lennivelkant

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lennivelkant ,

Laws should follow and codify ethics, not dictate them. If a transgression (such as not reporting CSA to the relevant authorities) is not already banned by law, that doesn't mean it's fine. It means the law needs to be amended.

lennivelkant ,

I guess we need to distinguish between legislation, regulation and case law established through judicial precedent. Legislation is definitely too cumbersome to react to shifting moral standards. Regulation and judicial precedent are more flexible in cases where legal consequences are warranted.

As so often, there is nuance to the topic. General statements are hard to make both concisely and precisely. I opted for brevity, but you are absolutely right.

Either way, we agree that complacency about CSA is fucked up.

lennivelkant ,

Peaceful protests build the sense of consensus and unity. Violent solutions can't succeed without both popular support and enough participants to make a difference, but if everybody's scared of standing alone they're doomed. Sudden upheaval is likely to make more people oppose the change, because most people like stability.

Peaceful protests that get gradually more frustrated are more likely to support more drastic measures than a sudden upheaval. Whether or not you believe peaceful protests will fix anything, they're the best solution that's viable right now.

lennivelkant ,

If it's five people throwing them, they're terrorists. If it's five million, they're a problem. (Depending on the size of country and military, I'm pulling numbers out my arse to exemplify a point, not as accurate measures).

Numbers matter. If you have enough people on your side and willing to join the throwing for your cocktails to make a difference, that might work for you. But if most of the populace are scared to lose more than they stand to gain, you'll end up with the brave throwers arrested or killed, the media denouncing their "undemocratic" acts and possibly the people even more afraid to do anything.

Any revolutionary movement will need to hit a point of critical mass that allows it to succeed. It's hard to gauge just when that point is reached, but if you misjudge, you'll end up another failed insurrection.

lennivelkant ,

That's the fundamental truth of most "clever tricks": If it worked, it would be heavily exploited for profit.

Companies are good enough at doing that, but even they aren't trying to sell whatever note this SovCit thinks will magically make them rich.

lennivelkant ,

Ah yes, the giant untapped market: Colorblind people, making up a solid 5% of the populace.

This is the rare time capitalism breeds good innovation. The right thing for the wrong reasons is still the right thing.

lennivelkant ,

Reduce
Reuse <- You are here
Recycle

Not using it at all would be better, sure, but if you don't have that option for whatever reason, reusing it is the next best thing. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

lennivelkant ,

I was supporting your point. I forget that comments are seen as counterargument by default.

But you're right, my comment would have been more useful in reply to the other person.

lennivelkant ,

Me no word good 😄
Nah, you've got a point, my brain is just fried these days. I definitely need a vacation.

lennivelkant ,

Cognitive disabilities are a thing. Accommodating for them would be a good thing.

Not that that's the intended purpose of that AI, probably, but if it can simplify the form without twisting the content*, it could be a great tool to make complex works more approachable. It's not necessarily a question of "can they understand it" as much as "can they be arsed to read it". I know plenty of people that just straight up didn't read one of the books relevant for our finals and just skirted through with guides laying out the things you were supposed to know. The book wasn't necessarily impossible to understand, but so tedious to dig into they just couldn't muster the motivation.

I don't know how many books worth reading for their point remain unread by people who didn't find the wrapping around that point appealing. Simplification may help them, even if it butchers the artful use of language others enjoy.

*The issue I'm concerned about is that the content may be inadvertently twisted in the process of being parsed and rephrased by an AI with no actual sense for the semantics. Who would notice? Would you have someone proof-read it? What about repeat queries of the same book? Would you assemble a library of simplified books?

At that point you might as well make manually supervised "translations" into simpler language that take care to preserve the point, can be written once and revised when language shifts. You'd still get the benefits, but also be less dependent on an AI doing a good job.

lennivelkant ,

I believe that is why people made such a fuss about the GDPR allowing courts to slap companies for up to 4% of their worldwide annual revenue. Whether or not that full extent is ever brought to bear against particularly megacorps is a different question, but at least medium-sized companies will probably avoid repeat offenses. I don't know how Meta felt about the 1.2 billion ticket either, but I can't imagine they just shrugged it off as normal business expenses.

lennivelkant ,

Speak for yourself

lennivelkant ,

Are they succeeding? I have no idea of the actual figures and the Internet tends to form echo chambers, so I don't know if the sentiments I read that they're still not much of a threat are actually representative.

lennivelkant ,

That would be rather pathetic then, to resort to anticompetitive practices and still not prevail.

lennivelkant ,

I'm actually gaming on nvidia! Didn't take any tinkering either. I got the Nvidia version of Nobara, which many steam games "just work" on.

That's not to say I didn't start tinkering anyway, but new games I install and just run work fine.

lennivelkant ,

I mean, if the line is supposed to be coming from a curious child, poor grammar is excusable

lennivelkant ,

I assume the "almost everything" is relative to the things people need to calculate gravity for. Astrophysics is cool, but rather the minority compared to, say, calculating the forces a bridge has to withstand or the arc of a ballistic projectile or any other calculations concerning primarily things on our planet.

lennivelkant ,

I think that's a question of perspective. We, judging from hindisght and with access to more Information, can tell that. But the people signing up out of a misguided desire to serve probably didn't. Their motivation - regardless of result - was probably to do the right thing, which is a sentiment that Trump evidently doesn't just not understand, but doesn't even seem aware of. "What's in it for them?" betrays a fundamental ignorance of even the concept that his ilk leverage to get people fighting their wars.

lennivelkant ,

Me, staring at my code, fiddling around, retrying it over and over: "WHY WON'T YOU WORK, DAMMIT?"

Me, late at night, trying to sleep, suddenly wide awake: "Oh that's why!"

Me, the next morning, staring at my code: "...what was it again?"

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