We got time to fix it for ourselves… If we are smart enough.

But that dude? Probably not. His parents have him the whole world, and he squandered it. I just don’t feel that bad for the elderly today.

What you don’t know is that 80 year old voted for decades to dissolve social safety nets.

So now he gets to more my lawn.

In the middle of this illegal war is easy to forget that Iran is also lead by deeply evil men.

So… Basically Argentina.

“1st, 2nd, and 3rd World” designations were always problematic, but at least they made some sense in the 20th century Cold War.

The “1st World” is Western Democratic Capitalist States. (The US and NATO nations).

The “2nd World” was a designation for Soviet states. (Though, if we were to modernize this language, I would say that BRICS is our contemporary “2nd World”.)

The “3rd World” was just “everyone else”, but eventually became synonymous with “poor and industrializing nations”.

What would a “4th World” nation be?

This is going to get hated around here, but LLMs are actually a lot more useful than just being silly toys.

I use it for work regularly and it produces reports comparable to what I would expect from a entry level engineer. It has problems that have to be fixed during review for sure, but so do entry level engineers.

Now that’s not to say that it’s ultimately going to prove it’s multi-trillion dollar investment value. If it doesn’t progress significantly, and very quickly, than these companies will start to run out of investment money.

But that’s how the “free market” is supposed to work. Investors invest in something to develop the idea. If it doesn’t work then the investors lose their money.

The thing that’s broken in our economy is that the federal government isn’t allowing the market to make corrections. For every correction since the dot-com bubble burst the federal government has swooped in and bailed out the bag investments, preventing the correction to occur. And so, for the past 15 years, investors have just moved forward with the assumption that if there is a correction then the federal government will bail them out, so there is no reason to ever pull back on investing because there is no risk anymore, which creates a self-fullfilling prophecy and prevents corrections.

It’s sort of looks like we’ve accidentally figured out how to cure recessions.

I didn’t know about that. Maybe that’s plays into it too. But I’m generally a “simpler answer is more likely the most correct” type of guy.

In this case the simple answer is that Meta and others just had their “Tobacco Lawsuits” moment in court and liability floodgates are any to open wide, and they are pushing these laws to divert their liability onto someone else.

It’s so funny to me how badly people want this to be some nefarious governmental conspiracy. Listen, the government already has much better tools to track you online. Your computer has, on a hardware level, sent unique identifiers to ISPs and websites since Pentium IIIs. This age requirement thing isn’t a government conspiracy to track you, they already track you.

It is a *corporate *conspiracy. It’s Meta and other major websites, games, and applications companies that want to off load their liability. Meta and Alphabet just lost major lawsuits for their negligence in protecting kids on their own websites. There is a liability dam about to break for these companies and schools and other advocacy groups start their own lawsuits. That’s what this is about. That’s the real conspiracy.

This is my go to evidence that the whole beliefs that real estate values always increase is absurd.

If real estate prices always increase, even modestly, then an apartment in Rome or Paris would cost hundreds of trillions of dollars. Obviously that’s not the case, and since land speculation isn’t exactly a new thing, there is a correction somewhere.

There will always be sites that don’t care and won’t comply with any OS level restrictions in the first place.

And I’ll support strong laws that hold those sites accountable for negligence. I’m really struggling to see why this is so controversial.

So you are going with: Deny the problem of child sexual predators exists at all.

Do you also believe that the Boy Scouts and the Catholic Church also have no responsibility to protect kids, because doing to would similarly require collecting data on people?

(I would disagree with you if you said yes, but I’ll respect your position for being consistent.)

… And if a kid using that browser was abused because the browser lied to the website about the users’ age, then the browser’s creators should bare some consequences for lying to the website that otherwise would have put up protections. Right?

I don’t understand. There will still be porn sites for people.

The way it will work is that when you tell your browser to go to a porn site, the site will ask your Bowser for your verified age. Your browser will then ask your OS for your verified age. Your OS will respond “18+” to your browser. Your browser will tell the porn site “the OS says 18+”. Then the porn site will say “Cool, here’s the porn.” That’s it.

If you use a non-compliant OS, then your browser will say to the porn site “I asked the OS and the OS says ‘null’.” Then the porn site will say, “Well sorry. Then your OS isn’t supported. Come back when you are using a supported OS.”

That’s it.

I’m not sure what you are disagreeing with. That’s generally what I said. If you use a non-compliant OS, your experience will be “age-gated”.

Though I don’t think they will completely block access entirely. Collecting data on kids is extremely valuable to these companies, because kids grow up to be consumers. They will happily continue to let you in, but you won’t be able to go to the 18+ areas.