- pyuser583I really love this comment.
- This is fine though. I’m glad I can watch Game of Thrones, which is only possible because we can keep it away from kids.
Same with drinking, etc.
Ideally there were would be well moderated sites for children, but that’s not practical.
Saying “let’s move kids out of this area so we can do grown up stuff” is totally fine. It protects children while not infringing on adults freedoms.
- “Modern computer screens” have changed substantially since 2007. Calibri was not designed for 4k.
That’s why Microsoft no longer sets it as default, and it is expected to be phased out by institutional consumers.
Calibri served its time. But it’s time is over.
- One good reason behind this approach is the idea that whoever makes something should be responsible for it’s maintenance- but without extra payment.
It encourages them to make it durable in the first place. If the manufacturer of an aircraft carrier has to support it throughout its whole life, it will be a much better designed ship.
- Contractors defend this by pointing out that service members tend to retire and get jobs at competing firms.
The problem is they’re saying “we don’t trust the military with our secrets.”
I’ve seen this attitude at many firms. Keep things so secret even the clients/regulators don’t know what’s going on.
There’s a huge cultural lack of openness, which strongly contrasts with our history of free inquiry.
- It’s so weird people are talking about immorality being bad without discussing the affect on child rearing and family structure.
Are we going to be fertile our entire lives? Interesting the topic doesn’t come up much. But let’s say we are.
My parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents (etc) are still alive and producing more siblings, aunts/uncles, etc.
The phrase aunt/uncle would no longer have age implications. In terms of caregiving, my wife, mom, and grandmother might all be pregnant and raising kids at the same time.
In practice, the family tree would be flattened.
Organizations would have similar issues. I’d have to compete against developers with 500 years experience. Even with respecialization, some skills transfer.
If Shakespeare were still alive would we have an Oscar Wilde? Would it matter, since Homer is around too?
In that regard, what language would we be speaking? There are quite a few Ancient Greek speakers still kicking I guess. But Enheduanna is still here too, chanting her Babylonian Hymns to Inana on the synth I guess.
- In the Altered Carbon world there are strict laws against “double sleeving”, but it happens whenever the plot benefits.
One character has an entire island of populated exclusively by herself.
They never go into why it’s illegal. I think it’s implied they know a copy isn’t the original, but they don’t want to think about it. Too unpleasant an idea.
- Why are you equating “Germany outlaws supporting Nazism” with supporting Nazism?
- Is Germany consistent about this? Is it equally forbidden to say “Merz is a piece of garbage” and “Weidel is a piece of garbage?”
- > The CIA (and every other intelligence org.) is literally a weapon designed to operate in the grey area to fit the mandate of the policy makers and elected leadership
There is some truth, but this is how you get a crappy-ass intelligence agency.
Good intelligence agencies are focused on gathering intelligence, not performing random tasks that benefit from secrecy.
- You think you have privacy?
At best, you go back and forth between no privacy, a heavily condition privacy. At best.
Let’s take privacy back, but that’s a big process.
If you haven’t internalized surveillance, start working on it!
- I tried that before they were 13. Technically false, but almost no social media company allows under 13s.
It didn’t work very well.
- I don’t think this is obvious - I have kids and this is a constant battle. If you take the devices away they are along and isolated and it’s so much worse.
Some schools have these rules, but unless they are practically enforced, kids get around it.
I worry these laws will result in the worse of both worlds.
We need really well moderated forums for kids, along with practical bans for everything else.
I’m not sure how that happens.
- I recently asked an AI about a very important topic in current events. It gave me a shocking answer, which initially assumed was wrong - but seems correct.
The question was something like: “how reliable is the science behind misinformation.” And it said something like: “quality level is very poor and far below what justifies current public discourse.”
I ask for a specific article backing this up, and it’s saying “there isn’t any one article, I just analyzed the existing literature and it stinks.”
This matters quite a bit. X - formerly Twitter - is being fined for refusing to make its data available for misinformation research.
I’m trying to get it to give me a non-AI source, but it’s saying it doesn’t exist.
If this is true - it’s pretty important- and something worth discussing. But it doesn’t seem supportable outside the context of “my AI said.”
- Yeah I find myself wishing it would take off again.
I’m sure I’m idealizing it, but at least I’m not demonizing it like folks did back in the day.
- Corrective transactions?
- Lots of big sites are down
- I assume this is why Claude stopped working
- Reminds me of this article - https://firstthings.com/math-is-erotic/ - strangely titled “Math is Erotic” but talking about the relationship between Maxwells Equation and water waves, and magneticism.