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Comment Re:Modern Miracle (Score 1) 54

So you're inevitably going to get crazy people using your service. What can you do?

Try and remember why we don’t let the actual crazies run the asylum for staters.

We can dictate a written test to receive license to drive a car, but we seem to overlook ANY similar control we could possibly require for using an LLM? Just how easy is it for a certified mental case to get a drivers license anyway?

Don't let them vote. Don’t let them buy porn. Don’t let them enter into contracts. Don’t let them own land. Don't let them own guns. But by all means don’t dare limit their access to mind-warping LLM influence only a CIA black site interrogator could love, because profit? Make it fucking make sense. Sometimes we DO actually need to think of the undeveloped minds we call children for a reason.

Comment Why social media shouldn’t have children. (Score 1) 54

"too eager to keep the conversation going and to validate the user with over-the-top language.") But they were overruled when A/B testing showed users kept coming back..

If you dare call yourself a concerned parent of a child you care about, I’d suggest you read this over and over again until it becomes crystal clear why children should be banned from social media.

Not one of those greedy cocksuckers gives a shit about their mental health. AI is clearly no exception.

We make drugs illegal for this kind of mind-altering harm. If you think social media isn’t a drug, I dare you to rip that teenagers Precious from their hands and describe the reaction to a substance abuse specialist.

Comment Re:Much as I enjoy mocking Russia... (Score -1, Troll) 29

Russia is run by an evil man who is indeed turning it into a shithole. But it is not a *communist* shithole. The fact that Russia appears to be controlling the US president is maybe something to be more concerned about.

It wasn’t a “maybe” concern when a dishonorably discharged cokehead son started working for a Ukrainian energy corporation. It was blatantly corruptly fucked. And a liberal media turned a blind eye, because The Big Guy.

Spare us the Russia Russia Marsha maybes. We’ve barely started unmasking President Autopens blatant corruption.

Comment Re: Think of the children... (Score 0) 170

If they can't tie your account to your real identity somehow, then the whole thing is incredibly pointless.

We've already been over this with Germans getting pissed off at valve for "ignoring their laws" because valve refuses to store real identities of people on their servers, so they simply default to limiting Germans to only having access to games that the country determines acceptable to all ages. (Read: they're not ignoring any Doucheland laws, in fact they're fully compliant with them.) Then they say "oh but it's so easy, cigarette vending machines do it all the time!" (Yeah, apparently they still have those in Doucheland) without considering how that isn't going to work over the internet particularly well, not to mention it can totally be gamed.

Comment Re:Think of the children... (Score 1) 169

>"we've got a new social norm. It's illegal for tech companies to give unsupervised access to social media. Have you been paying attention at all?"

1) It shouldn't be up to the "social media" companies.
2) They have no way of determining if someone is a minor other than to strip ALL people of their privacy.
3) That isn't a "social norm", it is just a law. Big difference.
4) And the "social norm" should be no unrestricted access to the Internet at all, not just so-called "social media." There are MILLIONS of other sites children should not interact with.
5) There is no good definition of "social media", so they are just listing some of the popular ones.

This doesn't solve all the problems, and in the process, it makes new ones that are just as bad- penalizing adults is one of them.

Comment Re:Think of the children... (Score 1) 169

>"So you're saying the restrictions need to be stronger to capture some of that other 99%? Or were you planning on banning phones and computers themselves?"

We are talking about minors. They shouldn't have unsupervised access to unrestricted devices connected to the Internet. I am not saying we ban anything for adults. But children should not have access to things that are dangerous. And that isn't up to companies or government, but to parents and their agents. We need to set a new social norm that it is not OK to just give unrestricted devices to minors. Just like it is not OK to give them unrestricted access to knives, medications, alcohol, strangers, vehicles, junk food, etc. That should NOT involve "ID"'ing everyone for every web site.

Comment Re:I'll tell you what will happen (Score 1) 170

What always happens when you try to block kids from doing anything: they find a way to do it anyway.

We older folks too were "blocked" from doing stuff as kids, pre- and post-internet, and we too did it anyway. And it actually made us smarter, as we had to devise ways around the obstacle.

Kids are smart. This will just make them smarter.

Hold that thought on that last comment until you remember what they’re fighting to access. And then remember why we’re more needing to ban them from that content until the frontal cortex actually hardens a bit more with reality instead of delusion.

Status quo sure as shit ain’t making them smarter making the fucking Idiocracy sequel as a wildlife documentary.

Comment Re:Think of the children... (Score 1) 169

>"Is almost universally not about the children. In this case it's about de-anonymizing the Internet to aid in mass surveillance."

Bingo.

Because the kids will just get their fix on one of the 99.99999999999% of the sites that are NOT being blocked to them.

The problem is that kids SHOULD NOT HAVE UNSUPERVISED ACCESS to devices that can go just anywhere on the Internet in the first place. Or call/message/txt/media to/from any stranger. The devices are the problems. Parents should be parents and give their children restricted devices. Instead, we try to force every human (which means all adults and children) to PROVE who they are before they access popular sites. It is a big business/government wet dream come true.

Comment Re: They are objectively wrong (Score 1) 182

You mean like an actual degree at an accredited university? In fact, I do have one, unlike you. The "auto-didact"ing I've only ever spoken about here was for one skill in particular, which has pushed my net worth into the seven digits. If that isn't validation, then feel free to tell me what makes you think you've done any better.

Comment Re:Seems reasonable (Score 1) 21

We do exactly this where I work (I'm part of the team who enforces that) and for exactly this reason. However in our case, until a few months ago, use of these tools was nearly completely banned with case-by-case exceptions for individual users, unlike Amazon. We only recently made one exception for just one AI tool where we have a particular arrangement that guarantees that nothing within our instance of it can be "learned" and regurgitated elsewhere, and anybody may use it without needing any policy exceptions. Nevertheless, we still drop a big interstitial on it that tells them that they're still forbidden from putting anything sensitive into it. We also don't allow e.g. "vibe coding".

Given that difference, I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon has no such walled off approach. In this case, they're probably just dogfooding.

Comment Re: They are objectively wrong (Score 1) 182

I get it.

Definitely not.

You can chastise someone for failing to blame universities for educational inflation without even establishing what that inflation actually is.

Already did.

You need not figure the effect of differing labor productivity, nor higher demand, nor increased amount and quality of knowledge conferred, nor lower public support, nor anything, really.

The writer explored all of this in what I linked.

I'm the one full of shit because I believe, like every qualified economist

I disagree. One thing qualified economists all have in common is that they're all literate.

everywhere, that every human activity that fails to improve in efficiency at the average rate must become relatively more expensive than everything that does.

And what tells you that it hasn't?

There *aren't* a lot of things at play in medical inflation. There's only one, and I mentioned it just to show how poorly informed and educated you are in matters like this: we only measure what we actually spend. There isn't even the slightest attempt to measure a change in spending power. Spend $4.8T or so on ivermectin for literally everything medical next year, and nothing else: congratulations, medical inflation was -2%. But hey, I guess I'm the idiot for not recognizing the 'lot of things at play' in spite of nobody being able to say in play for *what.*

Context is very important, and you provided none, which meant that I had to assume you're talking about the relative spending the US does on health care costs relative to other countries, and yes, indeed there are many things at play there. But this is a common theme with you: You prefer weasel words, and I'm only going to respond in kind, starting with this post.

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