Yes.

I agree with the sentiment but not with the advice “commit a felony to avoid maybe getting a felony”. There isn’t a chance you’ll get charged with destroying evidence if they’re already looking at you under a microscope like your hypothetical.

Anyone that concerned needs to just not store sensitive data on their phone, and use a messaging app that doesn’t permanently store messages, either. That way you didn’t erase your phone, AND they find nothing. Attempting to secure your data from the cops while you’re already under the lens with a warrant is far too late.

Another case is if they get a warrant for whatever’s on your phone, you knew, and then erased your phone.

Warrants make more sense, because a warrant can be issued just due to probable cause. They need that cause, but that cause doesn’t have to be directly related to your phone. Once you know they have a warrant to search it, you would qualify as “knowingly” altering or destroying evidence.

Dang I didn’t know they got that cheap.

Thanks for the search advice.

Honestly I feel this was always the goal (one of several), but R&D is expensive. Shipping an odd phone that people still buy keeps the shareholders happy while the multi-year research process can eventually produce more usable results.

Single-flip phones were the awkward teenagers, now this phone can be the 18-20 age young adult, fully featured, but needing refinement. Next gen or the one after this will add a lot more robustness.

The boring but truthful answers of “I have bills that can easily soak it all up without an issue (mortgage, student loans, car, etc)” have been said, so assuming I cannot use it to repay any debts, and I have to make actual new purchases, I’d buy things that I could pay for now but enjoy for a long time. 3-year VPN plan, multi-year phone plan, gift cards to restaurants (especially with a bulk discount like at a Costco), etc. Upgrade my cockatiels to a cage that goes wall to wall with real plants hanging out and all that. The little things that cost enough that I don’t get them but not enough to be a life-changer. Probably be a good amount left, I’d get a moped or electric bike of some kind, and I’d upgrade my laptop to a stupid powerful one.

Thats part of correctness to me, delivering an order that taco bell actually would make is important.

Semantics aside, though, we agree. That’s very important.

They do, my concern is more about if that JSON is correct, not just well-formed.

Also, 18000 waters might be correct JSON, but makes an AI a bad cashier.

Its just an API.

There’s a few ways they could go about it. They could have part of the prompt be something like “when the customer is done taking their order, create a JSON file with the order contents” and set up a dumb register essentially that looks for those files and adds that order like a standard POS would.

They could spell out a tutorial in the prompt, "to order a number 6 meal, type “system.order.meal(6)” calling the same functions that a POS system would, and have that output right to a terminal.

They could have their POS system be open on an internal screen, and have a model that can process images, and have it specify a coordinate pair, to simulate a touch screen, and make it manually enter an order that way as an employee would.

There’s lots of ways to hook up the AI, and it’s not actually that different from hooking up a normal POS system in the first place, although just because one method does allow an AI to interact doesn’t mean it’ll go about it correctly.

Weren’t in the Epstein files as far as you know.

But yeah I had rats I’d vote for them over trump for anything.

Genie in the OP image would’ve said “OK you now have 0 wishes”.

Since he said 255, my interpretation is a valid solution.

Of course, if we’re talking hypothetical wish gaining prevention methods, I’d just have a check before,

previous_wishes = wishes;

{Do all the wish things. wishes ends up with a 255 because of our shenanigans}

If(wishes>=previous_wishes) wishes = previous_wishes-1;

;If the current number of wishes isnt less than the old number of wishes, set it to the old number and subtract 1

If(wishes==0) {/*TODO: write function to end wish giving sequence*/}

Nah theres just no process for undoing your submission.

It doesn’t matter when it’s decremented if you can’t interrupt the process, anyway.

In a code sense we pause for input, feed it to the wishmaker function, and pause until the thread returns, then decrement.

We could decrement first, also, but neither violates the rules.

You’re correct but you have an off by 1 error.

First, the genie grants the wish.

NumWishes=0;

Then, having completed the wish, the genie deducts that wish from the remaining wishes.

NumWishes–;

And to complete the thought,

Lastly, the genie checks if the lampholder is out of wishes

If(NumWishes==0) {…}

(255==0) evaluates to False, so we fall past that check.

I just learned about one, because of all this. A newer one. Gnu Taler

https://www.taler.net/en/index.html

Also, crypto, technically. Its got a lot of baggage though, and hoops and all that.

*hippochrissy

A lot of our neurons are with us for our whole life. Early neuron degeneration is what causes Alzheimer’s, Parkinsons, and similar disorders.

Not all neurons last a lifetime, and there are kinds that die off and are replaced, but a good chunk of them aren’t meant to replicate anymore and so won’t be freed of microplastics by bloodletting, and would cause serious problems if microplastics harm their normal processes.

Regular cells die or split regularly. When they die, white blood cells eat them, and they’ll be part of filtering the blood.

Neurons don’t though. There’s still some concerns.

Oh that’s unfortunate. Well I don’t mind not supporting people like that so I’ll give it a go

Do you mean play disco Elysium or is there some drama associated with it?

Well the IRS says it is accurate.

It doesn’t say accurate to what standard but I think its pretty clear that “tax law” is the default here.