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Its not exactly the same, as this is designed for compression, but there's an excerpt from Infinite Jest about the rise and fall of "videophony", wherein the users would get Video-Physiognmoic Dsyphoria which was just anxiety from having to suddenly be presentable in a previously audio-only interaction. The 'solution' if I recall correctly was the marketing of videophony specific make-up, followed by pre-make-upped latex masks, followed by beautified filters of the user, finally ending up at full 3D rendered perfect representations of the user that covered the camera and screen such that the only thing viewing the interaction was each others fake avatar.

I've noticed a number of major cryptocurrency exchanges using this slide puzzle as a form of captcha [1]. I dont exactly know how it works but I assume the jittery nature of a human sliding a mouse is enough to discern the bots from the nots. Are there any major downsides to this form of captcha that I may be missing? [1] https://www.geetest.com/en/

EDIT: I now see the article does actually mention this, though I still do wonder how far the fingerprinting goes.

I don't doubt that while some "psychopaths" will be detectable ahead of time, and maybe mitigated (whether or not that's ethical), there may be many with "correct" views read as possibly psychopathic that will get strawmanned into oblivion due to their diagnosis.

Is the introduction of WASM a sort of compatibility layer combining this tree of dependencies?

In the sense that all users are again able to share/create code/'apps' that are compatible on all architectures and software stacks. I can imagine a future where the OS is just the snappiest way to render a browser and nothing else. (Although my experience with the chromebook blunts this desire a great deal.)