SenAnder

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by SenAnder 3y ago
To re-state: "in the vast majority of cases, binary enough" Yes, there are always exceptions. Some people have six fingers or two heads. That is not license to pretend that, given a human skeleton, we cannot make any inferences ab
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by SenAnder 3y ago
For more context, the response from the canceled speakers: https://elizabethweiss74.wordpress.com/discussing-sex-is-no-... They claim the accusation that "it assumes the truth of the proposition that it sets out to pro
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> As Stop Funding Fake News activists told a news site later that June, they convinced 40 brands—including Adobe, Chelsea FC, Harry’s, Experion, eBay, Moonpig, and Manchester United—to block some news outlets from running their ads, esse
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> Sounds like people are simply upset that this is being made into an issue? Which sort of suggests that it is, in fact, a real problem "Your denial there is a problem proves how big the problem really is." - I've heard th
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by SenAnder 3y ago
I share your animus against China, and, lacking the original context, I can see why the post you replied to looks like a defense of China, but I did not interpret it as such. Simply a correction of the too-often-ignorance of the IMF.
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It expands the discussion to a very relevant area. Speaking as someone highly opposed to China on this front, I did not interpret it as a defense of China.
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I wish it got the same attention. I heard only vague rumors about it. You can take this as an open invitation for stories about it.
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> Contextual advertising is said to be privacy-safe because it eliminates the need for cookies, third-party trackers, and the processing of other personal data. [..] However, the current state of contextual advertising does not look anyt
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The hidden assumption of "always punch up, never punch down" is that there is a total order that can be applied to humans, by which who is up or down can be determined. As many victims of crime, faulty legal proceedings, false acc
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by SenAnder 3y ago
"At least nine experts have uncovered files held on them", but the only criticism of education policy included in the article is "her criticisms of the department’s controversial new baseline assessments for four-year-olds in
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by SenAnder 3y ago
How do you train an AI model for making a cabbage with the face of a man? This is tangential however - South Korea bans all fictional child porn, not only that generated by AI. https://old.reddit.com/r/midjourney&#x2F
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> All of our infrastructure was build in constant growth. And the demand for that infrastructure also comes from growth. It's not the landmass that needs roads and schools.
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> Patents on standards is largely how standards are financed, by company who will then recoup their research spent on that via those patents. Thankfully those companies have a sense of fair play, and wouldn't dream of charging more
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In 1970, when this poem was written, 1.92% of the federal budget went to NASA [1]. This was $28 billion/year. Welfare spending was $133 bn/year (not including education or healthcare), and would more than double till 1975 [2]. The
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> The source they posted doesn't conclude what they claimed. I wrote: "as the availability of porn grew, incidence of rape fell" The article I linked stated: "The same goes for other countries: as access to pornograph
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Wow, an even broader category! First it was putting raping children and filming it, and generating fake pixels, in the same bucket, and now you put both of those, and countless other things, under the vague description of "sexualizin
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Current evidence suggests that it is not - as the availability of porn grew, incidence of rape fell [1]. Perhaps child porn is a special case where it works the opposite, but I know of no evidence to suggest this. [1] https://www
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> How can someone who likes viewing this look at a child on the street and not see them as a sexual object? You have causation backwards. They look at it because they see children sexually, not the other way around. If it worked how yo
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by SenAnder 3y ago
If, to the best of our current knowledge, porn reduces rape, that is equivalent to saying that its absence increases rape. So we must ask ourselves: how many additional child rapes, per year, are we wiling to tolerate, to maintain a ban on
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> the top-voted comment is one approving of child porn Fake child porn. Or do you think the real victim of child porn is morality, and the abused children are such an insignificant detail it's not even worth distinguishing betwe
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The poster asked why . Your answer amounts to "it's illegal because the law says so".
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Plus it kills the demand for real child porn. But people would rather get rid of the ick than stop child rape. Take away the emotional fog, and humans understand this, such as the effort to create fake rhino horns to make poaching uneconomi
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> To its point of an ideological statement, I instinctively get defensive of this kind of point You are ideological, they are just in favor of common sense and basic decency. Always present your position as the default, desirable, un
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Home taping is killing music. They couldn't make VCRs illegal through the courts, so they're asking corporations to ban them instead.
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> “All data is useful and should be passed on to law enforcement, there should be no filtering by the [EU] Centre because even an innocent image might contain information that could at some point be useful to law enforcement,” the minute
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Do you believe all words are equally manipulative? That if we categorize speech by funding and intent, no category would be more manipulative than any other?
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> They were not the target of the hate, so it did not make them personally uncomfortable This is the cover of Australia's largest [1] newspaper: https://www.reddit.com/r/perth/comments/169mucb/how
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Firstly, the myth. You’ve heard it before. There were a pre-Māori people in New Zealand, called the Moriori. When Māori arrived in the country they set about obliterating these peaceful Moriori inhabitants until not a single Moriori remain
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I scrolled through the linked stories all the way to the end, and while there were a few stories about neolithic skull cults, I could find nothing about phrenology. Perhaps I missed it - could you point it out?
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> everyone appears to know about it - and nobody seems to care "Why do you care? Are you saying that makes European colonization justified? Are you trying to imply Europeans should feel slightly less guilty? That they are not histor

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