I had the UK Age verification popup today. It verified immediately based on the age of my Apple account, I didn't have to take any further action. I am much younger than the OP, and probably than their Apple account. I am surprised that this didn't happen for them.

The OP states they've migrated. That might mean that the field on their account database entry might be related to that move. The account is older, but when moving countries I've had to do weird dances to get my Google accounts to accept the new locale, and wouldn't be surprised if their computed account age coincides with me having done that change.

It's like the mastered Factorio and applied it to real life.

Brit here: It is very uncommon.

This is an interesting development. I would predict some of the biggest losers in the AI boom will be Indian (and similar) outsourcing companies. Companies like Wipro and Infosys have thrived off richer countries' businesses wanting grunt work done cheap, not caring necessarily about quality, as long as it meets some baseline functionality. LLMs are very good at this.

In addition, support volume must be taking a hit from AI agents too. When pricing stabilises, will Indian outsourcing still be competitive? Maybe. Maybe less so. If I were working for Infosys right now I'd be a more than a little worried.

Perhaps Anthropic anticipates a glut of engineers in the near future.

It will go to zero, with waves of mass layoffs until AGI has been achieved.

I genuinely can't tell if this is satire or not.

2010 OG account. He's been holding in this opinion for over a decade, waiting for his moment.

Americans always think a British accent is exactly one accent.

Americans think a British accent is either "posh snob" or "chimney sweep."

Meanwhile the rest of the world thinks an American accent is either "Travis Bickle" or "Yosemite Sam."

I live in London part of the year.

Me too. I first assumced it was an OCR error, then remembered they were emails and wouldn't need to go through OCR. Then I thought that the US Government is exactly the kind of place to print out millions of emails only to scan them back in again.

I'm glad to know the real reason!

I just want to add that I would expect the exact same thing from the German government. Glad to see we're not all that different

If you want to become a billionaire, the best way to do it is invent some new addiction.

No need. Profiting fron gambling will do it.

True, existing addictions are a good bet, but a brand new one with no competition, regulation or recognition? That's you you get Zuckerberg wealthy.

AI romance partners is the obvious new frontier here. Just imagine: an automated romance scam and you get to sell their data.

Calling it now: this is ignobel prize-worthy research. If it doesn’t get a nod I’ll eat my hat.

I love this fact. If you're a fish with no neck, the route it takes is the most direct and obvious. But as evolution gradually lengthened necks the route remained the same!