…wade in and look you in the eye and say “This. Feels. Right.”…

Superb, absolutely superb.

Thanks dude, glad someone appreciates it.

Thank you so much for taking the time to summarise and explain all this. I have really enjoyed having a little window into your remarkable world.

Thank you, that was very interesting. I was surprised at the definition of the basic open sets because they felt quite closed to my intuition, so the topology feels discrete to me. It’s definitely Hausdorff, I guess, but that’s no big deal. I’m guessing if you’re saying it uses a lot of the axioms, it uses the axiom of choice. It feels like that kind of arena, but I’m no set theorist. Having been taught by ring theorists, I always found the axiom of choice no big deal and totally uncontroversial, but I’m aware of the existence of mathematicians who feel otherwise, intuitionists (confusing name) and constructivists and the like. Do set theorists have a lot of debate about axioms, is it largely led by consensus, or deeply controversial, or just a case of making clear which you’re using and no one gets excited about it?

Let’s assume I can prove the countability and non countability of various famous sets and, for example, that (a^b)c = a^bc for cardinalities. What’s determinacy?

If the biometric ID is collected and stored by someone else, not only have I lost my anonymity, I’ve also lost control of my identity and there’s no way for me to stop that happening.

This is unequivocally bad for privacy.

Exactly!

Biounique id is an advertiser’s wet dream and I don’t think it’s theoretically possible to prevent it from being exploited for profiling by Google. If the hashed encrypted token retains the uniqueness then it points to you as an individual across time, devices and location changes. There is no escaping this ID. You can’t change it, you can’t get a new one.

Google and other multinational corporations WILL know where you live and can figure out all your personal characteristics with a little time. Your anonymity is gone forever.

Sam Altman saw the film Minority Report in which iris scanners on holographic billboards trigger the advertisements to address you by name, hampering the escape of the central character who was being set up, and thought “Cool, let’s make this. I’m going to be rich! The other dystopian aspects of the film are fiction, but this one I can make real.”

Scan your biounique eyeball to provide ID whilst retaining your anonymity???

Anonymity and the ability for someone else to prove it was me are nearly opposites.

I was pointing out that reposts aren’t reposts for everyone and some new people enjoy old posts fresh.

Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

I think the dare thing is consistent with the mismatched shoes.

Definitely a dare. Probably also drunk, yes. That or his boyfriend always likes to have easy access.

I have previously characterised conservatism as primarily a lack of empathy. This quote does not bode well for America.

Very much so.

Acknowledged.

Pretty much every country has a mating season. It’s late autumn / early winter here in the UK. Birthdays all year round, but definitely peaking nine months after those long nights.

Thank you for answering the big questions for us all.

Vinnie Jones on meth.