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Well, the No vote triggered some adjustments, so this is indeed relatively democratic. What would be the alternative?

Which is when we'd enter economic warfare between the EU and US, something which no one wants to experience. If that were realistically threatened, and we've seen motions in that direction, it's about political and economical survival and we'd see a massive loss of market for US tech.

It's obviously a loosing battle. You're thinking of elaborate attackers, I'm thinking of your common policeman or scammer. Not great security, but might be able to solve the easyness problem introduced by GenAI.

Out of curiosity, what would be your proposal for identifying GenAI images and videos? Any suggestions?

Really good points, thank you for pointing this out. What I'm mostly thinking of is the usage in e.g., social media. There will be efforts to do what you suggest, but for your typical facebook user and scammers, this might help with the more common situations where people use GenAI.

Why police (and media) cameras aren‘t forced to use camera hardware signing, aka content credentials, is beyond me.

What's your suggested alternative? Would you say that American democracy is broken or democracy in general?

Worked there ten years ago. Good company, well run, privately owned, employees getting a share of the success. Jack Little has steered that ship well.

I think the seawater bit is really relevant here. Only understood the importance of this when I saw the seawater part.

"Immersed". The channel tunnel was bored below the sea floor.

Why is the Content Credentials Standard [1] not more supported? It's basically hardware-signing of images, which would make it fairly straightforward to identify AI-generated content.

Needs to be supported by smartphones, of course.

[1] https://contentcredentials.org/

Don‘t take it personally, you might be right in your extreme position, but this feels like a horrible take on what it means to be human.

Multipolar doesn't mean replacement of hegemon.

It's also two different things, you might be right that China, Russia or the EU would be worse as a hegemon, but that doesn't imply that it wouldn't happen.

Being a realist would imply that you would understand that a fundamentally worse hegemon could still replace an existing hegemon.

Do you really think the American empire is never to be challenged? Everything and everyone goes down after a while. Whether it‘s now is unclear, though the active resentment against the US is unprecedented.

Sadly, your comment lacks any substance to argue with, all there is are unsubstantiated ad hominems. Sad.

Interestingly, China is succeeding because it isolated itself partially from US big tech. That enabled them to build their domestic companies. If you give free reign to US companies, they‘re going to swoop up any competition early on.

The US relies on being attractive for smart people. There are still smart people going to the US, but the general mood seems to be that it‘s increasingly less attractive. Mid term, little will change, long term the cultural hegemony of the US will be replaced by multipolar influences.

Trump is all that‘s needed for that. The Greenland saga alone was sufficient. And then he attacked Iran.

Are you implying that this is Germany getting ready to invade Poland?

It was already a thing back when I was doing compulsory service (end of the nineties), but no one cared and no one was ever asked for it.

Sorry, irrelevant to what you‘re saying, but Germany has 85 mio inhabitants. You might mistake it for Poland.

There's a fairly non-invasive way to do age verification: ID cards that connect to a smartphone app that only provide a boolean age verification to the requesting service. Requesting service can be anonymous to the ID app and the requesting service can only receive a bool.

That most implementation will try to collect far more data is the real concern.

The commission is checked by the parliament is checked by the council is checked by the commission. Most other national organizations only have one check - Germany, for example, only has the Bundesrat as a check of the Bundestag.

So in summary: because the law was avoided today, the EU needs to be abolished? Weird take.

You can see it the other way around, without the EU, Denmark and others would have already implemented ChatControl in their country. This is driven by member states (Denmark), not the parliament, after all.

The strait was navigable until three weeks ago. There are very few conceivable paths towards reestablishing this. This is absolutely not the same effective result.

Don't understand this - you can go spec -> test -> implementation and establish the test loop. Bit like the v model of old, actually.

Anthropic's domain usage (there's claude.com, claude.ai, console.anthropic.com, platform.claude.com, claudecode.io forwarding to codeagents.app which errors) and authentication approach have been lacking a lot; hope this isn't a verdict on their use of agentic coding.

Example: I had two orgs with similar names, one I set up myself and another my employer set up. Logged in via SSO. Once I deleted the one I created myself, I could not log in anymore with the notice that the org was scheduled for deletion. Could also not contact support as that required a login. Only when the org was deleted after a week and my employer deleted me and reinvited me I could access it again.

Quite the shitshow for a company worth a couple hundred billion.

One example: I let the agent culminate the essence of all previous discussions into a spec.md file, check it for completeness, and remove all previous context before continuing.

Out of curiosity, do you expect that freedom.gov will contain socialist, communist, extreme left-wing or islamist point of views?

I think the defense is that it's the fault of the politicians (CDU/CSU, actually), as they are the ones allocating funds towards train infrastructure. The Deutsche Bahn is state-owned in all but name (which was one of the major fuckups of the last red-green government).

The German Personalausweis seems to offer something like this (basically returning a bool indicating whether a user is below or above a certain age), but it seems as if the service indicates which data it requests from the ID card. As a user, I would not be able to state that this or that porn site should only see this age verification. Not sure how the requestable data are in turn requested by the service.

I wouldn't believe that any sort of economy or governmental system would actually survive any of this. Ford was right in that sense, without people with well-paying jobs, no one will buy the services of robots and AIs. The only thing that would help would be the massive redistribution of wealth through inheritance taxation and taxation on ownership itself. Plus UBI, though I'm fairly sceptical of what that would do to a society without purpose.

When people starve and have no means to revolt against their massively overpowered AI/robot overlords, then I'd expect people to go back to sustenance farming (after a massive reduction in population numbers).

A while later, the world is living in a dichotomy of people living off the land and some high tech spots of fully autonomous and self-maintaining robots that do useless work for bored people. Knowing people and especially the rich, I don't believe in Culture-like utopia, unfortunately, sad as it may be.