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by txrx0000 11mo ago
There's some chance LLMs contain representations of whatever's in the brain that's responsible for consciousness. The text it's trained on was written by humans, and all humans have one thing in common if nothing else. A
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
Conscious or not, there's a much more pressing problem of capability. It's not like human society operates on the principle that conscious beings are valuable, despite that being a commonly advertised virtue. We still kill animals
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
The concern is that OSes which don't implement the feature will be outlawed. Movie ratings don't outlaw movies and actually provides a good framework: instead of mandating that OSes implement this, publish a client-side filter spe
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
This is a valid concern. But I think we should reject this law on the basis that it should be a recommendation rather than a mandate, without rejecting its premise entirely, because it actually has some merit. Filtering on client-side is a
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
Yeah, this is the right direction for moderation features in general assuming it's implemented offline on-device and works without contacting a remote server. It eliminates excuses to implement age verification online. And it's co
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
There's no single mastermind. This current wave of authoritarianism around the world is a consequence of not designing the Internet with democratic principles in mind. Online content discovery and moderation mechanisms are centralized
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
Are you guys even talking about the same thing? Because it doesn't seem like you are. You should try to define "free will" first and know exactly what you mean by it. Otherwise you're just arguing over the definition.
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
No, that's not what I'm saying. And I never said that you're a being with no free will. In fact, you have free will. It's just that your idea of free will refers to a deterministic process if we're in a deterministi
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
Wait, no, there's no "increasing the probability" if you really had faith in determinism. That was my lack of faith leaking through while trying to emulate the thought process of a person that has faith in determinism. Instea
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
I believe OP's original implied position was "the universe is deterministic, so why even try", but I was able to convince them that trying is worth it regardless. In fact, the universe being deterministic would mean that it&#
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
I never refuted your hypothesis, I just pointed out the fact that the universe being deterministic has nothing to do with whether it's worth it for you to believe that you can achieve things and therefore try. Nor did I say that whethe
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
Even if agency is an illusion, there's still a point in trying. Assuming determinism, whether or not those neurons fire in such a way depends on whether you believe "agency is an illusion, therefore there's no point in trying
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
Upvoted because many people genuinely believe that agency is an illusion and therefore there's no point in trying. But the "therefore" part is not true. The state of believing that you can do it is a state that precedes actua
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
> You realize that a lot of parents support this sort of thing because they are not technically sophisticated enough to control it themselves? We can make it so that it's as easy as changing the settings on their child's phon
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
It's no different from a coffee shop providing an open WiFi, or an ISP providing you with a fiber connection. What people do on it is their problem, not yours. Their web traffic is wrapped in another layer of HTTPS, not in plaintext
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
We're not doomed. More people are starting to realize the problem, and it's possible to solve if we put in some effort. A free Internet can be achieved, if we can push back against malicious laws for a little longer to buy a littl
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
They have plausible deniability, but the fact of the matter is: this also erases evidence of past crimes from public records. If bad things already happened then we should keep the evidence that they happened. The root problem of CSAM is ch
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
Yeah, we can have fancy NN-based filters, but I think even a simple IP blocker with some carefully-made presets would go a long way. Anyways, the main point I was making is the filtering should be done on-device at the parents' discret
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
> Using this tech, all the CP traffic would detectably flow towards my ip, right? No, but I'm curious why you'd think that?
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
A device-side IP filter locked behind a password that parents can configure in the device's settings would be much more effective and easier to implement than censoring the Internet. This should be the default solution, yet it's n
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
Consider SoftEther, which is VPN over Ethernet wrapped in HTTPS. It's open-source. It has a server discovery site called VPNGate. You can host a server to let somebody else use, then use a server soneone else is hosting. https:/&
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
If this keeps going, they will ban self-hosting next: only government-approved hosts allowed. We can't just rely on technological solutions because you can't out-tech the law at scale. People need to actually understand that the g
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
A device-side IP filter locked behind a password that parents can configure in the device's settings would be much more effective and easier to implement than censoring the Internet. This should be the default solution, yet it's n
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
If a piece of information can be produced and consumed using general purpose computers, then there's no good reason for it to be made scarce under copyright. It should have a reciprocal copyleft license like AGPL or CC-BY-SA instead. T
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
Yeah, it does matter, though the issue is not exactly just monetary profit. The fundamental problem is OpenAI has made the GPT model weights artificially scarce. But at the same time they claim that other artificially scarce information suc
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
Demographers were kinda right, it's just that we've had new socioeconomic problems [0][1] post-pill, and we're really starting to feel the effects since around 2008. Post-pill fertility rates in Europe and NA had been slowly
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
The CCP has not really exercised its authoritarian power to raise birth rates yet because it's not a big enough problem and might never become one. The birth rate fell in North Korea because people are genuinely starving, whereas in ot
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
Banning the pill alone would be sufficient.[0] And you don't even need to ban it entirely, just slightly limiting the supply would be enough. Banning it entirely would double the fertility rate because the pill had cut it in half from
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
> They are "plummeting around the world at the same time," they just didn't start plummeting everywhere at the same time. This is pedantic. Do you understand what "at the same time" means? By the time birth rat
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
Natural selection has been strongly optimizing for pro-natal genes and cultures since the introduction of the birth control pill. The labor gap is a short-term problem and can be fixed with immigration and maybe AI. Birth rates aren't

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