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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • There are three factors that might prevent you from using an online platform to share your opinion:

    • The government might impose content restrictions on the platform

    • The owners (or delegated moderators) of the platform might impose restrictions on its users

    • The users of the platform might use its tools to police the opinions of other users.

    “Freedom of speech” normally just applies to the first. Is that what you mean when you say you’re not “allowed” to speak freely?

















  • How generative natural language works has been highly debated for over 60 years—there’s certainly no consensus most linguists would agree with. And while we have a pretty good idea how the process of facial recognition works, we know that process isn’t conducive to extracting a conventional explanation of how to recognize a particular face. (The best you could do is to make a list of features that would allow someone to eliminate all but one candidate from a small group, but that’s distinct from the process of actually recognizing someone.)