Markass
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Markass
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5hr ago
Deleting the Claude app from my phone presumably doesn't also delete all my chats.
Did you check if this is true? Use a different phone if you can, or back up all your chats first before testing.
Markass
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7hr ago
Why would deleting the program itself also nuke all of your chat history. That does not make any sense. No other app behaves this way.
You should not use any mobile device then. Deleting all data associated with an app is standard procedure on phones.
Markass
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18hr ago
Thanks for the correction on pro se.
Complying with the law would be a good start
The position of Motherless and many others is that the law is unethical and too burdensome. It's also unconstitutional, though SCOTUS may disagree. Personally, I've seen too many data breaches of people's personal information to think that "just comply with the law" is a good idea. It's arguably a severe privacy and security risk, because a data breach is always a question of when, not "if". Doxing yourself is bad enough for a regular site but it's even worse when it's the literal-murder-rape website of Motherless (or whatever reputation it has), and then when the data breach happens everybody knows you browse the literal-murder-rape site.
Markass
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2d ago
The people making these arguments and saying there's no such thing as a slippery slope don't seem to consider at all what incentives are or how people respond to them.
Markass
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2d ago
What's wrong with slippery slope arguments? Would you also dismiss concerns of global warming ("climate change") as a slippery slope argument? Or the Nazi bar argument? It's just arguing from basic causality. It shouldn't be taken less seriously to argue that if X happens, then Y, and then if Y, then Z. Especially when there doesn't seem to be a consistent limiting principle that would stop the chain of causality from continuing to Z. You are free to disagree on the specifics on X, Y and Z, but just dismissing arguments of this form out of hand doesn't seem conducive to discussion.
Markass
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2d ago
It worked well enough for Kiwi Farms to lose its domain registrar circa 2021, DreamHost.
Markass
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2d ago
You're correct. Sympathy for suicide victims only works for people of a particular political valence. When Alec Holowka killed himself in part due to Zoe Quinn, the people who pushed theories of harassment=suicide suddenly stopped applying that standard. Or an even better example, Mike Adams.
Markass
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2d ago
He pushed his luck too far, that's why. His conduct was so egregious that nobody could defend him without also losing all credibility themself. It's quite impressive to be such a bad liar to that extent.
Markass
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2d ago
I cannot understand it. Is this how he will be remembered? Not as a cheat and a fabulist, but as a martyr for the noble cause of DEI? Is his Wikipedia article being updated as we speak to reflect that narrative?
Yes. They will rewrite history to fit their narrative. They did this to Kiwi Farms after Byuu killed himself over a tiny thread. They reward suicide victims by martyrizing them, creating a huge incentive for people to kill themselves.
Markass
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2d ago
Maybe I've been exposed too much to people who have been the victims of their own decisions, but I find that if I had to be sad or care about people who fall victim to consequences that are entirely their fault, that would be worse for my soul than otherwise. There are plenty of people who have had completely undeserved things happen to them to weep for instead.
Markass
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4d ago
Contesting the case would require funding a lawyer to stand in a highly disfavored setting, in a jurisdiction willing to write laws specifically targeting the company, in a civil case with correspondingly low standards of proof and no right to court-appointed representation for the indigent.
I agree. And yet, I think there's something sad about being unwilling to fight. The bare minimum they could have done was file, pro se, one page saying "I deny everything and reserve all rights." They can even handwrite it. That at least gets them away from being handed a default judgment for not showing up. And it's not like they have zero allies either. I'm sure free speech orgs like the EFF, ACLU or similar would have loved to take up the case for free. I think if they had fought, they had a decent chance of finding age verification unconstitutional, since age verification laws in other states have already been struck down (although those only applied to social media).
Yes, I know a fight is costly in many different ways, but what's the alternative? Playing domain registrar whack-a-mole and hoping you end up with a registrar sufficiently immunized from US attacks? Wait for someone else to be targeted and to fight? There's no one else, laws like these always go after maximally unsympathetic targets first before being used on the rest of the population.
Markass
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4d ago
I think part of the problem is that when these norms were challenged, the people defending them didn't have anything legible to use. For example, homosexuality. They might say that it's a sin, and I don't think they're lying or coming up with an excuse, I think that's what they legitimately believed and they just didn't know the real reason was that gay promiscuity would lead to an extremely deadly STD being spread. In other words, they were right for the wrong reasons. So if you argued with them, it was very easy to win the argument and convince people there was no good reason for homosexuality to be taboo. But then you get the AIDS epidemic and millions of otherwise healthy young men dying in droves.
Markass
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4d ago
I can think of very few things, but I guess the biggest pro-user thing they are still doing is that even if you have an ancient circa-2006 YT account for whatever reason, and you haven't migrated it yet, you can still to this day log in and migrate it to a Google Account. This was pointed out in a video SalC1 made criticizing Mojang and Microsoft for not doing the same thing with Minecraft account migrations. For whatever reason, they put a time limit on migration, and if you didn't do it by the deadline your account is permanently inaccessible. It's even worse compared to YT because you wouldn't have paid any money for YT in 2006, but Minecraft is a game you have to pay money for. It's quite sad to see an instance where Mojang manages to do worse than YT, and a good indication of the direction Microsoft have taken the game in.
And you get no compensation if you didn't migrate your account, so effectively, the $20-$30 you spent on the game has just been permanently stolen from you with no recourse. That's why it put a smile on my face to see that Valve accepted a Steam refund for Battlefield 6 after EA removed significant features, and why I absolutely detest people who seem far too eager to jump in to defend the multibillion dollar corporation. As it stands, corporations have way too much power over consumers.
Markass
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4d ago
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Most likely not. The rate of justified-vs-unjustified shootings is about the same before and after bodycams. Moreover, there are still plenty of policemen who commit unjustified shootings knowing full well they are being recorded.
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No? To my knowledge there have been vanishingly few cases of this, if it has ever happened.
Markass
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5d ago
Sad to see Youtube doubling down on their extremely restrictive anti-user measures under the guise of protecting against abusive bot traffic.
Markass
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5d ago
I didn't even realize the username I was replying to. Amusing indeed.
Markass
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6d ago
Bodycams did a lot to dissuade this incorrect notion. We have literal video proof that the overwhelming majority of the time the police shoot a suspect, it's because the suspect pulled a gun or knife. There was never any such epidemic of police being quick to shoot people.
Markass
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6d ago
Here's a brilliant article on why "just be kind" produces bad policy.
(I like the author of this article, it would be so cool if he also posted on The Motte.)
Markass
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6d ago
And they reacted by making a new site (Bluesky) in an attempt to usurp X as the dominant conversation site. Thankfully it seems rather irrelevant and subject to a form of evaporative cooling that results in it being an echo chamber for crazy beliefs.
The other, bigger deal is that you can bet they won't let something like Twitter be taken over by someone like Musk ever again. I'm suspect that The Onion wanting to take over Infowars was a sort of ironic retribution for Twitter. "You take over my site, then I take over yours, and fair's fair."
Markass
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6d ago
Also as just one example: has Wikipedia been un-woked? If woke has been defeated?
Nope. The article for Kiwi Farms is still full of blatant lies.
Markass
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6d ago
The FAA is a good example of regulatory capture. How is it that, in the land where healthcare is private, ATC is socialized and easily shut downs when the government does? They literally only have one ATC training academy in Oklahoma, there are no other options if you want to be an ATC. Predictably, this regulatory gatekeeping contributes to a shortage of ATC and pilots.
Markass
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7d ago
I've long given up any hope of honest, good faith, thoughtful engagement on Reddit. That site is absolute cancer ruled by jannies who would rather dedicate their entire lives to removing wrongthink than get a job.
Markass
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10d ago
I don't disagree that LLMs can do basic arithmetic. That doesn't change my stance. I think it's no different than if you somehow knew a gifted savant human who could do 99% of things well 99% of the time, but failed miserably at the 1%. I am fine with you asking this human to do a back of the envelope calculation. I am not fine with you just uncritically repeating what they say without checking it. Especially when it's a back of the envelope calculation, as you say. It's no different with LLMs. I think the major problem with LLMs is not that they exist and could hallucinate, but that it enables a lot of people who reach for the easy button and just press it without thinking for themselves. They can and should check everything being told to them. They can and should do their own research. When they don't, it can lead to lies being spread. Do you know why a lie can make it halfway across the world while the truth is putting its boots on? Because people don't check for themselves, they don't think for themselves, they just hear what someone else says and repeat it. A lot of people have replaced that someone else with an LLM.
A good argument for making casual sex taboo again. Or at least informing people that it doesn't live up to the hype.
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