These days a computer is pretty much another lobe of your brain.
That’s bad, you know that’s bad right?
Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws
Mechanism@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
These days a computer is pretty much another lobe of your brain. What happens when we actually have computers embedded inside of us? Are they going to restrict access to our own cognition?
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 7 hours ago
It can be bad, but it doesn’t have to be. It’s not bad if you’re just using it as a tool and understand that it’s not your only tool. Heavy equipment operators use their machines like extensions of their body. It doesn’t mean it’s bad or that they forget how to use their arms and legs or that they don’t still exercise their arms and legs sometimes. Use tools when it’s appropriate to and don’t when it isn’t, and always make sure you can use a variety of different tools including the ones you were born with and you’ll be fine.
Mechanism@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I know where you’re coming from. I’d say it’s algorithm driven and platform centric consumption that’s bad. If things were more open, it’d be easier to use things like RSS readers to control your influences. The laws should be enforcing open standards, not closing things down.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The laws should be enforcing open standards, not closing things down.
The CA law does push for open standards.
Specifically a standard way for app stores to get the age range of users, the alternatives are:
- Bury heads in sand and let companies target kids
- UK/AUS style bans.
Realistically I think talking about RSS readers as a way to stop kids getting hooked on loot boxes is burying your head in the sand though.
Mechanism@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It’s an open standard that could lead to tighter controls on devices in the future. That’s an extremely slippery slope. Wouldn’t it make more sense to require age verification for social media platforms and outlaw online gambling? Why deanonymize the devices themselves? I suspect it has nothing to do with protecting children.
If I had to speculate, I think the people in power are scared of how much on-device AI could empower the masses and they’re laying the groundwork to curtail it right now.
osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 16 hours ago
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theherk@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
words? Where we’re going to we don’t need words
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
There’s an episode of Black Mirror about exactly that and it was hella depressing. I think it starred Chris O’Dowd and Mya Rudolph, who are both usually really funny actors, but it was the opposite of funny.
samanthasnowstorm@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
S7 E1 “Common People”. I had to stop watching towards the end because I nearly threw up.
dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
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