Meowoem

Yeah, realistically what will happen is china will get far ahead in natural language computing which will benefit it's economy, everyone who demanded chat GPT be stopped because they're scared of change will demand the government do something to catch up and they'll write exemptions into the law.

More likely they'll realise this is the obvious way things will go and the only legislation will make it harder for open source and community run ai, but hopefully not significantly.

The next round of ai gen will start reaching consumer space soon. CAD, especially for electronics and structural design (E.g. creating the right amount of supports to hold a given load). They'll scare a few corporations into pushing for legislation but I think the utility will be far clearer.

I'm pretty certain she never said she wanted trans people dead or anything like that

Just want to comment to say bars were shitty and only being able to interact in your very localized community was shitty, all the twenty somethings I talk to now are involved in interesting things, we'd sit drinking beer and debating which pop stars from the 70s are dead based on vague memories of news stories.

And 95% of the people you knew weren't friends they were just people you'd had so many boring conversations with that you both felt obligated to have another one if you're in the bar together.

The old days sucked every bit as much as now, probably less because kids don't seem to need to drink and take as many drugs as we did, they've got actual things that interest them and ambitions and stuff.

This is the wrong place for that brand of myopic nonsense, if ai is good enough to replace girlfriends then every calculation and comparison in your sky falling theory about reproduction rates is turned to junk.

That same automation is already removing the need for people from loads of jobs, especially service industry ones - you don't need ever more people when we don't need so many humans to look after elderly people.

The other stuff about society collapsing is just typical tech fear we've seen from certain portions of society every single time anything gets invented - most of it is just the classic issue of awareness, of course it seemed people were happier and better connected when you didn't know anything about their lives, of course more people are open about their mental health struggles now they're a recognised thing.

Sure some people will be weird about ai and fall in love, people have been marrying horses and obsessing over ladies shoes or whatever else for centuries - society is going to be just fine.

I'm not connecting it to sex I'm using them as examples of groups that if this was a Chinese forum we might be reading about and thinking they're significant but were we to then ask a random American most wouldn't have even heard of them and those that have would almost universally tell you are meaningless and not taken seriously.

When using one thing as an example of a certain facet of something it's generally understood that the other aspects aren't important - the sun is round like a cricket ball doesn't imply it's the same size or that it's used for sport.

I was thinking of Leary's tune in, drop out kinda thing and Keasy was a big part of that movement.

And the downvoting is probably because they want to belive this is a big thing in China because it would go towards the view they want to be true, but the reality is cccp is hugely popular and the obsessive work ethic is still a driving force.

It's a very complex issue, Western countries do a lot of things to help out less developed nations but we also do selfish things that makes life harder for them - unfortunately this is the reality of humanity, I am fighting my own personal ideological war against capitalism and the greed based system by which we live so I'm not defending it but it also has to be stated that other systems can have these flaws too.

We need a cultural shift to fix these problems, an economic one isn't enough on its own

I think you're confused what is happening, do you think when the Nazis banned books they still sold them in shops and carried them in public libraries? Do you think banning books was the sole extent of the bad things they did? I don't know why you'd assume I'd think they did nothing wrong when I'm simply arguing that there's a very clear reality not all books are suitable for children or a school environment.

Do you not think that there should be rules for schools? You think that the process by which books are banned is wrong but i bet if you suggested a system it'd involve public accountability and etc which would lead to you coming up with something very similar to the actual system in place.

What you mean is you think the people democratically elected to control school boards and educational departments are the wrong people for the job, and of course in many cases I very much agree.

That doesn't mean I think every 'banned book' should be taught to children as a matter of principle.

Yes as I was trying to say when you understand the reality beyond the slogan it's a very sensible thing, which is why presenting it in a way 99% of the population disagree with is so weird

Yeah but he was trying to make a new super meth Viagra to fuel his week long orgies, he's not really a typical case

I know what it's trying to say but it's not saying that - this is defund the police all over again, why is it so hard to say fund better alternatives rather than relying on police in situations they're not suitable...

Like this is a very simple logic on the comic, banned book list becomes reading list - a commonly held foolish notion it seems. This isn't what anyone wants to happen, everyone here minus a few wingnuts is saying that it should be a process based on merit - one person even said it should be tasked to people with masters degrees in determining suitability of literature for children.

What's the next one 'kick puppies' where we say everyone should kick puppies,' by which we mean of course stroke them gently and cuddle with them.

I don't understand why supporting sensible thungs that might actually convince people is anathema to the left. You don't need to just say the dumbest thing and hope people assume you mean something totally different and sensible.