The lesser version is called Rohypnol. It's already used by exactly the people you would normally expect to use a Persuadatron in this world to do exactly the things one would expect such people to do with/to their victims.

Disintegrators are probably perfect for making toxic waste disposal much easier.

A billion here, a billion there. Over some time it might become quite a sum.

Of course they hacked voting machines to audit their security. Apart from that, voting machines can't fulfill the transparency requirements of democratic elections on principle. So just not using them would be better anyway.

Good propaganda is. The recipe is to use some facts and add a cause, derive a conclusion, exaggerate the fact, mention other facts irrelevant in the context but implying something in combination...
Just lying gets you the people already in you camp. The others don't have a reason to believe you. But if you add some facts, the lies become easier to believe if the person doesn't already know better.

I tried AI-everything (apart from code review of course). But it's just too hard. Letting the AI do bigger things results in subtle, hard to find, but devastating design fails and errors. It's fractal. No matter what layer I look at, it's always sort-of working but also bugged in subtle and sometimes hard-to-fix ways.
So I don't do that. Instead I use the AI as an assistant while I still do most of the actual work. I downgraded my account too because I never reached the limits for a while.

Muricans know very well how to fight - as long as it's not in their own country and not for freedom and democracy.

We are the good guys.

Apart from caffeine (which is definitely a stimulant and therefore a drug) I also use sweets and other carbs recreationally and to enhance my performance at work.

I guess, players refused to play games which lack contrast and expose them to the same politics they are already experiencing in their daily lives. Maybe all the newer games needed for success was an integrated mini game about the character doing their taxes.

That's a bit extreme. But yeah, the US constitution actually legalizes Luigi in extreme cases. And if the next election would somehow just not happen for a year that would probably the exact case that rule had been written for.

It somewhat makes sense to not depend on foreign infrastructure. Every government should only use AI domestic to their geopolitical bloc.

My IDE told me that there is a new version of some library which fixes security bugs. I asked the AI what will break if I update. It actually found out that the new version requires a license key which has to be updated yearly even for the free use case. So I had it refactor the single use of that library to use another library instead. I then polished the refactored code myself a bit.

When I am done with something, I ask the AI what it thinks about the changes. It then tells me where I violated the style guide and sometimes it finds silly bugs I somehow missed. In rare cases it also finds serious stuff. the code definitely never got worse by having the AI look over it. Btw, looking at it doesn't mean changing it. I had to tell it to save in its memory files that it should only change anything when explicitly asked to.

When I am not sure why something is like it is, I ask the AI. It then comes up with one or more potential explanations and often I then remember what was actually the reasoning if it's my own code or the code becomes somewhat understandable when it's written by someone else.

When some behavior looks like it should be impossible, I ask the AI how it's possible, and it usually tells me the actual reason or gets close enough to make it much easier for me to find it.

When I'm unsure how to implement something, I discuss some options with the AI. It's reasoning isn't always sound. But sometimes the internal dialog is just not enough and chatting with AI works surprisingly well for me.

Just treat it like an extremely knowledgeable college with a serious psychedelics addiction. Can't let it do stuff unattended. But when it isn't hallucinating, it is pretty capable. Also, it doesn't care how much you ask it. In general, every easy to explain task with easy to verify results and low damage on failure can be done by AI. But it is often faster to just do something yourself than explain it to the AI and polish the result.

I wonder whether the famous French revolution would even be possible with all the surveillance tech of today.

Yes. There are the rare exceptions. But since I had to tell it to save to it's memory that it isn't allowed to change stuff without a command to do so and that it shall treat my questions as just that (this is likely the actually important part). Then I had to scold it a few times when it ignored the rules. And since then, it actually does obey very consistently.
I use Claude Code, but would expect any frontier LLM to have some "memory" system (in case of Claude Code just an index file and one file per memorized rule or fact).

I first saw something like multi-session "memory" in AIDungeon years ago. It was slow and with only a few kB of context not worth using. But that was literally a toy.

My reaction to the accusation and general stance is that I would absolutely not want to defend you if someone steals your stuff.
Btw, I don't see how making people hate you helps you achieving whatever your actual goal is.

It's fine to not order stuff online yourself. Preventing others from getting what they ordered isn't.
She should find a hobby which isn't purely about annoying her environment. Want to be an activist? Well, United Healthcare still exists...

Granny did the risk assessment and decided that ease of use and low-maintenance is more important than security when it comes to everyday family matters.

Not everyone ends in jail when they fuck up their opsec. Granny doesn't run an online cocaine business.

"We don't need our own backups. The cloud takes care of everything."

Piracy isn't stealing either way. It's just copyright infringement.