Olives @olives@qoto.org

It's probably easier to get a company to adopt end-to-end encryption than it is to otherwise get them to stop spying on people.

I was looking into takes in this area (as a form of impromptu research), and many are better, but oh boy, there are a couple like this which come from someone who doesn't seem to have a brain.

Reading a stupid take from 2016 which talks about porn solely through the lens of being a medicine to prescribe to criminals to prevent them from committing crimes (while censoring / oppressing everyone else). From that, you should understand part of why I never really lean on that particular argument.

Also, as a rule of thumb, blanket prohibitions tend to feed black markets which are probably worse.

I remember when an AI ethicist stared down (metaphorically speaking) like a dozen Czech psychologists or something who rebutted the notion, even suggesting they might reduce crime.

Then, he invoked "think of the children" and nit-picked some little details.

I should probably write something about this too but I already have far too many things to write about.

Oh, are there more bad sex doll / robot takes? That's funny considering that paper after paper came out over the past few years debunking the idea that it drives crime.

Someone told me it wouldn't be a Biden and Trump rematch. Turns out I was right... Unless, there's a grand twist we're all not expecting.

Mind you, I don't really like being right here.

I'm taking the opportunity to think about what new porn citations I could add to the new post. Do you have any good ideas?

I'm actually intending to write a post about how the "realism" of some taboo doesn't matter in porn, only the "real"*, but I never get around to it, because there is too much nonsense to deal with.

* In a nutshell, by arguing about "realism this or realism that", it shifts attention towards arbitrary boundaries of realism, and discourse along those lines, rather than actual ethics. That is what makes it garbage. There is more to it though.

On second thought, I'm gonna delete that post, as that was a bit too speculative, but I think that rather than wondering whether porn actually decreases crime, it is worth thinking about how it is abundantly clear that it doesn't increase it.

It also appears that Milton Diamond is dead. He died a few months ago, that is very unfortunate.

With the understanding that it can take years for something to get published, I'm okay with a preprint (and I did that with Von Andrian-Werburg's study until that got published last year, or rather, I noticed it had been), I just don't want the whole thing to be preprints.

Castleman referenced it at one point in his article, but if I'm going to cite it in the experimental post, I'm going to have to know what it's doi is (or other details).

I'm trying to locate a doi for "Diamond & Kontula".

"Diamond, M., & Kontula, O. (2010). Pornography and sex crimes in
Finland."

Even if you didn't make the first Australian consultation, you can still respond to the second broader one with the same points as it also touches on content (among other things).

There was also someone who expected me to read his mind, uh, I can't answer questions which haven't been asked, lol. It's also probably not possible / practical to pre-answer every question which could be asked.

I'm willing to experiment with a new style but I'm not going to write ten lengthy pieces of the same thing for social media, lol.

The reason I'm experimenting with a new style is that I keep thinking "maybe, it would be useful to add this bit of context, or to add that bit of context" and it gets tacked onto the end and the text becomes harder to maintain.

I think something like that might be easier to follow than a numerical citation format on here, particularly as you can't really hover over the numbers to get more context. The downside is that it's a bit more wordy.

The links are a bit less accessible (they're at the end which someone needs to scroll to) but there is also a bit more context there than a lone link can provide and it avoids littering the text with a lot of links.