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ryandraketoday at 3:48 PM2 repliesview on HN

Whenever I see a list like this, I wonder to myself: "Who gets to decide the list?" Why are we letting companies just decide on their own what's appropriate for "minors?"


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codedokodetoday at 3:53 PM

Because 99% of adult people have other things to do than manually build content filters.

intendedtoday at 4:28 PM

You could have, at least back when Trust and Safety roles weren't getting crushed by the AI stick.

Theres tons of research which can be brought to bear, genuine problems and challenges that require deep, thoughtful work, and some of the greatest people you will work with.

It is also absolute madness. There are so many insane, broken things about how safety is provided in the world, that you will feel like you are in a Elizabethan slaughter house, just at species scale. This is all excluding the world of child safety. Adding that to the mix gets you to existential nihilism quite rapidly.