Recent comments by the new Japanese PM stating that an invasion of Taiwan may trigger an "existential crisis" for Japan that would allow them to deploy self defense forces to defend Taiwan.
It's created a gigantic diplomatic and economic fight between Japan and China.
For a lot of people for a long time your insurance card (that didn't have a photo) was the only "identification" you had. Otherwise you had to bring your school ID, work ID etc.
Most people don't have drivers licenses cause they take the train. When you sign up for banks etc you usually have to get a bunch of official documentation from the local ward office with your information.
Proof of identity in Japan has always been a bit of a hazy problem. You sign most documents still with a family stamp, so the idea of what legally is defined as identifying is kind of vague.
Most local offices aren't networked up, so when you move you have to register with your local ward office and the japanese beauricratic army goes and gets the previous ward office to fax over your info.
"My Number" is the japanese governments attempt to get all that stuff wired together in one database.
Those aren't going to last long when the carriers start requiring traffic source attestation.
Yes the "my number card" (national ID) was mostly a volunteer thing but now that it's needed for health insurance it's required of everyone
Japan just hooked up the national health insurance to the national ID.
Looking at this and hearing the Indiana Jones theme.
Even if you assume human nature is greed, it's also human nature to have their babies eaten by wolves but I don't see anyone suggesting we should center our society on baby tossin' wolf pits.
Real life Ralph Wiggum "and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me" comment
They said they can't do that in the article:
but at the same time, we cannot 'take over' the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications
"Infini-attention" isn't perfect memory, it's highly compressed representations of the entire history. (https://arxiv.org/html/2404.07143v1).
Much like quantization. The longer the context gets the worse the compression makes recall.