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I'd imagine it works like movie ratings. You don't filter movies from scene to scene. There's just one rating for an entire site or app. But yeah I get the point, API based solutions ar…

Yes, that's even better. Make apps and websites provide an API that broadcasts the age rating of its content, then let the OS attest the apps and websites, not the other way around. edit: on seco…

The California bill gets it backwards. Rather than Internet services taking the user's age and deciding what content to serve, the Internet service or app should broadcast the age rating of its c…

We have to separate child protection from Internet control so that the "protect the kids" narrative loses its potency. So here's a counter-narrative: we can implement digital child prot…

Code-writing speed is not a bottleneck when the stakes are high. Sometimes, it's better to slow down, plan ahead, and consider the consequences because the cost of a failed iteration is too great…

Nice project. P2P is not the way to go for DMs though. Both users and servers have to stay anonymous if we want to defeat surveillance and censorship long-term. Ideally, nobody except a single server …

This seems fine as a short-term solution, but human-only is no good as a long-term rule. The AIs will soon surpass human capability. Even in the present, I think some AI comments are already decent qu…

The problem with distributed storage is they place too high of a requirement on edge nodes, which people have to host, and they synchronize too slowly for real time messenging. If I upload a 1GB video…

I don't think that's true. If there really was a good enough open-source Discord alternative, many would already switched. A big part of the problem is there isn't one. Matrix, Stoat, T…

If we decentralize messenging and social media, all of those protocols you mentioned will survive.

Glad to see more of these efforts. But here's what it will really take to decentralize social media and E2EE messengers: We need something like Discord, except each server is an actual self-hoste…

The smartphone OS market is not healthy precisely because manufacturers lock their bootloaders (among other anti-competitive tricks, like a proprietary IMS stack), which stifles market competition. …

> If you want a better proposal bring technical expertise to the discussion instead of ideology fundamentalism. Fine. All we need is a password-protected toggle in each app that enables child mode,…

Don't give them an inch. The US defense budget is $1T. They can't spend it all on surveillance, but let's say the tech companies and the government spends that much every year combined.…

The idea is to let parents decide which apps are suitable for their child, for each child. Password-gating app installation (just like sudo on Linux) is not only easier to implement and use, but also …

See also: https://github.com/Orama-Interactive/Pixelorama https://github.com/piskelapp/piskel They're similar pixel art editor programs.…

Rather than age verification, this is what we should be doing instead: Don't let phone manufacturers lock the bootloader on phones. Let the device owner lock it with a password if they decide to.…

Profit does not drive all. There are other valuable things besides money. A healthy society must regulate shortsighted profit-seeking and power-seeking. That's what these conversations are for.

If the goal was to protect the children, there are much simpler solutions. But for whatever reason, companies and governments are avoiding the simple solutions like the plague. Let me explain the simp…

Glad to see efforts like yours. I will give my two cents: Decentralizing everything doesn't scale well. Instead of doing that, look at how Minecraft does it. Decentralize at the server level, not…

The solution to these problems is to make open-source models better and more resource-efficient. Work towards a world where everyone can run an AGI on their own computer. Not with remote API calls, bu…

For the weights and temporary state, yes. It doesn't sound like a lot until you remember that your DNA is about 600 books worth of data by the same metric.

See this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189130

Scaling has hit a wall and will not get us to AGI. Open-source models are only a couple of months behind closed models, and the same level of capability will require smaller and smaller models in the …

For every person that thinks about creating the HIV-like deadly pathogen, there will be millions more thinking about how to defend people against such pathogen, how to detect it faster before symptoms…

It is not easy to create weapons. Why do you think the physical and legal barriers that exist today that prevent you from acquiring equipment and creating nuclear weapons will go away when everyone be…

There are plenty of physical and legal barriers to creating a bioweapon and that's not going to change if everyone becomes smarter with AI. And even if we really somehow end up in a world where e…

I'm referring to the current situation. How is it not applicable? I think the government wants to eventually nationalize these companies and we have to stop them.

I agree. We will need hardware ownership as well eventually. But the earlier you open-source, the more you slow down the centralization because people will be more likely to buy hardware to run stuff …