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How are being smart and being intelligent not synonyms?

Making sure everyone has basic needs doesn't mean you don't pay people to work. People would work because they want the other things you get from money aside from survival.

There was the scandal where ChatGPT supported a teenager's suicide so now they are trying to give it different modes for adults and underage people. They actually did imply the version for adults would be less censored than it is now.

Relevant CGP Grey video

Basically it is a structural problem that ensures corrupt behavior. A dictator has to direct resources to the people most relevant to their continued power to buy their loyalty, and away from everyone else whose support is irrelevant. Not being a scumbag in that position could get you killed.

Worrying about evidence being discovered, in a text message to a friend confessing everything, kind of ironic

This was what should have been a private conversation though, not public.

Well why not just have recording off by default, and let people decide for themselves whether to break the law?

If it's your phone it makes sense you should be able to record calls on it.

I played the first one but after that the formula felt pretty samey and I was bored of it. Would a fourth Borderlands game even be good if it wasn't laggy?

The questionable consent in The Lusty Argonian Maid is totally intentional, but should be taken in context, because in lore it's

by Crassius Curio

who is

spoiler

a wealthy and influential NPC who, after spending lots of time doing a series of quests for him to advance in his faction, he hits you with a quest to take off all your equipment so he can see the player character naked, and if you refuse to do this you can't advance further in that quest line. This happens regardless of your character's gender. He's depicted as a sex pest and a creep in a way that feels very personal and elicits a strong negative reaction, because you can't say no without making a meaningful sacrifice within the game.

So if you play the game you're going to be inclined to view the author's intent with a strong negative bias.

I've blocked a bunch of people, who may be replying to me with harassing comments, but that isn't influencing what I do. It might influence the overall conversation, and that could be a problem, but I think the way that problem is dealt with should be public, because the problem is public, it's not something that's exclusively my problem. I don't think I should have the authority to act to police any arbitrary community like that, especially without anyone being able to know that I'm doing it.

I do think it would be less bad if it only prevented direct comment replies, and not replies to top level posts or replies to other comments by other people further down the thread.

I don't understand what you mean by it still occurs in the other direction though. Nobody can prevent people from commenting except moderators and admins, which is how it should be. Mute style blocking isn't moderation because it doesn't affect anyone's ability to comment, it's effectively the same as a client level filter.