When I die, I want to be remembered happily by a party. I'm not chillin with Jesus or anyone else and I will demand my family not tone down my atheism, but I want to be remembered for the good times I was able to experience with friends and family. I want the fact that I ever existed to be celebrated. They can be sad and support one another other times, but I want them to put the fun in funeral. Remember me with a barbecue and an open bar. Get some strippers dancing to Highway to Hell. Make it Star Wars themed. I hope there's at least one drunken hookup. I want people's last memory of me to be a happy one.
We've got such a short time to exist and so much of it is consumed by sadness and the struggle to get by. I don't want to cause any more grief, or at least I want to balance it when my time is done.
Had an emotionally painful, self-esteem crushing experience at the hands of a high school girl that left me bitter and angry. Reconnected with her 15 years later and set about trying to hurt her the way I hurt. Wound up falling in love and getting married.
That's some Hollywood bullshit right there but we've been married going on 15 years.
I would assume they do believe the cars are subsidized or otherwise unfairly priced. But I wouldn't rule out pressure from US diplomacy encouraged by donations from the American auto industry.
That's fair. I tried to make clear that my interpretation is not in any way scientific or authoritative. Better correlations are probably possible.
ETA on further thought: I wonder if prevalence of incest porn has had an effect on actual incest rates. That might be a much closer correlation due to the similar social taboo. But I'm not sure we have good data on that, either.
That's not really a nuanced take on what is going on. A bunch of images of children are studied so that the AI can learn how to draw children in general. The more children in the dataset, the less any one of them influences or resembles the output.
Ironically, you might have to train an AI specifically on CSAM in order for it to identify the kinds of images it should not produce.
The problem is empirical data cannot be morally or ethically found. You can't show a bunch of people porn and then make a statistical observation of whether those shown child porn are more likely to assault children. So we have to go forward without that data.
I will anecdotally observe anal sex, oral sex, and facials have gone up between partners as prevalence in porn has gone up. That suggests but does not prove a direct statistical harm caused by even "ethically produced CSAM."
lol. You were blocked because they didn't like your comment was getting upvotes? Idk, buddy. Good riddance, I'd say. I understand about the lack of content, though.
Also, this copy reads like it was written by AI. If this is indicative of the stuff on the website, I very much would not like to read more. If it was written by a human, they should definitely lay off the LSD before writing.
it is obvious that this powerful synergy will change our societal norms and potentialities.
I wouldn't call it ignorance. My bliss is based on considerable reading and contemplation. Way more than ought to be necessary, all things considered. I wish some of the understanding I've developed over the years would've been explained when I was young. There are things which, once explained, drive the logical mind to an inevitable conclusion.
I've been there. Posted my story, but I didn't talk about the lifelong anxiety that comes with a lengthy layoff. Continually pursued higher pay at shittier jobs to try to get ahead of things for when the rug gets pulled out from under me again. It's corrosive. Losing income and insurance when everyone is counting on you to provide makes you feel like your self-worth is completely tied to your job and ability to provide.
I like some of the ideas presented here. That said...
“It’s not a winning strategy, and it’s not the sure-fire sort of like zinger that Democrats think it is,” says Insha Rahman, the director of Vera Action, which advocates for criminal justice reform. “Calling Trump a convicted felon doesn’t really stick on him because he doesn’t fit the trope of what a convicted felon is, because it is a dog whistle—it is linking race and criminality.”
I disagree with this whole line of thought. I get this person has a good agenda but seeing everything through that lens I think blinds her to other perspectives.
I think it's good and powerful to call Trump a felon. It drives home a particular point to his base — that they are following a criminal. He's one of the bad guys and she's one of the good guys. Is it a nuanced message? No. There's a lot of good points she makes about messaging and framing. But I think it does hit home especially with low-information voters.
Furthermore, I think it highlights many of the points she wants to make with nuance, just very bluntly. Is there a racist connotation to the word felon? Well pointing out the white guy is a felon attacks that. Is there stigma about being a felon? Pointing out Trump is one undercuts, for some, that a felon can only be a violent criminal.
I just think it's a little silly to see people's positive reaction to that message and say, "No, this isn't going to help you win." But I agree with everything else.
First time happened after I'd been with my first real job for ten years because the business was changing and there wasn't a role for me. I was out of work for 7 shitty months trying to have my own business starting from the few customers we had left when they let me go. It was right after I bought a house and had a baby. It was fucking awful.
Second time was after COVID. First we all took a 10% pay cut to avoid layoffs. Then two months later when federal assistance expired, they cut 1/3 of the company across the board. I'm a little fucking bitter about that to be honest, but I had a new remote job lined up within a couple of weeks that paid quite a bit better.
Last time was 5 months ago. Just got hired this week. Start next month. It sucked. Wiped out my whole retirement savings, so I get to start over at 51. But we made it through and potentially I won't have to switch companies again.
I mostly get what you're saying, though I don't have the requisite understanding to follow formal proofs, but if there is one thing I do know for certain, it's that "understanding" is anthropomorphizing and shorthand for something that is very much not understanding in a human context at all.
I get that it can be hard to find the right words to explain a some of these emergent phenomena, but I think it's misleading to use words that make AI appear to have a thought process akin to anything we could understand as such—at least in settings where folks might not understand the shorthand as such.
And maybe everyone here is aware of that, but it makes me uneasy, hence this comment to hopefully make that point.
When I die, I want to be remembered happily by a party. I'm not chillin with Jesus or anyone else and I will demand my family not tone down my atheism, but I want to be remembered for the good times I was able to experience with friends and family. I want the fact that I ever existed to be celebrated. They can be sad and support one another other times, but I want them to put the fun in funeral. Remember me with a barbecue and an open bar. Get some strippers dancing to Highway to Hell. Make it Star Wars themed. I hope there's at least one drunken hookup. I want people's last memory of me to be a happy one.
We've got such a short time to exist and so much of it is consumed by sadness and the struggle to get by. I don't want to cause any more grief, or at least I want to balance it when my time is done.