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Chronological snobbery.

Well the direction of travel now is that you provide your identification documents to all providers, that feels like a far worse solution that some trusted attestation nodes to me.

The options available are not "perfect solution" and "do nothing". It's currently "terrible solution" or we fill in the second option. If there is no perfect solution to put on the table then "do nothing" doesn't suddenly become available.

This is what I'm getting at, this is an ideological position. You are of course welcome to hold it, but you will have a way worse solution forced on you by normal people who will not go along with this binary view of the world. The default position will be that kids come first.

Ideological is the best way to describe the reaction by most people on here I think, counterproductive is another one. The reality is most normal people want children protected, unless we can come to the table with good options we are going to end up with a terrible one thrust upon us.

Slippery slope arguments and things like it are not going to convince people, "just parent your kids" is not going to convince people. Not because they're wrong, but because on balance they feel like the damage to children being exposed to this content is worse than the potential civil liberty issues.

It will be very difficult to explain to people why this is not the same as alcohol being age-gated and you having to prove your identity to access it. Technically there should be no real reason we cannot do age attestation without fully revealing our identities anyway, there will need to be trust at some point in the system but the reality of the real world is that there is already and it's far less secure than we'd like.

I'm not sure it's fair to give Germany too much grief on this front. They are actively destroying their industrial base in a desire to hit net-zero.

That's a lot of fun, good work.

You can just not setup touch id, right?

Would it work to have an AI write the spec, and a different AI implement the spec?

I think there are going to be a lot of these types of scenarios where the old way of doing things just doesn't hold.

Realising the irony of complaining about the complaining; can we not just have one comment that moans about AI writing and then consider it said?

It's going to be and endless circular discussion going forward, AI is not going anywhere, people are going to use it to write copy. Like all things that irk overly technical people it will be completely missed by the masses so none of the pushback will have any effect.

Or OpenAI decided to allow democratically elected leaders to make defence decisions rather than have some corporatocracy to step in and start deciding what actions are moral.

Even if you agree with Anthropic's moral stance I would hope people could see that allowing corporations to take on a role like that is a dangerous path.

The base Macbook Air continues to be an absolutely great deal.

Ironically, I went back and added it because I thought the comment sounded a little bit unfriendly on a first pass. Mission failed.

No. I do have the gammarly tool running though, and it often corrects my writing.

My understanding is it learns from us. It's to be expected that it often speaks the way we speak, especially in places like this, since it's a free source of training data.

I'm not sure playing "spot the llm" is going to be a good use of time in many cases.

This feels like a bit of a staw man argument, I'm not sure there's any reason to read into it that you could help someone do morally bad things and feel good about it.

To be clear though feeling good is not the justification per se, it's pretty much just the signal that you're aligned correctly. When you aim outward, morality becomes less about self image and more about stewardship which is why it tends to work.

I’m also not claiming morality is relative or "attained" particularly beyond normal development as an adult. I would assert that we already know what’s right, the problem isn’t discovering the moral law, it’s obsessing over our own righteousness instead of living it.

I didn't even mention them being his kids, the point really is that focussing on giving to others is the path to happiness and fulfilment vs focus on self. It doesn't have to specifically be children at all.

I guess I get why that irks a lot of the child-free people but it wasn't really the point I was making.

Not meant to be negative.

Absolutely! That’s a great point.

For real though, I’m not wasting tokens on comments. I do wonder if we will pick up habits when interacting with them a lot though.

Yeah, and I do get it to some extent. Everything about having a child seems burdensome and hard. Turns out it's doesn't feel anything like that and I can't think of anything I'd rather be doing. I wouldn't swap with another person on this planet.

In the nicest possible way, this is basically the oldest lesson there is.

You weren’t happy because you optimized your feelings or had the right opinions. You were happy because you stopped focusing on yourself and became responsible for other people. Six kids needed you, in the real world, every week. That kind of outward focus kills emptiness fast.

Chasing happiness, moral righteousness, or political engagement just loops you back into your own head, helping people doesn’t. Feeling good is a side-effect of being useful, not the goal.

Government email, sounds great. Sign me up.

I’m always surprised how much people seem to want to constantly know the weather.

“Disapprove of tolerance” is such a ridiculous straw man is genuinely quite amusing.

I don't want to be a downer on this because it sounds like a cool system, but it might be worth checking whats in the receipt paper as a lot of it is pretty bad for you:

https://toxicfreefuture.org/press-room/new-study-finds-toxic...

Walter Isaacson's book "The Code Breaker" is about this subject. I couldn't put it down.

> but at this point there is just as much self-reported evidence that prayer works.

If you remove the assumption that a deity answers the prayer; what they're doing is focusing on gratitude and if asking for things they are identifying goals. This is a healthy mindset so unsurprising that they report it "working".

Meet is actually surprisingly brilliant tbh.

One thing I've found useful is to have deliberate google meet calls when having planning discussions or firming up decisions.

I set up the recording and transcription and then up front we define the problem and what we want the outcome to be. Afterwards I give the transcription to ChatGPT and get it to summarise the content, decisions, etc and add that to our documentation with a link to the recording.

This helps you stay on the same page and also gives context to people who werent present about what has been discussed and decided.

Couple of my favourites: building a story brand, obviously awesome and the saas playbook.

There’s good advice in this thread that is cautioning about getting stuck in research mode. There’s only so much you can get from books. You need to try and fail at some point.

My recommendation to this point is to not treat the books as a set of “how tos”, instead use them to develop a model of the world to test your instincts against.

Since I sleep with it I find it easier to just have a charger on my desk. Generally only needs about an hour a day to fully charge.