Hard to get sympathy here.

Output from AGIs used by experienced engineers tends to be vastly different quality than output from these leaders who are too disconnected from the slaughtering.

If governments want to require private companies to verify ages, those same governments need to provide accessible ways for their citizens to get verification documents, starting from the same age that is required.

He also lied about using his computer, his wife told on him to his parole officer, according to the court documents.

He was on parole for DDOSing* a former employer...

*Ah, I see your update, guess it was less distributed and more direct denial of service with the physical destruction and all.

Is there any plans for expansions? I find the different maps to be less interesting. I want some kind of harder progression, higher levels of difficulties and of course more of everything that exists.

I found myself out of stuff to do at ~20 hours (which is awesome and beats a lot of games I've tried to buy.).

The company I work for has embraced Copilot heavily and its been an absolute game changer in terms of productivity. When you have a clear problem, it is quite amazing at producing working code that then can be modified. I've really enjoyed the edit in place feature as well. Yeah, I could go through and do all the work manually, but why waste the time? AI is a big time saver.

Just had to deal with this for the first time in the last two weeks when someone tried to open a fraudulent account in my name... Interestingly, this happens for the first time in my life 2 months after I had to write down all my personal information to get a 0% APR credit card from a jeweler store...

It should be a default frozen system, not a default open system.

Perhaps the brain is simply making use of extraneous matter for energy or its purging out unnecessary neurons. Maybe it decreases creativity, but increases arithmetic ability.

My entire point is we have no idea what the end results are, just because there's a reduction doesn't necessarily indicate a problem.

So at a federal level, it seems relatively clear. The only uncertainty is on the state level.

I see they went to the Supreme Court who kicked it back to the Ninth who then re-affirmed their position that HiQ Labs was not in violation of the CFAA.

This makes doing studies on their effectiveness a neutral to losing scenario.

Either:

The nootropic works. Great, you probably spent a decent amount of money and... The results are still going to be hard to quantify and measure. It may not be good enough results to convince people who already weren't convinced. Might as well not do it and keep making money off people who buy it without scientific studies.

Or

The nootropic doesn't work. Shit. Bury the results and never publish or risk losing a money maker.

Some of those games that you mentioned only contained cosmetic items in the lootboxes.

Gamers as a community have a much more visceral reaction to paying for power in the game, compared to paying for cosmetics.

I ended up just buying it again. Pretty obnoxious.