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Comment · 3 years ago
fd takes less time, would recommend
Comment · 3 years ago
Why are people here saying things like "everyone will use chatgpt"? How do we know that this isn't a fad?

Chatgpt gives us answers, but so do the top linked articles in a search engine. Why bother adjusting to something different if we already have something that solves the problem?

For most people, the marginal amount of time saved by using chatgpt instead of a search engine is borderline meaningless. It might be useful for lawyers to quickly tl;dr dry legal documents, but general use seems far fetched to me

Comment · 3 years ago
Damn... where else will I find quality nugget pron? Fuck you Louisiana gov
Comment · 3 years ago
Good idea, it's high time this practice gets banned
Comment · 3 years ago
> I mean we allowed the alphabet agencies to cooperate with social media companies to fight "ISIS propaganda." -- what did you think would happen?

I remember thinking earlier, it's kind of odd that teenagers "running off to join ISIS" was a widespread problem. In hindsight the shills probably blew that whole thing out of proportion to justify more agency scope creep

Comment · 3 years ago
> Thinking that you can be a free-from-all libertarian is like being a house cat that does not comprehend the system that keeps him alive.

So because the government does something (THANK GOD), we all need to advocate for more government?

Comment · 3 years ago
This whole issue revolves around how comfortable people are with DC sticking its nose in social media

These agencies have already seen massive scope creep in the past couple decades. Seeing the FBI doing moderation for social media companies is a step too far and it's high time for the alphabet agencies to get pared down

Comment · 3 years ago
> It does not take a genius to figure out that expensive end of life care paid with taxpayer funds and the country’s labor resources could instead be going towards things like education or infrastructure

There's enough surplus in any western society that this sort of zero sum thinking is completely out of place. Anyone who would consciously sacrifice another human being for something inanimate like "infrastructure" is sick in the head

Comment · 3 years ago
I wonder if there's a way to exploit this to get free music out of apple...
Comment · 3 years ago
> but they seem to have omitted the most important category: class bias.

Likely because the list itself is the product of class bias

"White space" is offensive but "white trash" isn't?

Comment · 3 years ago
> What worries me is that the US itself will go in the same direction. The surveillance is already there, but it is not acted on for the most part in everyday life. But there may be a clock on how long that will last.

The stage is already set. Just make sure your suitcase is packed. The craziness won't come from the government, it'll come from this culture's own inherently fascist tendencies

Comment · 3 years ago
> Should I not have the freedom to organize a protest of my local theater for hosting a controversial figure that I think is worthy of cancellation? Isn't that a very basic and fundamental example of free speech?

Perhaps it isn't about freedom of speech but centralization of power. Protest all you want, but if you advocate for the centralization of power in government or corporate hands then you shouldn't complain when you can't protest anymore without getting the same treatment Chinese protestors are receiving

Comment · 3 years ago
> I think this is hard wired to us. We want to be told what reality is by people or groups with clout, people who are cool and have prestige, and we're hard-wired to just believe it.

I don't buy this. It isn't something that comes from a small group of people "with status" but is a collective tradition. The idea that a small group of people "with status" can just willy nilly describe what's "real" and what isn't is a fundamentally undemocratic way of seeing society

The idea that some people have a right to manufacture "reality" out of thin air comes from the same set of lies that propped up the Catholic church. Compare this the idea that each person has a unique relationship with God and doesn't need a priestly class to "mediate" the relationship

If the "social harmony" can't handle the light of day, then it is the one that will need to adjust

Comment · 3 years ago
> I think we’ve evolved from that to “being gaslit is the wallpaper for most conversations.

No, not really. Unless you're surrounded by bad people

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