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So, Sam Altman was speaking about Worldcoin during a virtual Q&A hosted by FT Partners on Thursday. He said:

"In a world with a lot of AI, knowing who is human matters more and more,"

"The belief was and is that as AI becomes an increasingly important part of our lives...the ability to identify unique humans was going to be more and more important."

It sounds like creating the problem first, and then playing a hero by creating a pseudo solution to it.

#AI #privacy

While I think this is probably fairly obvious at this point, a significant contributor to child abuse appears to be poverty. That is brought up a fair bit.

reason.com/2023/12/15/this-nra

""We don't support the NRA's mission or its viewpoints on gun rights, and we don't agree with their goals, strategies, or tactics," the ACLU posted on X (formerly Twitter) on December 9. "But we both know that government officials can't punish organizations because they disapprove of their views.""

techdirt.com/2023/12/15/new-je Another "think of the kids" social media bill. Not a fan of "age verification". And even if it were "harmful" to a few, censorship / this would still not be proportionate.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06137-x Apparently, people are no less moral now than they were in the past.
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"FARMINGTON, Utah — A therapist based in Davis County has been charged with abusing a "vulnerable" woman over a span of several years "under the guise of providing her therapy."

Maurice Wade Harker, 54, was charged Tuesday with aggravated abuse of a vulnerable adult and kidnapping — both second-degree felonies.

According to the charging documents, Harker repeatedly abused a client of his between 2012 and 2021. The woman suffered serious injuries throughout this time, and she said she even thought she might die during one of the sessions.

The woman said Harker used aggressive, hands-on and even violent tactics, claiming he had to do so because she was possessed by a demon. The victim had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses. She had been abused as a child, court documents stated, and Harker "preyed upon her vulnerabilities."

Prosecutors say Harker's repeated assaults resulted in multiple physical injuries. These included a broken thumb, a knee injury, black eyes from being elbowed by Harker, and neck injuries. She said he would even pin her down and cover her mouth and nose, claiming this would help get rid of her "demon."

The Rolling Stone article states that Harker is "fairly well-known in the [Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] community." In 2005, he founded Life Changing Services, a pornography addiction treatment group that appears to be based on LDS principles, but not directly sponsored or supported by the church."

"addiction" In other words, normal sexual desires.

"Sons of Sacrifice, for “men with same sex attractions who want sexual self-mastery”"

Of course, they would have a program like this, although it appears everyone suffers equally there.

"Such recollections, however, are also intermingled with feelings of shame, self-hatred, and even, in some cases, thoughts of suicide as a result of undergoing treatment."

The effects of the program in general.

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This might have something to do with Elsevier's apparent love for charging extortionate prices, so that someone can access individual papers.

Remember, that it was these kinds of companies which led to Aaron Schwartz being driven to suicide (over a very hefty prison sentence) for the terrible crime of... Uh. Leaking scientific papers which weren't even funded by them.

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You must not have one of your researchers allegedly* experiment on minors 70 years ago, we will punish you very harshly for that forever.

If you're driving them to suicide with fringe religious therapies today, that is perfectly okay.

*Seems to have been debunked.

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If Threads, Gab, and Truth Social were to all start federating, that would complete the unholy trinity.

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So far, the Threads Borg has yet to come for the United Federation of Planets.

Temperature increases with the apparent partial arrival of Threads.

I imagine my quote is complete with my typo where I didn't spell per se properly. Good times with past me.

I think the British Government did that but literally everyone ignored them when they did.

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It's interesting how one censorship advocate has created a "youth council", just so they can justify their own censorship by pointing to a minor who they got to nod along with them.

I think though that some of these bad faith actors are getting desperate though (which means that pro human rights / pro privacy campaigns are working), if one has to bust out the QAnon-like dog-whistles.

theguardian.com/australia-news I feel like statements like this exaggerate how much power she actually has (Proton is a *Swiss* company), but it is important to pushback against her.

Useful to consider that the original post references an article where someone literally just ignored the criminality outside of a cursory mention (which there seemed to be little of) and complained about something else.

And it was very distracting as you're literally there to read about the criminality, not someone's QAnon-like rant.

I don't think I've seen takes like that, that bad, in quite some time though. This one is less bad but clearly a dog-whistle, and it's worth watching out for that.

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Supposed to take someone seriously who is like tripping QAnon flag after QAnon flag... Including the trans prisoners one.

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So, saw it again, this time from a QAnon-adjacent data broker adjacent "think of the children" advocate. One of the people pushing for things like the chat control.

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