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deleted that tweet that was getting ratio'd, not cause I take it back, but because it was generating a disproportionate amount of yelling at me. I'm planning on writing a much more in-depth and less ratio-able blog post about my reasoning on the topic! But to clarify:

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My goal here is *reducing* the amount of child sexual abuse that happens. We might disagree on how to do this, but our end goal is the same. I do genuinely think that my strategy in the tweet has a good chance of reducing harm! I'm aligned with you on this.

8:52 PM · Apr 7, 2022

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In my view, incentive structures are really hard, and we can see times where what felt like good intentions (like the war on drugs) fucked up big time (creating cartels). Sometimes things that feel unintuitive are the things that end up having the best outcomes.

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Sorry you deleted it. My response is recreated in the following tweet. Reach out if you want to discuss further.

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This won’t fly because politics is partly about making a statement about the kind of people our community should produce. Most don’t just want to stop child porn. They want to stop producing people who desire child porn. Better to fail than to affirm neutrality on the end.

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Something about a road to Hell.

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Sorry you had to delete it. That tweet reminded me of Haidt’s “moral dumbfounding”: there are just stuff that are universally immoral (CP) no matter how you much you try to mitigate & rationalize it (AI-generated content harms no-one). But 1/2

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I don’t think the market argument is strong either: have you considered that flooding the market with fake alternatives would just drive more demand for the real thing? That didn’t quite work out for leather, for example.

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With all due respect, I think you are dead wrong. All you would do is desensitise people to this horrible shit, and promote it even more. What happens when they don't get off on the "fake" and then go look for the "real". They get off on the pain inflicted. Not the act itself

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The scariest part of all this is that you might have a license to operate a motor vehicle.