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This is an anecdotal fallacy. Because you would be fine does not mean others would be given the same circumstances.

by davely 3y ago

philwelch 3y ago
I was responding to: > I really wish we had a universe simulator so you could see how miserably you would fail to survive an environment like that. So go take up your objections with the guy I was replying to instead of coming at me and moving the goalposts. I agree that kids these days are weak and coddled and not emotionally resilient enough. And this kind of safetyism is the exact reason why.
- Spivak 3y ago
  The universe simulator in question would deprive you of your memories and life experience. For all you know while you're in it you're a teenage girl with all the trappings and insecurities of being raised as such, you always have been and this is your whole and only world and future you're watching fall apart. Like yeah I'm not at all shocked the HN everyman mid 30s white dude wouldn't really care about his nudes being spread around. The point of the simulator comment was I wish you could truly experience how different life is for women.
  - philwelch 3y ago
    At some point this “universe simulator” concept is nonsense because if I don’t retain some aspect of my own personality and mental capacity, it’s not me in the simulator anymore. For all I know, maybe I’m a sentient mushroom from Alpha Centauri except I’m in a “universe simulator” where I am experiencing the life of a human being here on Earth having arguments on Hacker News. Maybe when I come out of the universe simulator I will have a greater empathy for your species. The hypothetical risk of AI-generated deepfake nudes is, in principle, no different from what you could do with Photoshop even when I was a teenager. It’s easier to send the fake nudes to everybody these days, but I seriously doubt anybody would have been genuinely fooled and it would reflect more on whoever made and disseminated the fakes.

This is an anecdotal fallacy. Because you would be fine does not mean others would be given the same circumstances.

by davely 3y ago

This is an anecdotal fallacy. Because you would be fine does not mean others would be given the same circumstances.

I was responding to: > I really wish we had a universe simulator so you could see how miserably you would fail to survive an environment like that. So go take up your objections with the guy I was replying to instead of coming at me and moving the goalposts. I agree that kids these days are weak and coddled and not emotionally resilient enough. And this kind of safetyism is the exact reason why.

Spivak 3y ago
The universe simulator in question would deprive you of your memories and life experience. For all you know while you're in it you're a teenage girl with all the trappings and insecurities of being raised as such, you always have been and this is your whole and only world and future you're watching fall apart. Like yeah I'm not at all shocked the HN everyman mid 30s white dude wouldn't really care about his nudes being spread around. The point of the simulator comment was I wish you could truly experience how different life is for women.
- philwelch 3y ago
  At some point this “universe simulator” concept is nonsense because if I don’t retain some aspect of my own personality and mental capacity, it’s not me in the simulator anymore. For all I know, maybe I’m a sentient mushroom from Alpha Centauri except I’m in a “universe simulator” where I am experiencing the life of a human being here on Earth having arguments on Hacker News. Maybe when I come out of the universe simulator I will have a greater empathy for your species. The hypothetical risk of AI-generated deepfake nudes is, in principle, no different from what you could do with Photoshop even when I was a teenager. It’s easier to send the fake nudes to everybody these days, but I seriously doubt anybody would have been genuinely fooled and it would reflect more on whoever made and disseminated the fakes.