Most people do.

Usually it’s Taylor Swift.

Yes.

This is how all of your favorite rich people live.

This is the kind of stuff I think about whenever a Democrat tries to tell me that Biden or Obama were powerless.

They could have done this to the makers of assault rifles in order to spur greater regulation in the wake of mass shootings. After all, they’re certainly contracted with various federal entities.

That is, if they gave a shit.

I’d love to think that, but this is America, where basic geography might as well be Egyptian hieroglyphics to most people.

Awesome, thank you for the info!

My fave used to be Plesiosaur, because I was mad into cryptozoology stories as a kid, and Nessie and Mokele Mbembe are (according to legend) potentially dinosaurs who survived the meteor.

But I no longer believe that, and am a little annoyed that my schoolteachers didn’t teach me a little extra skepticism.

I read somewhere that Anthropic has $18,000,000,000 in commitments from last year alone, so conceivably, they can stand to lose a mere $200,000,000 and it won’t create a huge issue for them in the short term.

I hope that’s how they’re looking at it.

YES.

Thank you.

I love learning about dinosaurs. My favorite is the Ankylosaurus. What’s yours?

I was not aware of that.

100%

I think that’s a very easy thing to say, but for the younger generations, using social media isn’t too dissimilar from breathing. It’s just something you do.

Just make that dinosaur minipig-sized and you have a deal.

You can go have pointless arguments about it with someone else.

I could get behind this.

Respectfully, I’ve heard all the arguments and do not care to litigate it again.

What you and I think is immaterial. These are the only realistic outcomes in the current ecosystem. You can go have pointless arguments about it with someone else.

This is good info, and you’re right. Engagement is driven by provocative and radicalizing content.

The only way my views have changed over time is that, more and more, I’m convinced that nothing I do affects much of anything beyond my own neighborhood. I have no illusions about significant national change, but I can keep my own block clean and take good care of people here.

I’d love to see any solution centered around the individual and a lengthy lockdown of the account associated with their IP.

Oh yeah, especially now that suicide rates are spiking, at least here in the US.

Yeah, I hate that our only two realistic options are allowing companies to self-regulate or age verification, but age verification feels like the lesser of two evils. We’d need to see much more immediate and catastrophic effects for the government to force social media companies to give up their algorithms and actually moderate without using imprecise LLM’s and automods.