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@ canofcam @lemmy.world

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  • How do I explain my reluctance to use generative AI in good faith?

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  • A discussion in good faith means treating the person you are speaking to with respect. It means not having ulterior motives. If you are having the discussion with the explicit purpose of changing their minds or, in your words, "alarming them to take action" then that is by default a bad faith discussion.

    If you want to discuss with a pro-AI person in good faith, you HAVE to be open to changing your own mind. That is the whole point of a good faith discussion - but rather, you already believe you are correct, and are wanting to enter these discussions with objective ammunition to defeat somebody.

    How do you actually discuss in good faith? You ask for their opinions and are open to them, then you share your own in a respectful manner. You aren't trying to 'win' you are just trying to understand and in turn, help others to understand your own POV.

  • What is your own personal meaning of life?

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  • With this perspective, is death really a 'meaning' to life, or is it rather a 'fuel' for more life?

    If it's the latter, then that implies there is another meaning to life. There is a circle which keeps the wheel of life spinning - but where is the wheel going, and why?

    The ultimate death of everything, perhaps, in which case I suppose you are correct.

  • What is your own personal meaning of life?

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  • The meaning of life (to you) could be to: "Just be here because here is where we happen to be."

    It's not that deep, really. Some people want to have an impact, others just want to chill. I'm just curious what people's first response is to that question and so far I have seen lots of interesting comments.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    canofcam @lemmy.world

    What is your own personal meaning of life?

  • What to you, is always a losing battle?

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  • nobody is gonna convince me of anything now

    This is part of the problem. If two people engage in open debate and neither of them can be convinced to change their minds about anything, then what exactly is the point?

    I will listen to people and engage with their arguments, and remain openminded to be convinced. Life isn't that simple and believing you know all the answers is naive.

  • If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is.

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  • If you stop viewing Jesus as a deity and start viewing him as just a really nice guy, and you ignore much of the rest of that book, then I think he is a good role model.

    Strangely, all of the good things he said and did are ignored by the people that worship him.

    Turn the other cheek - nope, let's blow people up in the ocean just in case they're doing something wrong.

    Love thy neighbour, the story of the good Samaritan - nope, fuck anybody that's not rich and definitely fuck immigrants.

  • How do I protect my drawings against AI?

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  • If that is how you feel about AI, then you would need to stop posting on social media and probably even stop having text conversations on your phone. Stop buying things online, stop watching YouTube, etc.

    Every bit of virtual footprint that you have will, in some way, be used to train AI / machine learning / be sold for marketing purposes.

    I don't think stopping your life because AI exists is the right thing to do. Those 'other artists losing their jobs' would also be fuelling AI wiht this logic, so we should all stop making art?

  • What's some really unpopular opinion you have?

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  • The innocent civilians (and soldiers) on both sides who died for their rulers thinking they were heroes.

  • How do people actually gamble in the UK in 2025?

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  • I'll do it for £9!

  • Helpful fact

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  • On a rainy day in my old apartment, I liked to lie on the bed with the lights off and look outside the window. Something about watching the city pass by in the rain was just so peaceful, it would be the perfect desktop background...

    Without fail, my wife would always walk in and ask, "Are you okay?" and turn the light on.

  • How do I protect my drawings against AI?

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  • I feel your response warrants quite a deep and philosophical response in return.

    No reason to share my drawings

    That depends why you were sharing them in the first place. It does suck that your content will be stolen and potentially recreated in the future - I have to ask, how do you foresee that affecting you?

    Let's go back to 2010, you share your drawings, some people see and enjoy them, and the world keeps spinning. Is that what you want to share them for, for people to enjoy them?

    If that's the case, then my question is: Why does that change if AI is scraping your drawings?

    People will still see and enjoy your drawings, regardless of whether AI consumed them or not.

    it will only be good to the AI corporations

    Why will it only be good to the AI corporations? That implies that it wouldn't be good to anyone anyway, in which case, there is no point posting them either way - but I don't think that's true. I think it's good for you to share your drawings and get feedback, and it's good for other people to see them. The addition of AI is a negative one, but it doesn't remove the good, it just adds some bad.

  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • That's a great idea.

  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • I think it would be a relatively easy problem to solve, I think being one-shot on the highest difficulty is expected, but making every enemy a damage-sponge is both anti-fun and poor game design.

    Just change the scaling - damage scaling is fine as-is, health scaling needs to be drastically reduced. If a barbarian gets one-shot on the easiest difficulty, having it take like, five shots whilst also increasing the risk should be fine.

  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • Skyrim and Oblivion difficulty is very stupid. If you change difficulty after playing a character for 100hr it isn't so bad, but if you want to start out on the hardest difficulty, I'd say it's actually impossible to play unless you have some kind of cheese tactic. Shooting a barbarian for like 1/100th of their health bar? And they one-shot you? What the hell kind of design is this?

  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • Are there any good examples of AI in games that do the opposite of this? Off the top of my head, pretty much every game works like this, I imagine having every NPC having its own vision & memory would become very complex to manage.

  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • It is a fine line, like in Minecraft durability obviously makes sense, so it makes sense that other games try to emulate that. But then look at Stardew Valley, one of the most popular mods is the one that stops fences from degrading because repairing them is tedious.

  • Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?

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  • Everything detects VPNs. Reddit has an error screen I've never seen before about network activity when I use a VPN and I'm not logged in. YouTube refuses to let me watch embedded videos when I'm on my VPN. Many pages simply refuse to load.

  • What's your favorite soda?

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  • That's what makes it so good haha, I only have it as a treat thankfully it isn't widely available in my country

  • What's your favorite soda?

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  • 1.5l isn't available in my country, but if it was, I'd drink it in one sitting haha

  • What's your favorite soda?

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  • Jarritos and it isn't close. The Mandarin flavour. Mexican sugar is next level.

    I also think Coke itself is 'underrated' I would go so far as to say it's an elixir. Hungover? Need a pick-me-up? Just want a nice drink with dinner? It's insanely good, probably why it got so popular in the first place. You can say the same for any sugary soft drink though.