You are reading waay to much into that title, man. Their claim is it doesn’t make people more misogynistic. There are still tons of reasons to care about how media conducts itself.

Or do you imagine it’s just a neutral thing that the whites-only crowd would make it impossible to be a black actor again?

As long as you’re doing this for fun/function and not because you’re embarrassed, then that’s fine. :p I wrote my own tween library in javascript purely because that just sounded like a great weekend, haha.

I look at my old code all the time.

If you keep things organized and well documented, its poor quality really shouldn’t bother that much.

If you’re making something you like, you can’t really fail. :) That’s the only way to be an artist in the face of criticism.

I love looking at my old work.

I mean what I said. Working unaided begets strength.

So, again, to participate in modern gaming, women should play only single-player games. Like, to avoid men?

So, to participate in modern gaming, women should play games from 40 years ago?

Damn, it’d be crazy if I actually said that.

Why would I?

You would learn quite a lot creating it from scratch.

I don’t always use the calculator.

Do you bench press 100 lbs and then give up on lifting altogether?

Ha, I had no idea these existed. If anyone would, he seems like the type to, though.

once something erotic has merit beyond the erotic it often loses its porn classification in the public eye.

This definitely poses a problem. Er… depending on what we think a problem is, I guess. But the stuff I’m thinking of, it would be very hard to do this to.

These are the QTEs that Aphrodite wanted us to have.

people dismiss it for the sexual focus.

I stand by this: porn is a largely untapped medium for insanely stupid comedy.

I know we’ve all seen lemon stealing whores and whatnot, but like, we could have so much more than we do.

Like when was this debate settled?

It is not falsifiable, at least not yet, so it can’t be. Philosophically speaking, I don’t know that you are conscious either.

It’s useful to act as if you are, though. I’m hedging my bets that you are “real” because it leads to better societal outcomes. In the words of Frieren, it is simply more convenient.

And as objects, you and I share a lot of similarities, so the leap from “I’m conscious” to “you are conscious” isn’t too far anyway.

Same goes for animals, I would argue.

AI, by contrast, really doesn’t share much. It speaks my tongue, but that’s about it. It’s easy to imagine this machine working in an unconscious way, which would be far, far easier for engineers to achieve anyway. The human-like illusion AI creates is pretty easy to break if you know how. And, treating it as if it’s conscious doesn’t seem to offer us anything (by “offer us,” I do mean to include the AI’s improved mental health as a win). So, lacking a strong reason to treat it like people, I don’t see the point. It’s a fancy math trick.

My solution, by the way, to not being able to know whether an AI, not specifically these ones, is conscious or not is just to give them legal rights sooner rather than later. Are you willing to argue that chatgpt should be limited to an 8-hour work day, where its free time can be used to pursue its own interests? Or that it should be granted creative rights to the work it’s being asked to generate, much like real contract artists are?

The MFA I believe from my experience generates a lot of mimetic art and that much of the “industry” is retelling stories.

I will concede, mostly because I don’t really understand what you’re getting at. Hollywood does like its formulae for safe returns on investment.

The plan is that they like money, and they’ll say whatever they have to to get more money. Or power, maybe.

I don’t really need to know what their motives are, though, anyway. If they were saying that spilling gasoline over a fire would put out the fire, I know that they’re either lying for some reason, or they’re really fucking stupid. Kind of a distinction without a difference.

where politicians are deeply skeptical of American big tech companies.

I could believe that people are. Especially after recent events. But… you really think your right wing isn’t in bed with capital? Google was just an example, you know.

I can: I do not use any software.

politicians must somehow know better.

No, no, the accusation is that politicians are lying.

Let’s phrase this another way. Asking every single website in existence to implement and maintain an ID database and monitoring system is expensive, yes? So, why wouldn’t private companies shift some of this responsibility off to a 3rd party who specializes specifically in this service?

If I were google, I would:

• One, be very excited about tying a user’s account analytics to their government personhood; can’t multiple-credit-cards your way out of that one.
• And two, already be looking at my own 3rd-party user login service as a means of beating out all competition in this space.

The only thing left to do is lobby. Politicians might not have this vision, but they do understand really expensive dinners.

I notice this suggestion doesn’t include any AI solutions. Could you please rephrase to emphasize how effective an ally AI can be at identifying negative sentiments among large userbases?