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  • What's a popular opinion on Lemmy that's unpopular in the real world?

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  • I think current state-of-the-art AI is useful for when you are not having a novel thought.

    I believe that AI, at least in the form of LLMs, is currently incapable of novelty in the sense of creating a new concept or a new thought with reason and purpose behind it.

    For instance, if I was going to write a book, I might consult with LLMs about how to fill in the slow gaps or the dead spaces in my storyline and to fully come up with a completely fleshed out story that I would then write without its assistance.

    My assumption is that anything that it fills in is going to be cobbled together from literally hundreds of thousands of other similar stories, and therefore it will not be new or unique in any way.

    If I was really trying to push the envelope, I would then assume that the right thing to do would be that whatever it says is ordinary and common, and if I want to be extraordinary and uncommon, then I need to use that as a launch point for my own gap-filling content.

    Therefore, I could use an LLM to write a good story with a new concept, a new premise, a new storyline that is relatively unique and original by using the LLM to clearly identify those things that are not.

  • What's a popular opinion on Lemmy that's unpopular in the real world?

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  • I'm not 100% certain that defederation counts as censorship.

    A group recognizing that a different group is harassing and inflammatory towards them and excluding them isn't really stopping them from talking in the first place, and therefore it's not censoring them.

    Each individual has the option of picking a side or creating additional accounts so that they can be on both sides if they want.

    The only "censorship" here is a very minor hurdle in between the two groups.

  • Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines?

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  • I don't know. I hear the rich are full of toxins and heavy metals.

    Compost is usually used to feed vegetables, so I don't think I would want that particular solution.

    I would say it might be better to macerate and dehydrate the rich and then use the resultant rich jerky as part of a carbon barrier for depleted uranium and other hazardous radioactive wastes.

  • Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines?

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  • Don't log splitters work incredibly slow?

    That's not really gonna chop people's heads off, rather it would inexorably pinch their necks until their head falls off.

    That's pretty fucking gruesome.

  • With AI being what it is, how long do you think before digital media is no longer admissible in court?

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  • A long time.

    Digital evidence, like any other evidence, is something that is shared between the plaintiffs and the defense prior to being admitted in court for the judge or the jury to review.

    If there is suspicion over whether it is authentic, there are experts that can be brought in to confirm the validity of the digital evidence.

    That is not to say that there is no likelihood that false digital evidence can be successfully brought to court, but the likelihood is very small, assuming that each side is doing their part to the letter and spirit of the law.

  • What "deals" have you made with yourself that are real and practical for your purposes?

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  • I made the decision that I was going to quit smoking, and at the time my favorite thing to do was playing guitar.

    So I told myself that until I had not smoked a cigarette for an entire year, I would not play guitar again.

    And I kept that promise, even though my asshole brain kept giving me dreams like:

    I was at a bar with some friends, and we were all playing pool. One of my friends that smoked still hands me her cigarette and says, "Hey, I know you don't smoke. Hold this for a moment. I've got to go to the ladies room."

    So I'm holding the cigarette, and then my other friends are like, "Dude, it's your shot."

    So I needed both of my hands.

    I put the cigarette in my mouth and I take the shot, and when I'm taking the shot I inhaled the cigarette, only for a nanosecond later to realize what I had just done.

    I got to spend the rest of my dream freaking out about the fact that I had just wasted months and months and months of not getting to play the guitar, all for one tiny little accidental second.

    I would wake up in a cold sweat of misery and so fucking grateful that it had been a dream.

    But I made it the full year without smoking and without playing guitar, and when I finally picked up a guitar again, I had somehow auto-magically learned the ability to sing and play guitar at the same time, which is something I could not do the year prior.

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  • You have it backwards.

    My moral compass defines my politics.

    If you, as a politician, work to provide for the needy, to uplift the wanting, to open doors for people who could not open themselves, to put the good of society above the immediate gains of you or your close companions, then you are likely the person I am going to vote for.

    If you, as a politician, use your insider knowledge to profit yourself or your friends, if you work to close doors for people, to put down the needy, to cast aspersions and hate towards the people you deem inferior to yourself; if you have broad swaths of people that you deem inferior to yourself, then I don't care if you're a Democrat or a Republican or a literal angel descended from the heavens, I'm not gonna vote for you.

  • People whose parents have become fascist, how are you dealing with it?

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  • Yeah, he was pro-vaccine.

    He believed in medicine, he just hated any politician that wasn't Donald Trump, and believed the news when they said that it's just a cold.

  • People whose parents have become fascist, how are you dealing with it?

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  • Well, one of them died of COVID-19 without telling me that they even had it, and I don't speak to the other one.

    My dad did not tell me because he knew I would tell him I told you so when I was like, wear a mask, keep your distance, maintain safety protocols at all times, follow what the CDC is saying, treat this seriously.

    It was literally weeks before the vaccine became available. Like if he had just, like, two more months, I would still have my dad.

  • What, greedy, powerful people would do to keep and increase their power in a world that is approaching a period of increasing weather disasters? Would a post-scarcity society benefit those people?

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  • To butcher Kurzweil, "Post-scarcity is already here, it's just not evenly distributed".

    We have the resources for every man, woman, and child on this planet to lead a healthy life, to work minimal hours, and to achieve their life's purpose without drudgery, but the people who currently have power would have their power decreased in order to give it to us.

  • Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??

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  • He's very much not.

    I mean, using Jesus to recontextualize the Old Testament God definitely misses the mark. Jesus was here on a mission of mercy to cross the boundary between the sinful ape and the rising angel, and to bring as many people along with him as he could.

    But once you're grafted into the tree of Judaism through Christianity, you still have to abide by the rules of Judaism (with the exception that foods are no longer verboten or whatever).

    Jesus was an incredibly stern man who was very rigid and inflexible on his views because he had the eternal viewpoint.

    He refused to perform an exorcism for a Samaritan woman's daughter who was half Jewish because she wasn't full Jewish even though she was perfectly faithful until she made such a hue and cry that she publically shamed him into it.

    He would snap at his own friends if they said the wrong thing or failed to understand something because he didn't effectively communicate it to them so that they would understand at the same level he did.

    And I don't hold any of these actions against him, he was on what should be the most important mission in all of human history, right?

    But the modern Christianity teachings of Christ where he's like buddy Jesus and he's just a happy-go-lucky, I love everyone peace, love, and harmony dude is absolutely not the way he's actually represented in the Bible by his closest followers.

    It was not out of the realm of normalcy for him to do things like beating the fuck out of a temple full of salespeople.

    But once again, the sheer stress of his every moment, the fact that if he told a lie, if he felt lust, envy, greed, selfishness, anything that even approximated a sin, it would destroy all of humanity, and himself in the process, must have been so stressful, that in a way, I believe it was a mercy that he died so young.

    If Jesus had had to stick it out into his 80s, I don't know.

    Maybe he would have fallen along the way.

  • Can anyone academically gifted confirm?

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  • Good news, though, is that this disjoint between your capability and your self-perception of your own potential and your dissatisfaction with the life that you are leading will eventually resolve itself somewhere in your mid-40s.

    The next 20 years of your life after that have a very good opportunity to get substantially better.

    If you are in your 30s and going through it right now, like myself, then just know there are brighter days like a decade away, stay the course and keep doing the work.

  • Fair rule

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  • Shel Silverstein would be proud.

  • So...how the fuck do I trust anything?

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  • Yeah, the only reason I'm not a raving psychopath is that I continuously remind myself of the circle of influence.

    There's only so much that any of us have the ability to do.

    There's only so much that any of us have the ability to influence.

    If you stop looking beyond that circle and only focus on the stuff inside the circle, you can have a lot more control over your daily life.

    You can do things like block out news companies that only report on things that terrify you. There is other news out there.

    The ones that are always telling you the scary things are doing it because they know you will reflexively keep your eyes glued on them and therefore see more ads and make them more money.

    It is a fundamental human aspect. It's just like PTSD, when something hurts us, we become more aroused, more aware of its existence, and we pay more attention to things that are like it, our pattern recognition brains kicking in, so that we can protect ourselves from the pain.

    Hyper-vigilance towards evil is the default.

    But if you remind yourself that there is some evil out there in the world that you can't do a damn thing about, then it's a lot easier to just dismiss it and ignore it.

    It doesn't make the evil okay. It's just a reminder that you literally cannot stop murder rapes in Timbuktu if you do not live in Timbuktu and serve as a police officer.

    If it's not your responsibility, not your authority, not your ability to stop it, then don't waste your energy on it and instead focus on decreasing the number of murder rapes in your local area by not murder raping people, you know?

    And if you see a murder rape happening, attempt to intervene if it is within your capabilities.

  • We don’t memorize phone numbers anymore, we rely on GPS to tell us where to go and Facebook reminds us of birthdays. What else will we stop remembering once AI remembers everything for us?

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  • This is one thing I tell people about math. Like, yes, we have amazing calculators in our pockets everywhere we go, and in the real world we will likely never need to do more complex math than, like, seventh grade algebra, and even that would be a rarity.

    But that brain-crushing, painful learning of the process of math and how to compute is like power-lifting for your brain.

    If you can power through that and train your brain to learn something as abstrusely taught as modern mathematics, then that will make all of the other learning things that you have to do in your life 100 times easier.

  • Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting?

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  • Yeah, the more recent versions basically have a form of Docker as part of its setup.

    I believe it's now running on Debian instead of free BSD, which probably simplified the containers set up.

  • Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting?

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  • I'm running a TrueNAS server on bare metal with a handful of hard drives. I have virtualized it in the past, but meh, I'm also using TrueNAS's internal features to host a jellyfin server and a couple of other easy to deploy containers.

  • What the fuck is existence? What even is the truth? How does one know their parents are even real, and not just another actor in an IRL "Truman Show". Isn't history just another story?

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  • It is what it is.

    The thing is you have no way of getting to a higher position in order to discern the truths that are directly in front of your face.

    So the only sane response to the universe that we are presented with is to treat it as if it is what it is.

    Of course, feel free to keep your skepticism and, you know, to play the game however you choose to play it. Just know that there is no exit that is not eternal at this time as far as anyone knows.

  • Who would win in a battle to the death, a lion or a knight in full armor?

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  • It depends on the skill of both the knight and the lion.