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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.

Lol, not going to do it. Been mildly electrocuted too many times to mess around with something like this.

More so curious about the physics here, but I see it's basically a roll of the dice that it does work and doesnt just fry everything.

Any serious DIY person can just splice an extra male plug onto a cord faster than driving to the store and reading this sign.

Holy shit, does that work?

I'm only familiar with having a generator properly wired into the house system at the panel, not some electrical Uno Reverse.

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.

Well, you do use it, but just the one time.

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.

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.

Lived in West Africa. 14 was common, with a few "promised" kids as low as 8/9/10. To dudes in their 30s and 40s.

But hey, the US has this all the time, and is no better than developing countries in some states.

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.

Also true, no doubt there.