His mother, The New York Times reports, plans to file a lawsuit against Character.AI, alleging the platform’s “dangerous and untested” technology led to his death

To me this is a compounding problem of this whole situation, I feel like lawsuits like this can be so extremely bad for society as they raise the cost of starting businesses, thereby almost guaranteeing we are subject to large corporations with greater likelihood (a lawsuit like this could probably bankrupt a small business, whereas large corporations can pay them)

but as far as AI contributing to the suicide or not, I’m not sure. Perhaps parents should prudently restrict a lot of access to things like this in general. Perhaps the person would have taken their life regardless of interaction with the AI.

this is pretty sad to me because it’s almost like sending a signal to them that harmful practices like the API conflict last year were “worth it”… seems like short term profit thinking will doom reddit long term at some point, maybe?

if not, they’re both grouped under “acoustic wayfinding”

I think the paradox of tolerance seems to be wildly misunderstood by the left

if a person cannot be tolerant of the intolerant, then they’re not a tolerant person; hence this “paradox” as interpreted by leftists, seems to advocate for shades of intolerance then, and against a tolerant society existing

yet, tolerance does not imply agreement, nor pacifism. Someone is still free to argue against someone with a view they disagree with, or if such a person uses violence against the person wrongly, they don’t have to “tolerate” the violence (although they are free to do so if that would be prudent) but are able to defend themselves with lawful self-defense

I suppose the word “tolerance” is probably ambiguous in this “paradox”

Additionally, the predominant American attitude seemed to be that such “intolerance” could be voluntarily argued against and overcome; it is legal to advocate for violent ideologies like Nazism or Communism alike, and usually such people were ignored or problems for example with their economics views were brought up and most people voluntarily agreed that such ideologies were not ideal.

So as I understand it, the “paradox of tolerance” is not really a justification for or argument for a necessity of “not tolerating the intolerant”

not Christian extremism, just Christian symbols

I’m not really a fan of tattoos but they’re not necessarily morally wrong, I think some Christians have put small cross tattoos on when going in to combat for bodily identification if they died in battle for example

They’re honestly just Christian symbols and not a problem

Well, I see some leftwing people post they can’t coexist with Nazism in contrast for example. Are you ok with coexisting with nazism or do you think it needs to be “crushed”? I disagree that islam needs to be “crushed” however authortarian variants may pose such a danger

Tattoo on arm: “Deus Vult” (God wills it, crusader motto… typically associated with Catholicism, although Hegseth is Baptist I think?)

Tattoo on chest: Jerusalem cross (multiple religious meanings attached to it)

ehhhh, there’s kind of already a lack of unity as a country, and a lack of standards, and even with the standards apparently a lot of underperforming students

schools will decide that there’s no point in teaching mathematics if math teachers are expensive and impacting the bottom line

since businesses need people who have math skills, the market asks for people to be educated in math, in turn giving incentive for schools to teach math, so there are basically market checks and balances here

plus I imagine if you like math, you don’t need to be forced to learn it, you just fire up something like andymath.com and learn it yourself (for free / cost of internet + electricity) or could post on forums asking for help

It’s definitely a risk and gamble, but they think it will be worth it and produce better results

yeah if we can get more bipartisan things done, let’s work together and do it

I think the opposing view says that these things can be provided by private companies or nonprofits

Take the federal Department of Education, for example. You could easily just let state universities take over and/or form a non-federal alliance of sorts or allow educational businesses or nonprofits to be created to fill in the gap.

I think that’s what they have in mind

I just let a phone pedometer run and have phone in pocket. not perfect and i think it records too many steps but it gives “good enough for me” ballpark estimate

But I guess it’s not as much like that as I just try to add walking in to things like if I am thinking or I might pace around and read instead of sitting and reading like on a phone. If you can walk and do it, then I try to sometimes.

People could also get walking desks if they have a desk job and ability to make that work, so they could walk while working

I thought your comment was fine, I kinda shared your opinion a bit for a while… lately walking has seemed “more useful than I thought” though. I guess you could also add cardio / strength with adding weight to carry (rucking) or going faster and up hills (military has “marches” carrying some weight over distances).

I think personally I’m sifting some extremes at the present of in the past having tried to do intense exercise and then be sedentary a lot of the day, to trying to walk more throughout the day currently but with less intense exercise (or also without being sedentary), and this will probably resolve to trying to do both the walking as a foundation as I think you correctly identified it as being, and then with some higher intensity stuff on top of it

yeah it’s been an interesting experiment here too

the consistency is underrated to me; sometimes if I’m stressed and try something with high intensity, I end up crashing (it does not simply relieve stress but adds to it and that ends in an overload) whereas walking is a kind of “active recovery” so it can be good whether stressed or not, consistently every day

no, but i am, and why - because i don’t use the internet like others but I think I try to use it in a useful way?

Just seemed like a fun concept to share

@Kernelcode

time to unsticky and sticky a post about election win?

Congrats all

I didn’t think this was possible but I wish you good luck with it

So, do Judaism and Islam not put much stock in converting non-believers?

Christianity does, maybe that also averts some violent conflict

Jews I thought are mostly born Jews (as opposed to non-Jews, or Gentiles, rather). So those not born Jews are already “the other” for them. I have heard of people converting, but is it not the same? I ask because there doesn’t seem like much idea that the Palestinians could be converted and become Jews.

Likewise, what’s up with Islam’s approach to conversion? I thought people can convert to Islam… so why do they have so many radicals dedicated to (violent) jihad against infidels? Rarely do I hear Muslims say that the solution is for Israel to convert to Islam (do they say this?).