Spirit is an abstract concept rather than an actual thing. It’s essentially the gap between what we can measure about a person and what we perceive of them. Is the ineffable sense of a person’s being that can’t be traced to a chemical or electrical process of the brain.

It’s largely made up of massively incomplete understanding and self-deception. As a result, it has little relation to the processes of stars.

Target is an interesting case study. Largely self-inflicted, but conservatives remember them having trans bathrooms and liberals remember them taking them away (not that that was the only issue, they have become blatantly racist as well). It’s too narrow and too slow, but that’s what results when society rejects an institution.

It would be great if we could narrowly focus on a few egregious examples and wreck them, but getting everyone to non-organically agree on who to target (no pun intended) is going to be difficult.

I’m just saying like I oppose the death penalty, but there are certain cases where I’m not going to die on that particular hill. I don’t believe they should be killed, but the context of the moment is going to alienate more people than it convinces.

Same thing here. I oppose identification laws but making that argument in defense of those two is going to make folks think it’s a fanatical position rather than a reasonable one.

It’s far better to argue from a reasonable position and then extend that to other cases than just argue these places should be allowed to continue to weaponize anonymity.

Literally the worst possible champions of this cause.

Human moderator? ChatGPT isn’t a social platform, I wouldn’t expect there to be any actual moderation. A human couldn’t really do anything besides shut down a user’s account. They probably wouldn’t even have access to any conversations or PII because that would be a privacy nightmare.

Also, those moderation scores can be wildly inaccurate. I think people would quickly get frustrated using it when half the stuff they write gets flagged as hate speech: .56, violence: .43, self harm: .29

Those numbers in the middle are really ambiguous in my experience.

That presumes that is how people are using AI. I use it all the time, but AI never replaces my own judgement or voice. It’s useful. It’s not life-changing.