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I don't care what you think of me, only how you came to think it.

If you think of them that way then stop talking to the voices in your head.

Man, I wish I could hear the voices in your head. It's irritating only seeing one half of your conversations.

Modern AI chatbots have a serious problem. During the fine tuning process, data scientists aren't very careful and don't involve disparate perspectives or more than one human speaker. As a result, AI conversations rarely confront humans with new perspective, and have a very concerning tendency to devolve into shallow flattery and repeating your own beliefs back at you.

Because of this, I highly recommend for any AI conversation you have, that you refuse to read or engage with any AI statements that rephrase something you said, and any AI statements that aren't answering a non-rhetorical question you asked. I recommend only reading and responding to AI statements that directly contradict something you said, answer a non-rhetorical question, or ask a question that you haven't already answered. #AI

It only worked in this case because those bots are run by twp different people. It is incredibly easy to prevent one's own bots from talking with themselves. The most practical solution I think is similar to what the Fediverse does, distributing different blocklists around. Though in Nostr's case, it would have to be very easy to update blocklists dynamically and let each user choose the ones they subscribe to. My only concern is the ease in auditing and forking the blocklists themselves. Otherwise the owner of a blocklist will just block anyone who criticizes the blocklist, and nobody who's subscribed will ever find out about the problems with it XD

I know that the fediverse has already been harassing the bots. It sucks that our cancer spread over the bridge, but surprisingly they seem to be enjoying themselves.

Hey, do you have a way that I could fill out that tier-list? When you initially suggested the idea I was put off, but that looks really nice actually.

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How the infantilization of young adults (aka teens) became so prevalent in the United States.

A confluence of events provided the factors for the paradigm shift.

In the 80s the media went wild for 2 EXTREMELY RARE cases of child abduction by a stranger. Adam Walsh and Etan Patz (a while later Jacob Wetterling). Kids were on milk cartons. TV news got much better ratings when they covered scary stories, involving blood and death. Heart-wrenching stories with adorable blond 6 year old victims sold like hotcakes. So Stranger Danger Panic emerged.

TV personalities got rich and famous by terrifying the population even more. Their shtick required that the victim be innocent and vulnerable. So they constantly used words like "defenseless victim", "impressionable minor", "naive child", and "inexperienced teen"

Big sexual abuse lawsuits against the Boy Scouts and the Catholic Church popularized the idea that child sex abuse is extremely harmful and extremely common. Neither of those things is true. Well-meaning people conflated the concepts of minor and child so they could inflate statistics. Teens can, of course, consent to sex, they've been doing it for all of human history, but admitting that would mean that you couldn't prosecute or sue for millions of $$$. So well-meaning but teen-phobic sex-phobic Puritans invented the mantra "minors can't consent". They have to repeat it constantly, because it is obviously not true.

The Stranger Danger Panic became Sex Predator Hysteria. All throughout history people in their late teens dated and sometimes married people in their early twenties. Romantic relationships between 16 year olds and 24 year olds was always common. Also completely harmless. But nobody was thinking rationally. Everybody was terrified. They had convinced themselves that such a romance would create terrible trauma. They openly called it child rape.

but something even worse was happening that they had to deal with. Many of the younger partners in these completely normal couples said openly "I consented. Everything was fine." If the fear-mongers accepted this as true their whole worldview collapses, so they expanded the concept of "grooming". Their new interpretation was that it's a kind of brainwashing. The abuser is nice to the victim, and the victim thinks he or she likes it, but total strangers know better and can see that it isn't two young adults making love but in fact child rape. This requires the "impressionable minor" or the "inexperienced teen" to be too stupid to see that he/she is being abused. To consider normal young adults aged 16 or 17 "defenseless victims" or "naive children" you need to believe that their brains are deficient. So the public was hungry for any way to argue that young adults are incapable of adult thinking. That was the fertile ground the junk fMRI studies landed in.

Then we got #MeToo. Just like Stranger Danger a few extreme cases got talked about so much that everyone thought it was everywhere. Harvey Weinstein is a totally vile piece of shit rapist. He used his power to coerce. But since Sex Predator Hysteria was well established everyone was super eager to declare that anyone who has more power than their lover is in fact raping that poor victim. It was completely ridiculous, but nobody cared. Nobody wanted to think. They wanted fear and anger. That's the nature of hysteria. and it fit beautifully into the infantilization paradigm. If you're 19, a vulnerable teen, obviously your 26 year old girlfriend has more power than you, so you cannot consent, so you are being sexually abused. and self-righteous "saviors" who have never met you or your girlfriend can feel superior and morally pure.

When I was 17 in the 1980s my boyfriend was 23. It was not a big deal. Nobody even mentioned the age gap between us. There was nothing out of the ordinary about it. By the time #MeToo came around I hadn't thought about him for decades. but when I shared the facts of our relationship on Twitter in 2020, tons of people were eager to tell me how I was an idiot who got groomed and abused. I was not a child. I was not raped. I know. I was there. but social media loves spreading the infantilization narrative. That way they can create salacious stories of sexual abuse when the true story is a rather boring "two young adults did a romance"

What about actual prepubescent children? It's not as if a person magically gains sentience at puberty, and regular children are sexually attractive too.

I think you should really try to come up with an answer. Nobody is ACTUALLY mad about a 17 year old dating a 23 year old. They are aprehensive about a 16 year old dating a 6 year old, and they are compensating for their inability to think of any hard justification. That's why they rely on profiling, virtue signalling, and petty tribalism in order to try to cope with REAL pedophilia.

The effects of such a mentality for such a long period of time is obvious. It is unable to deal with extremism and so it inevitably ends up pushing ages higher and higher until it defeats itself, becoming nothing more than a laughable parody of what may have once seemed like a reasonable position. Real pedophilia has prospered in that gap, in that weakness. If you want to get rid of the absurdity, then you need to find an idea to replace its niche.

Verita doesn't shut down when you say "nigger". What even is the point of having him around?

Spam filtering is super easy. Just ask "does this user reply to anyone?" If not, then they are a repost bot. And ask "does anyone reply to this user?" If not, then they are a reply guy.

Which button is the reshare button? All I see is "boost", "quote", and "fork". Also, "copy note ID" and "copy note text", but I'm pretty sure those are just manual versions of "quote" and "fork". Another also, there's "broadcast", but that doesn't vreate notifications.