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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If youtube is still pushing racist and alt right content on to people, then they can get fucked. Why should we let some recommender system controlled by a private corporation have this much influence American culture and politics??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What I’m saying is, we don’t know what physical or computational characteristics are required for something to be sentient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The proletarianization of tech workers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that I use github copilot, I can work more quickly and learn new frameworks more with less effort. Even its current form, LLMs allow programmers to work more efficiently, and thus can replace jobs. Sure, you still need developers, but fewer of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is it that these sorts of people who claim that AI is sentient are always trying to get copyright rights? If an AI was truly sentient, I feel like it’d want, like, you know, rights. Not the ability for its owner to profit off of a cool stable diffusion generation that he generated that one time.

  Not to mention that you can coerce a language model to say whatever you want, with the right prompts and context. So there’s not really a sense in which you can say it has any measurable will. So it’s quite weird to claim to speak for one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While I agree that LLMs probably aren’t sentient, “it’s just complex vector math” is not a very convincing argument. Why couldn’t some complex math which emulates thought be sentient? Furthermore, not being able to change, adapt, or plan may not preclude sentience, as all that is required for sentience is the capability to percieve and feel things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are just getting started, this is a good resource for learning hiragana and katakana: www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-hiragana/

  Past that, I used Anki and Bunpro for learning vocab and grammar. However, an alternative to anki for vocab that’s definitely worth checking out is jpdb.io, and Cure Dolly’s youtube videos are worth very good for learning grammar.

  There are also some decks that people have on anki which have sentences that you can practice on, I hear those are a pretty good way to start reading so that you can work your way to reading books/manga and stuff.

  Here’s another source that’s worth reading through if you’re interested in doing immersion learning with japanese: learnjapanese.moe/guide/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman feels Silicon Valley has lost its innovation culture, saying great research hasn't happened there in a 'long time'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sam Altman is a part of it too, as much as he likes to pretend he’s not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Kids Online Safety Act' will deliberately target trans content, senator admits.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Section 3a of the bill is the part that would be used to target LGBTQ content.

  Sections 4 talks about adding better parental controls which would give general statistics about what their kids are doing online, without parents being able to see/helicopter in on exaxrlt what their kids were looking at. It also would force sites to give children safe defaults when they create a profile, including the ability to disable personalized recommendations, placing limitations on dark patterns designed to manipulate children to stay on platforms for longer, making their information private by default, and limiting others’ ability to find and message them without the consent of children. Notably, these settings would all be optional, but enabled by default for children/users suspected to be children.

  I think the regulations described in section 4 would mostly be good things. They’re the types of settings that I’d prefer to use on my online accounts, at least. However, the bad outweighs the good here, and the content in section 3a is completely unacceptable.

  Funnily enough, I had to read through the bill twice, and only caught on to how bad section 3a was on my second time reading it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m all for educating children about sex, and I’m also sympathetic to the plight of data privacy.

  However, I also feel like the internet right now is a pretty bad place for minors. Like, there’s so much porn and other harmful content that’s so easily accessible, to the point that it’s easy to find yourself stumbling into it on complete accident. And with the speed that the internet evolves, it seems pretty unreasonable to me to just kinda expect parents just to be able to fully keep up with it.

  I don’t think I support this law in particular, but I also don’t know what could possibly be done to any real effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course kids would still try to access porn, there’s always ways around walls on the internet. Just like how banning guns wouldn’t prevent everyone from accessing guns, and banning sale of alcohol to minors doesn’t make minors stop getting drunk.

  In that sense, I do suspect that if there were more boundaries to accessing porn, children would watch it less, and would maybe be less likely to be exposed to it without their consent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty disturbed by the attitude of lot of the comments on this thread. While this law is probably not going in the right direction, this knee jerk reaction of calling any regulation of porn “puritanical” and an infringement of your rights is crazy to me. I feel like access to internet porn is not a fundamental human right, and it’s not puritanical to maybe want to prevent kids from being unwittingly exposed to a shitload of porn at a young age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have any evidence for that? I find it hard to believe that there wasn’t any CSAM on there considering that there was the whole expose, you know, the one that forced them to delete the majority of their videos, because the site didn’t have any way to verify whether they were CSAM or not.