Any intelligent powerful person should be going entirely offline now--if I had net worth over $10mm, I wouldn't own a computer--I would have a secretary control my computer for me. We're going to see really horrible, persistent blackmail in the next few years destroying lives and reputations. It will eventually be the end of the consumer internet.

The best method is, as always, an anti-privacy method.

Simply track all citizens' writing patterns throughout their life, from cradle to grave, then diff with any given text's signature--you'll know if it was human written or not.

Better--opt in--install a "personal text signature" on your devices, sign things that you wrote yourself with it.

But I suppose that's just like the image provenance chips on cameras.

Either way father fascism is more with us than ever, praise him!

Can you back that up? Basically nowhere else I'm aware of do we draw that kind of expansive categorization. A gas station isn't a book store if they have one rack of books next to all the snacks. A book store isn't an electronics shop if they have a rack of e-readers.

Now apply that logic to the whole of the internet..

You might arrive at an old saying, about what the internet is for.

Airport newsstands used to sell adult magazines, do I buy a bottle of water from a porn shop every trip?

You're making the unreasonable assumption of good faith on the part of the app developers.

It could be designed to accurately distinguish citizens from noncitizens, or it could be connected to a database of online agitators, or picking out facial features of targeted minorities without regard to their personal identity, or some combination of all of these and worse. You don't know.

Faces can’t be easily be “faked” in person but they can definitely be misrecognized or recognized correctly against mistagged data. Anything like this needs to be designed with the assumption that errors will be frequent enough that the finding has to be validated before doing something serious.

Once you become a heavy user it no longer reliably triggers appetite, maybe because you get better at recognizing the hunger is fake and focus on other aspects of the high.

You’re wrong about that, look up videos of strongmen and bodybuilder meals/eating routines. The 2 hour workouts at the top of these fields are very calorie intensive.

Bodybuilders eat a lot in the offseason because they're on tons of drugs and trying to maximize the amount of lean mass they can put on, and they eat more in general because when you have 100lb+ more muscle than the average person you have a significantly higher base metabolic rate. You can go on a variety of PED related forums and find IFBB pro's posting food logs, etc., and see that these crazy eating routines are limited to certain parts of the year, and even then have been falling out of favor - the 'lean bulk' for pros is more popular than ever.

Very few IFBB pros are working out in 2 hour sessions, either. Coaches understand junk volume way better now and know that a lot of the work being done previously just wasn't providing much muscle growth stimulus after a certain point. Most are spending <8 hours in the gym each week in general.

The top of the bodybuilding field is not eating a ton of food because of their lifting routines burning a bunch of calories.

I have lifted for 30+ years and something very un-intuitive with powerlifting is the optimal weight class for a height is extremely high.

If you are 5'10" you are pound for pound stronger at 240 than at 198. 198 will be dominated by someone who is shorter otherwise.

You are also much stronger the more you weigh, period. Strongman are eating so much to keep their weight up, not because they are burning so many calories while working out.

Even the most intense prowler workout that will make an untrained person puke their guts out is easy to out eat.

It is easiest to see with a contest bodybuilding diet. Even a 250lb bodybuilder who is doing a ton of working out is basically eating nothing. The body is incredibly efficient at holding on to weight. If it wasn't, humans would have starved to death a long time ago.

Why are the people of Wisconsin taking this without a fight? Sit ins in local FBI branch offices and police stations are in order. Groups of protestors stand in front of police car parking lots—if the piggies can’t leave their sty, they can’t destroy our democracy.

What makes you think people aren't doing that? They are. You're wrong about that last bit, though.

(1) Why are you wasting money renting motels? If you need a shower, use a gym. Get a membership at a cheap one that has a shower (walk in and ask for a tour), or just idle around the sidewalk in gym clothes and walk in after someone. Sleep in your car in a Walmart parking lot or other 24 hour business lot. Conceal yourself properly so you aren’t a target for police or criminals. Motels are too expensive for you to save the money to live

(2) Are you using all 12 of your driving hours on Uber/Lyft? You should be able to make $200-300 / day if you’re in a good area. If the area you’re in is yielding less than that, move somewhere else.

(3) Save $3k or so then get a cheapass apartment or trailer and build from there

Before all of these, apply to local shelters. If they’re going to stop you from working don’t go in. If there are questions they’re going to use to keep you out then lie.

No one wants AI or AI companies to get credit for AI generated art. That would be like giving the camera company a share of movie royalties. The AI is a tool to aid in artistic output. Even if someone does nothing more than write the prompt and then stick their name at the top, they wrote the prompt, which is a creative act, and so under current copyright logic they deserve credit for profits associated with the work.

I see lots of warranted skepticism about the capabilities of this tool, but the reality is that this is an incremental step toward full automation of white collar labor. No, it will not make all analysts jobless overnight. But it may reduce hiring of said people by 5 or 10 percent. And as people get better at using the tool and the tool itself gets better, those numbers will grow. Remember that it took decades for the giant pool of typing secretaries in Mad Men to disappear, but they did disappear. Gone forever. Interestingly, anger about the diminishment of secretarial male white collar work in Germany due to the spread of the typewriter a few decades earlier was one of the drivers of the Nazi Party’s popularity (see Evans, the Rise of the Third Reich).

AI’s triumph in the white collar workplace will be gradual, not instantaneous. And it will be grimly quiet, because no one likes white collar workers the way they like blue collar workers, for some odd reason, and there’s no tradition of solidarity among white collar workers. Everyone will just look up one day and find that the local Big Corp headquarters is…empty.