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Cake day: June 16th, 2023
  • In the USA, it was 21 until the 1970’s. It got changed as people pointed out that you could be drafted and forced to die for your country at that age, but you couldn’t help choose the people to make that decision. Given than 18 is the age when you legally become a legal adult, it was decided that 18 made a good age to gain the right to vote.

    A major argument I’ve heard around it becoming younger is compulsory education. There is a fear, likely unjustified, that high school teachers would get a lot of control over part of the voting block since they would be able to tell students how to vote.

  • Right now, the state of the art appears to be that LLM’s are far more expensive to run than humans for many tasks. So, yeah, it is a lie.

    There are uses for specialty AI that seem to work well, but they are usually bespoke for a certain task.

    I expect that, if AI is used in 2027, it is going to be used with a lot more intent in targeted uses. I also expect some companies are going to realize it is better to fully control their own AI on their own hardware than to use a more state of the art AI which will use all their data as training data.

  • Actually, it depends on the state/city. There is no federal sales tax; all sales taxes are determined at the state and municipal level and are only charged at the final point of sale. Some states or cities allow for limited versions of what you’re talking about; Washington State rebates sales taxes for Oregon residents.

    However, why isn’t this typical across all states? It turns out that taxes tourists is generally more popular than taxing residents. This is especially true if the tax is enacted by referendum. For instance, a lot of stadiums are publicly funded via hotel room and rental car taxes.