@cstross I think the people currently riding this train - from Altman & Amodei to Nvidia, Google & Microsoft, as well as all the investors, of course - are so used to fabricating money out of thin air, simply by saing ever-larger numbers as if they're magic incantations, that they think this will just happen ad infinitum; that the world will simply keep creating money until their gamble pays off.

@cstrossThis proposal has been in the works for several years, has been developed in house by the civil service to build on the One Login system, and storing various docs on the gov.uk wallet was due to be rolled out this Autumn. It was announced in the spring to include helpful docs such as driving licences, right to work, right to rent, veterans cards. No complaints from anyone.Starmer rebrands a digital doc wallet as BritCard Digital ID, says it will be compulsory, and all hell breaks loose. The thing is, it can't be made universal, as the programme already explains. Those not working or renting, or those with no phones, make alternative processes essential.Starmer is an idiot. He's blown up a perfectly good planned service, by adding expectations he can't have, now the Wallet programme is tainted by association.https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/office-for-digital-identities-and-attributes@AlisonW

@cstross our vacuum cleaner's LIDAR has detected the existence of a mirror universe

@cstross Thing is, even the *correct* answers it gives are also hallucinations, in the sense that they happen more or less by chance, in imitation of text it's seen in its training.