krashmo

@krashmo@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a legitimate discussion to be had about harm reduction here. You’re approaching this topic from an all-or-nothing mindset but there’s quite a bit of research indicating that’s not really how it works in practice. Specifically as it relates to child pornography the argument goes that not allowing artificial material to be created leads to an increase in production of actual child pornography which obviously means more real children are being harmed than would be if other forms were not controlled in the same fashion. The same sort of logic could be applied to revenge porn, stolen selfies, or whatever else we’re calling the kind of thing this article is referring to. It may not be an identical scenario but I still think it would be fair to say that an AI generated image is not as damaging as a real one.

  That is not to say that nothing should be done in these situations. I haven’t decided what I think the right move is given the options in front of us but I think there’s quite a bit more nuance here than your comment would indicate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t necessarily blame your niche interests or anything else like that. There’s lots of people this applies to who just forgot how to socialize. I would put myself in that category. I like sports and many other popular things, and I used to be reasonably easy to talk to but ever since covid I’m considerably more awkward in social situations.

  Someone I haven’t seen in two years will ask what I’ve been up to and my mind just goes blank. It’s not that I’ve been sitting at home doing nothing the whole time but for some reason none of the things I could talk about come to me in the moment. It’s a strange thing to feel yourself being socially inept in a way that you didn’t used to be. I’ve gotten better but it’s still weird a lot of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Christian tradition, sure, but the Bible doesn’t have much to say about nipples so any specific rule regarding them seems to be more of an inference than a command.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pretty sound reasoning here.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are both of these so veiny? And why does the word veiny and both of these pictures make me think of dicks? Am I the inevitable perverted product of an overly sexualized society or are these drawings intentionally evoking phallic symbolism? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No one is having a comprehensive theological discussion with you jackass. We were talking about a very specific thing. Stop being obnoxious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it’s tough to pay attention for four whole sentences but if you read them again slowly I think you’ll see that I did not use the words Jesus, sin, or metaphor in any form which should make it pretty clear that, no, I’m not saying that at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Bible is a couple thousand chapters long. The creation story is the first two chapters. It’s pretty obviously only attempting to establish that God created the universe in some ambiguous way and move on with the story. That doesn’t stop people from inferring all sorts of things from what is essentially a poem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I know what I got. No low balls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re part of the beans on toast clan then you can still shush it. This is 10x the flavor of that survival ration. You would be lucky to have this masterpiece grace your mouth with its juices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So they only forced everyone into their ecosystem for seven years and once they cornered their market they gave back the illusion of choice? That’s cool I guess but that’s explicitly the opposite of what I mean when I say freedom of choice, open source, DRM free, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this guy is on some Apple fanboy shit if he thinks iTunes was drm free. Their shitty design for iTunes and decision to force you to use it despite it making the experience of listening to music much worse is the primary reason an ipod is the only Apple device I’ve ever owned. Freedom of choice and Apple have never mixed. That’s such a weird angle to take when describing them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That logic could easily apply to any kind of patent or copyright. That’s not to say you’re wrong but it’s part of a larger discussion than it seemed like was happening here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that surprising to anyone? The specific grounds they’ve chosen for that lawsuit is odd but if any of their legal battles have merit its that one. Palworld is intentionally toeing the line between derivative and blatant ripoff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think Sims is a dead franchise now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying it’s not possible that the Sims franchise has gotten worse. I’m just saying that lots of people would have described every Sims game in the same terms OP did. I’m also saying that your tastes and preferences can change over time. It’s possible, but certainly not the only option, that these two things are more true than it is that Sims is getting worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We lost Keanu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Star Trek is a great example of what I’m talking about actually. How many legitimate scientists do you think are out there right now who either had their interest in science first sparked by or at least significantly influenced from watching some version of Star Trek? I would bet it is a lot of them. Not every concept in Star Trek is worth diving into from a scientific perspective but not trying to do that at all would be a huge mistake.

  Now, Graham Hancock isn’t writing Star Trek but people listen to what he’s saying for the same basic reasons they watch Star Trek. They are curious about a science based approach to the world. They don’t know he’s exaggerating some things and taking other things out of context. Use the opportunity to teach them.

  In other words, don’t call them idiots for watching Star Trek, start a conversation about space travel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We lost Keanu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of things people are interested in could reasonably be described as ridiculous. Why is it so hard for you to see those topics as a conversation starter rather than basically calling people idiots for wanting to learn about something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think Sims is a dead franchise now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing fun about the game, and you see people streaming it, it’s just building. That’s all they are ever doing. Just building crap.

  To be fair, that’s always been a reasonable description of games like Sims, Minecraft, and most other simulation style games. Maybe the fact that you’re choosing to use it now means you aren’t as interested in that style of game, or even video games in general, as you used to be. Maybe not, but I think it’s worth considering at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We lost Keanu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re ignoring the interesting questions he asks in favor of the easy to hand wave away stuff and that’s exactly what I’m talking about. To be clear, I’m not defending the things he says. I’m pointing out that his more outlandish theories gain more traction because the scientific community doesn’t lean into the softballs and use them as an opportunity to both teach people actual science and understand what different groups of people want to learn about.

  Ignore the star / soul example and focus in on the possibility of an ancient and semi advanced civilization existing. That’s the part grabbing people’s attention. Talk about what that would change about our understanding of the past and what sort of evidence we would expect to find if it were true. Showcase people working in related fields and what they have found already. Propose other locations we could look for that evidence and discuss other topics we could study while looking for that evidence in those places. Engage the curiosity, don’t dismiss it. Anyone listening to Graham is likely uneducated in science but interested in it so use that as your jumping off point instead of judging those people for not being farther down the path.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We lost Keanu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see how getting more people interested in ancient history and geology is a bad thing. Part of the reason Graham has the wiggle room to make the claims that he makes is that the subject is relatively unstudied.

  Obviously there is actual science taking place in the field and has been forever but funding for that kind of thing is notoriously difficult to come by compared to many other fields. Getting grants to study the distant past for essentially no reason other than curiosity is not a priority within an economic system that prioritizes profit over all else. The best way to break through that particular obstacle is getting more people to pay attention and ask questions. If we need a benign conspiracy theory about “big geology” hiding the truth from us to make that happen then where’s the harm in that? The vast majority of people prone to conspiratorial thinking are already farther down that rabbit hole than Hancock’s ideas will take them.

  Additionally, actual scientists would do well to learn something from Graham about presentation. Despite what you may think of him, the way he talks about the subject resonates with people. People don’t want hear a regurgitation of facts in a research paper. Speculate a bit and get people excited about your future work. You don’t need to go to the extremes that he does but don’t refuse to branch out from what can be conclusively proven today either. Talk about your theories and what you’re hoping to find / learn just as much as you talk about the results of your research.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think pre post-apocalypse is just the apocalypse. If you read the news these days that sounds like a pretty accurate description of the time we’re living in. We’re all just pretending it hasn’t started yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey now that’s not fair. AI can randomize your music playlists, summarize an email, write terrible code, steal others work, and completely invade your privacy.

  What’s that? Oh, I guess you’re right, we could do all that stuff already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Every once in a while they get faced with a line on a chart somewhere so unbelievably vertical that they have no choice but to look beyond next quarter. Power consumption going 10x in 2 years is one of those times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who Wants To Be A Lemming... on ABC?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you ever seen a WNBA game? Sure, it’s the same sport but that logic applies to middle school basketball teams as well and no one gives a shit about those either regardless of the gender of the athletes involved.

  The reason professional sports are fun to watch is you get to see the best athletes in the world push the limits of what is physically possible for a human to achieve. Top level women cannot compete with top level men in any regularly televised sport, including basketball. No one wants to watch Caitlin Clark on channel 3 when LeBron James is doing way more impressive things on channel 6. That’s just the way it is. I don’t get why people pretend that isn’t obvious and get offended by it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty easy to be in the office and not working. Especially with all those different places to get lost. I really doubt that works out the way they want it to

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Posts get auto upvoted by the poster which means every post should have at least one upvote. If it doesn’t then OP took away their own upvote. His comment had 0 upvotes when I first saw it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  lol you downvoted yourself. I like it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta make that line go up somehow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk calls for “criminal prosecution” of X ad boycott perpetrators⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So the argument is that by encouraging its members to stop advertising on Twitter this organization has deprived the market of conservative content and viewpoints which violates both antitrust and first amendment protections. I feel like that’s going to be a tough sell considering Elon told advertisers concerned about his takeover of Twitter to go fuck themselves and he didn’t need their money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X weighs adding a downvote button to replies — but it doesn't want to emulate Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re obviously allowed to care and to express that. I hope you don’t hear me saying that I think you’re dumb or anything like that. In fact it’s pretty much the exact opposite. Most of the time when I see people complain about downvotes they’re trolls upset that it hampers their ability to be a troll but you seem like a reasonable person so I am simply seeking to better understand your perspective.

  To put it another way I agree with your first sentence but I don’t generally feel like visible downvotes prevents that from happening. I actually think downvotes function to encourage good discussion more often than not. That isn’t true in all cases but it seems easier to be discouraged or get the wrong idea about prevailing sentiments if the dumb comments are just sitting there next to the good comments with no indication that a majority of other users also think they’re dumb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X weighs adding a downvote button to replies — but it doesn't want to emulate Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean it was mostly a joke but it’s also semi serious. You seem capable of disagreement without it bothering you much so I don’t get why the number next to a comment is different. Yeah some people use it in a dumb way but that’s true of pretty much everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X weighs adding a downvote button to replies — but it doesn't want to emulate Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree. Have I ruined your mood now or do I have to actually downvote you for it to work?