The tariff will cause, is causing in fact, increased prices. This will have a negative effect on their earnings.
In the hospitality sector, tariffs (and harassment of tourists at the border) are reducing earnings by reducing tourism.
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stvltvs commented on What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing? newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/adrianhon
Which raises the issue of what education is for. Is it to know things and solve specific problems in a controlled environment, or is it to work with available tools and resources across a range dynamically changing contexts? Does being at a locked down computer in a dedicated space match likely work settings?
This assumes that education's sole goal is to prepare students for work.
What would be the impact on democratic systems if voters always turn to an LLM for answers because schools didn't require them to think on their own?
stvltvs commented on US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law wired.com/story/us-suprem... · Posted by u/mikece
What I've been thinking of is (although very similar):
1. Government has private/public key or similar for "Is above 18/21/legal age" 2. Site generates random data 3. Sends data to user 4. User somehow sends the data to government for signing (be it via some login or whatever) 5. User gets signed data back and sends it to the site 6. Site verifies the data against the public key
I guess the signing part could be done with all sorts of different methods, but the site would still need to be able to somehow figure out how it was signed and get the appropriate public key for it.
The main problem I see is that this isn't exactly stateless, so you do need some form of (semi-)persistent identifier on the server side.
It also needs to prevent sharing the age verification token.
stvltvs commented on US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law wired.com/story/us-suprem... · Posted by u/mikece
I think plenty of legal adults have zero interest in having a link tied to their porn consumption. The never ending stream of data leakage announcements should make it clear that if the data is collected, you have to assume it will become public. VPN at least puts a layer of indirection on that.
Agreed. As an adult, I would use a VPN to bypass ID requirements to preserve my privacy.
stvltvs commented on US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law wired.com/story/us-suprem... · Posted by u/mikece
You need something like Verifiable Credentials to do this properly imo. You don't want something like OAuth because the login service knows which websites you're requesting the login from.
Whatever technical solution is implemented needs to:
1. Not inform the authentication provider about which websites you're visiting.
2. Not inform the websites about your meat space identity.
They are doing neither, and the article itself undermines its premise later when the "serious research" is being quoted. As it cites, most offender get exposed during early teens, back when there were no porn algorithms. However, the rate of child sexual abuse has steadily decreased since the 1990s, down by almost 50%. If the hypothesis of the article was correct then the rate of child sexual abuse should increase, not decrease.
Other research studies, have looked at the rate of pedophilia in the general population, and the conclusions seems to be a fairly static rate of around 2% (like "Prevalence, situation, and perspectives of treatment" from 2020). However since the rate of child sexual abuse has decreased, such studies mostly rely on doing survey and those has for obvious reasons a major problem of sampling and accuracy.
A common theme in the research, just from a very quick look, is that the researcher themselves cite that the is a huge lack of research in this area. They can see the trend, and see the numbers, but there is little to real understanding to what is behind the numbers. We currently has as good chance to blame the Catholic Church as to blame pornhub, and articles like this one are not helping the slightest. At best it just spreading fear in order to generate engagement, and at worst they are abusing their readers by pushing propaganda in order to sway popular opinion about oppressive laws.
We should be careful not to equivocate between pedophilia which in the technical jargon of research studies is a sexual attraction to pre-pubertal children and child sexual abuse which loosely is the act of sexually assaulting someone below the legal age of consent. They are two different things. An abuser might not be a pedophile in the technical sense, and a pedophile might not be an abuser.
So rates of pedophilic attractions and use of CSAM could be rising while rates of child sexual abuse is falling. I don't know if that's the case, but we shouldn't confuse the two things.
stvltvs commented on Purple exists only in our brains snexplores.org/article/co... · Posted by u/geox
There exists a shade of purple that is indistinguishable from violet because it triggers the cones of the eyes at the same level that violet does.
You can buy paint called "violet". This isn't the spectral violet, it's a shade of purple that looks very similar to spectral violet.
Tetrochromats can distinguish between that purple shade and real violet. But if you mixed the paint using 4 tints rather than 3 you could fool them too.
Source?
edit: You may be confusing tetrachromacy with people who don't have a lens and can therefore perceive ultraviolet light that's normally filtered out. These folks can see shades of violet where other people don't because the blue receptors are being stimulated by the ultraviolet light.
stvltvs commented on Purple exists only in our brains snexplores.org/article/co... · Posted by u/geox
P.S. Tetrachromats can distinguish between violet and purple, unlike us normal humans.
Not true. Human tetrachromats have an extra kind of receptor somewhere between the blue and red receptors' sensitivity. This doesn't help with colors like violet that are outside of that range.
Also, purple (a non-spectral color) is easily distinguished from violet (a spectral color) if you see them side-by-side.
stvltvs commented on Purple exists only in our brains snexplores.org/article/co... · Posted by u/geox
Violet in the rainbow is not a purple hue, it is a deep blue. Illustrations often color it more purplish but that is inaccurate
Exactly this, purple ≠ violet. They don't even look the same.
You won't see violet on a computer screen because it's a higher frequency than what blue LEDs produce. You won't see it on the output of consumer-grade printers for similar reasons regarding the color of the ink.
The easiest way to see actual true violet is to pass sunlight through a prism onto a white surface.
Purple on the other hand is a mixture of red and blue frequencies that stimulate both kinds of receptors in your eyes. It looks like a reddish blue that can't be produced by any one frequency of light.
True violet looks like a deep, deep blue without any red tint.
There's a lot of strange pornography on the web, even if you exclude the numerous Tor onion services. Here is a site that tries to randomly sample and display (like a proxy, never linking to the source) recently-circulating pornography: https://rnsaffn.com/zg3/
Observing the stream of images, it's clear that niche human sexual interests are both unpredictable and sometimes shocking. It's also clear that AI-generated pornography is not as popular as you might imagine. Many people don't like it.
I imagine most of us prefer to know that a real person is on the other side of an image, but I'm sure there are plenty of us who don't care. In any case, AI porn still has a certain vibe that is detectable.