What is the adequate explanation via stupidity in this case though? If there is one that sure maybe we should lean that way without further evidence.

The above is from the author early on. So they go out of their way to point out that it is an estimate and also point out the mechanism that allows it work as an estimate in some conditions. "when infected people breathe out virus aerosols, they also breathe out CO2."

The article does not reenforce this through out the article though and leaves it to the reader to keep in mind.

You are right it is hard to use it for anything else though given the constraints.

> An operator that receives a signal in accordance with 20this Section shall use that signal to comply with this Section 21but shall not: 22 (1) request more information from an operating system 23 provider or a covered application store than the minimum 24 amount of information necessary to comply with this 25 Section;

You know the age bracket but nothing else and are not allowed to store more data on the topic to figure anything out. So you can not legally figure out someones age by keeping track of when they change age brackets.

> In fact they don't define at all what "obtaining verifiable parental consent" should or shouldn't involve.

It is the "Account holder". The user that set up the account and provide the age is considered the parent or legal guardian.

facebook and similar social media companies have a ton of ways to get peoples age and or to narrow it down.

> either way, in the end facebook will know that your child is 6-9.

The main point of the law is not about restricting facebook or similar operator in the laws lanuage from knowing user ages. Though the does say the age bracket can not be used for anything other than to implement the intent of the law.

> The power is then in facebook's hands. Facebook won't see a copy of their government issued ID, but what difference does that make when they've got their age, their selfies, and a list of every friend and family member.

May not matter much for facebook or similar, it matters a bunch for any random website/forum/service you might sign up for where the intent of the service is not about public posting that sort of personal infromation.

My comment was not about what I knew/know about facebook or not. I was answering the question of why age verification should be externalized to a degree and in this case externalized means the power stays with the user and parents rather than being in the hands of say facebook/meta.

I was not talking about why facebook/meta would want it or not want it. Large companies want lots of different things. Sometimes it is required to know their motivations to discuss or decide on something. I think it can be detrimental to do that though without discussing/analyzing a topic/idea on its own merits first or at least parallel. My comment was focused on the merits not the motivations or desires of companies like facebook.

> (b) An operator shall request a signal with respect to a particular user from an operating system provider or a covered application store when the application is downloaded and launched.

Unlike the California law I do not see anything that restricts this to child accounts only.

So let say I have a program:

    print("Hello, World!")

    import ageBracket
    ageBracket.get()
    print("Hello, World!")

I think that main goal would be to keep the ability to have accounts be anonymous or pseudo anonymous.

If social mean company has to verify an accounts age themselves they then have to use some for of official government identification and with that any chance of anonymous or pseudo anonymous access.

So we have to pay some 3rd party service to hoard information about Children? Why we want to set that up? Why would we want to take that power from the parents and give it to some company?

Going over what I quoted:

> You can’t serve up intentionally stale information without inviting legal repercussions.

Keeping information fresh and up to date is something technology has helped with in many areas. If there is a reasons why it can not help here then I an interested in why or that the current tech already does a good enough job in this area.

> These are being revised and updated right up until the point they are released to provide the most accurate reporting possible.

Technology can help verify last minute changes, running a test suite for example or similar. How hard that is to make or maintain though may make impractical.

> You gravely underestimate the legal seriousness of these reports.

Having an audit trail and known processes may be helpful here too if the current tooling is not adequate.

I quoted parts of the comment that looked like areas where tech has already helped in other areas. What I want to find out are details about what exists, why people think it can not be better, or why pervious attempts have failed, or why things are currently optimal.

> These are being revised and updated right up until the point they are released to provide the most accurate reporting possible.

> You gravely underestimate the legal seriousness of these reports.

All of these seem look like an argument for additional automation.

Do you have examples? This seems like something that is a solvable problem, and from the outside it can seem like it is only about not being willing to switch to a new paradigm. That unwilling ness can come from avoiding real consequences like loosing a competitive edge due to allocation of resources to the switchover.

I do not think the new rules or for this use case or at least not target at them.

None of the examples I looked at from Dang's post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342616 look like gramarly edits that are hard to notice.

> This thread just lets a certain kind of people put on their best condescending hall-monitor voice and lecture other people about how they should behave.

I think it is, at least mostly, about the blatant cases that are often already down voted and flag and make it official.

> And the rule is arguably less useful than speed limits and will be broken about as often (at least speed limits have a very real link to physical safety via kinetic energy).

I often see the rules in: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html broken, mostly small ways, I still think we are better off with them or something similar rather than having nothing.

Any primer/link on what current libertarians believe is welcome.

Looking at your search though I think we have to exclude today or at least this thread to get a fair look how llm generated is thrown around or not https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1773187200&dateRange=custom&...

Most of the comments I saw on the first page are not an accusation but there are some there 2 of the 3 I looked at looked pretty clear cut, while the 3rd was poorly written hype which looks like llm output, but I have seen similar from humans before at least from what I read, in either case it was flagged appropriately.

Another voice might add citations to every little detail to the point that it is hard to read, but makes a great reference and/or starting point for additional research.

Voice is not really separate from content, in part it is the choices of what content to include.

For now I would argue when ai edits for you instead of helping you edit. Take a look at the examples that Dang posted if you have not yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342616

The first 5 I looked at were pretty egregious and not subtle.

"Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments."

What about non-native speakers? Can they not use translation software like google translate any more?

"Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments, except for translating to english"

What about cases of disabilities?

"Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments, except for translating to english and when used as assistive technologies."

Some translation tools and assistive technologies are still going to case the same issues that we have right now so maybe limit the technologies used

"Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments, except for translating to english and when used as assistive technologies. Technologies x, y, z are not allowed a and b and similar can be used for translation c and d as assistive technologies"

But we do not want to spend time/effort on filtering technologies and/or people into the above categories.

In the long run we likely will come up with technologies that most everyone is satisfied with using in different use cases, spelling grammar, assistive, maybe even tone, and others.

In the mean time we can not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. If there are clear standards that achieve the goals, great, if not we have to do something until everything shakes out.