You might want to follow the article and wake up to the slow destruction of the US's constitutional architecture.

How can you seriously claim the president has no control over the court when he previously appointed three judges, with three more having been appointed by other presidents from his party? Appointments which made the court reverse decades-old case law?

You have zero understanding of American history or law

It’s true that the POTUS is subject to the US courts. But I think it is fair to read TFA as a lament about an unwise assumption that is broader than “Biden wouldn’t have done certain things.” The organs of the EU should protect EU interests as if no nonEU organ ever agreed by default with the EU’s values.

I get that it's a UI issue that OpenAI needs to solve. But it's really interesting how we have this crazy powerful tool like LLMs and the people on "hacker news" can't be bothered to spend enough time with them to develop good workflows.

Really shows how much the quality of the HN community has changed.

You have zero idea what you’re talking about.

Every one of these companies is using agents. they’re not relying on a single LLM call with some kind of prompt.

Everything you “suspect” is completely wrong

Great progress, but someone should still sue these companies for the years of discrimination disguised as “equity”

Pornhub is pretty tame compared to a lot of the stuff out there, which won't be blocked because it's hosted in Russia or wherever and won't comply. I don't think limiting access to mainstream porn sites is going to do anything positive wrt porn addiction, and it could drive people to much darker stuff.

a. the vast majority of people are neither addicted to porn nor lacking in ability to form relationships. if that has happened to some people they are a minority

b. pornhub has no monopoly over the internet porn industry. insofar as those men did get so addicted, that would have happened regardless of pornhub existing.

"a. the vast majority of people are neither addicted to porn nor lacking in ability to form relationships. if that has happened to some people they are a minority"

Hmm... something is going on though: https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/sexual-intelligence/...

Which in turn is going to likely lead to even further reductions in birth rate.

I think we need to be careful about all the things that factor into our sub-replacement birthrates.

Dropping birth rates are just because kids are a burden these days. With both parents needing to work to pay for a house it's a huge hassle. I'm glad I never had any. My life is much freer now.

And we're not going to go extinct. Plenty of people want kids and have them. Maybe we'll reduce the population a bit which would be great. Less pollution, less pressure on the overloaded housing situation.

> Less pollution, less pressure on the overloaded housing situation.

Generally when one group shrinks in evolution, it doesn't reduce for long the total pressures on the environment. What usually happens is other groups grow into the new opportunities that have opened up.

> What usually happens is other groups grow into the new opportunities that have opened up.

Which is only a bad thing if you assume "other groups" are inherently worse. But if the current state is so bad people are openly cheering after a murder, perhaps there are more pressing issues - which likely also contribute to low birth rate.

I agree that porn addiction can be destructive. But the idea that you can somehow block porn is ludicrous. Work on the problem from some other angle. This is just puritanical politicians throwing their weight around.

Birth rates tend to be higher in less wealthy societies with high child mortality, yes. I don't think that means what you think it means.

> Birth rates tend to be higher in less wealthy societies with high child mortality, yes.

You are correct that this is the case.

> I don't think that means what you think it means.

I am not sure I follow you logically. You are making a completely separate argument. Many things influence birth rates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_factor_(demography)

I don't think we should be attempting to force parenthood on children in order to solve birthrates. Maybe you should have to show proof of being a child to access porn? Might work.

Almost everyone watches porn and almost everyone has relationships. And if they don't it's not because they don't need sex. In fact sex is a less important part of relationships IMO. Being in an open relationship we both enjoy that with others too but we're not less special to each other. Those other people come and go and sex is a nice pleasure, but she's the one keeping me warm at night and comforting me when I'm sad. That matters a lot more to me.

> Good on them for addicting millions of young men to pornography

Can you explain further?

> and destroying their ability to form relationships?

There are many reasons young men today have trouble forming relationships, with pornography among the least concerning in my opinion.

Porn addiction does not exist in anything other than a possible symptom of some other mental health issue, but puritanical people like yourself and religious lobbyists like to pretend the degradation of society revolves around sexual liberty.

Is porn addiction a symptom or a cause?

I feel like young men retreat to porn because they can't find a partner. The percentage of men who would prefer porn over a partner is probably very minor.

I think the problem with men being single is that it's very hard to be in a space where it's acceptable to seek a partner. Due to various #metoo and similar actions most men have learned it's unacceptable to approach women in public spaces. Meanwhile the online dating websites are trying their hardest not to match people because people who find their match don't watch ads and pay for microtransactions (premium accounts, gifts, boosts).

I feel like the best solution to loneliness and to boost marriage (and thus birth) rates would be some form of non-commercial / government run dating website. Dating websites are slowly becoming a desert and most people who used them for a longer period of time will tell you how great they were before swiping era.

It’s regressive because banning a vice does not magically make harm from it disappear. The addiction issue needs to be addressed in a meaningful and direct way.

The other problem is that many advocates for a ban on pornography use this argument without actually caring about the issue they decry, otherwise they would have engaged in actual awareness or harm reduction campaigns. Instead, they choose to engage with this argument in bad faith because in actuality pornography just does not align with their morals.

Again that's not how it works. It's a two-sided marketplace.

> the drivers make the rational decision you’ve outlined above

Okay... then the rates for drivers will automatically go up again since there's there'll be a mismatch between drivers & riders.

Not only that, how would the proposed alternative make any sense for Uber? They spend a lot of money to undercut the taxi companies, only to abandon the market as soon as they have no competition?

The predatory practice would be to raise prices at that point, not to abandon the market, but they can't even do that very much because then they'd be undercut by Lyft or the taxi companies actually would come back.