Levitz

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by Levitz 4y ago
Not only that, but if some people have ethical and moral considerations about the consequences of x, then those people have an ethical reason to actually do the thing, since the alternative is that the people doing it are those with no et
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It's not as if people who don't drink are socially inept or anything. My guess is that we get used to alcohol and just rely on it. Like sleep pills.
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>It's interesting to me. I have female friends in their 30s who go on tons of dates but reject pretty much all of them for any long-term relationship. The ones they seem to be in to tend to reject them after a couple of dates. This
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by Levitz 4y ago
I hate to be that guy, but to me these two don't connect. Yes we as a society corrected our mistake, but the transition from "Everyone smoking" to "Barely anyone smoking" consisted of most smokers dying and the rest
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by Levitz 4y ago
Or websites all start requiring some form of real life identification. That's a possibility too.
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>Culture isn't free. Someone is paying for it, and if you stop paying them, then it doesn't get created. This is just deeply wrong. Culture existed before money. It is tragic to me that a person can't see culture as anythi
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by Levitz 4y ago
This is the crux of the issue, I believe. It seems to me that one side is arguing that people (as in, individual human beings) already do what the AI is being accused of, the other side argues that it's replicating work. The truth of t
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>You don’t need to. It’s implicitly assumed, by virtue of publishing in a public forum, that the author is providing permission for people read their comments and ideas, and remix them as they wish. That permission doesn’t include exact
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by Levitz 4y ago
>I really understand moderation is a hard problem but deleting entire comment sections and putting threads into contest mode if the left-leaning political opinion is in danger is painful to watch since the essence of democracy suffers: p
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by Levitz 4y ago
Being a usual on Reddit would have allowed you to enjoy several headlines of Trump daring to take two scoops of icecream, concentration camps and mass hysterectomies at the border, several conspiracies about blackmail with a video of prosti
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by Levitz 4y ago
>If you are a true 10x’er or 100x’er you can do best by making your own company. What it takes to be a 10x is not necessarily the same as what it takes to start your own company, imo.
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by Levitz 4y ago
>Firstly, multiple states have been preparing for the overturning of Roe v Wade, the court case which specified the right to an abortion was privacy and therefore protected. There are multiple decades-old laws on the books that says if R
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by Levitz 4y ago
I'll precede this by stating that I'm all for abortion. I'm European and the only problem I have with abortion in my country is that it's a law rather than being coded into the constitution. That said, the way it worked
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by Levitz 4y ago
It doesn't technically block words from being searched, but it does hide sites intentionally. It won't show you kiwifarms. It used to hide 8ch (which now is not even 8ch anymore, the new version can be found). It won't show y
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by Levitz 4y ago
Half of what constitutes SEO is an utter disgrace. Every single hour spent putting work on a website that doesn't go towards any of its users is better not happening. If AI is what it takes so a website doesn't have to "featu
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The "ending" of minecraft is just the point at which you have access to the entire game. You probably know what The Nether is, that hellish looking place you access by making a portal. Reaching The Nether is progress , by getting
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by Levitz 4y ago
Well sure? Remembering embarrassing stuff is annoying. I've found that sitting with the thought for a little while and processing the emotion prevents it from coming up again. You can't just remember that girl in first year of uni
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The purpose is to prevent a headline reading "Person robs store because ChatGPT told him to". Also any groundwork for ethics regarding AI is good as far as I am concerned.
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>Even if you're not being as much of a colossal arse as the headline of this story, which do you think is a better thing for money to be spent on? The problem is no first world country is anywhere near finding itself in such positio
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Hopefully we at least learn that "build your own social network" was never a reasonable point.
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Which wouldn't be half as bad if it wasn't for the potential for echo chambers and tribalism fostering political radicalization. This seems to be a person that thinks that they had something beautiful and nice that contributed to
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Because the precedent set is downright scary. Half a step removed from putting anyone who uses torrents on a list.
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>Are you serious? Why would I ever use that app? Because it would be incredibly convenient. Link a restaurent to your friends in a chat, talk about going there, all of them have the location and you can split the bill, all in the same ap
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by Levitz 4y ago
It's not about usage going up. It's about the cost of usage going up v the cost of operations going down. As an example, if we are to trust this site ( https://jcmit.net/diskprice.htm ), a 2TB HDD was sold for about
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by Levitz 4y ago
You go to the cinema, point to its location, purchase tickets for 5 of your friends, you give them their tickets and they pay you back, all within the same app. Adding payment processing to a chat app is just really, really convenient. I&#x
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A phone is a physical purchased good though, that sets it in a whole different category, you can't prevent someone from getting a phone, generally, and he has freedom to choose how to use it. The implicit requirement to have a phone is
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>Just because two people agreed to trade doesn't mean value was created. Reminds me of that adage: "Economics is the idea that if I pay you a dollar to step on shit and you in turn pay me the same dollar to step on shit, that m
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by Levitz 4y ago
And then one day your CDN drops you, another day your hosting service does, Google stops indexing you... You get the idea. Justifiable or not, tales of those such as 8chan or now Kiwifarms do show that anyone wanting to host a website depen
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The paradox of tolerance explains how in an open society, when one ideology dismisses rational thought and discussion and opts to, instead, silence opposition, society must be intolerant of that ideology in order to be tolerant itself, beca
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>Yup, that's me. What's wrong with that according to you? Well for starters you are quoting him wrong and by the formulations that you, yourself are using, you, yourself, ought to be silenced through violence. When Popper talks

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