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Your picking apart the words doesn't matter if police are more incompetent with AI than without it. AI being the catalyst to a worse society is a more interesting and worthwhile topic than whether "AI is responsible" is the right way to phrase it.

> Why Americans are not rioting in the streets is beyond me.

That's not entirely fair. The January 6 rioters acted because they knew how bad for the country it would be if the wrong candidate got into office and started a war.


"The January 6 rioters acted because they knew how bad for the country it would be if the wrong candidate got into office and started a war."

I don't think that's what they were told when they were given marching orders to fight like hell


They were told that the election was stolen and the system was rigged. Under the pretense that you were told no more fair and free elections would you not go do exactly what the j6ers did, I think you would be foolish to say no.

The only core issue is that everything that was said that day was a whole a total lie and the responsibility hangs with the liars


They were the only people dumb enough to actually believe the obvious lies.

Yet thousands of people DID believe them.

Sarcasm is a funny thing.

You're replying to someone who gets their political analysis from Twitter. Hilarious is the best case.

I understand you clearly hate Trump, but I'll take his statements over yours any day.

Right, I'm going out of my way to avoid inviting Google/Apple and their respective app store surveillance ecosystems into my transactions. I don't even have banking apps installed. I don't understand why so many people are prostrating themselves to this future for minor convenience.

Is there a site that deserves more than this one to be destroyed by slop? It's hypocritical but telling for the places most actively trying to profit from it to ban it themselves.

It’s not hypocritical at all. You can be a fan of a technology and still acknowledge its downsides. Every technology has places it is useful and places it is harmful.

But it's trivially evident that the harmful use cases are dominating. Handwaving that away for profit is shitty.

Agreed. It's like how tech CEOs don't let their kids be on social media. Or fast food CEOs don't eat their own products.

Hopefully this serves as a mirror for some tech folks if they have any self awareness left at all.


Roku has patched so much new garbage into the product since I originally bought mine. I'll never get another Roku device again.

Its the only device in our household that I have utterly failed at securing or blocking content from our children on.

My son has found about 25 different ways to access YouTube across our Android, Android TV, Apple and Roku devices. I have found ways in almost all of them to "nicely" block youtube for him (while keeping it for me or keeping the device functional).

Roku is the only one that just doesn't give a crap. Screw Roku.


Roku loves auto changing to really innapropriate shit after the kid appropriate episode ends.

For example, start an episode of Mittens and Pants for four year old, at end of episode, instead of playing next episode, it switched to Married With Children.


From your first paragraph I was expecting something from the old degen meta like "naked yoga" or "transparent haul" or whatever they're currently doing... Or maybe some of the brainrot genai content that's been booming on kids tv

Kinda surprised you consider a completely banal sitcom to be problematic for children. I mean I'd expect the kids to think it's boring and not get any of the subplot... But it's completely family safe?


The kid is four. There is a difference between safe and appropriate. The recommender could at least suggest something in the same genre. It could also have suggested a deep dive into financial markets, not unsafe content for kids, but also not kid appropriate either.

That's like saying that the chefs who didn't want to adapt when their restaurant became a McDonald's were probably not the good chefs anyway.

Unfortunately you need to get with the times, or get left behind.

I can't believe this field turned into this. It used to be so cool and rewarding.

It's not the fault of universities that education is incongruous with certain values like fear of change and progress.

> incongruous with certain values like fear of change and progress

I essentially agree.

Though “progress” connotes improvement.

Brave New World was extremely “progressive.”


It’s not the fault of the church that faith is incongruous with certain values like sin and blasphemy.

Historically, the Protestant and Catholic churches invested very heavily in liberal arts education in America; initially, more than the state did. The university (and even the liberal arts college) as an institution isn’t fundamentally incompatible with Christianity.

Most of the time it’s the political right that is at odds with Christianity.

Even more so in the case of early European universities.

Certainly it is, as the church defines the terms.

Just like “progress”!

(Seems I was missing a /s)


Just in case: I am saying that the progress being referred to is progress in a particular direction, and that direction is a chosen one, and the choice is made by humans without any actual scientific basis.

Just like blasphemy etc in religion have no actual basis aside from being in a direction other than the direction of the religion.

To one group progress looks a lot different from what it looks like to another group, we can’t just say “progress” any more than we can say “blasphemy”.


If that was true I wouldn't be reluctant to leave my son alone with a priest.

Daughter as well, seems to be more of a protestant thing though

If agents were what had come first we'd build statues of whoever invented deterministic software engineering.

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