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Because, as an authoritarian regime, there is no way to meaningfully control and censor twitter unless you take the Great Firewall of China approach and even then, that is a very difficult to implement solution.

So the next best solution for an authoritarian to stop an unwanted message from spreading is destroying the platform, even better if it's through a private, tenuously connected proxy, who you could plausibly deny connection to.

He's managed to say less than nothing.

To any sane logical person, but a lot of people aren't sane or logical and will glean whatever conspiracy nonsense they want.

For versioning I always viewed the numbers as independent from each other, just like with ip addresses.

I really like X.Y.Z

X is for major overhauls. Y is for a new individual feature added or dramatically reworked, Z is for bug fixes, updates and polish.

Like Blender is currently on 3.6. They had a dramatic major program wide overhaul a few years ago. And since then have been adding new features and reworking old ones in major 3.X releases, and occasionally have smaller updates and fixes in between, giving us 3.X.Y updates.

I always saw bell curve memes as, "uncritical acceptance", "critical rejection" and "critical holistic understanding"

I'll agree that AI isn't art, in the same way a paintbrush isn't art or photoshop isn't art. It's a tool that can be used to create art. I think a fascinating application of it is when Corridor Digital worked it into a creative pipeline to make their Anime Rock Paper Scissors video.

That being said, the shareholders don't see AI that way. They see it as a way to copy the unique art style and aesthetic of another artist without paying that artist for the years they spent getting good at making their art.

But if something is only secure because you don’t know how it works, then it isn’t really secure at all.

For an IRL equivalence, just watch any Lock Picking Lawyer video featuring any Master lock. If watching how easily defeated those locks are plummets your confidence in those locks, well it's the same idea with digital security.

Concern trolling is "raising concerns" about certain issues that have little to no basis in reality and only serves to inject bigotry and bad ideas. For example, people were concerned about "the gays(tm)" spreading their immoral gay AIDS virus all over innocent children during the 80s and into the 90s, only to learn that AIDS is spread through contact with broken mucosa membranes, which then shifted to "the gays(tm) are pedos" argument.

The "concerns" are nearly always disingenuous.

Sealioning is a sort of evolution of JAQing off. It's the JAQ coupled with feigned innocence and indignance when people actually stop putting up with BS.

Actually after thinking a bit deeper about it, it mirrors Socratic Questioning, but with the opposite intended end goal of muddying the waters instead of gaining clarity.

I'm sure Ea-Nasir is involved somehow.

Either him or Walpole.

Other car companies aren't hyping up their cars as the greatest thing since sliced bread and sending out half baked, unreliable features. For other car manufacturers a recall is mundane, there's been thousands recalls for decades before, there'll be plenty mote recalls for as long as we drive cars. Hell, Volkswagen made national headlines when people found out they were cheating on emissions tests.

As for Tesla, we've been on the cusp of autonomous self driving cars for like a decade and a half, always next year, it's almost done, I swear. And our hyped up bulletproof N64 looking truck broke on stage, and our Autopilot (which doesn't actually work how most people imagine how an autopilot works) is totally fine as long as you're closely monitoring it. It doesn't surprise me that regulating bodies are exercising more scrutiny on Tesla than the manufacturers that have been around for a century.

It's both. The serious and trustworthy man kn the TV said that the Mexican rapists and rug dealers, I mean the migrant caravan, I mean the BLM rioters, I mean trans people are coming to take your guns and destroy The West. Trump good at tapping into those fears that are stoked by the propaganda machines.

This isn't a practice limited to luxury brands, Abercrombie and Fitch did the same thing and their ass ugly CEO (back in 2013) said he didn't want ugly people wearing his clothes.

The practice should be banned.

Some advice I got about how to deal with people who like to use euphemisms and bad faith argument to hide their racism/sexism/XYZ-phobia (but it works even when it's not the xenophobia stuff) is to just play dumb. Be like Socrates and keep poking at their underlying arguments and assumptions.

An uncle of mine will talk about "people wearing hoodies" as a euphemism for "thuggish black people" and I'll just play dumb, and ask stuff like "I wear hoddies, does that make me a criminal?" or "What is it about hoddies that makes people criminals?" "It's a piece of cotton, I don't get what it is about hoodies that makes someone a criminal" And just keep asking dumb questions, they'll get to a point that they'll either say the quiet part out loud or just won't say their veiled racist stuff around you.

It's a bit of initial work but after a while people leave you alone because it's just a pain in the ass trying to argue with you.

Bad argument techniques are not necessarily bad faith arguments.

For example saying "broccoli is bad because I don't like it" isn't necessarily bad faith, it's just poorly reasoned and doesn't consider other perspectives and ideas. If the arguer is willing to listen to other perspectives and ideas and is willing to revise their statement to better reflect reality to something like "broccoli is not for me, because I don't like broccoli but other people do."

Bad faith argumentation doesn't try to consider other ideas and perspectives and will do everything they can to avoid conceding anything to the opposing arguments, and will continue to adhere to the original despite evidence to the contrary.

Both can use bad argumentation, but good faith argumentation reflects a willingness to adapt to new information, and bad faith will only double down on their argument despite evidence to the contrary.

I'm not saying you're wrong because yes those are real problems your discussing and absolutely worthy of discussion. Mishandling how AI fits into society is going to be a major problem, the pandemic was a huge disruption globally, and devices designed to extract as much dopamine as possible are definitely targeting kids. These are valid problems of our day.

But (I'm assuming you are a teen), many people have experienced similar pervading fears in the past, in my lifetime I've gone through multiple economic crises, watched planes crash into multiple buildings on live TV in 3rd grade and watched our country split itself apart politically in real time recall the Y2K bug hysteria, and yeah even flip phones in my time were decried as addictive.

My parents lived through the looming threat of global nuclear conflict and the fear that commies have already secretly invaded and body snatched your neighbors and that "thuggish drug dealers" are on every corner waiting to give you drugs and get you addicted while the real drug dealers (tobacco companies) testified in front of congress that they weren't marketing to kids with their cool and edgy cartoon characters and that nicotine wasn't addictive.

Adults might not seem phased because most of us have been through global scale crises before. For some, yeah that stoicism is just callousness of a lifetime of unnecessary crisis. For others, it's a call to action to tackle a problem none of us can solve ourselves. Most parents, if they had the choice and power, wouldn't want their children to go through this kind of stuff, but we aren't the ones who hole the keys to power, that belongs to our "heavily sponsored" politicians. All we can do is just figure out the next few steps as they happen.

I'm not saying this to invalidate your fears, there is truth to them, but don't give up because of that fear. Learn about what causes that fear, understand it, and then fight to make sure others don't have to go through it. You're young, you have a good starting baseline of understanding about the world, far more than I did when I was a teen, you have a lot of time to expand that understanding, keep learning, and fight the good fight.