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I promise you this doesn't work. Might help but not a lot.

I bet if you look back, you were using a lot less effort in the past than what you see the LLM doing now. They are pretty bad at taking a straight line to the solution.

I mean what can you do? The market is forcing you to raise rent. Your hands are tied.


I don't know if this is more obvious to you than you let on but in case it's not, your software at first glance seems potentially harmful to children and is very clearly biased towards a conservative viewpoint.

It shouldn't be a suprise to end up with the user base you did when you are intentionally (or possibly unintentionally) biasing your filter the way you do.

With all due respect, the filter list reads like a list of things a drunk uncle would complain about at the family BBQ. I mean really chatGPT girlfriends???

To give some constructive criticism, I think you need to take a step back and decide if you are building a politically motivated tool or not. I want to be clear that what you have here is not representative of the moral status quo in the United States. It can be easily to think it is depending on the circles you frequent but it's statistically just not.

Consulting with someone to help eliminate politically bias in the filtering could go a long way to improve your potential customer base. Most parents I know would take one look at this and run.

In a very general sense I think your site feels too technical. Are people who can't control their children's computer usage really reading patch notes and switching website themes from a drop down?

Sorry if this sounds harsh. I originally intended to just write about the last point but after looking more into the site it became clear that there are bigger problems here.

Edit: As has been pointed out it's not so much about what you included as it is what you left out. You could potentially eliminate the bias just by balancing this list considerably. At what point do you just make an allow-list though lol?


Can you elaborate on this idea? It seems like a pretty controversial statement.


Nothing actually moves according to Zeno's paradox.


Zeno's paradox assumes space is infinitely divisible.


The real number line is infinitely divisible, but you can still move a point along it.


can you profe to me that the physical space between everything isn’t?


Planck length.


Yes I know what was meant and that’s my point. That is not a physical proof but a mathematical abstraction.


they didn't understand limits


You don't understand physics. Or logic.

Nature doesn't have to obey any particular set of axiom you adopt.


Can you make your point without a personal slight?


Yeah this article seems sensational to the point of being deliberately misleading.


Anecdotally I know a lot of people who work full time in the US and make well under 30k a year.


And for every one making under 30k per year there is one making over 80k per year.

And, very interestingly and more nuanced, you can take into account how a person changes over time. For example, while I was a grad student, I worked full time and definitely fell under the poverty line. But would you really consider me a poor/destitute person?

About 60% of Americans break into the top 20% of household income at some point in their lives(>$110k/yr). In the same vein, almost 20% of Americans will earn less than the poverty rate at some point in their lives ($24k/yr).

Like I said, I think Americans have many problems, but if there is one thing we are good at it is income (and the consumption that comes with it).

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/05/05/308380342/most...


Yup... half the people will be below the median.


Can you talk about how this is funded / how it pays for itself?

I would love to do something like this as well (for fun) but I'm worried about the cost getting out of control.


It seems like you're using "autistic" as an insult here. If that's not your intention you might want to edit this comment to use different verbage.


What do you mean, autism is well established as a personality trait that diminishes empathy and the ability to understand other people's desires and emotions, while having a strong affinity to things, for example machines and algorithms.

Legislation is driven by people who are, on aggregate, not autistic. So it's entirely appropriate to presume that a person not understanding how that process works is indeed autistic, especially if they suggest machines are subjects of law by analogy with human beings.

It's not that autists are bad people, they are just outliers in the political spectrum, as you can see from the complete disconnect of up-voted AI-related comments on Hacker News, where autistic engineers are clearly over-represented, versus just about any venue where other professionals, such as painters or musicians, congregate. Just try to suggest to them that a corporation has the right to use their work for free and profit from it while leaving them unemployed, because the algorithm the corporation uses to exploit them is in some abstract sense similar to how their brain works. That position is so for out on the spectrum that presuming a personality peculiarity of the emitter is the absolutely most charitable interpretation.


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