Here’s my proposal to bring more whimsy to the world:

Let’s legalize piracy on the high seas…but only if the pirates use 17th century-level ships, tools, equipment, and weapons. It will still be legal for other ships to defend themselves, and they can use modern stuff. So no guarantee the historical reenacting pirates will survive. But in the off chance they do, they can keep whatever booty they plunder, and do so legally. Their ships will be too small and fragile to be a threat to big vessels like cargo ships. But it sure would make the lives of billionaire yacht owners more interesting…

“But this isn’t the 17th century. Billionaire yachts are not Spanish galleons laden with gold!” You shout!

But no worry, historically, pirates often took more than valuable cargo. They often seized entire vessels…

What you’re describing sounds like positive nihilism. Nihilism need not be a bad thing. At least as I understand it:

One can say, “all life is pointless, nothing matters, why do anything?” - negative nihilism

Another can say, “all life is pointless, nothing matters, why NOT do anything?” - positive nihilism

I would say positive nihilism describes my personal philosophy to an extent. I tell people that I don’t so much feel the universe is pointless, but a complete absurdity. The universe is mad, so embrace the madness! Mostly this just involves building less of a fear of judgment. What could you ever do that is sillier than the very world around you?

So how do I do that? How specifically do I find a youtube login cookie? I tried searching, but could not find any useful guides.

When I look in Dev tools in firefox I see a big pile of nonsense. I guess what would be really useful here is an installation guide with actual screenshots and detailed instructions. The instructions provided assume a lot of background knowledge that most people will not have.

Sure I could just log in, but I also don’t want to trust my log in details to a random program I download.

Maybe a simple question, but any guides on what this means? I get that it’s supposed to be something in the dev tools, but beyond that, not sure how one is supposed to proceed.

And a nomination for the annual Herman Cain award.

At some point your lack of tracking itself becomes a data point. When someone shows up to a website who is a complete data ghost, the site has to figure out how to react to that. I could see companies saying, “well, if someone has no record, there’s two possibilities. Either one, they’re chronically homeless and are living completely off the grid. Or two, they’re somehow who goes to great lengths to hide their tracks. In the former case, we can ignore them when setting our prices, as they can’t afford our product anyway. In the latter case, we can charge them the maximum, as wealthy people can more afford to care about their privacy, and the person avoiding the tracking will probably assume we’re actually giving them the better deal.”

I imagine most such systems would be set up so that by default the maximum price is charged, and it’s only lowered if tracking data is available to suggest a lower price is more likely to create a more profitable sale.

Has your ability to procreate or the survival of your offspring ever been threatened by burning the roof of your mouth?

There is your answer.

The real issue is that since any fingerprint that can be mandated for AI content must be algorithmically implemented, then that fingerprint can be algorithmically removed.

For example, let’s say companies voluntarily choose or are forced to integrate text fingerprinting into LLM output. Automated AI writing detection tools already exist, but they’re not reliable. But in principle we could make the output of LLMs easy to identify. Maybe we force them to adopt subtle but highly unique patterns of word choice, punctuation, sentence structure, etc. Then if any student attempted to upload an LLM-generated essay to their course website, the system could with high accuracy flag it as AI generated.

But…if those patterns are so clear and unambiguous, it also means they can be easily detected by third party tools. If one person can code ChatGPT to add special fingerprinting to the text ChatGPT creates, another person can create a program that you can paste ChatGPT text into that will remove that fingerprinting.

You’re not going to get hantavirus from walking into a store.

Do you wear gloves every time you touch a door handle?

What exactly is your point?