2035? I’d have argued most of these things are already here or at least trivially close…

no privacy - Corporate overlords have been declaring us “post-privacy” for a looooong-ass time, and Governments and their enforcers have been chomping at the bit for at least as long, because they want in on the game

robot cops - Palantir Gotham plus semi-autonomous drones; It’s a question of degree, not of when.

robots displacing workers - Has literally been happening for more than half a century; The current LLM bullshit is going to give it another push, obviously.

robot rights - Well, are LLM companies just violating copyright or are LLMs simply ordinary artists that learn by looking at other folks art, just like their human forebears? (It doesn’t matter what you think, it matters what we as society ultimately make of that and I wouldn’t be optimistic)

criminals with hundreds of drones - They’ve been running humongous botnets for decades; If they see a business case for doing something drone-wise in meatspace they’ll absofuckinglutely do so today rather than tomorrow, and maybe they already are and we’re just not aware because it’s still flying under the radar.

If you aren’t expecting some variation of full-on Cyberpunk right now I honestly don’t know what you’re waiting for…

chuckle Oh noes!

Thanks for the clarification.

Well, I’d expect Meta to drag their feet as much as they can, tbh. So: Years and as many “regrettable” technical hiccups and UX inconveniences as they can get away with without having to pay too stiff a fine. Same as always.

I am aware of adverserial interoperability, but, frankly, it’s one of those ideas that make me chuckle benevolently. I don’t see much practical merit in it. As for Facebook getting big that way in the first place: I strongly disagree. They got big by being early, good enough to capture the zeitgeist, and then being as anticompetitve as they could. Just like Microsoft before them, for example.

Who ever promised that? Just because both use Axolotl/Double Ratchet? hat is far from enough. Not to mention that neither Meta nor Signal Messaging have any economic incentive to do it…