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Right, but that's typical company behaviour. "Hey I have a product, use me!" Does not seem to be the dystopia level action that the previous commenter implied, unless we know that …

Thank you very much for taking the time to reply. Here's what I think: > Similarly, I do not understand the willful ignorance and bootlicking attitude of those who want to support …

Is this [AVPA]( https://avpassociation.com/ )? As far as I can tell, they are a group that benefits from age verification because they directly provide the service. This is typical…

I simply do not understand the optaphobia of the tech literate. Social media already tracks it's users with or without laws. The general populace simply will not wish to anonymize …

When irresponsible parents raise irresponsible children, the effects will not be limited to themselves. I don't want to go back to open smoking, causing increased rates of cancer t…

The same reason you pay taxes. Not everyone is law abiding, taxes pay police to uphold order. Child laws improve upbringing, reducing chance of future criminal acts. We live in a s…

Don't worry too much about it. For what it's worth, you made the sponsorship disclaimer abundantly clear up front and the comparison was fair. I went through the whole thread of th…

By fighting back in court. Better yet, by organising with others. I believe that it is in the interest of many to hold powerful people to account. Seek them out, share resources, o…

There is a malaise permeating modern culture, where social action does not enter the mind at all, possibly because it does not provide instant results. Collective action and organi…

> Most countries—and, more specifically, the majority of their citizens—have not yet reached this stage of civilizational development. While I do agree, I don't believe that the re…

The solution then seems to be holding people in power accountable, no? Digital ID or not, the situation won't improve until we get actual representation that works for the people.

One of the upside I can foresee is the return of single payment software. No one is going to be paying subscriptions when they can LLM themselves, but paying someone else to LLM fo…

This argument kind of illustrates why consumption tax is better. It's easy to advocate "lower taxes for everyone!" giving rich people most of the benefit, but it's much harder to a…

I was initially skeptical of removal of income tax, but it's replacement with consumption tax makes sense. Currently, income is "discouraged" through financial instruments such as …

Ones that prevent the scaling itself: No algorithmic recommendation. No mixing between known users (friends, followers etc.), recommended users (swipe feed) and advertised content.…

I hope we're still talking about homosexuality, because you can have support for gay people without being gay. There were more than just black people who protested against what hap…

Then I'm disappointed that you would think that way. Change is the only constant, in people, in societies, in politics. Change can be spontaneous, but more of then than not, it is …

Right, and therefore we regulate them

Yes, because the zeitgeist still changes regardless of enforcement. If all gay people were sentenced purely for their sexuality and nothing else, how long do you think it will take…

And they absolutely should not scale. Scaling is the root cause of all social media ills. If all you see are the 100 people nearest to you, the village idiot will not be able to sp…

This is hauntingly reminiscent of the gun law argument in US: The government shouldn't infringe on my right to bear arms, mass shooting is a mental health issue anyways, oh but we …

Seems to me that a single database does reduce maintenance burden, just at the cost of higher risk of failure. The trade off should be for the architect to decide.

There is something to be said about the qualia of LLM generated passages. Each individual sentence reads as a statement and every next statement a continuation of the previous one.…

To discourage rent seeking behaviour?

> Spend the budget or next time people will ask why you need all that money when you didn't spend it last time. I've always heard of this nugget of wisdom but never really understo…