maybe in the future that will be true, but right now AI is constantly making very obvious mistakes and errors. That might even eventually become one way we tell if something was written by AI. If human pathological liars get flagged as AI by mistake, that wouldn't even be so bad.

> Well it's what we need unfortunately, unless you want to talk to potentially malicious machines and think you're talking to a human.

If my options are "give all my data to malicious corporations and their bots" or "wonder if the pathological liar I'm talking with is a bot" I'll stick with guessing about the liar. Proof of identity is a scam, not a solution.

We shouldn't abandon the entire idea of an internet where people can find information and speak to each other without being identified and monitored 100% of the time just because the companies who want us to be identified and monitored filled the web with bullshitting bots

Maybe you've already given up and no longer care about that freedom, but don't count on everyone else giving up theirs.

> AI is pretty good at checking it's own work.

If that were even remotely true AI fan wikis wouldn't be riddled with errors.

Those ad-filled websites will still be filled with errors so people who know they can get trustworthy info elsewhere won't go to them. Keeping the trusted site ad-free would help too.

So now you have to somehow get an invitation and be constantly tracked to get any reliable information about a game? I'll bet game companies will love that idea.

Some TVs will refuse to work if you don't create an account and connect them to internet. They won't usually advertise this. You may have to repeatedly return those TVs as defective as you find them.

At this I can't think of anyone I'd trust less. People have their complaints about every manufacture, but as far as I know, none of them have a track record as bad and as consistent as levono. Personally, I'm looking at system76 and Framework for my next laptop.

They were still pre-installing malware in people's systems in 2016. They were caught with a hardcoded password in their fingerprint scanner after that. In 2019 they still couldn't be trusted not to backdoor their devices, they released a alarm clock with a hard-coded SSH password. They are not a company any should be trusting with anything.

There's a world of difference between "we can't be sure that other companies won't backdoor our systems" and "We know for a fact that lenovo has done it multiple times and repeatedly lied to customers about it when found out and even once released a patch which they claimed fixed the problem but which actually still left their customers vulnerable."

All people are capable of being untrustworthy, but that doesn't make all people the same as those who have already demonstrated that they are.

True, but Lenovo has repeatedly demonstrated that they're willing to do it, lie to customers giving them a false sense of security while leaving them vulnerable, and will continue to put their customers at risk even after being caught several times.

That says a lot more about the legal system than the airline

> It's crazy that Lenovo will still be trusted to build secured hardware after that.

Lenovo already has an history of backdooring the devices they sell, sometimes in exchange for money. It's insane that anyone trusts them for anything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levono#Security_and_privacy_in...

AI can't and shouldn't be trusted in matters where people's freedom are at stake. The more lawyers and judges allow AI to do their jobs for them, the higher the risk that people will be hurt. Making it illegal to use AI in legal proceedings would make judges and lawyers immune from the influence of pathologically lying LLMs and require them to use their own judgement.

Can memory buses generate ULF/ELF?

What's the proper way to use prompt injection in a court document?

> it is what it is.

It is what we allow it to be. We are empowered to make it illegal to use AI in any part of legal proceeding. Doing so would solve a lot of problems and protect a lot of innocent people.

I wouldn't rule it out.

> In many parts of the country, the judge...isn't required to be a lawyer, have any formal legal education or hold any law degree. (https://www.ncsl.org/resources/map-monday-judge-wanted-no-de...)

> We should accept that science is not… omniscient.

I've seen that kind of thing expressed before and it bugs me because there's zero reason anyone would ever think that science is omniscient. Science is based on the best evidence we currently have, the models that are most useful to us, and all of it is subject to change as soon as newer better evidence/models are discovered which contradicts or improves on what we currently have. There are countless unknowns in science and that should surprise no one.

If you told me there were no elephants in your bedroom and I countered with "Consider the possibility that there are four microscopic elephants in your bedroom you did NOT notice. We should accept that you are not… omniscient." you probably wouldn't be convinced that you should stop saying there there are no elephants in your bedroom. It might be more accurate to say that you don't think that there are elephants and that you can never be certain, but since it's obvious that you never can be certain it's not a very useful point. It's perfectly fine to just say that your bedroom is elephant free. The "as far as I know right now" is implied and understood.

> Over the past few decades harm was done to the advancement of things that err toward environmental sustainability by self professed "environmentalists" who were just dishonest swindlers selling the current snake oil.

Are you talking about carbon credits? Electric cars have probably helped, even though there are trade offs. Solar has been a net positive.

There are a 100 tasks that a Compaq Presario with a Pentium III could do better than a human. That doesn't mean it is AGI either. LLMs can be useful tools and still not be AGI no matter how much companies want to you to be convinced that they are. Our consciousness and autonomy are what set us apart from every collection of clever computer algorithms we've ever devised. It allowed us to create LLMs in the first place. If LLMs never become at least equal to what we are, they aren't AGI.

AGI doesn't have to be a god, it just has to be somewhat equal to us. It has to have sentience or consciousness just like we do. It has to have autonomy, just like we do. Anything less isn't AGI, but just "weak AI", something far lesser than us, incapable of what our minds do, and nothing at all like what everyone used to call AI before "AI" became a marketing buzzword and people were told that what they thought of as AI was actually AGI.

A single data center can consume over well over 650 MW which is enough electricity for nearly 500,000 homes, which is more homes than the entire population of Miami Florida. Amazon has a 1,037 MW AI data center.

Our government has been working very hard over decades to minimize the impact of the voter. Through gerrymandering, voter suppression, collusion within political parties, etc. and the amount of open corruption going on today shows that our government doesn't think they need to be very concerned about the voters at this point.

I still believe in democracy as a system however. It does need to be protected and maintained though. Jefferson said that "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" and right now the tree is starting to look parched, but I'm still hoping we can bring it back into health with just a little more care and attention.

> the kind of definitions of AGI that people had a couple decades ago

AGI a couple decades ago would be the T-800 from the terminator, Data from star trek, and Johnny 5 from short circuit. What we have now isn't even remotely close. Most people wouldn't even call what he have now AI by the standards of the time.

> if you were to bring Astra or Opus 5.5 back to 2017 and show it to the leading AI researchers at the time and ask them if it were a form of AGI what would they say?

They'd say it obviously wasn't. If you went back before the marketers started moving goalposts most people would laugh in your face for even calling an LLM AI because they know what AI is. They've seen what AI is in 2001 A Space Odyssey, I Robot, The Terminator, Short Circuit, etc. and they'd very rightly see LLMs as being a fancier ELIZA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA) and not even remotely close to Data from star trek.