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541.
by imgabe 3y ago
It’s weird to me that everyone is describing their AI helper as “Like Clippy for X!” Did we all forget that everyone hated Clippy?
542.
by imgabe 3y ago
Ok, imagine a similar fake is made of me. Imagine there is a link to it right below this comment. Are you going to go look at it? Sure, curiosity is a thing. Are you going to come back here and mock me? Are you going to tell me that my life
543.
by imgabe 3y ago
I’m not saying people need to achieve nirvana. When the bikini and the miniskirt came out people thought they were scandalous and the end of civilization. Then we all collectively decided that they aren’t a big deal. Now deepfake nudity is
544.
by imgabe 3y ago
I am not forcing anyone to do anything but things happen, obviously. It seems weirdly important to you that if this happens to someone they feel as bad about it as possible. Why is that?
545.
by imgabe 3y ago
We’ll, I don’t think a value like “your nudity and/or sexuality is an intensely shameful thing and if a stranger sees it, even in a fictional representation, your life is ruined” is such a great thing that we need to preserve. It’s cer
546.
by imgabe 3y ago
What does it mean for a society to be "hypersexualized"? What is the appropriate level of sexualization? How do you even measure levels of sexualization of a society? Is there some sort of scale? People have been drawing naked pic
547.
by imgabe 3y ago
Yes! The people doing it should also change their attitudes. In the meantime, declaring your life “ruined” because of the existence of some AI hallucination of what your naked body might look like does not seem helpful. Further, any efforts
548.
by imgabe 3y ago
Why should you feel humiliated? Would your friends and family mock you if they saw naked photos of you? You might need new friends and family if they would. Mine would be angry on my behalf that someone violated my privacy, but I wouldn’t e
549.
by imgabe 3y ago
I think we need to ask ourselves why a nude image of someone should ruin their life. That is something we as a society inflict on ourselves. We could just not care if there's nude images of someone, then we wouldn't have to worry
550.
by imgabe 3y ago
Second Life is probably the most successful metaverse to date. Probably in large part because people could do things like create flocks of flying dicks.
551.
by imgabe 3y ago
The fragmentation is actually a feature. Makes it less likely to forward some dumb meme from Instagram to a work colleague when you meant to send it to your friend from college. Different apps for different social contexts is not such a bad
552.
by imgabe 3y ago
DC also just extended the Metro to go out to Dulles, so that is massively more convenient too. It’s fine for the airport to be a bit out there if there is a good rail line going to it.
553.
by imgabe 3y ago
Americans do take trains when they’re affordable and convenient. The NE corridor in Amtrak is heavily used even with all its problems. You don’t have to come up with some crazy new innovation for Mag-Lev, just make the trains reliable, affo
554.
by imgabe 3y ago
I don’t know. But I do know that the food supply chain is not something you mess around with lightly because if you screw it up literally tens of millions of people could die in a famine. So, before anyone decides we need to implement some
555.
by imgabe 3y ago
Producing food at the right price and on the right schedule is important. It is no good to produce food people can’t afford or that bankrupts the producer. It is no good to produce food only after people are starving and riots have broken o
556.
by imgabe 3y ago
They would have used any and every type of antibiotic or other technique that resulted in being able to make more food, because they probably had personal memories of loved ones starving to death when there wasn’t enough food. I know for a
557.
by imgabe 3y ago
No, you don’t need to assign yourself to some particular group to have an opinion.
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by imgabe 3y ago
The fact that activists are doing something does not mean that it’s effective or anyone cares. People need food. If they don’t happen to know where it comes from they would figure it out with a quickness if it ever became necessary for them
559.
by imgabe 3y ago
For literally thousands of years humans personally slaughtered animals and had no problem with it. But you assume people wouldn’t do this without some fanciful words for it. Based on what? Wishful thinking?
560.
by imgabe 3y ago
"Exploration" is just walking around and taking samples. The article says at the point they want to actually open a mine they have to get environmental approval.
561.
by imgabe 3y ago
Buts it in the news division, so it’s of great interest to the people who decide what’s newsworthy.
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Quitting While You're Ahead(tiltingatwindmills.dev)
1 points by imgabe 3y ago|0 comments
563.
by imgabe 3y ago
Facebook gave people a place to talk to each other. What they say and what they do as a result is their own responsibility. Most people just share pictures of cats.
564.
by imgabe 3y ago
There are unmoderated forums all over the Internet. You can download phpbb and create one in a matter of minutes. How unbelievably arrogant to assume that you can dictate the fate of nations based on moderating an Internet forum. Nobody dec
565.
by imgabe 3y ago
How about we blame genocides on, I don’t know, the people committing the genocide? Meta didn’t burn down villages or shoot anyone. People did that. Are we supposed to believe those people have no agency and aren’t responsible for their acti
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The Truthiness of Hasan Minhaj(goodreason.substack.com)
3 points by imgabe 3y ago|1 comments
567.
by imgabe 3y ago
That was also Robert Moses' main strategy in New York. "Dig a really big hole, so they have no choice but to finish the project to get rid of the hole".
568.
by imgabe 3y ago
You’re assuming we need to get 100% of our water from desalination when it would only need to cover any shortfall from other methods. We’re currently getting 100% of the water we need from those other methods.
569.
by imgabe 3y ago
Or just sell it as salt? We use, I don’t know, billions of pounds of salt per year in food production?
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The Truth about College Costs(nationalaffairs.com)
92 points by imgabe 3y ago|153 comments

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