Have you ever considered that the high cost of contribution and low cost of moderation is why Wikipedia is successful?

Inverting it would destroy any open contribution system. See open source projects blanket rejecting AI generated PRs as an example. Basically trying to restore sanity when contribution suddenly has very small cost.

What? Brave New World is Huxley’s famous dystopian novel. Like many dystopian novels it is presented as a utopia to begin with that unravels to expose it’s horrors as the plot unfolds.

He did write a utopian book called Island.

What are the dystopian parts then? You didn’t explain..?

Read the book, a second time if you have to.

moron

Just so were clear here the CSAM acronym stands for Child Sexual Abuse Material. Some Anime gets caught up because there is a lot of dubious visual depictions of that.

Which is a moral affront, not an offense against a person. The whole reason CSAM is abhorrent is its evidence of abuse. A cartoon is evidence of nothing. We should treat them differently.

> The whole reason CSAM is abhorrent is its evidence of abuse

This would make cartel execution videos more abhorrent?

Why would watching or possession of evidence of abuse against a person be an offense against a person? Other than potential second-order effects that may or may not occur like increase in demand for abuse?

I think it's perceived as abhorrent mostly because it's an evidence of the person watching being sexually interested in kids.

> This would make cartel execution videos more abhorrent?

I don't really wanna get into a hierarchy of abuse/violence; let's just say they're both bad. But watching a video of a beheading isn't beheading someone. We may have a moral objection to someone deriving pleasure from the watching of it, and we may even worry that without regulation we'd create a market for this abhorrent act, but it's still not the same thing.

> Why would watching or possession of evidence of abuse against a person be an offense against a person?

I didn't say this. I said CSAM is evidence of abuse against a person in a way anime can't be.

> I think it's perceived as abhorrent mostly because it's an evidence of the person watching being sexually interested in kids.

Yup, it's moral outrage. I'm not saying that's good or bad--personally I think there isn't enough moral outrage these day. All I'm arguing is the way we treat people who have CSAM is pretty unhinged, and it's even more absurd when we talk about AI-generated CSAM and like, loli hentai or whatever.

Now I understand, yeah, it would make sense to use the CSAM acronym only for material presenting sexual abuse of actual children.

I'd say loli hentai is actually more distilled, visually appealing, action packed and addictive version of child porn, and long term it affects consumer's perception of real-life children in a deeply satanic way, and as such deserves more stigma than it gets.

Wow, this virtue signaling thing is easy.

Yeah, exactly.

To be clear, I'm not advocating for loli hentai or CSAM. I'm closer to the ban Internet porn side of things. But it's not because I think it turns you into a degenerate (I'm on a big "please interact directly with more humans" kick lately). While it's true if you're sexually inexperienced you get a weird idea of sex from porn, it's not as though you watch a lot of, say, stepsister porn and dot dot dot, a few months later you're propositioning your own sister. These are the same wrong arguments people made about video games, horror movies, whatever. It's moral panic, pure and simple. And anyone who doesn't think that should explain why it's illegal to have CSAM but not snuff, why it's illegal to generate CSAM but not pictures of people being murdered, etc.

If you like food you should do both! There are plenty of things it's hard to cook at home or impractical to keep all the different things you need. A good example is ironically a really simple food. Pizza needs temperatures most domestic ovens aren't nearly hot enough to provide in order to make a quality result.

Restaurants also provide an opportunity to eat foods you've never experienced before which really helps cooking similar things at home as you have some idea of what the end result should be like. And the beauty is that this often doesn't have to be expensive to be good.

It's like any creative hobby you need to develop both craft and taste.

    > "Pizza needs temperatures most domestic ovens aren't nearly hot enough to provide"

This is where the hobby-cook market has started to be addressed; e.g. Ooni Pizza Ovens aren't cheap, but they also aren't a suitable commercial oven, so very much aimed at the home hobbyist/enthusiast.

Yeah I got given one by work and we make fresh sourdough pizza every Friday now. Absolutely great if you have the space for it.

You’re right on both points.

I’d say restaurants are great occasionally. It’s generally bad to go more than occasionally.

I don’t get why there are so many though, especially generic ones.

> On one end £9 of labour cost for a plate of asparagus seems deeply inefficient and unrealistic, particularly when the cost of ingredients that also include (hard) labour is £2.

Presumably the staffing cost is the front of house staff as well as the actual cooking and then the cost of employing someone to wash dishes, clean the restraunt and so on. Then compared to growing asparagus which seems to largely come from countries with substantially lower wages. Restraunts have always been infamously low margin businesses though.

I think that's just to have the domain complete their name.

The parent is joking, they know that, the joke is that a lot of domains "abuse" the TLD, as they're generally meant for countries, e.g. many Rust related sites use .rs which is Serbia.

Fighting games usually run peer to peer either with deterministic lockstep or rollback both of which are managed on the client. For actual gameplay at most there’d be a relay as a server. But almost certainly a bunch of ancillary services to support matchmaking and so on.

You're misrepresenting the potential problem. It's more along the lines of using AI stops you exercising the cognitive processes you would doing things yourself and those encompass skills, knowledge and brain function that can atrophy. For an extreme example you can look at cognitive decline in the elderly which can be mitigated by taking part in activities that are cognitively stimulating.

Can you comment on other jobs though? The large majority of jobs require no big mental effort? Even switching from programming to management would go through that. Under that light it'd be impossible for a manager to ever become technical again because they'd atrophy so quickly?

I can't answer for the other guy, but my answer would be that talking to a clanker is LESS mental effort than being a manager, and that's why your reasoning atrophies so quickly.

Managers can go back to being technical, because they are still interacting with problems that require human thinking. Token farmers don't.

I think you're probably castrophizing the impact with statements like "it'd be impossible for a manager to ever become technical again" because that's not the likely outcome as I understand things. But yes people who stop programming for an appreciable amount of time do find it harder to pick back up again.

The longer the manager is out of the game, the harder it is to return to the game. Returning to the game takes time. Depending on age and income, returning to the game may be impossible for some people over time.

They could make it work like rewarded video ads in mobile games. Block progress until you watch the ad. Then as dutiful engineers people can consume ads to support the business and avoid being laid off.

More seriously for software engineering it’ll just cost a lot.

Yeah in a lot of cases it's much better to use integers and a fixed precision as the absolute unit of position. For games it's just that the scale of most games works well with floats in the range they care about.