I had much the same experience, coming out of it with much less fear about jumping spiders in particular. Now they don't really bother me.

Didn't really do much for all the other species though!

I have some bad news...

One way or another, this is saying a lot about you.

I'd say it says more about you that simply inquiring as to what people find issue with is considered bad.

That he isn't a mindless drone going along with the outrage for no other reason than it's the approved thing to do?

You don't need to know him personally when he was out there telling everyone who he was.

Another thing to add to the list of reasons why I'm not upgrading.

But CMD is generally used instead of control, and at least in my case, with the thumb rather than pinky. Different muscle memory.

> It starts with child abuse material, because who’s going to defend not catching that?

After the recent X CSAM generation arguments and the potential for X to get blocked in the UK, it seems like more people than I expected will defend it.

There were people on HN defending it. Although I'm sure they're 99% defending Musk, and only because they reflexively jump into defense mode any time one of his companies' wrongdoing is discussed. If it were Adobe's or Microsoft's products generating CSAM, you wouldn't hear a peep out of them

I will defend absolute freedom of all speech by Musk and against Musk. By Adobe and against Adobe. My Microsoft and against Microsoft. By you and against you. By me and against me. Unlike many who merely theorize about this from their armchairs, I've lived in a place without free speech and I know what that leads to, how fast, and how hard it is to get out of that hole. There is no such thing as "let's just have a little less freedom of speech". It either exists or very quickly it does not.

Sexual abuse (of adults and of children) is abhorrent, illegal, and should remain so. A number cannot be illegal.

> A number cannot be illegal.

Why equivocate? Go ahead and own it, tell us what you think about AI-generated CSAM using plain language.

gp had helpfully numbered questions that you could have said yes/no to.

Unbelievable. People pretending not to understand something stated very clearly just to insult someone they don’t even know. Is this where society is now?

>>> If it were Adobe's or Microsoft's products generating CSAM, you wouldn't hear a peep out of them

>> I will defend absolute freedom of all speech by Musk [...] By Adobe [...] [B]y Microsoft

Your support of the "absolute freedom" of "all speech" is very clear. If you somehow didn't mean the words you chose, then the lack of clarity is on you, and needs no pretense on my part.

About as unbelievable as electing one president.

The same pretext has been deployed in Australia as well. I'm not sure if the Carney government will also try.

I don't think anyone is defending it. It's all astroturf.

> After the recent X CSAM generation arguments

X installs went UP the in UK when the gov said "X allows you to generate child porn, lets block it". Thousands of brits go "free child porn on X better check it out"

Regretting not being able to create more shareholder value on your deathbed.

So very sad.

Depends on the shareholder. At Sergey Brin's level, that shareholder value shapes the future of humanity, a legacy affecting many more people and will last far longer than spending time with single, or even double digit number of children.

I can't really tell what you're trying to say, do you really think the shareholder value of Google is positively aligned with the future of humanity? As in: If Google builds a really good AI and makes a lot of money from that, this will be a net positive for the world?

You’re shifting the goalpost to be positive influence or not. That’s not what they were saying though.

Their point is that the sheer allure for many people of that level of influence is powerful and makes other options likely less appealing.

Yes.

Sometimes we're just after the catharsis.

Nobody likes to be left hanging.

Currently looking up emails for jsiepkes’ board to walk them through my frustrating experience with their comment.