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by txrx0000 1y ago
Allow me to make one important distinction I forgot to do in the previous reply: there is a difference between conflicts that arise from delusions vs conflicts that arise from preferences. The former is a subset of the latter. We can preven
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by txrx0000 1y ago
There is no longer an echo chamber besides the one a person creates for themselves, which people may choose to do. It would speed up the rate at which individuals become delusional. But once a certain divergence threshold is reached, they g
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by txrx0000 1y ago
I think this current wave of low social cohesion and authoritarianism is caused by recent technological advances. Indeed, this phenomena I'm about to describe is a precursor of war, but the causal relationship is the inverse of your su
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by txrx0000 1y ago
> 15.2(2)(d) cannot as a matter of law be used to effectively ban anyone from the internet at all. How laws are read can change. It may not fly in court today, but what about 5 or 10 years later? They may not immediately ban anyone, but
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by txrx0000 1y ago
I'm pretty sure there are already laws that allow the government to deal with devices used for spying. There's no need to introduce this broad-spectrum bill that controls way more than it should. You may have charitable interpreta
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by txrx0000 1y ago
You're right, 0 kb/s would be too obvious. Let's do 0.1 kb/s, or restrict their plan to 1 minute of use per day. You realize that while the charter still safeguards your freedoms, it will eventually be overturned if the
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by txrx0000 1y ago
They could make the ISP not be able to provision more than 0 kb/s of bandwidth to you unless some condition is met, which apparently could be anything that the Minister considers relevant. --- You're "endangering national sec
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by txrx0000 1y ago
That "almost entirely" part is the problem. They sneak in a clause that makes those restrictions also apply to which customers ISPs can serve. Even the supposed intended purpose of restricting equipment may be malicious. Why shoul
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by txrx0000 1y ago
nick__m quoted the wrong section, but there's an identical Factors section 15.2(6) that applies to 15.2(2)(d). There's also a non-disclosure clause. The headline is true. Order (2) If the Minister believes on reasonable grounds th
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by txrx0000 1y ago
This is worse than the EU's ChatControl, or the UK's Online Safety Act. This will pave the way for total online censorship and surveillance in Canada. The Canadian government will be able to target any user or service provider it
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by txrx0000 1y ago
See also: https://systemfontstack.com It's similar.
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by txrx0000 1y ago
Reality over propriety. ...seems to be the sentiment expressed here: there is so much more of everything else to care about than money and fame. But there is also value in caring about those things a little bit. Propriety is a part of reali
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by txrx0000 1y ago
> I'm tired, after hundreds of years, of people still insisting "no no no, just a little more information freedom and humans will magically fix all their natural biases and magically stop acting like humans and magically stop b
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by txrx0000 1y ago
These are examples of minorities being oppressed through physical violence. Minorities are still oppressed in democratic societies today because a democratic society by definition prioritizes the majority's interests. The difference is
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by txrx0000 1y ago
The examples you're listing aren't just words. They're actions. I could say I'm going to deny your health insurance, or deny entry of your type to my group, or sue you for something. But notice how me saying any of these
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by txrx0000 1y ago
Ideally, individuals are the ones responsible for moderating content. All filters should be implemented client-side. A person can have all the freedom to decide what they see, but not what anyone else sees. The problem with group moderation
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by txrx0000 1y ago
> A regime attempting to kill a large group of people is also oppressive and much worse. Indeed. But one should realize that thorny words are precisely what replaces physical violence. Human nature doesn't change in a democratic soc
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by txrx0000 1y ago
> How is it solved? It is solved by a democratic system that defines truth as "mutually observable phenomena", defines good as "the wishes of the people", and allows individuals to engage in free dialogue as a replace
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by txrx0000 1y ago
AGPL or even GPL is fine. It's just a statement of intent: "artificial scarcity is bad, we want information to be free and those who take from the pile must add to it." Realistically, open source licenses are legally powerles
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by txrx0000 1y ago
True. The description encodes very little about the actual sensory experience besides its relationship to similar experiences (bitterness, crunchiness, etc) and how to retrieve the memories of those experiences. It probably contains a lot m
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by txrx0000 1y ago
I share this sentiment for the most part. The only nuance is we probably shouldn't give away core technologies that are closely related to cutting-edge weapons, which would spark an arms race. Let's accelerate competition for ever
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by txrx0000 1y ago
Hotter take: consumer devices should always have publically available schematics. It doesn't even matter if the Chinese companies get it. That will only accelerate innovation because nobody would buy an unrepairable clone if repairabil
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by txrx0000 1y ago
A description of the taste of chocolate must contain some information about the actual experience of eating chocolate. Otherwise, it wouldn't be possible for both the reader and the author to understand what the description refers to i
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by txrx0000 1y ago
I'm trying to say there's no sufficient evidence either way. The mechanism by which our consciousness emerges remains unresolved, and inquiry has been moving towards more fundamental processes: philosophy -> biology -> physi
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by txrx0000 1y ago
The LLM is not performing the physical action of eating a piece of chocolate, but it may be approximating the mental state of a person that is describing the taste of chocolate after eating it. The question is whether that computational pro
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by txrx0000 1y ago
I think this popular take is a hypothesis rather than an observation of reality. Let's make this clear by asking the following question, and you'll see what I mean when you try to answer it: Can you define what real despairing i
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by txrx0000 1y ago
The UK doesn't have the exact equivalent of chat control yet, but it already arrests people for politically incorrect posts. They're doing things in smaller steps, which is more likely to succeed.
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by txrx0000 1y ago
There's no utopia. The value of unmitigated speech is in replacing unmitigated violence. The people you mention, whoever they are, are grossed out by human nature.
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by txrx0000 1y ago
If murder is common in the populace, then that means the social norms of that society have already drifted to the point where murder is acceptable. In that society, the murderers are probably running the government. On your tangent about Ch
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by txrx0000 1y ago
Dear citizens of the EU: If this gets pushed through, you will gradually lose control of your government much like how the people of the UK already lost control of theirs. What are you going to do when the government's interests inevit

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