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- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 6 days ago:
I would like to dispute the primary supposition here that pornography is harmful. The use of pornography is nearly universal, and most of the harms that it supposedly causes are symptoms of other issues, or are invented to impose control of sexuality. The ability to reach out with the power of the law to impose religious edicts or project sexual hangups is one of the most esoteric, yet effective, forms of political control available other than violence. If you can control the way that people express their sexuality, you can probably also control their views through the monetization and restriction of sex.
Sexuality and privacy are human rights, and the creation of and access to pornography is protected by the first and fourth amendments under which so-called “age verification” is an unnecessary and excessive burden. If the idea is to prevent access to children, ask yourself why now all adults must now have their access prevented or interrupted.
Furthermore, it is not the state’s role to control childhood sexual development, and the idea that porn is harmful to minors is debatable at best and dubious at worst. Access to objectionable material is solely at the discretion of parents. The fact that they cannot effectively manage this is a symptom of another problem.
When Meta shows teenage girls makeup ads after they delete their selfies, or streaming apps are flooded with violent movies that are easily accessible to minors, this is acceptable. But when I want to watch porn it’s now my job to “protect minors” by compromising my privacy and security?
The real “danger” here is the availability of ideas that do not align with state power.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 6 days ago:
Move ZIG for great justice!
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 1 week ago:
What possible benefit does this offer to Netflix? Are they trying to avoid paying licensing fee or something?
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- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 2 weeks ago:
sigh yes… and also porn. So, so much porn.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 2 weeks ago:
Humanity invented the assembly line and the first thing we did was have a huge war with the rest of humanity.
Humanity invented the atomic bomb, and the first thing we did was drop it on humanity, twice.
Humanity invented the Internet, and the first thing we did was figure out how to censor humanity.
Now humanity has invented AI, a queryable sum of all human knowledge, and the first thing we do is try to manipulate humanity with it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
“It’s much harder to grow vegetables in your backyard, but some people still do it because they like growing vegetables,” Musk added.
Ladies and gentlemen, the world’s richest man.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 3 weeks ago:
How long before you can’t turn this off or uninstall it, just like Edge, or Bitlocker, or TPM?
- Comment on 220-ton flywheel generator in Germany 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 220-ton flywheel generator in Germany 3 weeks ago:
To power the magnetic coils that provide plasma containment for an experimental fusion reactor, in order to research how to create a self-sustaining fusion reaction.
Such an achievement would be a watershed moment in human history, and most likely would usher in a new technological age of energy production.
- Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site 4 weeks ago:
Oh matters to them all right, and their boss.
- Comment on This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says 5 weeks ago:
I still find it incomprehensible that some text on a screen can cause so many problems. Have you tried not using a chatbot?
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 5 weeks ago:
And don’t forget money! God needs millions of dollars to turn into his will! God’s will is surprisingly dependent on cash donations.
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- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 1 month ago:
Excuse me, the proper term is ball-chinan.
- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 1 month ago:
The electronic machine you’re operating, and the electrons flowing through it that illuminate the screen constitute a highly ordered abstraction that your human brain interprets to have meaning. The software implementing that abstraction has been structured with paradigms developed over decades with functionality specifically created for you to manage the information displayed to you. These technologies are widely regarded to have culminated in a digital information age of revolution. One of the defining moments of that age is the point at which the software, which previously was designed to implement the will and preferences of the user, began changing to instead serve the developer. It could be said that the fundamental philosophy of social media software has become to optimize it such that the user continues to use it while still freely feeding it information and being subject to manipulation.
The abstraction has become hostile, and the tools to manage the data displayed are quickly disappearing as the implementation is abstracted away. The ability to block mimetically harmful information is being designed out of software - advertising, propaganda, violent or disturbing content, and even the very algorithms and paradigms themselves used to interact with abstraction are requirements for its use. The filtering and management of information through the hardware and software that you OWN is not just a feature, it is a RIGHT that must be intrinsic to its design.
In my view, the use of blocking technology should not be considered a human social action with emotional weight, but rather a mechanical one like switching off a light or moving an object from my path of travel. They are information management tools built to serve YOU, the user. If the technology you are using does not serve you, then who are you serving?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Socialism for the rich, brutalist capitalism for everyone else.
- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 2 months ago:
- Comment on Yes, That Great-Looking 'Star Trek: Voyager' Game Will Let You Spare Tuvix 2 months ago:
Make it so.
- Comment on Yes, That Great-Looking 'Star Trek: Voyager' Game Will Let You Spare Tuvix 2 months ago:
Can the intermix chamber take that much resonance flux?
- Comment on Yes, That Great-Looking 'Star Trek: Voyager' Game Will Let You Spare Tuvix 2 months ago:
Sure, but how would you account for the phase variance in pattern cohesion from the temporal drift induced by the inverse tachyon field?
- Comment on Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession 2 months ago:
We killed God once, and we can do it again.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 2 months ago:
Can’t play your new $80 game due to performance and crashing issues? Hey, if you’re a real fan you’ll find a way to make it happen.
- Comment on WEEEEEEEEEE!!!! 2 months ago:
Reminds me the Jackass 3D finale
- Comment on DDR4 costs soar as manufacturers pull the plug — panic buying and stockpiling impact DDR4 spot pricing as supply dwindles 2 months ago:
It is, this is the latest version, Dance Dance Revolution 4: G.SKILL edition.
- Comment on Ooni Volt 2 - they put "AI" in a pizza oven 2 months ago:
- Comment on Bro, do you even crow? 3 months ago:
This crow fits my birdwave aesthetic. Total Corvus-core vibes.
I’m in my intelligent avian arc. I’m such a feather-pilled birdcel.
- Comment on From Lab to Field Testing of Millimeter Wave Drilling 3 months ago:
Let’s have a really long nasty drawn out internet argument over whether it’s fifteen or fifty.
- Comment on From Lab to Field Testing of Millimeter Wave Drilling 3 months ago:
They’ve got the laser drill, now they just need 14 billion more dollars for the Unobtanium!
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 3 months ago:
You’re right, it appears that NPU hardware was introduced in the iPhone 8, in 2017, and I say this typing away from an Apple device. Sounds like I’ll be busy this weekend with that rusty spork.
However, it’s the recent generation of NPUs that provide the processing power needed to run the expanded scanning services implemented by these OS’s. That’s why Apple Intelligence requires an iPhone 15, and Microsoft is hawking Recall laptops.
While I admit the pins-and-string-on-a-corkboard tone, I don’t think we actually disagree on anything here. Eventually, an open source platform will become the only way to avoid this kind of hardware enabled surveillance.
