There's actually several overlapping societal issues at play.
First, a distrust of experts. Especially doctors unless it's doctors giving away medical advice or confirming biases like "sure, you like butter? Im a doctor, butter makes you healthy. Eat more butter."
Next, both the availability of research and experiences online does mean it IS actually easier to find, validate for yourself, and share knowledge. But thats also mixed up in people that feel close enough to knowledgeable experts after dabbling in something 2 or 3 times.
Both of these things are also in the context of, for lack of a better term, the overall entitlement of people online to seek and deserve to find easy solutions that make them feel good. So when experts chime in with technical, rational, or sophisticated options that truly are better, they might expect to get blasted as "gate keeping" and be disincentivized from being post of a community, leaving the sophomoric "I'm no expert" crowd as the loudest group that's barely competent enough to impress newbies and no one else.
100% this. The Dursleys have zero clue what's happening there, and everyone knows they don't care. These kids get into mortal danger every year and they don't tell the Durselys about that.
Meaning that Rowling probably got screwed out of a field trip when she was 9 because of a lost permission slip, and this is her resentment embodied.
It's temporary in the sense that 2 years ago, this stuff barely worked. We might be at a plateau of compute, but Deep Seek did highlight that gains may be possible through design rather than compute.
This is not the end of history. In even 5 years what we're all using now will be cringe garbage.
I understand what you're saying. To be fair, my anchor point is oppressive socialist regimes writ large circa 1944-1990. Kim Il Sung predated Enver Hoxha in terms of models and tactics. Hoxha's governance style changed over about a decade or two to distance Albania from Yugoslavia and the USSR and emulate North Korea.
By no means do I think it's an "Asian" thing. Honestly, that's a silly premise when I'm talking about a single country of 26 million out of 4.7 billion people. NK might barely round up to 1% of the population of Asia, so how is that exactly painting the whole continent? But between Hoxha-era Albania and North Korea, North Korea still exists in largely the same state. So it's easier to reference as a standard right now.
Because anyone that's tried to use an LLM for more than shits and giggles knows they're unreliable, finicky golden geese.
My rule with Claude is that if I can't get a code fix after 3 asks, it's hallucinating too much and I have to pull my shit into a new instance and start with new prompts. Yes, that's a temporary problem that will last 2 years max, but its not enough on which to be totally overhauling the global economy today.
For reeeeal, I want an internet univeristy town. If I wanted to deal with a dumptruck full of dickbags all the time, I would move to Boston and go back on reddit.
Not at all, this is well established technology already in use all over the place.
When countries use digital IDs, they are able to carve out validating individual aspects of an identity. Just address, just over 18, just class of driver's license, etc.
So the State has a website/wallet where the user pulls a token from the State, basically a fancy hashed OTP/Login code.
The website, which can't derive your identity from the code, sends the code to the state API and can't ask more than "is this hash legit" and the State API doesnt need to say more than "yup."
Where can things go wrong? The State can ask to know who needs the token. Or even demand to know, and log what sites use it. The state can contract this out to a vendor that logs it all, making data theft far more risky.
It all depends on his the state builds requirements.
You go onto you state gov website and get a token that just says "this is an adult." Nothing else. Token lasts 10 minutes.
Cut and paste into the site. They authenticate without saying who theu are, back to the gov site, "yo, this legit?" State says "looks like something we would do." State keeps no records of WHO validated the token, just that it was a legit token.
Not sure why you're getting down voted. Porn can absolutely become a behavioral addiction.
I used to work at a place where we had a lobby guard that watched porn on his phone all day (sound off). Not sitting there trying to jerk it, it was a compulsion. He would just be watching it while talking to other people, standing by the door...it was weird. He eventually got fired because he genuinely couldn't not watch porn.
That being said, I'm a huge privacy advocate, and while there are actually ways to anonymously be on a website and verify age, that's not how anyone is doing it. Things like signing up for an account on a site and scanning your ID are just abysmally stupid. There's a zero percent chance that this system as is doesnt lead to data theft and possibly even extortion.
There's actually several overlapping societal issues at play.
First, a distrust of experts. Especially doctors unless it's doctors giving away medical advice or confirming biases like "sure, you like butter? Im a doctor, butter makes you healthy. Eat more butter."
Next, both the availability of research and experiences online does mean it IS actually easier to find, validate for yourself, and share knowledge. But thats also mixed up in people that feel close enough to knowledgeable experts after dabbling in something 2 or 3 times.
Both of these things are also in the context of, for lack of a better term, the overall entitlement of people online to seek and deserve to find easy solutions that make them feel good. So when experts chime in with technical, rational, or sophisticated options that truly are better, they might expect to get blasted as "gate keeping" and be disincentivized from being post of a community, leaving the sophomoric "I'm no expert" crowd as the loudest group that's barely competent enough to impress newbies and no one else.