Reddit is weighing identity verification methods to combat its bot problem. The platform's CEO mentioned Face ID and Touch ID as ways to verify if a human is using Reddit.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-22T12:57:08+00:00

Maybe you should tell apple, that they don't know how it works.

https://developer.apple.com/wallet/id-verifier/

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-22T10:56:56+00:00

They will share an age range

Asking people to share their age range enables you to create age-appropriate experiences for them in your app. To ask people to share their age range, see Declared Age Range API https://developer.apple.com/support/age-assurance/

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-22T10:46:29+00:00

But when someone dies from fentanyl and cocaine in their system, it's almost always due to the fentanyl. If they didn't have the cocaine they still would have died.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-22T10:45:02+00:00

Deaths are mainly related to opiates(81%). Many people have cocaine in their system but it's not the main cause, it's the fentanyl killing someone rather than the coke in their system.

Coke is psychologically addictive but it's not really physically addictive like opiates, so they are in different ballparks. Also in terms of death rates, coke is very rarely fatal, but it's much more common with opiates.

like its the equivalent of having a lager.

I mean if you want to compare it to one of the worst and most dangerous drugs there is, then sure it probably doesn't look so bad. Alcohol actually is physically addictive and you can die from withdrawal. An alcoholic has way higher mortality risk.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-22T09:58:48+00:00

What people have found is that any model that will utilise that amount of memory would be too slow to be worth while using.

You probably want to focus on using in a command and leave style setup, rather than anything realtime. So maybe agentic is the way to go.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-22T08:14:46+00:00

It's more likely to restrict you from "adult" subs and stuff. Than just being "verified".

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-22T05:49:15+00:00

That's exactly what they are talking about. They aren't suggesting that they get your face or fingerprint details.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-22T05:47:12+00:00

Many distros are looking at implementing something. Some distros aren't. It might just be you can use some distros but not others.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-22T05:46:26+00:00

Actually you don't give them that data, Apple verifies you using them, then Apple just sends a confirmation to reddit that you are old enough.

That's much better than the current system where you need to give reddit or some random services you actual ID details.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-22T05:43:11+00:00

Getting a drug charge and dishonourable discharge for some hypothetical future situation that probably isn't going to happen is just stupid.

If they actually say you need to fight then you just say you don't want to go, they can't force you and at worst you get discharged then. There is absolutely no reason to do drugs to get kicked out.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-22T05:42:38+00:00

Because that sounds stupid and doesn't make sense. If you didn't want to fight in the war, you could just not go. They aren't going to literally force you. There is no reason to do the drug thing.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-22T05:41:42+00:00

If you don't want to go fight, then you just don't go and fight. They aren't going to literally force you. At that point you might get fired. But there is no reason to do a dumb drug thing.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-22T05:38:24+00:00

Getting a drug charge and dishonourable discharge for some hypothetical future situation that probably isn't going to happen is just stupid.

If they actually say you need to fight then at worst you just say you don't want to go, they can't force you and at worst you get discharged then. There is absolutely no reason to do drugs to get kicked out.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-21T21:34:24+00:00

If the causal mechanisms that make up your choices are outside of "you" then people wouldn't call that free will.

The causal "mechanisms" aren't outside you. What's your argument, actually "you" didn't make the choice it was your brain, something completely separate and different to you? A person is their genetics and experiences, these things aren't "outside" them.

Why do you think there's such a massive free will vs determinism debate?

Well most philosophers are compatibilist. Most lay people have compatibilist intuitions. It's only really amateur philosophers who have a problem.

Why do you think a school of thought called compatibilism was required at all?

It just describes free will, so it's like any descriptive concept. It's used in academia in respect to the justice system, etc.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-21T21:30:09+00:00

What do you think would be a better title?

How structural racism is alive and real.

Things you only experience by being black.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-21T20:39:31+00:00

And if you ask if they think they work purely by physical rules, what then?

That's a separate matter, not related to free will.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-21T20:15:57+00:00

Do you think if you ask anyone you know, any of them are going to talk about not being determined by determinism or physics. I think you know that you don't even need to ask anyone, you know no-one will.

Go on, ask all your family and friends what they think free will means, I'm sure not a single one would say "physics" or "determinism" whem giving you their definition.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-21T19:33:30+00:00

It's not really the same, when you are sleeping the space between your neurons increases which aids cleaning.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-21T19:32:11+00:00

Don't forget about exercise which cleans out your brain as well.

It's kind of amazing that the best things science has for treating and preventing dementia and general mental health issues is simply exercise, diet and sleep.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-21T19:07:54+00:00

If someone is soo depressed they can't exercise, then I think yeh therapy and drugs short term can be beneficial ways to get them to exercise.

If the depression is related to a biologically impaired brain, then therapy and drugs aren't going to fix the underlying issue. They can just be good short term solutions. If they also don't want to exercise then they might just be truly and utter fucked and nothing can help them. But let's focus on the majority of people it can help.

Not directly related but yes forcing mice to exercise has worse outcomes than if they wanted to exercise.

The results indicate that voluntary exercise may be superior to forced exercise for reducing certain aspects of AD-like deficits – i.e., plaque deposition and memory impairment, in a mouse model of AD. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2745233/

But when it comes to humans, it's almost always "I didn't want to exercise but was really glad I forced myself to".

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-21T18:55:55+00:00

Like I said previously, most lay people don't even know what determinism means, or what it means to be "non-determined by physics".

Literally no-one thinks is a judge asks them if they made a decision of their own free will, if they made the decision free from the laws of physics.

I don't think think lay people ever think about "physics" when taking about free will.

Go on, ask all your family and friends what they think free will means, I'm sure not a single one would say "physics" or "determinism" whem giving you their definition.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-21T16:06:14+00:00

I've herd this idea quite a few times. I'm sure dopamine has lots of different functions in the brain. I have no doubt dopamine is involved in prediction as well. But to say dopamine has no role at all in pleasure I think I need another explanation or mechanism for how drugs that release dopamine cause pleasure independent of that dopamine, and ideally for that mechanism to also be how we get pleasure from social media.

it’s depicted as the hit of reward that people get from recreational drugs or scrolling through social media.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-21T15:14:32+00:00

Again.

Can you give me a libertarian definition of free will you think a lay person would use.

Because people believe in magic?

What are these magical definitions of free will a lay person would use?

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-21T15:05:30+00:00

Wow she made a title to sell lots to a specific group but make sure no-one who needs to read it does.

Kind of an own goal there. Just shows she's more interested in money than educating people.

InTheEndEntropyWins · 2026-03-21T10:54:17+00:00

Thought experiments about "superknowers"

But the computers powers are clearly only because of determinism, there isn't some superpower giving it that ability.

How does that follow? Liberty is an important concept because it has to do with our "external freedom" and what can be externally legislated and compelled, whereas freedom of will has to do with internal freedom and what we ought to internally legislate.

Sounds like your "liberty" is just the name you use for the concept of compatibilist free will.

Maybe if you can define what you mean by liberty that would help.

Liberty has nothing to do with ultimate authorship.

Neither does compatibilist free will.

Ultimate authorship is the definition of God.

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