lemmy_outta_here

@lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse for teens⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. Like corporate social media isn’t creepy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse for teens⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost every kid has felt that they were missing out on something because of parental rules at some point. The kids who had no rules were not necessarily the lucky ones, since good parenting always involves setting boundaries. i’m really not making the “in my time” argument because if we fixed the problems with social media i would have no problem letting my kids use something i didn’t have access to. to me it’s about balancing risks: make it safer, then let kids use it! after all, op is opening the door by making this post. she is directly responding to the expressed desire of her kids and trying to find a safe way to let her daughters access the tools they think they need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse for teens⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  For my part, i don’t consider forums social media. I may be in the minority, but im not as worried about stranger danger or cyber bullying as much as corporate control over content and privacy. i have never used snapchat, but i assume part of their revenue stream involves advertising and selling private data. maybe snapchat is very responsible about these things, but there is no oversight. take facebook, for example: a whistleblower just alleged that facebook targeted teen girls with weight loss and beauty products when it detected that the girls were feeling bad about themselves (say, when they had deleted a bunch of selfies). these exploitative and predatory decisions (to target an individual) are not approved by an ethics board. they are not subject to scrutiny. the only time we become aware of them is when some executive gets laid off and has a sudden crisis of conscience/lucrative book deal. maybe a ban on individualized ads and content feeds for young people would be enough to fix big problems. forums mostly don’t suffer from those problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse for teens⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You are right. But if things have changed, they can change again. Many countries are in the process of banning smart phones in schools and are legislating age minimums for social media. In such environments, access to social media becomes much less important. I think a better long-term approach would be to mitigate the risks of social media, and the fediverse is already addressing some of the big problems like corporate control of information and algorithmic curation of content. I like the idea of social media, but i hate the (prevalent) implementation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse for teens⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  True, using a defederated mastodon server as a group chat is “off label”, but i think it could work. I am not a fediverse expert, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse for teens⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  With her friends, presumably. Why would she want strangers or mere acquaintances on her group chat?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse for teens⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are more and more kids who aren’t allowed on social media because of its multifarious harms. Don’t forget that 20 years ago, no kids had social media. By all accounts, kids were doing fine back then. Also, OP said that her eldest daughter, at least, has a friend group, so your concern about their social isolation is probably misplaced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently read that LLMs are effective for improving learning outcomes. When I read one of the meta studies, however, it seemed that many of the benefits were indirect: LLMs improved accessibility by allowing teachers to quickly tailor lessons to individual students, for example. It also seems that some students ask questions more freely and without embarrassment when chatting with an LLM, which can improve learning for those students - and this aligns with what you mention in your post. I personally have withheld follow-up questions in lectures because I didn’t want to look foolish or reveal my imperfect understanding of the topic, so I can see how an LLM could help me that way.

  What the studies did not (yet) examine was whether the speed and ease of learning with LLMs were somehow detrimental to, say, retention. Sure, I can save time studying for an exam/technical interview with an LLM, but will I remember what I learned in 6 months? For some learning tasks, the long struggle is essential to a good understanding and retention (for example, writing your own code implementation of an algorithm vs. reading someone else’s). Will my reliance on AI somehow damage my ability to learn in some circumstances? I think that LLMs might be like powered exoskeletons for the mind - the operator slowly wastes away from lack of exercise.

  It seems like a paradox, but learning “more, faster” might be worse in the long run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How feasible would it be for authoritarian regimes to add censorship directly into the hardware of modern consumer electronics? (Therefore making the use of VPNs to bypass censorship useless.)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess you could force people to do firmware updates. Otherwise, your censorship parameters will get out-of-date. For example, criticism of Musk may go from forbidden to mandatory as he falls out of favor with the MAGA regime.

  “Please restart your device for a mandatory political update”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I need to feel some level of attraction for it to work, but i try not to care about what others think. I also find that people i like/love grow more attractive over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  yep, you sure showed me. i suppose you could have written something like “i know you are, but what am i?” if you only ahd the wit to think of it in time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Re-read your post and try to pinpoint where you contradict yourself. If you are unable to do so, you could ask chat gpt for help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i get what you’re trying to say, but maybe the poster was trying to be inclusive. being attracted to feminine people regardless of genitalia is not what most bigots would consider normal. my answer to the question “is it normal to be attracted to x” is “yes”, provided that x is a human person old enough to consent. in my opinion, it is also normal to not be attracted to anything. i am using normal in the value-judgement sense, not in the statistical sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And how many of these Uberserfs will be located in developed countries making good salaries? None, you say?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird to juggle in the park?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Juggling in the park is exactly the kind of things parks are for. Anyone who thinks it’s weird has crippling hang-ups; their opinions can be safely disregarded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A massive tariff on millions of Americans’ purchases just went into effect — cue the chaos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is so much irony floating around. I like to pretend that some big-brained environmentalist bugs-bunnied Trump into doing this: “pwease mr trump, don’t shrink the american carbon footprint! it would be tewible if you ended mass consumerism and geometric economic growth! and pwease, pwease, don’t end american exceptionalism and global hegemony!”

  Seriously, though, we have to make sure that the history books emphasize that all this was due to blundering and not calculation, or Trump could forever be admired as the wokest president in history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally agree. Especially since in my country, young people are swallowing far-right propaganda at a higher rate than boomers. Canada’s Tater Tots are trying to elect a MAGA candidate right now. Age is not the problem - the well of information has been poisoned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  there are different definitions of intersex. the figure you cited is correct for only the narrowest definition: visibly ambiguous genitalia at birth. by other criteria (ambiguous internal anatomy, androgen insensitivity, etc.), it can be as high as 1.7% (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is my understanding as well. I think that our insistence that every person needs to fit in one category or the other is almost the whole problem. I wonder how many people think to themselves “I don’t want to be trans, I just want to be me.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  setting aside trans people for a second - is the government going to build separate washrooms for the >1 million uk residents who were born intersex? why can’t we make policy that is grounded in reality? lawmakers shout be required to pass a basic science course

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US tech tariff exemption may only be temporary, says Lutnick⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s right lutnick, keep people guessing as the world dumps us bonds. this is it, people: the world’s richest economic powerhouse is tearing itself apart to satisfy the fantasies of a hate-filled dotard. the collapse of the us is the most spectacular self immolation in history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Public health care is not a leftist idea - it is just good business. Canada has better life expectancy than the US and our healthcare system costs less than the american one. No canadian has ever gone broke or lost their house because they get sick. when a working-age american dies of a preventable disease, their education, skills, and experience die with them. keep your people healthy and they will be more productive and will pay more taxes because they will earn more over their lifespan. american media tell americans that healthcare is communist for one reason only: to protect the wealth of healthcare investors. you have been ridiculously bamboozled.