It is a terrifying revelation for a child when they first realize that they’re kind of stupid, but that the people who run this world are even stupider.

Because we refuse to accept, generation after generation, that 30% of the human species is incapable of empathy and more akin to zombies than people. They pass, sure, in small doses, they pass, these creatures with the bodies of men and the souls of insects — subdiagnostically psychopathic, lacking every transcendental virtue that distinguishes people from the lower animals — they are everywhere. They’re the reason we have slavery. They’re the reason every civilization slowly crumbles. They’re very, very easy to find.

Ask questions with obvious moral answers that people don’t feel ashamed to answer incorrectly.

1. “Should access to abortions before the third trimester be banned?”
2. ”is it good for people to worship their nations?”
3. ”should presidents who violate the law be sent to prison?”
4. ”should children be kept in cages by virtue of their dubious immigration status?”
5. ”should billionaires exist while others starve?”
6. ”is it bad to torture animals for food?”
7. ”can a person ‘own’ a mountain?”
8. ”is theocracy ever acceptable?”

Etcetera

Idk if you’ve noticed, but in just 15 years, social media turned half of Americans into Nazis. People like McCain and Romney seem positively centrist.

the effect of Facebook on Brazil:

By comparison, smoking shortens people’s lives. Personally, I’d prefer a shorter life than a world where 90% of the most popular podcasts are a bunch of psychopaths.

As someone steeped in technology, if I had a button that destroys the internet, I’m not sure if I should press it. Probably.

Pretty sure I did. An alcoholic man and a young woman enter an enclosed space. The man is a self-avowed pro-rape psychopath who confesses to shooting the young woman for no reason.

Whether it was an accident is dubious and irrelevant. She’s dead, he had a motive and no remorse.

Case closed.

Or can we kill whoever we want and claim it was an accident? Ridiculous.

It was cold-blooded murder. The article is factual.

Social media isn’t even in the same class as smoking in terms of harm. It’s civilization ending. Smoking shortens lives on average. Social media is an existential threat. How do you think Trump got elected?

Currently it’s illegal for kids to smoke cigarettes, which is nowhere near as harmful as social media.

You can read any of the gazillion pieces of research to reach this extremely obvious conclusion.

It’s not as bad as drugs.

Hard disagree.

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This isn’t necessary. For instance, simply require any device to which children have access to preinstall software that blocks 90% of the internet. Problem solved.

You’re confused by the assertion that access to social media is at least as bad for children as some banned drugs? Is this your first day on earth?

Fine then. Make it the law that this software MUST be installed on any device accessible to a child. Problem solved.

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What should be. What is.

These are different things, and insofar as that remains the case, we should act accordingly.

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Sure, legalize smoking for 12 year olds so parents can regulate it themselves. Imbecilic reasoning.

That’s a good point. The problem is that LLMs are calibrated for efficacy. Forcing them to be more chaotic also makes them less effective. This inherent tension is why they’re mathematically incapable of consistent creativity.

Even less plausible. There was a paper published recently arguing that by design LLMs are quite literally incapable of creativity. These predictive statistical models represent averages. They always and only generate the most banal outputs. That’s what makes them useful.

Pasteurization reduces the bacterial load, but milk is far from sterile (it literally contains puss) and has to be kept refrigerated for a reason.