I've recently read The Cuckoo's Egg and as a person that has been born into technology it's really interesting how Cliff goes to explain concepts that these days are understood as common knowledge.
> AND I can pay them in BTC, further obscuring myself.
Which is not really impressive since BTC can be tracked. What is impressive, however, is you can just mail them cash with a piece of paper with your account number on it and they will add that money as credit on your account.
Considering there are "GPT plagiarism" checkers, I don't think this will become an issue. I wonder at which point an extension will come out that will check a page's text if it was written by a human.
Those checkers already have a significant failure rate of false positives/negatives, and that will only get worse as LLMs come closer to human output. Note also that a checker can in principle never outwit a state-of-the-art AI, because the AI can just incorporate and therefore preempt the checker logic.
That day is closer than you may think. I sometimes only have my phone with me as i can pay using only it (something like Google/Apple pay, but through my bank's app) and can unlock my front door thanks to Home Assistant. Both of those (should, I don't have one) work with a smart watch.
Different type of event, though. Tickets are much more available for that than for Congress; it seems more people don't prefer having to camp out somewhere.
