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ethanmitchell87on China's Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle

Reads like a cyberpunk future in the present day. Data brokers in a surveillance state using encryption for comms and payments.

ethanmitchell87on Illegally logged wood from Cambodia likely ending up in U.S. homes

Use DNA and a blockchain to track the wood from plantation to store. This would be more transparent and harder to circumvent. Still potential for corruption at the first stage where it is entered into the ledger but then it should be reasonably resilient.

ethanmitchell87on Learning to Reason with LLMs

slightly offtopic, but openai having anti scraping / bot check on the blog is pretty funny