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by zug_zug 10mo ago
Reminds me of "cancer alley" [1]. As somebody who's looked in to this a bit, the deeper I dug the more I ultimately moved toward the conclusion (reluctantly) that indeed big corporations are the baddies. I have an instinct to
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
I dunno seems like a nothingburger to me. There are plenty of real things to worry about these days... somebody dubbing something so I can watch it isn't an issue for me. Presumably the viewers could just turn off the dubbing if they w
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
I don't get it -- software performs at human levels for translation. Do you (and should you) need permissions to do a translation of a show for the audience?
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
I mean my immediate reaction is it's probably not reasonable what happened to your classmate. One wrong doesn't justify another...
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Actually it's not super easy to explain to the layman, since it uses cryptography. But if you'd like to learn more ChatGPT is very knowledgeable. But it sounds like your wish is to keep your kid off screens in general, which I don
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Chat GPT would be happy to explain "Rate-limited anonymous credentials" to you. Just because you can't think of something doesn't mean brilliant mathematicians can't.
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Not OP, but how about not being allowed to lose more than 1% of your net worth (or salary?) gambling in a year? (The gambling platforms would be required to monitor your losses)
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
I'd pass a law that you can only lose in a year .1% of your current retirement savings (at which point you're cut off from gambling for the year). It may sound crazy to spend even a 10th of a % of your retirement on gambling, but
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Cryptographically there are techniques that let you prove you're one of the several hundred million adults in the US that don't reveal anything about which adult you are. It's much less complicated than bitcoin. I'm brin
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
For me the last remaining killer feature of ChatGPT is the quality of the voice chat. Do any of the competitors have something like that?
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Well you need to actually think about what you're saying here. Suppose for example China/Israel/whoever is the first to invent really, really great drones (like the size of a bird or even a bumblebee) that are lethal. So then
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
So let me just understand your position here. Suppose the US declares war on Venezuela. Suppose a venezuelan living in America just looks up a bunch of US generals addresses online, and then sets all their houses on fire killing them in the
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
So you're arguing if the US declared war on Venezuela, that Venezuela could just use a drone to blow up the US president and that's just how war should work from now on? Because it's only a matter of years until drones get sm
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Two things Firstly, generals, like anybody else can be terrorized. Secondly, even if you only kill generals, that doesn't mean you didn't cause terror for everybody else. Imagine for example that Hezbollah found a way to poison th
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
I don't know if it's "legal" or not and by who's laws, but it certainly seems like terrorism to me (i.e. intentionally creating a state of terror). I think if Lebanon found a clever way to assassinate the top 45 mil
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Ironic that your comment downvoted... gosh darn emotional humans
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
I mean I love the concept. However something makes me suspect none of these will be the completely-walkable, full of art, no-pollution, no plastic, utopia city I'm thinking of. But no harm in them trying their idea...
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Well we have no idea what the effects of glyphosate are because almost everybody has it in their system. Is it possible that's why autism, depression, add are so much higher among us than amish? Who's to say?
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
On what basis should we blindly trust this fao.org study as conclusive? If Monsanto ghost-wrote one paper, how many other studies did it put its finger on the scale for?
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Tl; dr: One of the cornerstone studies claiming glyphosate was safe is now suspected to have been written entirely ghost-written by Monsanto. A recent analysis (2025) shows that this paper has been cited more than 99.9% of all glyphosate-re
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Well either you didn't read what you cited, in which case you sort of owe us an apology and need to back off your claim. Or you did read it in which case you'd realize it has nothing to do with people wanting government age verifi
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
That's a powerpoint of somebody really trying to push an agenda and has nothing to do with age verification. The 88% support is for "social media platforms to protect minors from online harms, such as the promotion of eating disor
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Just because something isn't ideal doesn't mean it's worth making a law about. Running with scissors -- not best practice. Worth trying to legislate? Absolutely not. Somebody who's 17 choosing to look at porn? Not in Ame
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
What do you mean it's not unpopular? How many voters have ever expressed interest in this? If the politicians keep voting for things their constituents don't (and in these cases actively push back against so hard that the politici
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
How about stacked the supreme court with sycophants (at least one of which has been caught taking bribes) whereby allowing his gross violations of the law to be tolerated on appeal to the supreme court (legal eagle has a great video on thi
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
I used to think like that. Now in my country we have a president who would use that to deport or target political opponents, track people who criticize Israel, etc. You can never put the genie back in the bottle and you never know who will
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Yeah. I was pretty neutral on ruby, until somewhere I worked some coworker put an @ on a variable relating to sessions and suddenly people started seeing each other's accounts. Now some people won't fault the language for that, bu
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Well there's a comment here saying "I won't consider it 'true' AI until it solves all millenium problems"... That goalpost seems to be defining AI as not only human level but as superhuman level (e.g. 1 in a mi
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Well props to them for continuing to improve, winning on cost-effectiveness, and continuing to publicly share their improvements. Hard not to root for them as a force to prevent an AI corporate monopoly/duopoly.
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Well in america we had some "disruptive protests" (e.g. rodney king race riots) which were fundamental drivers of fixing systemic injustices in racial equality. In fact, perhaps most progress toward justice required "disrupti

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