I wonder if EU law could give every citizen a right to a google or Apple account, including a forced recovery option if the account is 'deactivated'?

If at some point such an account becomes essential to function in society, access to such an account becomes a legal mandate.

It might if the subscribers realize/admit that things are failing because they were wrong from the beginning. But that doesn't seem to be how things work.

tow a trailer where? see above.

Pick up a load of dirt or lumber-- how did those materials get to the pick-up point?

And the road you are driving on, where did it come from?

two of the people on the list did it via online gambling. Which is by definition a zero-sum game. No value was created.

equity as written. Ownership. Thus fairness means all have a share in responsibility for success and rewards for that success. Yeah, I agree. Note that I include responsibility as the core part of ownership. I think our society could have more of that.

equality (assumes you made a typo). Do you mean equality of opportunity or equality of outcome? These require different things to remedy.

As someone just hitting the 60 yr old mark, and looking at my parents who are still pretty sharp in their late 80s, -- so definitely talking about myself and my capacity here,

No-one over 70 has any business in a high ranking government office. The mental flexibility isn't there.

Which means no one over 66 should be allowed to run office (yes, I know this puts senators in office until 72, and kicks out representatives at 68, but it also gives a single number which is easier to understand).

It's also a question of accountability. A 40 year old politician will expect/have to live with their choices for another 40 years.

Compare "You are a helpful assistant. Your task is to <100 lines of task description> "

with

"you are a helpless assistant. Your task is to <100 lines of task description> "

I've changed 3 or 4 CHARACTERS ("ful" to "less") out of a (by construction) 1000+ character prompt.

and the outputs are not at all similar.

Just realized I've never tried the "you are a helpless ass" prompt. Again a very minor change in wording, just dropping a few letters. The helpless assistant at least output text apologizing for being so bad at the task.

Also, any evidence or reason to believe that an extraction-based capitalist model is more aligned with customer interests (where the customer is the thing value is extracted from, and where corporate leadership salaries are directly tied to how much they can grift from the customers) than a government where the incentive is to get the maximum number of happy fliers to vote for you?

I'd also appreciate if illegal moves highlighed in a slightly less intense color, so we could see they were illegal. At the moment, when I'm hovering over the board, I don't know if a move is legal or not until I click-- and then it is too late!

Huh. I thought they were actively accelerating the process. Hoping you are right and I am wrong.

So with perfect enforcement (punish everyone over the threshold), how do you enable an 85th percentile rule?