It is a little over the top and something is off with some of these accounts. Maybe there is a market to get yourself pushed to the front page of HN for money?
This is the kind of writing pattern that makes me nope out of reading.
“The ad rule” means nothing to me.
“isn’t the only one” only what? - rule? That thing you started by not making clear, and haven’t showed me the symmetry with?
“that asks for it” why is a rule “asking” for anything? And what is “it”?
When the agent says things like this, I can almost guarantee: the thing, the other things, what the “verbing” actually means, and how the impact is described, are all clear as mud — lost in some kind of metaphorical gibberish.
Given the weight and blessing governments in Europe and America are putting behind passkey roll outs despite the awkward provider lock in, I’m convinced the centralisation of credentials is one of the early steps to making western digital IDs happen and granting convenient access to your credentials for law enforcement. Happy for you to mark my words and call me out if it doesn’t happen.
I think you’re right. They won’t make it mandatory, but passkeys will increase the risk of account loss enough for them to convince a majority of people that using your real ID everywhere is the only way to make sure you’re secure and don’t lose access to your accounts.
Everything and everyone that tries to resist it will be labeled a bad actor.
Mine was that if I (or anyone else not-hn-famous) had written this and posted it to hackernews 10 times, it wouldn’t have gotten anywhere near the front page.
The aspect of prototype software that the author was calling out was that it is throwaway software.
Putting that aside, prototype software is recombining existing technologies and concepts in well trodden domains, which is distinct from the genuinely novel scientific work the author was contrasting with. Software prototypes are not in the same league, as much as you may like it to be.
Don't you think novel scientific work recombines existing knowledge? Isn't the saying precisely of standing on the shoulders of giants?
That being said I didn't compare both, not sure why you brought that up. I specifically discussed about prototyping, quoting a specific sentence, not scientific research.
> “GPTs are a non kinetic form of warfare designed to embed the values of a small number of people into much wider communities by capturing the process of decision making. The delivery mechanism is the appearance of helpfulness i.e. coherent and authoritative arguments. The payload is helplessness and the creation of a new theocracy.”
Speaking as someone raised in an evangelical household and indoctrinated into thinking the world is only thousands of years old, this tracks. The most technologically advanced version of Chick tracts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_tract) to date.
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