odessacubbage

3 年前議論

while true, teenagers in particular have lost a great degree of the agency that was afforded to prior generations. the concept using surveillance devices on your children did not exist 20 years ago and yet you can see threads of HNers discussing how they or their schools monitor their children quite regularly.

odessacubbage

4 年前議論

i really think it's going to take much longer than people think for this technology to go from 'pretty good' to actually being able to meet a production standard of quality with little to no human involvement. at this point, cleaning up after an ai is still probably more labor intensive than simply using the cheatcodes that already exist for quick and cheap realism. i expect in the midterm, diffusion models will largely exist in the same space as game engines like unity and unreal where it's relatively easy for an illiterate like me to stay within the rails and throw a bunch of premade assets together but getting beyond NINTENDO HIRE THIS MAN! and the stock 'look' of the engine still takes a great deal of expertise. >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Y_d_Lhp60

odessacubbage

7 年前議論

what's the last non-fighting game that even had couch co op?

>Social media in general is making us all more lonely while tricking us into thinking we are interacting with others.

it really feels like maybe we were too successful in solving boredom. why would anyone strike up a conversation at the bus stop anymore when they have instant access to their ingroup and their preferred dopamine drip? the age old wisdom of 'just go ahead, you're not bothering them' is essentially meaningless now. i have apps for networking and finding clients, i have apps for hookups and maybe even relationships, but where do i go just to make a friend who doesn't want sex or business?

odessacubbage

7 年前議論

i think people overestimate how much of the goofy theosophy stuff is actually part of the day-to-day education, it serves more as window dressing than anything else tbh. it's odd and in some ways anachronistic but at it's core i think the waldorf model works well because it treats children as children rather than products and liabilities. frankly the weird hippy bullshit was better than being treated like a potential school shooter because you have problems at home.

odessacubbage

7 年前議論

could you elaborate?

odessacubbage

7 年前議論

>that they drive people who disagree with them away.

/leftypol/ was more or less just active on 8ch as /pol/, you'd be hard pressed to find any groups more diametrically opposed than that. people also often fail to take into account that the userbase was at varying points self reported to be upwards of 60% lgbtq and presumptively far more neurodivergent than more mainstream platforms. also worth noting that practically every mass shooter that has been newsworthy had an abundance of typical social media accounts, so the dangerous subset of fascists you're so worried about are already present on all the so-called moderate platforms. so who is actually dissuaded by this course of action? certainly someone motivated enough to plan and inflict mass-death upon a group of innocent people isn't gonna be kept away from extremist content simply because they have to take 15 minutes to set up tor browser.

odessacubbage

7 年前議論

the current direction of these solutions really feels like the technological equivalent of 'solving' the homelessness crisis via hostile architecture. putting spikes on every bench and doorstep doesn't make anyone less homeless but it makes them less visible so you can feel less bad about it. turning the internet into an increasingly obfuscated series of walled gardens doesn't improve the wellbeing of anyone particularly at risk and if anything, gives ingroups and personality cults all the more power to thrive. but maybe the new york times wont tell you about some neckbearded loser who says nigger too much and therefor you've solved the only problem you actually care about. more and more i'm lead to believe that the compassion and empathy of the sensible majority is largely performative and on a fundamentally emotional level they just want heads to roll irrelative of any actual justice.

odessacubbage

7 年前議論

>Why are there not FBI agents in /pol/ on 8chan actively chasing up leads on people who are threatening violence?

>https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9OzsEqUYAACo4H.png:large

odessacubbage

7 年前議論

'My opinion is that women's bodily autonomy is a fine ideal to strive for, but it relies on having a stable society with some minimum level of education (moral and philosophical too, not just the technical kind). It requires women who are able to fully parse the implications of what they are hearing to make sound and rational judgements on the rejection of a fetus or the embrace of it. It creates a moral duty for the people who are listening to not only reject, but to actively push back against abortions which are universally understood to be reprehensible.'

you either believe in rights or you don't.

odessacubbage

7 年前議論

what about the beating of an openly gay viet-american journalist on a crowded public street? does that pass the reasonable standard for intolerance? because as of writing this comment, the individuals & organizations who cheered that on still have access to mainstream platforms & seemingly have faced close to no repercussions for continuing to advocate for violence.

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