I think you need to re-read the parent comment, specifically this part:
> I'd much rather all of the resources that are going into autonomous cars was instead going into proper public transit infrastructure.
You're almost certainly an American, and you probably have no idea what public transit is like in countries that have been investing in it for decades instead of focusing 95% of their resources on infrastructure for cars.
Here's the most readable reference to playing favorites on passkey vaults I could find from the FIDO Alliance (the previously mentioned 'cabal of evil').
See Section 2.2: "Validating FIDO UAF authenticator attestations against the configured authenticator metadata to ensure only trusted authenticators are registered for use. "
And Section 2.3: "Verify attestation assertions made by the FIDO UAF Authenticators to ensure the authenticator is authentic and trusted. Verification occurs using the attestation public key certificates distributed via authenticator metadata. "
Basically, Relying Parties (the sites you are logging in to) are expected to allow/disallow certain passkey authenticators (the devices or software that hold your passkeys), based on registration and trusted lists. The FIDO Alliance can use entry into those trusted lists as a cudgel to force compliance with the standard. Effectively, the standard is that users must be locked into to proprietary ecosystems, unable to escape.
> We're in the same situation now, with your access to the Internet - commerce, social networking, information - going through a walled garden of Gemini or OAI or Ant or Perplexity.
Really? I'm still using the internet, and I don't touch any of that stuff.
> by providing developers the ability to choose to use their own AI tooling
Wait, what does that have to do with any of what you said before? That doesn't sound like "access to the Internet."
> create a viable alternative to a bleaker, non-open Internet.
And now you've switched back to talking about the open (or not) Internet, which has nothing to do with "developers [choosing] their own AI tooling".
It sounds like you're just pursuing your own pet project while trying justify it using the language of internet freedom.
> The writing was fine, and each individual paragraph was fine, but the whole thing together was meandering and dare I say pointless. It was so many words and yet so little seems to have been said.
It a heisenberg satire because more agents going wild is indeed horrible but agents restricting and counterbalancing each other can be useful (token cost ignored!).
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