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New comment by garg in "US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

garg — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:15:56 +0000

Isn't this exactly what Dario wanted?

New comment by garg in "UN declares that the world has entered an era of 'global water bankruptcy'"

garg — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:35:56 +0000

Microsoft is piloting new zero water cooled datacenters in some locations https://www.axios.com/local/des-moines/2026/01/16/microsoft-...?

Hopefully this can be the new standard.

New comment by garg in "This is not the future"

garg — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:17:03 +0000

It's not inevitable but it's probable.

New comment by garg in "30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness"

garg — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:32:35 +0000

Not that it is any less impressive but they continued the development of their existing engine from WC1.

New comment by garg in "Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again"

garg — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:37:02 +0000

The lottery paying for schooling is a clever self-defeating policy because it moves the tax-burden to the same people who would most benefit from a good public school system.

New comment by garg in "Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators"

garg — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 18:38:13 +0000

Each time there is an update to training algorithms and in response poisoning algorithms, artists will have to re-glaze, re-mist, and re-nightshade all their images?

Eventually I assume the poisoning artifacts introduced in the images will be very visible to humans as well.

New comment by garg in "Studio Ghibli set to become subsidiary of Nippon TV"

garg — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 18:30:28 +0000

Mr Miyazaki is alive and well.

New comment by garg in "SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk"

garg — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 15:44:34 +0000

The employees specifically criticized Musk as being a 'distraction' due to his recent antics, and now they're being fired for not 'staying focused'

New comment by garg in "SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk"

garg — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 15:43:12 +0000

Would your CEO behave like Musk and expect zero consequences and zero push-back from the the board, the public, and the employees?

New comment by garg in "Christine Lagarde Says Crypto “Worth Nothing” & Should Be Regulated"

garg — Mon, 23 May 2022 17:43:22 +0000

Are only things with worth regulated? Pyramid and Ponzi schemes are worth nothing and are regulated.

New comment by garg in "Letters from House members to cable providers [pdf]"

garg — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 22:53:01 +0000

It was made more specific in Brandenburg v. Ohio but it was not overturned. ie, if someone is falsely yelling fire in a crowded theater which is "speech brigaded with action" then it is a situation where a person could be prosecuted for speech. They used that very example.

Edit:

People can read it themselves: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/395/444

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio

Fire in a crowded theater is specifically mentioned as the sort of case in which a person could be prosecuted for speech.

New comment by garg in "Letters from House members to cable providers [pdf]"

garg — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 22:41:04 +0000

In my previous comment, I am roughly equating incorrectly yelling fire in a crowded theater with broadcasting fake news to millions of people.

If there were a way to clearly differentiate between free speech and fake news, then yes, I would support legal ramifications for spreading blatant intentional fake news created solely as profitable propaganda that causes harm, and treating that as intentionally lying about fire in a crowd.

I don't know what the best organization or process for setting that up would be. After a certain number of complaints, can we transparently look into the owners of the news media, their revenue streams, their involvement with foreign governments, to determine whether a company is a legitimate news source or not? Can we get non-profits and media-freedom watchdogs involved to ensure fairness? Can we get the fairness doctrine running again? I don't see why not.

New comment by garg in "Letters from House members to cable providers [pdf]"

garg — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 22:22:00 +0000

The violent attack on the capitol was the result of fake news media without anyone ever inciting violence. They simply need to repeat over and over that the election was stolen and that caused the violence and people died.

Incorrectly yelling Fire in a crowded theater is illegal and no one is inciting violence in that situation either. There are many commonalities between broadcasting fake news for profit and propaganda, and incorrectly yelling fire in a crowd. Both end up resulting in public safety hazards.

It is a difficult problem to deal with because there is always the possibility of corruption and a reduction in genuine free speech when there is regulation involved. But it is a problem that has to be solved.

It is also no longer social media only, it is Fox, OANN, NewsMax, Sinclair, etc that are increasingly filling up air time with lies solely to make a buck.

New comment by garg in "Letters from House members to cable providers [pdf]"

garg — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 16:45:10 +0000

The government should be regulating the broadcast of false information that is blatant propaganda. Freedom of speech is not freedom to broadcast blatant lies to millions of people.

New comment by garg in "Letters from House members to cable providers [pdf]"

garg — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 16:41:40 +0000

Who do you think should exert pressure against networks that broadcast misinformation and propaganda to millions of people?

New comment by garg in "Deepfake Voice Technology: The Good. The Bad. The Future"

garg — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:59:38 +0000

Making people doubt untrustworthy things by educating them through a proper process is good. Exposing an unsuspecting/uneducated population to manipulated content designed to deceive/fool them for nefarious purposes is not an ideal process if the goal is to make the general public have better judgement.

This is a global issue. For examples, please look into the societal concerns surrounding 'deep fakes', and 'fake news' for answers to your first two questions.

New comment by garg in "Pakistan’s new regulations aim to ‘silence the internet’"

garg — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 18:02:16 +0000

Hardly progressive - Everything progressive is simply deemed to be vulgar hate speech and then blocked. Don't forget that it's a very conservative country that, in my opinion, would be a Republican utopia if the official religion was christianity instead of Islam.

New comment by garg in "Let's hear scientists with different Covid-19 views, not attack them"

garg — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 02:26:04 +0000

The first line of the article is

>When major decisions must be made amid high scientific uncertainty, as is the case with Covid-19, we can’t afford to silence or demonize professional colleagues with heterodox views.

How much scientific uncertainty actually exists when it comes to climate change and its causes?

New comment by garg in "Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional"

garg — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 20:58:36 +0000

Your opinion is unpopular because it makes no sense and does not improve security. The attacker will simply recruit a "Yian" because that's your blind spot now.

New comment by garg in "Boeing 737 Max Grounding Could Stretch into 2020"

garg — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 21:42:35 +0000

And they wanted to keep this plane in the air and the CEO was making calls assuring high level people of its safety instead of immediately recalling it and starting an independent investigation. With this many problems, it's frightening that they wanted to continue risking the lives of the crew and passengers.