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by slg 2mo ago
I really can't get over the way almost every piece of consumer technology/software has gotten worse in the last half decade. These companies are killing every goose they can get their hands on because they are so convinced there
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by slg 2mo ago
I highly recommend Jon Bois' Youtube docuseries[1] on this story that's basically a 4-hour PowerPoint presentation which frames this all through the metaphor of the 90s Tim Allen sitcom Home Improvement. That descriptor probably
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by slg 2mo ago
One good media literacy tip, unless a story is massive or there is some possibility of backlash to the writer(s), it's often a big warning sign when an article has a byline like this one "By Space Daily Editorial Team". It u
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by slg 2mo ago
I mean I get it, but also it's funny that you commented this 5 minutes after you edited the readme[1] to add in the exact type of plausible deniability I remarked was absent. [1] - https://github.com/stupside/casto
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by slg 2mo ago
Usually piracy software tries to maintain a little plausible deniability, but here this is suggesting it will help you stream this weekend's newly released $250m blockbuster.
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by slg 2mo ago
If you believe that AI is powerful enough to help the good people (however you define that), why isn't that also coupled with the belief that it is powerful enough to help the bad people (ditto)? Either the capability of this tech is
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by slg 2mo ago
>increasing tax rate rates will likely not yield more tax collection What's so special about our current tax rates that you're making this claim? Because if you believe that higher tax rates don't yield more tax collected
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by slg 2mo ago
Should we just do away with democracy?
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by slg 2mo ago
Scroll down to the Debt By President section and switch over from chronological list to By % Increase. Of the last 11 completed presidential terms, 6 of the 7 biggest increases have been Republican and the 4 smallest increases have all bee
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by slg 2mo ago
I feel like the well has been poisoned regarding national debt talk. There is simply no point in having a conversation about the debt without discussing how revenue should be raised and/or expenses lowered. That means someone focusin
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by slg 3mo ago
Thanks for the response, I guess it's rare enough that it was the first time I remember seeing it so it stuck out to me.
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by slg 3mo ago
>This is why we see so many "just show me the prompt" responses, along with others like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/genai-pushback . This is totally tangential to your point, but what is that page? It&#x2
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by slg 3mo ago
>Ok, but by this logic all freedom of citizens can be taken away, because it could lead to a single child being trafficked. No one is advocating for this. You're creating a straw man argument and those type of arguments are never p
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by slg 3mo ago
>Like actually finding and arresting Eipstein clients? Genuinely yes. It's a viable political strategy to respond to this with a redirection towards Epstein. "How can we waste time on these chat controls when there are obviou
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by slg 3mo ago
>I'm taking it as a given that we shouldn't do things that aren't cost effective, because that's what "cost effective" means. There are things we could do that would cost six trillion dollars in order to sav
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by slg 3mo ago
>There are many, many things we can do that actually protect children -- and we generally already do them. That's the nature of the problem. After you do all of the things that are reasonable and cost effective, it solves 90% of the
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by slg 3mo ago
Because those questions are meaningless to many people if you aren't offering any solution of your own to address their concerns. For the people who genuinely care about this issue, an obvious response you will get is "how many c
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by slg 3mo ago
>It creates a moral asymmetry where one group is "defending children" and another group is "defending an abstract concept", but group A wins out primarily due to millions of years of human evolution. It has very littl
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by slg 3mo ago
If this is your belief, the only reasonable conclusion is that time spent on fighting these chat control initiatives is wasted because it's all downstream of the power of the tech oligarchy. That's the battle you should be fightin
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by slg 3mo ago
Then fund the initiative by taxing those same tech companies. "This problem is hard or expensive to address" does not assuage the desire to fix the problem. There are countless reasons to be against these chat controls, but it&#x
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by slg 3mo ago
I feel like if people wanted to counter this push, the more effective route would be addressing the "for the children" motivations seriously rather than fully dismissing them. You could cut the legs out of this effort by capturin
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by slg 3mo ago
It's pretty difficult to go bankrupt turning a profit.
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by slg 3mo ago
Once again, what is the actual problem here? The company was making a profit at their current employment level. They are laying people off and shuttering studios because that profit isn't enough for them. This entire argument keeps
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by slg 3mo ago
Is a low profit margin a problem for consumers or is it the company's "money grubbery" of not being satisfied with that profit margin that is causing the problem?
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by slg 3mo ago
No, because the customers bought the games. That means the customers valued the games at some value higher than the purchase price. There's a ton of surplus value for society produced as part of this process that doesn't end up
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by slg 3mo ago
>We want to do more with fewer resources. Who is the "we" here? Because the profit margin not being high enough is certainly not a problem for consumers. The only people who should care about that are the company's shareh
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by slg 3mo ago
Quite frankly, I don't think you can compare image generation, let alone NSFW image generation, with YouTube and podcasts. You are simply operating in a medium in which this is going to be dramatically tougher, primarily because most
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by slg 3mo ago
Yes, there is a reason I said "you would need 900 true fans, patrons, or whatever other label you want to give them". I'm not claiming this is a new concept, I was making specific allusions to Patreon and the idea of 1000 tr
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by slg 3mo ago
You say your target is $500-$1000 per video and let's assume you do videos weekly. That would mean your optimistic goal is $4500 a month. Let's say you create a voluntary donation subscription at $5 per month for people willing
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by slg 3mo ago
Yeah, in my opinion an unjustified and profit motivated refusal to save a life is the same as intentionally taking that life. It's just the trolley problem and you're arguing that there is some innate nobility in refusing to touc

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