"Pass me your phone, I want to screenshot a few things and post on social media".

A personal assistant is responsible for their own gross negligence and malicious actions. I can take them to court to attempt to recover damages.

When Anthropic is willing enough to stand behind their agents strongly enough to accept liability for their actions, we can talk.

> Some entity has to be trusted with our data anyway

Why?

Because the government needs to know who you are to do anything involving you. Taxes, drivers' licenses, passports, courts, etc.

There are still a lot of underlying assumptions here worth noting though. You're assuming we must have a government and what it must be able to do, like charge me taxes or gatekeep certain activities behind licensing systems.

I'm not arguing we don't need a government. But to silently take for granted that everything from income taxes to public roads and travel restrictions are a given jumps ahead here.

We could decide, for example, that the government shouldn't be allowed to centralize certain data and remove some of what we expect them to do instead.

> We could decide, for example, that the government shouldn't be allowed to centralize certain data and remove some of what we expect them to do instead.

How exactly government manages our data is a valid concern and in the modern world this needs to be reevaluated.

Yes, I think one ID, presented only as necessary for those interactions, is enough for them to do their job.

It would be good to clamp down on private companies collecting that data.

'Nobody is allowed to do it' remains a valid option.

How would a porn site operate on the internet?

A simple question with a simple answer: as it has done since the inception.

If a kid wants to sneak some porn, he's going to have to hide his digital nudeymag under his digital mattress, and when it's discovered, he'll have to accept his fate as decided by his parents.

What about online alcohol sales?

They can show their ID to the delivery person, or the kids will have to learn how to drink it over the internet.

Same. Proof of eligibility is furnished on delivery, just like it is now.

Assuming AI lives up to the marketing: Why would someone use an app instead of promoting their agent to figure out how to get something done?

Doordash has also enabled home cooks; they no longer have to worry about smashing together ingredients by hand to make dinner. They just prompt the app to make them the food they want.

Doordash is the future of home cooking.

Prepackaged pasta sauces and cake mix. Worse than making it from scratch but enables people with no time to cook more dishes.

Doordash is more like paying someone else to code for you. Luckily that will soon be a thing of the past.

I suggest you stop paying Anthropic, and see how much code gets written. You're absolutely paying someone else to do it for you.

I pay Google £15/month and have never hit the usage limit. But thanks anyway.

edit: I think you might mean vibe coding (and those infamous things that use millions of tokens with no limit) but for programmers using LLMs to code is literally just a tool like anything else and the cost is barely relevant. It's not comparable to contracting out code, and it's not even comparable to eating out in terms of cost!

There are much nore than 2 types of programers, one you forgot are the ones who just need the job and any tool that helps is welcome, also, there the ones that don't care for anything and does programming just because is the only thing that's available to jot work on sales or burger flipping, and the list goes on

They fight each other by stomping on users.

If you want to avoid all pervasive surveillance, it might be wise to not mandate all pervasive surveillance in the OS by law.

In fact, I suspect adults, and not just children, would also appreciate it if the pervasive surveillance was simply banned, instead of trying to age gate it. Why should bad actors be allowed to prey on adults?

Luckily some of these laws, which we're rallying against, make it illegal to pervasively surveil.

I must have missed that. Which of them prevent pervasive data collection on all ages?

The California age input law says that the OS shall not give more data than necessary.

And what are the consequences for application vendors that collect more information, including after the age is collected?

The way to go for this kind of thing is to not go for this kind of thing at all.

It's interesting that you assume there's value in being educated in this hypothetical world of complete passive consumption.

The world you're describing is one where the entire economic value of humanity is in reminding the AI to put out the food bowl and refill the water dish at the appropriate time.

For many, the Culture is an utopia to aspire to, for some is something to run away as fast as possible. Banks himself described the dichotomy.

The interesting thing here is less about what people aspire to, and more about the lack of imagination and thought when considering the world they want to create.

It would be funny if the sleepwalkers weren't trying so hard to drag humanity along.