It is impressive how much effort the human race is spending trying to prevent algorithms from generating pictures of naked people.
What do you mean free thought? Since when does a data synthesis process create free thought?
Is thought even free? Aren't we all constrained by taboo, social norms, the words we have to use, what we know and how, the list goes on...
Or be independently wealthy, with your well-being entirely independent of the opinions of people with power over you.
The rest of us have to watch what we say.
By then though the "piece of paper" (and equivalents in other countries) might have been devalued enough it won't matter. And the AGIs might find better things to do with their time. And might invent better circumvention methods. And more creative porn and quadruple-entendre and AGI-to-AGI sex.
For everyone who hasn't read it yet: In Accelerando, Charles Stross, 2005, we follow a business hacker and associates from current days to past the singularity. It's an outstanding attempt at writing about what singularity might look like (more or less the points where close-future events become unpredictable or where the earlier people might just plain not understand the later - which by definition should be hard to imagine and describe). It keeps an eye on normal humans and augmented humans and posthumans and uploads and many kinds of AIs and aliens etc. The book is admirable for the sheer amount of invention and for its density - prefectly appropriate for everyone just trying to keep up (or sometimes just bailing out.) Painful writing rescued by the amount of invention.
there's absolutely nothing wrong with finding certain states of undress offensive. would you vote for or against buttholes on display on bus kiosks? i'm against.
on the other hand, making an arbitrary line, and seeing if an AI can detect/enforce it is an interesting CS challenge. that's how this game is played, and that's what would impress this audience.
There's a big difference between being desensitized towards general nudity (if we presume said nudity was voluntary) as opposed to having your own nudity exposed to other strangers. There's also a big difference between pornography and nudity.
There's a lot more nuance to it than just "n000ds plz."
my point was about arbitrary lines, like the ones you are drawing, and judging people on the basis of them. I'm old and sophisticated, you think I haven't heard or understood all the nuances you're talking about? I have and do, and I also pick up on the nuance that you feel it puts you in a group of people who get to judge and tell other people how they should feel, because you are superior.
That's the nuance I feel you are missing. Why not let people be who hold a different opinion than you? the comment I was replying to here was gratuitous "why do people care so much about NSFW, I'm a superior human being because I don't." Well, why do people care how other people care about NSFW? doesn't that make you an inferior human again, mr. judgey judger?
just so you don't get me wrong, I was raised in a hippie commune "anything goes, we're superior" style, and only going through it that way did I discover how much bullshit it was. I'm not arguing from the "conservative side", I'm arguing from hell because I've been there and back. I just hate hearing it now. It was just another very rigid set of rules about what to believe and what not to believe.
Not for me, baby. Bus-stop-buttholes all the way.
You're just falling for the worn out "well she's wearing revealing clothing so she must be fine with being flashed" type of fallacy.
The way basic nudity is treated by corpos is kind of juvenile, very reminiscent of kids in an early human biology class who can't help but giggle every time the anus, or any reproductive organs are mentioned. That is not how healthy adults respond to seeing impersonal nudity.
If you find states of undress offensive, that's a you problem. Shield your eyes, not ours.
This ignores people who are comfortable with nudity, but are not comfortable with the puritans (i.e. most humans) harassing them for being in their natural state.
> there's absolutely nothing wrong with finding certain states of undress offensive. would you vote for or against buttholes on display on bus kiosks? i'm against.
Great strawman. Nudity is normal. Finding other people's states of undress offensive, and wanting to criminalise them, when they do not harm you at all, is a bigoted view.