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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
To participate in consumerism and capitalism, correct?
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I’m not a believer that vaccine science is a matter of “public” debate. It’s scientific debate, where only experts who have the tools, experience, and knowledge to argue should be allowed to weigh in. If you already have the problem of ba
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Even if it were true that societies today are more complex, why is that inherently more special than a time in the past when life was simple? How come so many people today long for a much simpler life, like in the past, as if the past was s
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Because right now we only have the capability to regulate content where it is stored and after the fact of its storage, hence Facebook. But your suggestions are all great ideas—all forms of on-device scanning which, last I checked, HN was
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Why stop at Apple? We understand that there is a government that is making companies liable for moderating their user-uploaded content, correct?
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Technically what you’re doing is ad hominem—invalidating the arguments of the post by attacking what the author does for a living. It’s not even necessary that someone who makes (possibly extra ) money publishing insights is out for valida
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I think your comment is even more odd (and detached, really) since it’s coming from the assumption that the current system is fair and not curated or incentivised by biased algorithms.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I think that that’s just an excuse, considering how we didn’t stop when we finally knew.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I can only wish that more people realized that we didn’t have to start with something so destructive before we could “get better eventually”.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Well how do you know that the image recognition error is a fault of the ML algorithm (because we can’t capture how organic minds learn, as you are suggesting) and not of the learning sample?
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Couldn’t you apply the same way of thinking to finding a cure for AIDS, or doing interstellar travel, or P = NP, or pretty much any problem that we haven’t solved yet? Just because we can’t solve a problem within our lifetime doesn’t mean i
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
But that’s the point—there will always be people who do want to live in a state where something is being done about CSAM down to their personal devices, while there will always be people who don’t. So which of the two groups are objectively
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I think that there’s a question not being addressed here. The things you’ve pointed out to be “taking away” your individual freedom are things that you have to put up with when you’re choosing to live in a society or a civilization, i.e. in
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I agree about how the technology can be applied to other instances, but I feel that people who are criticizing Apple are crucially placing all the blame on Apple but not on the government that pressured them into doing this in the first pla
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I've seen people deliberately seek to offend marginalized groups with their language, though, and then they cry out about being cancelled and how speech is no longer free when the people they provoked naturally respond to and fight b
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
> It means you're addicted to cheap carbs. How do you know this?
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I love this technique, but it can be very slow for large apps that have a less-than-ideal state of code cleanliness or architecture-and I assume that most apps fall under that category. For tracking gesture and scrolling events, though, bre
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
> Apple is engaging in this activity of their own free will for sake of their own commercial gain and are not being incentivized or coerced by the government in any way. Honest question: how do you know this, for sure? Or is your comme
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I don’t think that trusting a corporation is any good either. Imagine the alternate scenario where the government is benevolent and has no interest in surveilling its citizens. Companies in this case still have an incentive to gather as muc
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
You see it as OC making excuses or not having discipline, I see it as you wasting valuable time by taking it upon yourself to do things you can ask or pay others to do for you. You might as well reprehend OP for working smart because you wo
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Isn’t this just a consequence of American capitalism? Incentivise companies to optimize for profit, and they’ll do anything to rake in more ad money including violating people’s privacy and curating user-submitted content. We’ll have to f
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
That last sentence is the most confusing thing I’ve read today, and I still don’t know what you mean by it.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
The problem isn't just "white people telling brown people what to do", though that's certainly one aspect of it. The more important issue, though, is that there's no way for developed countries to significantly &quo
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Absolutely, I just made the wording a little bit """moderate""" to avoid debates I'm not in the mood to have, but I agree.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
OK, we need to be specific that most of the plastic that end up in oceans and landfills are those called "single-use", mostly used in food packaging. > all of the human advancements in sanitation, food safety, and transportatio
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Buddy, that wasn't even a comment on his tone.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Is it just the cost/benefit ratio that you have to consider? How about the quality of being realistic? Tell me, and in the context of the previous responses--how realistic is it that North America will be able to carry out and enforce
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Science discoveries don't just happen because there are more people "competing" to solve a problem. The more likely outcome of what you're saying is that you'd only have more teams competing, sure, but to redo eac

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