capitalism truly spurs competition and innovation

wtf? why is everyone turning techbro all of a sudden even those who are supposed to be more knowledgeable on such stuff. Oh right because there is a bubble to sustain.

Hello, I heard there is a Planescape club here. Recently replayed it. Can confirm it’s not nostalgia, old games are better.

about the racist part: it is a bit like saying women should cover their head it will protect from men staring at them. very slippery slope

nobody can expect malintent from a british gentleman’s or lady’s accent

I already don’t use airbnb but booking.com? Almost all holidays. That would be really hard to replace. Does anyone have any alternatives (other than directly calling the hotels obv)? I guess one could atleast minimally search from booking.com and then first check if the hotels you are interested in have their own online reservation systems. But it will probably be much less guaranteed than booking.com and one could easily end up with a holiday ruined and a mere apology for “making a reservation mistake”

take a chill pill

I would find it hard to believe if Jessica Rabbit wasn’t somewhere there, probably 6? Although the hair style doesn’t quite match.

It is indeed a complicated problem with many intertwined variables, wouldn’t wanna be in the shoes of policy makers (assuming that they actually are searching for an honest solution and not trying to turn this into profit lol).

For instance too much regulation on fields like this essentially would kill high quality open source AI tools and make most of them proprietary software leaving the field in the mercy of tech monopolies. This is probably what these monopolies want and they will surely try to push things this way to kill competition (talk about capitalism spurring competition and innovation!). They might even don the cloak of some of these bad actors to speed up the process. Given the possible application range of AI, this is probably even more dangerous than flooding the internet with revenge porn.

%100 freedom, no regulations will essentially lead to a mixed situation of creative and possibly ground breaking uses of the tech vs many bad actors using the tech for things like scamming, disinformation etc. how it will balance out on the long run is probably very hard to predict.

I think two things are clear, 1-both extremities are not ideal, 2- between the two extremities %100 freedom is still the better option (the former just exchanges many small bad actors for a couple giant bad actors and chokes any possible good outcomes).

Based on these starting with a solution closer to the “freedom edge” and improving it step by step based on results is probably the most sensible approach.

I guess the point is this enables the mass production of revenge porn essentially at a person on the street level which makes it much harder to punish and prevent distribution. when it is relatively few sources that produces the unwanted product then only punishing the distribution might be a viable method. But when the production method becomes available to the masses then the only feasible control mechanism is to try to regulate the production method. It is all a matter of where is the most efficient position to put the bottle neck.

For instance when 3D printing allows people to produce automatic rifles in their homes “saying civil use of automatic rifles is illegal so that is fine” is useless.

this is gonna take rule 34 to a whole another level

it fulfilled its name mandate %100

not creepy at all… hey what’s that flash disk lying on the table

Capitalism truly thrives on competition and innovation

Thanks I was looking for the world’s smallest violin

Well they all collectively chose a high risk, high reward and highly fascist regime over lower risk, lower reward one. So let them cower in terror of being struck down because the quality of their ass kisses were not adequate.

what I mean is a model where a subscription is required to watch anything. Even that is more graceful than the hacky 1 hour long youtube video solution to their problems.

no, subscription only as in you can only watch if subscribed