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- Comment on Never have I ever pressed right arrow on a YouTube video, expecting the volume to go slightly up 9 hours ago:
This is happening to me constantly as well. I have no idea how someone thought that was a good idea.
- Comment on [deleted] 17 hours ago:
Age of consent in Germany is 14 but for someone over 21 years old it’s 16.
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- Comment on If AI spits out stuff it's been trained on 1 day ago:
Yeah, and I think Buffalox agrees aswell. We were simply talking past each other. Even they used the term “depictions of CSAM” which is the same as the “simulated CSAM” term I was using myself.
- Comment on If AI spits out stuff it's been trained on 1 day ago:
For me, this was at no point about the morality of it. I’ve been strictly talking about the definition of terms. While laws often prohibit both CSAM and depictions of it, there’s still a difference between the two. CSAM is effectively synonymous with “evidence of crime” If it’s AI generated, photoshopped, drawn or what ever, then there has not been a crime and thus the content doesn’t count as evidence of it. Abuse material literally means what it says; it’s video/audio/picture content of the event itself. It’s illegal because producing it without harming children is impossible.
- Comment on If AI spits out stuff it's been trained on 2 days ago:
Please tell me what own fact/definitions I’m spreading here. To me it seems like it’s you whose taking a self-explainatory, narrow definition and stretching the meaning of it.
- Comment on If AI spits out stuff it's been trained on 2 days ago:
I already told you that I’m not speaking from legal point of view. CSAM means a specific thing and AI generated content doesn’t fit under this definition. The only way to generate CSAM is by abusing children and taking pictures/videis of it. AI content doesn’t count any more than stick figure drawings do. The justice system may not differentiate the two but that is not what I’m talking about.
- Comment on If AI spits out stuff it's been trained on 2 days ago:
Being legally considered CSAM and actually being CSAM are two different things. I stand behind what I said which wasn’t legal advise. By definition it’s not abuse material because nobody has been abused.
- Comment on If AI spits out stuff it's been trained on 2 days ago:
It’s not legal advice I’m giving here.
- Comment on If AI spits out stuff it's been trained on 2 days ago:
What’s blatantly false about what I said?
- Comment on If AI spits out stuff it's been trained on 2 days ago:
First of all, it’s by definition not CSAM if it’s AI generated. It’s simulated CSAM - no people were harmed doing it. That happened when the training data was created.
However it’s not necessary that such content even exists in the training data. Just like ChatGPT can generate sentences it has never seen before, image generators can also generate pictures it has not seen before. Ofcourse the results will be more accurate if that’s what it has been trained on but it’s not strictly necessary. It just takes a skilled person to write the prompt.
My understanding is that the simulated CSAM content you’re talking about has been made by people running their software locally and having provided the training data themselves.
- Comment on If I strapped a weight to a tortoise, could I train it go relatively fast? 2 days ago:
It would be stronger but I doubt that would correlate much with speed or endurance. I can squat almost double my bodyweight but my cooper test score is around 2500. A runner with way less leg strenght could easily outperform me.
- Comment on Should parents be allowed to euthanize their children if they have a diagnosis that just isn't worth dealing with? 4 days ago:
It’s kind of related to the abortion discussion. I don’t think the question is “should they be allowed to” but rather “when are they allowed to” I think that in some situations there’s a case to be made for after-birth-abortion but I don’t quite feel like “not wanting to deal with it” is a sufficient reason.
- Comment on Ordering coffee in the USA triggers me 4 days ago:
If I go to a juice bar and order a drink made with one orange, one banana, one kiwi, and two scoops of ice, blended to fill a cup, I fully understand that it’s not the ice I’m paying for. If I ask for the same drink without ice, I don’t expect them to throw in another orange and half a banana to fill the cup.
I don’t disagree that with something like soda or coffee, it costs them nothing to replace the ice with more drink. But I also don’t feel entitled to guilt them if they don’t. They’re serving the same amount of drink to everyone - I just prefer mine without ice.
- Comment on Ordering coffee in the USA triggers me 4 days ago:
If half of the drink is ice and you order it without ice then it’s to be expected that the cup would only be half full.
- Comment on Ordering coffee in the USA triggers me 4 days ago:
With soda, they made the drink with the ice melting in mind.
I don’t think this is true. The soda machine is probably programmed to deliver just enough soda so that it doesn’t overflow the cup. Now, if you order it without ice it’ll deliver the exact same amount of soda but the cup wont be as full due to lack of ice.
- Comment on How rare is it for people to live without anger? 1 week ago:
I don’t believe in free will or the self. That’s the difference for me here. Just like the hurricane couldn’t have done otherwise, I don’t think that a human could have either. I wouldn’t get angry at a bear attacking me in the forest either - that’s what bears do. Doesn’t mean I like it, or approve of it but I just don’t pretend as if they could have acted any other way.
- Comment on How rare is it for people to live without anger? 1 week ago:
Hate is an extremely strong emotion. To me, it means basically that you wish they were dead. That I do not feel of anyone. However, I can’t say I intensely dislike anyone either. It’s not quite compatible with the way I see the world. Hating a person, to me, is like hating a hurricane or a volcano. It simply doesn’t make any sense.
- Comment on How rare is it for people to live without anger? 1 week ago:
What anger?
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- Comment on Time travel and the economy 1 week ago:
If the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is true, it implies that everything that can happen will happen - or has already happened. If time travel is possible, this would include every possible outcome of you traveling to the past and altering events.
What I think would happen is that nothing would change in this timeline. Instead, you’d simply travel to another timeline where you made those changes, and you’d experience the consequences of your actions there. However, it’s also possible that such a scenario doesn’t align with the laws of physics, meaning that nothing would happen because time travel to the past - and any related interference - might simply be impossible.
- Comment on Where do you think elon musk would be if he wasn't born into wealth? 1 week ago:
I think he’s an exceptional person in both good and bad. There’s a shit ton of people born into much more wealth than he did but they havent achieved anything even remotely close to what Elon has. Having access to recources helps but it’s not the only factor.
- Comment on Would you do Onlyfans if needed the money? 1 week ago:
I am doing it but not on OnlyFans and not for money. I’d be more than happy to monetize it if it was that simple but I’m a guy making quite niche content so I’ll stick with the crowd of few thousand Twitter users following me.
- Comment on what exercises work for you to avoid back pain? 2 weeks ago:
Complete waste of time with no positive health benefits you say?
- Comment on Elon Musk says X’s algorithm pushes “too much negativity" while reports suggest the platform will suppress "criticism of the government" and "attacks against powerful people and institutions" 2 weeks ago:
And where has Elmo said it can? Nowhere, because he’s clearly more educated on the subject than the vast majority of people commenting on it on social media.
- Comment on Elon Musk says X’s algorithm pushes “too much negativity" while reports suggest the platform will suppress "criticism of the government" and "attacks against powerful people and institutions" 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s actually not. It’s an LLM and it doesn’t have clue what it’s saying. It definitely cannot speak for someone else.
- Comment on what exercises work for you to avoid back pain? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been doing heavy squats and deadlifts for the past 15 years and I’ve never experienced back pain. I can’t for 100% certainty credit lifting for this but I’d be amazed if it doesn’t play a factor.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 2 weeks ago:
I still hear you implying that, in one way or another, AI content wouldn’t be as good as - or better than - human-made content. If that’s the case, I agree with you: replacing human artists with AI would be a net negative. However, my point is that when the day comes that AI content genuinely surpasses human-made work on every metric we care about, resisting it simply because it’s AI-generated doesn’t make much sense to me.
I still empathize with human artists who may no longer be able to compete, but I see that as part of human evolution - some professions inevitably become obsolete.
That said, as I mentioned, this wouldn’t prevent anyone from continuing as an artist for the joy of it. It would just make it harder to monetize their work.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 2 weeks ago:
What a cynical view to live under.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 2 weeks ago:
AI can only replace creative industries if the content it produces is better in which case it’s a win for the people consuming that content. When it comes to creators themselves, it’ll be harder to earn a living that way but on the other hand, none of the artists I know are making it for the money and they would continue making it even if AI was better. Myself included.
However, I don’t think it’s either-or situation. AI will just come alongside human made content. There’s a ton of content creators I’d continue following no matter how good AI would get.