Yes that’s true.

And how did the bank decide I was privileged? I don’t keep much money in the account, I’ve overdrawn it many times, I have no record of employment in the US for decades.

Yeah I’ve been watching. They don’t have many out there yet and they are sort of still in beta. I hope they perfect them and massively scale them.

Well okay you’re not wrong, there is always some sucker out there.

I left the USA 25 years ago and still keep a bank account at my parents’ address. Not yet debanked.

Well they can identify you are the same person but not your identity… So it’s like a disenbodied fingerprint.

I suppose they could potentially make some database and train an AI on it someday to match to actual identities, but usefulness would be pretty limited at only 95% accuracy. That’s a false reading 1/20 times, so I suspect it would fail bigly to accurately recognize people from large data sets.

Ugh. I hope that laser interception becomes possible and drone interceptors and gepards become more available.

It looks like destructive environments are back and the nod to the BF4 theme at 2:00 is interesting. Let’s hope that DICE can pull their head out of their ass for this one.

They can see you’re a person but not exactly who you are.

Well it could be pretty handy for home automation.

I’m happy they’re still going. I thought that defunding of NOAA would kill them.

Wait. You mean war isn’t the solution to all the world’s problems?

UK keeps forgetting that it’s just a little country now. It can’t play the big boy games like the EU and US any more.

You should totally leave then

I fully agree we need something new. And I hope we get it. I can readily imagine better ways to tackle the problems we have.

The problem with “post scarcity” is that every time I dig into the details of what “post scarcity” government proposals are, they are basically just communism rehashed with some arm waving about “technology”, so until I see some better proposals than that, I am very skeptical of anyone proposing “post scarcity” as a solution. Hence why I replied to you with my feelings about communism. To me, they are the same things in their current incarnation. Even if you take away money. There is still some central government that is doling out resources, and someone doing the production of those resources which want some compensation for their work. I don’t see that changing any time soon. But maybe someday if we get true AGI and AGI robots, we can give them all the work and let them do this…

I’m sure someone will still try to slant the playing field their way like Musk is trying with Grok, though.

Well you and I are different then, I downvote uninteresting stuff all the time. I also downvote a lot of stuff I already saw or know. This particular item meets both criteria.

This is a dormant tendency in at least half of mankind in any country you look. That’s why it’s so easy to commandeer if someone has the means by which to do so.

It doesn’t make me upset, it’s just not interesting or useful.

As it should. Ukraine is defending all of NATO

Yeah, that’s a good case for this.