For now, the EU has strong data protection laws that the US and China don’t have. Although it is true that stupid ideas like Chat Control keep popping up every couple of years.

Ideally, though, you put them in countries close to the EU but not part of it, like Switzerland.

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Makes sense. Never pay through Apple if there’s any other option. Can’t fault Google for that.

But even then, $16 per month for Youtube!? An adblocker is cheaper.

Or they’ll make apis shittier because they don’t want AI using it.

However, Copilot has made it a lot easier to navigate through Azure’s incomprehensible menu structure.

I disagree. Civil disobedience is a very effective way to get attention to situations that need it.

And arrests can absolutely help your case. I recommend the book “A blueprint for revolution” by Srdja Popovic.

That image is quite unfair to marginalized bears.

That’s the big problem with nice places to live: they quickly turn into expensive places to live.

It already has fields for personal information, though, and they’re every bit as sensitive as your birthdate. realName, emailAddress, location, and timezone are already in there. The important part is that they’re all optional, and you don’t have to fill them in at all, or can fill them in with fake data. The system still serves you, not some outside party.

But the timing of it does have a lot of people freaking out about it.

If one place is really nice to live while a other is rather shitty, of course everybody will want to live in the nice place, which drives prices up, which means the rich people get to live in the nice place and the poor get to live in the shitty place.

The solution is of course to make all places nice. But ultimately you’ve got to start with one.

And a matter of traffic design. You can design places to require a car for everything, or you can design them with bike paths everywhere and a good public transit system.

My wife insisted I get a driver’s license when we had kids, because she didn’t want to be the only one taking them everywhere. Usually I’m the one taking them places. And still on my bike or by public transport most of the time.

Ask 10 people in Amsterdam and half would tell you they already haven’t used a car in weeks. The only ones who’d have a problem with it are those who work far away from Amsterdam.

I would replace “dramatic” with “predictable”. Everybody knew it was bullshit. It was like tulip mania, but without actual tulips.

That’s exactly what I’m saying: more options to be safer.

Choosing between no men or all men is certainly better than having no choice at all, but being able to filter out just the creeps would be even better.

And yes, that does mean you need to detect who the creeps are, but sexual harassment is already happening, and it would be good to use that information to stop it from happening.

I think this rule a massive improvement, but I also think it’s very restrictive. Women can only choose to avoid all men, rather than just the creeps. So female drivers who need more passengers might feel forced to accept all men, and female passengers who can’t find a ride, might be forced to accept a ride from any male driver. Which might still be a creep.

I think it’s better to weed out the creeps. I think that’s ultimately better for everybody. Make it harder for creeps to get a ride or passenger, instead of making it harder for women.

Maybe both should be an option.

Quite the opposite.

I wouldn’t mind if they’d implemented this the opposite way: if a woman, driver or passenger, encounters a creep, they could report that in the app and then the creep would automatically be banned from riding with women. That way decent men aren’t affected and women keep more choice in drivers/passengers, and only the creeps are singled out.

I’m pretty sure it’s much, much worse than you think. In fact, I’m fairly sure it’s much worse than I think. Men don’t experience it, women are reluctant to talk about it because some men react aggressively to claims that men react aggressively.

Yeah, this does not sound like it’s going to make our children any safer.

Exactly. We are extremely social animals, hardwired to recognise ourselves in things around us, which I’m sure is super useful and vital for a tribe of hunter gatherers living in a hostile environment. But it means that now we recognise faces and emotions in power outlets and lawn chairs. It’s really not surprising we see intelligence and awareness in LLMs, because we recognise that stuff in everything. We are really poor at the level of critical thought required to deal with this responsibly.