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This exactly. I don’t believe the government should be censoring porn, but I have a really hard time arguing that principle against studies that suggest it is normalizing choking and slapping women among the young men exposed to it. Why is this roleplay fetish the beachhead and not something like that?


That's an odd perspective. I have heard of young women demanding to be choked and slapped (with their partners acquiescing) far far more than young men instigating the behaviour.


https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jul/07/no-safe...

> Now thought to be the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40, it can also lead to difficulty swallowing, incontinence, seizures, memory problems, depression, anxiety and miscarriage.

Looks like they are going after that too though.


I’d hope that average American doesn’t care about jobs they aren’t qualified for being filled by people paying taxes into their communities.


Still undesirable latency for a lot of compute use cases, like image or video editing; it’s really only negligible for LLMs.

Since that’s definitely a big enough use case all on its own, I wonder if such a product should really just double down on LLMs.


remote GPU compute payloads have been around a lot longer than LLMs, they're just few and far between.

folding@home and other such asynchronous "get this packet of work done and get back to me' style of operations rarely care much about latency.

Remote transcoding efforts can usually adjust whatever buffer needed to cover huge latency gaps , a lot of sim and render suites can do remote work regardless of machine to machine latency..

I just sort of figure the industry will trend more async when latency becomes a bigger issue than compute. Won't work in some places, but I think we tend to avoid thinking that way right now due to a lack of real need to do so; but latency is one of those numbers that trends down slowly.


Like gravity, there is some inexorably force drawing the state towards mass surveillance tools as it makes the job easier. Removing friction that fights against that force is real


Seems like a slippery slope. Now the infrastructure is there to ask apple, Google and microsoft to confirm identity with selfies over the internet.


That infrastructure is literally already there. It's done and live in some areas.


sounds like the MacOS network utility. I've been bit by leaving it on after testing ios apps :D


I think cli’s are more token efficient- the help menu is loaded only when needed, and the output is trivially pipe able to grep or jq to filter out what the model actually wants


There were a bunch of intel atom ones IIRC. I got my degree with a used EEEpc with one of those.


As did I. The most unbelievable part is that we used that tiny keyboard.


EEEPc ? Oh, I used to dream of having an EEEPc ... I got my degree using old C64 - had to manually encrypt packets with pen and paper to use https.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKHFZBUTA4k


So you’re telling me we could do this all for just a few million dollars more than the price of the three fighter jets recently shot down over Kuwait, and provide good American jobs while doing so? Sounds like a deal.

(In reality it would be more expensive because you would have to source, train, and administer those people plus audit the results afterwards. But the government had said it would be doable before to the courts!)


That’s the joke :)


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