Why are you changing the topic? Let me simplify this.

You wrote:

Sure lets outsource trust in our communications to some shitty machine learning algorithm that is dumber than a fucking toddler.

I disagree this is bad, and my point is: “A dumb machine learning algorithm is enough to be helpful for this purpose of scam warnings.”

Of course you shouldn’t trust Google in not stealing your data with their implementation, but you have already established that in your original comment, and I didn’t bring this up at all because I already agree with you there. What I disagree with is that this is a bad idea. I think trying to protect people from scams is a great use of AI and would love an open source implementation of it that could be included in GrapheneOS for example.

I wanted to understand, but it looks like you have no arguments and prefer to just concede your point, fair enough.

It is truly a boring dystopia when we need AI to help protect ourselves against scammers. At least the overhyped buzzword found one application positive for humanity.

Sure lets outsource trust in our communications to some shitty machine learning algorithm that is dumber than a fucking toddler.

And it really doesn’t need to be smarter than that, to show a “banks will never asks you to transfer money to another account, this is likely a scam” dialog when the speaker claiming to be from your bank tells you to do so. This will save lots of vulnerable and older people from getting scammed. If you think that’s a horrible idea then I’m interested in your reasoning. Over $10 billion per year is lost to scams, making a dent in that is amazing.

Not to disagree with the sentiment, but the screenshot is fake. I just tried the same prompt and it solved the “puzzle” without issue.

Movies are also infinite in that you can always produce more, but it’s obviously meaningful to own 30% of all movies.

many gay people are pressured to transition

Made me imagine the awkward situation where two gay people transitioned to be able to legally find a match, and found each other.

I would never use anything else for Java or Kotlin. Through the free and open source JetBrains IDE of course.

I got their notice email, apparently I bought a laptop charger from them years ago, and after all this time they were still keeping my name, email and physical address, which now leaked. So that’s how.

I used a fake name on Facebook and one day I similarly got suspended asking for government ID. So I photoshopped some fake ID with the fake name, printed it, put it in a plastic sleeve and took a photo of that, and they accepted it.

I understood it as “unfortunately she must have been a visitor, she doesn’t work here”.

The $300/year annual fees would be for a life insurance policy that already covers the main fee. There isn’t a 200k to pay in that case.

If anyone is actually interested in learning how this works, this is a great blog post, from an author convinced like many that it’s a stupid thing for the rich, until… Well have a read: https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html

This is true, which is why preservation does not involve freezing, except for the bad attempts in the 70s the article talks about, which could never work. The bodies are vitrified, not frozen.

Which still doesn’t mean it will work, the technology to revive them doesn’t exist, but it doesn’t have any freezing issue.

But why the fuck would future humans bother bringing all these people back, even if they could?

There are many valid issues to raise with this bring unlikely to work, but this point seems silly. Why would a road maintenance worker fix a pothole, he’s not from around and will never benefit from it? Because it’s his job he’s paid to do, and he’s not having a philosophical discussion about it. Whatever future lab technician will be just going to work in the morning as well, paid by their company, funded by the money the preserved people paid. There isn’t much to it.

But it’s interesting you said that future humans would kill these people because the preserved people are useless assholes. I’m not that sure you labeled the assholes right in your scenario. Your future humans seem ageist and elitist, thinking only they deserve to live.

There is at least one example I remember from the news of a 20-something girl with cancer being preserved, paid for by pooling money from the family and donations. Unlikely to work but she would have died anyway. So what did she do wrong that she doesn’t deserve to be woken up, in your future where the technology is there?

Take LoL

I agree, I’m just saying it’s an unrealistic stance to have unless you want to play no games at all.

There already is private servers of closed source MMOs

Yes, most done by reimplementing the protocol. They are separate projects that network with the same client project.

Not sure I understand it

Many MMOs have secrets that are undiscovered for years. Many communities spend lots of effort testing mechanics trying to discover how something works, or working together trying to solve a new quest, or piece of content nobody figured out yet. They create wikis trying to catalogue what the player base figured out about the game. When you put it out in the open, all of that is gone, the game is “pre-solved”.

I don’t know where people suddenly decided cheating is bad.

Millennia ago, I assume, when competitive sports became a thing.

Getting into hacked lobbies and playing scrapped content was so much fun in MW2. Or hacked zombies in W@W

Sure. Never played that but this sounds like mods and has nothing to do with cheating.

anti cheat doesn’t stop cheating.

And door locks don’t stop burglary, but they sure reduce it.

Must be open source? Would be nice, but you are excluding 99.9% of games. Which is fine as a stance, but you don’t need the list then, your stance is just “I don’t play games*”.

Must be self hostable? How would that work with MMOs? Releasing the server software would spoil everything, and discovery of how new mechanics and content works is part of the fun. It would also allow cheaters to learn how the server-sidr anti-cheat works.

The game is not a live service game

I don’t know about you but I enjoyed my time in RuneScape. And haven’t paid a cent for it!

There is definitely a case for having a separate device for something a smartphone can do, if it can do it better, e.g a camera.

This device doesn’t do it better in my opinion.

The “joke” was that TikTok is ran by the Chinese government.