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by txrx0000 11mo ago
Thanks for the link. While it will help to pressure undecided representatives and see who not to vote for in the future, the root cause of the problem remains unaddressed. Why do these proposals exist? Who/what is motivating them? It s
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
This might keep happening if nobody knows who "they" are. Those individuals need to be found and publically shamed.
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
> ...but I think it's utterly moronic. It could be because the general population is genuinely moronic in this matter, and actually do want to implement smartphone bans for kids at the national level, or it could be because their
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
Citizens don't need to be aligned with eachother, but they should ensure that the government is aligned with the citizenry as a whole. Everyone should have the freedom to polarize in different directions and hold different opinions as
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
Large AI siloes, if allowed to exist, will bifurcate humanity. People who have a stake in those AI companies will no longer need the rest of the population to provide goods and services. We will split into two economies, where the lower eco
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
One step at a time. First the citizens ought to ensure that their own government is actually aligned with them.
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
It's a valid concern. Lazy idiots who take your work and then claim it as their own exist in the real world too. It's a social issue that requires a social solution. We need to actually enforce reciprocality, otherwise the incen
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
This isn't true. The current birth rate crisis is artificially induced by the widespread production and use of birth control pills.[0] If you look at the fertility rate graph, it fell off a cliff from 1960-1975 when the pill was introd
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
Nope. In this case it's definitely birth control. Birth rate got cut in half when the pill was introduced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_oral_contraceptive_pi... I mean, come on, it's literally calle
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
Of all the public online communities, you'd think HN would be capable of calling it the way it is. But I'm afraid it's been overrun by brainwashed ideologues as I've seen many times the truth being downvoted into oblivio
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
> Phrase things with the blame assigned accordingly. Your phrasing blames people for not becoming parents. A more accurate phrasing is '....because their wealthy elites are so greedy they make having children unaffordable' OP
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
It's a problem we chose to create for ourselves by inventing and socially normalizing 99% effective birth control. We've given ourselves the freedom to make the choice to have children consciously, but not without consequences, so
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by txrx0000 11mo ago
The proposed "solution" will indeed protect against identity theft by non-state actors, but it would also give the government the power to lock you out of your job, your bank, your online accounts, medical care, and whatever other
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by txrx0000 1y ago
The direction of society is the aggregate of our individual choices. I'm no expert on coordination, but I think we ought to start with ourselves and not spread misery like "your voice doesn't matter" or "humans can&
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by txrx0000 1y ago
> Lucky you. There are fewer and fewer such banks out there. The trend is to route login and consequential interactions on the web through 2FA on a phone - and not TOTP, but push notifications sent to the bank's app, that only runs
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by txrx0000 1y ago
This is surprising. Perhaps the Minecraft devs and community are dedicated and capable enough to prevent it from being enshittified by Microsoft. It might even be open-sourced someday.
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by txrx0000 1y ago
It's not that an open platform can't succeed, but rather people are accustomed to closed platforms, so more resources went into perfecting them. The aforementioned players pushing for control aren't invincible. Whether we can
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by txrx0000 1y ago
Speech is not comparable to nukes. Not even close. I don't want everyone building nukes in their garage because nukes kill people en masse in an instant, and I cannot counteract the effects of someone else's nuke by setting off my
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by txrx0000 1y ago
Government propaganda is used to rile people up so that they're willing to kill eachother in war. This is indeed a default throughout history but I don't think it's a good default and we could change it by making and then kee
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by txrx0000 1y ago
I don't mean there's a single centralized moderating authority overseeing everything, but rather the general tools and mechanisms used for moderation on the Internet are centralized and undemocratic. They produce groups with autho
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by txrx0000 1y ago
Yes. Indulging in that desire to boss over other people (and also hubris, thinking oneself knows better) was fine before social media because it was hard to have a say over what others hear at scale. People congregated into groups that mode
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by txrx0000 1y ago
More polarization is good if people are allowed to naturally polarize in different directions. Alignment between individuals are supposed to emerge naturally, forming small groups that are internally polarized in the same direction. Democ
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by txrx0000 1y ago
I think the causal relationship is not quite that way. better connectivity -> destroyed physical limits on group size -> groups not only get larger but also more ideologically homogenous because they're moderated by a central aut
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by txrx0000 1y ago
Before the Internet and social media, groups had a practical size cap because they had to meet up in person. Polarization was naturally limited. I don't think the social media companies' algorithms are entirely to blame. But more
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by txrx0000 1y ago
The server can deliver a sparsely randomly sampled RSS feed of embedding vectors and metadata. Fetch media after ranking on-device.
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by txrx0000 1y ago
There are multiple providers of Adblock lists. It would be like that, not single-provider. Regarding banning server-side moderation, we probably can't do it without decentralizing content delivery in a BitTorrent fashion. But even half
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by txrx0000 1y ago
We need to ban the platform from recommending at all. It would be like more sophisticated Adblock. There are many providers of Adblock lists, but they can't be provided by the platform itself.
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by txrx0000 1y ago
The problem isn't connectivity provided by the Internet or the average number of friends. Those things are good on their own. The problem is centralized moderation in an infinitely connective environment (aka the Internet), which will
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by txrx0000 1y ago
The fact that a repost got so many upvotes means the post has a lot of value, but many missed it previously. Perhaps it would be better to allow reposts to collect karma as usual so they would have a chance to get to the front page, but hav
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by txrx0000 1y ago
> Turns out a lot of people's creativity is limited to what someone else has already made. This describes the vast majority of creative works and is therefore a significant part of how we define creativity to begin with. Very few pe

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