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Monitor computer activity, don't give them a smart phone at 13

Tell me you don't have children without saying you don't have children.

In many places it is essentially impossible for children (even younger than 13) to have a normal social live without access to a smart phone. Just some examples, many public transport providers are moving to apps as the only way to pay for fares, nearly all communication for sports clubs happens through messenger platforms, school information is typically distributed via apps as well and the list goes on (I have not even touched on the kids own social interactions).

The irony is that the people who say "parents should parent their kids online activities" the loudest, largely grew up with unrestricted computer use, in chat rooms, weird corners of the internet all by working around any restrictions that parents tried to put on them. Mainly because they were much more computer literate then the older generation.


They get them from their friends at school. I can’t be with my son every waking moment of every day and it’s a ridiculous stance to tel me to do so. I’m also not the only parent I’ve met who wants to be able to limit my child’s access to garbage like social media and Youtube online.

What you’re proposing is similar to a “Google Free Village.” What we need is something that lets parents have some control by proxy without violating the privacy of the child or anyone else. I believe it’s possible to do so.

The Internet that we grew up on has been totally subsumed by scumbag marketing to the point that it’s unavoidable. It’s an addictive substance now. Stop pretending like the ways of the 90’s and 2000’s are still accessible.


Delegation is generally all about outsourcing, so hard agree

Ireland isn't importing most of its population. Have you been scrolling social media too much? You know anyone can write anything they want on there, right? Lol

Maybe ultraintelligence is having an improved environment-action-outcome loop. Maybe that's all intelligence really is


I've noticed this core philosophical difference in certain geographically associated peoples.

There is a group of people who think AI is going to ruin the world because they think they themselves (or their superiors) would ruin the world.

There is a group of people who think AI is going to save the world because they think they themselves (or their superiors) would save the world.

Kind of funny to me that the former is typically democratic (those who are supposed to decide their own futures are afraid of the future they've chosen) while the other is often "less free" and are unafraid of the future that's been chosen for them.


There is also a group of people who think AI is going to ruin the world because they don't think the AI will end up doing what its creators (or their superiors) would want it to do.


You’re just describing authoritarian vs non-authoritarian mindsets.


In that case, it can't be improved with bigger computers.


Not all negativity is toxic. My sense of hunger is unpleasant but it keeps me healthy.


Heroes like Spiderman and Batman? Or strangers that put on a mask, and whose public image is maintained by PR firms?


Submission is 404ing for me


Should be fixed now, I hit rate limiting issues upstream.


They might not have the capacity to do more considering they still need to redact the rest of the epstein files that show their president is a child trafficking pedophile


Seems to be very common nowadays for PE


Is this any different than the SaaS business model, except a 3rd party bought the company to strip it?

Everything SaaS these days, hell every subscription these days seems to involve product enshittification + rising pricing. Is this the end game of the financialization of everything?


Damn, some other group trying to cause trouble for you?


I doubt it. I think it's just cops doing shitty work under pressure and then trying to cover it up.


Automating the upload of a home folder to the darkweb in the middle of an extortion attempt would be pretty weak for a "legendary" hacker.

whoopsie :D


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