This is what OpenAI wants to do to AI. Censored, neutered, prudish, anti-human. It's not "safety", it's sick authoritarian control.
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#222> This added up to over one hour of deleted scenes, or nearly three full episodes of purely censored content I would like to watch the edit of only deleted scenes strung together.
In the charming 1988 Best Foreign Film "Cinema Paradiso," set in a small pre-war Italian town, the projectionist has to preview every imported American film for the local priest, who sits and rings a bell at each scene containing a kiss so they can be spliced out before the paying audience arrives. Spoiler: In the heartwarming ending, the young boy who had befriended him comes back to town after the death of the projectionist, to find a gift has been left for him: A reel of film, which he projects for himself, and finds it's all the years of removed Hollywood kisses, spliced together one right after the other.
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#223> Most scenes are in the sex category, where characters mentioned sexual descriptions, body parts, and other relevant languages.
Meanwhile, they're looking forward to a nice population decline. Idiots.
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#224Kinda weird that author categorized the incest joke "Howard: I lost my virginity to my cousin Jeanie" under LGBTQ censorship. When she mentioned the justification: "China has encouraged straight couples to marry and raise two to three children." it makes some sense, but incestuous relationships are not considered by themselves "LGBTQIA2S+"
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Nice to know that incest is now deserving of a civil rights movement.
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#225Is aversion to discussion of sex a part of traditional Chinese culture? Seems odd given I'm not aware of any puritanical religions taking hold there.
Not really, but then again traditional Chinese culture isn't really that alive in China either. Communism in the Eastern bloc imported plenty of Western attitudes, including puritanism albeit under a secular/atheist branding. Also Christianity itself directly has a fairly significant history in the country. The Taiping rebellion was started by a Christian cult after all, and the Protestant House Church movement nowadays still counts tens of millions of members.
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I don't see any point trying to justify or argue for extreme Chinese-style censorship. But there are still useful debates to be had about censorship in Western liberal societies.
But they're not the same things at all; I don't think age-ratings are "censorship".
In Australia they are: https://www.classification.gov.au/classification-ratings/wha...
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> I dare you to show that scene at a liberal college and notice how few laughs you get. Did you see the recent video where the white guy dressed up in a poncho, big hat, and fake mustache and carried around maracas? He asked a bunch of white kids on a college campus if they thought his outfit was offensive to Mexicans, and they all said yes. Then he went to the Mexican part of town and asked actual Mexicans, and they…
It’s extraordinary that people are taken in by such videos. Those videos are selectively edited to make the creators point. Tell me, when Jimmy Kimmels producers go out on Hollywood Boulevard and find that not even one person can point to a country other than America on map ( https://youtu.be/kRh1zXFKC_o ) - do you think that’s real too? Or is that selectively edited for laughs?
I know the video was edited, it's by PragerU. That's not the point though, it was just a story to point out that not all things about other cultures are offensive.
And it's funny you ask about Kimmel, because I actually know the person who did those bits (she was the offscreen voice for the first few years and is actually the interviewer in this video). She said that while it was edited, they didn't have to edit it much, because about 80% of the people really were that dumb.
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Because why else would such an aversion arise? I don't think there are any sensible "defaults" for human cultures. But I wouldn't expect aversion to talking any sex to arise spontaneously among a population that hadn't had it imposed by prior generations or from outside. We're naturally curious beings and have lots of sex (compared to other species).
If it's not the default state, it must have arisen spontaneously among the founders of puritanical religions.
Not necessarily, it likely happened incrementally. And it can still be rare for it to arise, it's just that once it did, something happened to make it stick.
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I don't think Julian Assange among other whistleblowers who are punished for speaking out about the Western hegemony's actions care too much about the Big Bang Theory's episodes in China...same with most of who are censored by YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc for political reasons. Practice what you preach or what you preach has no credibility. The global south & many westerners are tired of the lectures coming from t…
I agree with you that Julian has been targeted for political reasons. I can type this on a US site with absolutely no fear of repercussions. I practice what I preach. I also think our treatment of Guantanamo Bay prisoners is unconscionable. I openly criticize my own government all the time. And not a single post or comment has ever been removed by that same government. By the way, here's the (uncensored) leaks from J…
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