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It’s surprising how much society apparently thinks merely being above 85 IQ is sufficient to gate all kinds of things behind. Like, bomb-making. As though there
by xp84 10mo ago
It’s surprising how much society apparently thinks merely being above 85 IQ is sufficient to gate all kinds of things behind. Like, bomb-making. As though there isn’t ample information available that anyone with 4 brain cells can find. Yet we see utility apparently in worrying about whether the most smooth-brained would-be bomber gets a useful answer from a chatbot.
- cadamsdotcom 10mo agoThe counter-argument here is Popcorn Time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_Time) which brings together search and bittorrent with a nice UI and makes piracy a bit too easy. Or Firesheep (https://codebutler.com/2010/10/24/firesheep/ https://codebutler.com/2010/10/24/firesheep/) which made impersonating someone’s facebook account a breeze by sniffing their credentials which were sent in clear text (eg. on cafe wifi) and showing them in a UI and made stealing credentials a bit too easy, leading to wide calls for broad adoption of https everywhere. Or Dropbox, which the nerds derided as pointless “because I can build my own”. It’s fuzzy and individual, but there’s a qualitative difference - a tipping point - where making things too easy can be irresponsible. Your tipping point just happens to be higher than the average.
- water9 10mo agoKnowledge is power and to withhold it for any reason is bigoted
- cadamsdotcom 10mo agoSociety has settled on a different set point. It’s worth asking why.
- water9 10mo agoOh really society decided? When was the vote? Elitist decided, sheep.
- orf 10mo agoWhen was the vote on deciding if murder is good or bad? “Society” doesn’t vote on things. Your viewpoint may differ, but a large enough majority of other people feel differently. In other words, it’s a you problem.
- water9 10mo agoOh, so you believe in mob rule then OK I got it. And no because there are uncensored LLM’s like menstral so it’s a you need to worry about yourself problem. Stop trying to parent me who the hell are you?
- orf 10mo agoNone of which is relevant to the point I was making. Try to focus your thoughts, they are obviously pretty scattered.
- water9 9mo agoWhat are you talking about? You said “but a large enough majority of other people feel differently. In other words, it’s a you problem.” Ignoring the enormous strawman, you just made, how do you know what the majority opinion is on this topic?. you don’t. You’re just arrogant because what you actually did is conducted a strap hole in your own mind of people in your echo chamber and said yeah the majority of people think my opinion is right. that that’s called mob rule. Next time I’ll speak slower so you can keep up that’s why it seems scattered you’re having trouble connecting the dots. “The only thing worse than an idiot is an arrogant idiot.” you’re the dumb one here you just are too dumb to know it.
- bigyabai 10mo agoMurder has a fixed cost of human lives, which is considered (by the living) to be reprehensible at every scale. Piracy has a negligible cost on the industry, and contributes to a positive upward pressure on IP holders to compete with low-cost access. These two crimes are not the same.
- DANmode 10mo agoGatekeeping by majority of “haves” seems easily implicated.
- Der_Einzige 10mo agoAaron Swartz did get reincarnated! Yay!
- bigyabai 10mo agoMost people are fine with catastrophic failure cases as long as Mr. Fart doesn't get to say his favorite color: https://medium.com/@blakeross/mr-fart-s-favorite-colors-3177a406c775 https://medium.com/@blakeross/mr-fart-s-favorite-colors-3177...
- tbrownaw 10mo ago> It’s surprising how much society apparently thinks merely being above 85 IQ is sufficient to gate all kinds of things behind. Doing the thing just needs to be at least as hard as automatically recognizing (ie without deliberately spending effort on it) that it's a bad idea to do the thing.