Real cross-device passwordless is likely coming in the next year or so. WebAuthn/Passkey is in its 3rd public working draft[1] and once finalized, we'll likely start to see it across sites. Most devices, browsers and managers have added or are adding support for it: Apple, Microsoft, Google, Auth0, Duo, 1Password, etc. If you haven't seen it, Auth0's demo is helpful[2].
The article mentions attention economy as in media, TikTok, etc playing a role before "community assessment." But it's not like scientists don't also gravitate towards the new shiny thing in their own ways.
And yet, ~10% of Americas still believe the study. [1]
[0] https://briandeer.com/mmr/lancet-summary.htm
[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/276929/fewer-continue-vaccines-...
Have you heard of inheritance?
> A staggering 70 percent of wealthy families lose their wealth by the next generation, with 90 percent losing it the generation after that.
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/generational-wealth%3A-why-d...
Death provides a natural mechanism to reset wealth and power. Without it, power will accumulate to those who already have it, forever.
Hans has a string of games at 100% correlation[0], meaning he's playing perfect games. Past players who achieved this later went on to admit to cheating[1]. Magnus knows this because he owns part of chess.com and presumably sees the data.
Magnus has a lot riding on his statement. He wouldn't make it unless he was sure.
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As a note, it appears to use Elastic's 2.0 license preventing selling software that includes this library [1]
[0] https://nlnet.nl/project/JSON-Joy/
[1] https://github.com/streamich/json-joy/blob/master/LICENSE