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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Okay, and if it happened years ago but the victim is now 14 instead of 6 and they’re still in the same environment as their abuser?

    “Giving (potential) victimizers a line of support via organized religion to try to help them not commit sex crimes against children (in the future, or again)” is not a good argument because it has been shown time and time again that religious institutions cannot be trusted to reliably take the correct course of action and be accountable. That is the role of the government and law enforcement. It is unacceptable to put the feelings of adults over the safety of children and other victims, and organized religions have a tendency to protect those with power and influence over protecting the vulnerable.




  • I recognize that my intrusive thoughts are my own, but this term existing is helpful because: 1) some people incorrectly believe that thoughts imply a desired outcome, and this term helps explain and describe that this isn’t always the case and 2) it’s a meaningful and useful way of categorizing these types of thoughts for the purposes of psychology, psychiatry, understanding ourselves better, etc.

    In cases like severe OCD, classifying intrusive thoughts as such could help someone understand and cope with disturbing thoughts and develop subsequent coping mechanisms. Not everyone’s the same and some terms can be helpful.





  • I’m going to use those things as answer machines and you can’t stop me.

    Jokes aside, I always validate what chatbots tell me, not even just important things. I use GPT-4 for work and 90% of the time it can show me how to use very specific functions in complex ways, but yesterday (for the first time in awhile) it made up a function that didn’t exist. To its credit, I said, “Are you sure about [function]?” and it said, “I’m sorry, I got confused. That function doesn’t exist. However, look into X, Y, Z for further resources” and I did and they were the correct things to look into.










  • I think the fundamental question is, as the Fediverse gets more popular, then how will servers get paid for? Here are some possibilities I see for how Fediverse hosting could work at scale:

    • Surviving off donations alone: Possible but in my estimation unlikely, and it could veer into the territory of big donors having a controlling stake or exerting their interests.
    • Instances limiting number of users to what they can afford: This would require the network of instances process to really work well.
    • Big instances selling advertisements: Without oversight or moral commitment, this could easily go towards creepy personal data collection.
    • Crowdsourcing the costs: This would require transparency and fundraising or some other model
    • Hosts financing the operation in other ways: This could also easily get into creepy data collection practices or other dark patterns.

    I hope we come up with some process or plan for avoiding the pitfalls and forging an honest and community-integrating way forward.