Arts intention is whatever the artist makes it out to be. If an artist wants their work to be loved, not hated... Well then this doesn't really apply does it
Seems pretty obviously limited - it's not Turing complete because it can't calculate e.g. periodic functions. Are there any practical uses for a language where every operation must be invertible like this?
How is it even possible for them to do this? Garry's Mod doesn't host the mods, do they? I was under the impression that Steam hosted the content, so they would have to send the takedown notice to Steam, not to Facepunch.
For the sake of this discussion all that really matters is that these sites are not basic necessities. Perhaps one day they will be, in which case I'd agree their moderation policies should be far more strictly regulated. But that's just not the case now.
FWIW these sites are already under-regulated as is and there are legitimate concerns - for example, under certain circumstances if you get banned from a Google based social media platform it can affect your ability to use Gmail... And if your whole life is on that Gmail account, I believe that strays into "basic necessity" territory. But that's not quite the same thing that's being discussed here.
It might not seem like it but you're actually just asking me what my opinion on net neutrality is, which again, is completely unrelated to the topic at hand (Though I am strongly in favor of it FWIW). Again, the fundamental issue is "morally speaking, should these websites be forced to host speech". Comparing them to ISPs, utilities, or whatever other essential services makes no sense because these sites (massive social media platforms to be specific) are not basic necessities for living modern life.
That's not at all related to what I asked (I addressed the topic of political opinions instead of this because I think it's a more interesting discussion) but sure, I'll bite. I think it's comparing apples to oranges. Providing electricity is a basic necessity for life nowadays, on the same level of necessity for most people as water and waste removal. So to say that a power company should cut off access to people saying these things is tantamount to saying these people don't deserve to have basic living necessities. That's a lot different than "Hey, we don't want this text to be displayed on our website."
How does that "prove" it's gamed? If anything it proves that the system does exactly what it's supposed to do: correct itself over time using more and more samples from users.
Unless you have the privilege of being an enterprise customer with an SLA guaranteeing privacy, there's not much you can do other than using local models. I believe OpenAI says they don't train based on API requests but that's more of a "trust me bro" than any kind of guarantee.
It seems like a pretty understandable position to me... A company is its employees. Their politics will affect the companies decisions long term. Additionally in America corporations have a lot of political power and giving them money ("voting with your wallet") allows them to lobby/bribe politicians onto their side of the political spectrum.
AFAIK the actual reason most of these things did not appear is because of many states passing their own net neutrality laws, such that it would be a regulatory nightmare to offer services in violation of net neutrality without coming under fire.
I remember trying an Ember mug at some point in the past (I don't remember which specific model - it wasn't the travel mug)...
It was awful. Only thing it could realistically do is keep an already hot drink hot - which by itself isn't bad if it didn't advertise itself as being able to make a not hot drink become hot.
Worse still, getting it to work with the app was a CONSTANT struggle. If you even managed to get it connected in the first place (only worked one out of 5-10 tries in my experience, usually requiring a full factory reset of the mug each time), it would automatically disconnect itself after a couple hours, requiring you to do the whole song and dance again.
Left a seriously bad taste in my mouth about Bluetooth devices as a whole.
I find it very telling where people stand on this issue by whether they call it "censorship" or "moderation". You may not think there's much of a difference but it's really an "us vs them" mentality in disguise - are they censoring our legitimate speech, or are they moderating their misinformation?
I hate to break it to you but AI has been ubiquitous and taking people's jobs for decades now. [0] is an interesting article on the subject. The cat's out of the bag, and humanity isn't doomed yet (at least not due to AI). I'm not convinced.
This comment reeks of victim blaming. Natural disasters happen literally everywhere on earth. When someone's house is destroyed by a tornado in Tornado Valley do you tell them "Oh well you were really irresponsible for living in tornado valley"? Or how about Florida, which has been hit by over 40% of US-landfall hurricanes? Do you tell the hundreds of thousands of people whose homes have been destroyed that they should have just packed up shop and moved away since they get regular hurricanes?
This would be a heck of a lot cooler if it was a local-first desktop application. It's still cool mind you, but it could have been a heck of a lot _more_ cool.