rockskon

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by rockskon 8mo ago
No, it isn't. There is a gigantic chasm of difference between "80% of code they produce could be created by AI" and "80% of commits they produce could be created by AI". Mixing the two up is how we get a massive co
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by rockskon 8mo ago
And yet it's never "now". The promised results are never here. I understand one of the chief innovations the AI industry produces is rhetoric and hype, but it's insufferable and repetitive. A better AI isn't good e
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by rockskon 8mo ago
It's always a year® away. The amazing AI capability is "just around the corner"©. It will replace jobs soon™. How much longer do we have to put up with people saying this? It's been four years now.
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I mean...we're destroying advanced manufacturing where we make expensive things in exchange for cheap manufacturing of basics like textiles where tariffs of 1000% would be needed to make U.S.-made goods competitive. Exchanging high-pa
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It sounds like you're agreeing with me.
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To be fair, the same could be said about most other servers too.
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And what exactly will stop China - a country infamous for copying U.S. technology - from copying whatever the U.S. comes up with?
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No amount of time will let the U.S. - a country of 348 million people - replicate what China - a country with 1.4 billion people - a can do with manufacturing. This isn't "working harder". This isn't "rebuilding i
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Did they? I thought the claim was code was added unrelated to the contents of the archived pages that effectuated a DDOS on someone's blog.
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Yes - and the point I'm making is that their toolbox has a few additional, nasty tools for censorship because they were originally enacted with the belief that only good, honest people would use them.
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A list of people who dissent to KOSA is not a bad list to be on as a constituent. You need to make it easier for your lawmakers to be on that list too. Show them there's people who won't rake them over the coals for bowing out.
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We don't have it yet and there is still time to head this off. Not much time - but still time! Talk to your federal lawmakers and state AG's office!
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No it isn't. There is no law in California that mandates showing an ID to see ambiguously-defined adult content.
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Being active about KOSA won't get you put on a "list of dissenters". This is an issue being pushed by the States and your federal lawmakers, not the executive branch.
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Did I say to provide feedback to the Trump administration - an entity that has not made an official stance on this matter? No. I said your state Attorney General's office and your elected federal Senators and members of the House. So I
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by rockskon 8mo ago
If this really bothers you, talk to your state AG's office and your federal lawmaker The worst that can happen is you don't change things. The best? Maybe you'll find a receptive ear. Your lawmaker stops co-sponsoring KOSA.
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Humans are not machines. If your goal is to control rather than educate and guide, then we do not have shared values upon which to debate the contours of.
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by rockskon 8mo ago
"Discord Distances itself from Peter Thiel's Palantir Age Verification Firm" means jack shit if they're still doing business with them. And Discord has approached this in such a monstrously awful way that I don't kn
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I never said "multiple". Just the leader in the jurisdiction you live in. And I'm genuinely not sure how to interpret your last sentence. In the US we have a President that is increasingly going after people for their speec
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Yes, and without any sugar, the human body cannot function. Literally. You must mean "added sugar", which is different and one I more readily agree with you about.
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I've always found the notion of "stochastic terrorism" to be elastic, effectively transforming "speech a given person dislikes" into "danger" so censorship looks like virtue. Not to mention - you have to a
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That robs people of any notion of autonomy and free will. Not thrilled with that.
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by rockskon 8mo ago
But that's the problem - different substances require different solutions. You reduce sugar intake, not eliminate it. You eliminate cocaine intake, not just reduce it. Treating social media design as equal to something that can kill pe
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While I agree it's not a net positive, I find it dangerous to equate all addictions.
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Tradeoffs are made based on the likelihood and frequency of risks vs the perceived reward. For example - we let people drive cars despite the frequency of deaths that happen in car accidents.
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Not to mention it introduces different threats to safety when additional personal information of yours is made available to an entity you cannot audit in an industry famous for redefining privacy to mean "your data or derivatives of yo
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What I read explicitly stated use of AI would be involved in their guesswork of determining if a user is or is not an adult. Also - the outcry here isn't from people who think they will no longer be able to use Discord in any way, shap
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by rockskon 8mo ago
Discord says they'll use some AI garbage tool. Those are prone to mistakes over a large enough userbase. It will not be a rare occurrence for an adult to be labelled a child until they debase themselves with a scan of their face or a
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I look at discussions on Hacker News for Discord replacements frequently with despair. If it doesn't have enough of the utility, performance, and positive UX, it will never gain enough market share to matter. E2EE encryption doesn&#x27
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by rockskon 8mo ago
I meant mandatory age verification becoming "global law" is not for Discord to decide.

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