Steve

@Steve@communick.news

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s my kind of humor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is everyone democrats in this observation?
  I’m neither, for the record

  And I neither said, nor acted like, she was telling the truth. Mearly pointing out that Rump is ignoring his own “intelligence”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your TV Is Spying On You⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Look for Signage Displays. They’re basically TVs with different software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Trumps own head of intelligence says they’re years away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Newer devices have been designed and made in the decades since.
  Are cars more sophisticated today then they were in the 1940s?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  After world war two, Europe was busy putting itself back together. It left an opening that the US stepped into. And who wouldn’t like to be the big dog in the yard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ask them questions. Have them explain how, why. When you find contradictions or confusion, ask how they resolve them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The it sounds like you should be arguing for different semantics, that match the experience of living breathing human beings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If they don’t, they’re still transitioning their gender. Exactly how much they decide to change themselves doesn’t matter. That’s the point of the term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gender isn’t biological. You’re conflating with sex

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we ask 100 random ppl to describe their ideal society, which real/fictional countries would the answers resemble the most?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depressingly, that would be a relative improvement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you’re actively being targeted for some specific reason (NSA kind of reason) in practical terms it’s unheard of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we ask 100 random ppl to describe their ideal society, which real/fictional countries would the answers resemble the most?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  United Federation of Planets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If youre bi do you have to prove it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How would you?
  Date men and women? Anyone can do that.
  Go further? You could be still be pretending.

  You can’t really externally “prove” an internal subjective feeling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have to solve the money problem!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not really how it works. If it was made to work that way, it would still be a relatively small group donating their own compute resources to subsidize everyone else. Which is what we already have, and isn’t very scalable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have to solve the money problem!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The only real option is to charge people.
  Hosting isn’t free. It costs money to host a website. That money needs to come from somewhere. If it doesn’t come from advertisers, it must come from users.

  There could be a verity options for that. But I like the simple annual subscription. Each and every user pays. Spread out the cost as much as possible. It’s only fair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still not sure I understand exactly. Are you asking about individual autonomy, or the collective autonomy of humanity?

  I would say there’s no real difference on an individual level. I guess conceptually, humanity as a collective entity, might loose autonomy. But I’m not sure that matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Answer to what? The question I asked you? I don’t have answer. Safety without giving up liberty just seems fine to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And if you don’t have to give up liberty?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Empire was peaceful for thousands of years.
  You’d rather have constant war and chaos?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is DOGE still around if Donny and Elon aren't getting along?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is why the news needs to ignore his shit talking rather than broadcasting it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is DOGE still around if Donny and Elon aren't getting along?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re forgetting how often Rump says all sorts of things he never follows up on. This is why I keep saying we need a better news media. One that can recognize when something is genuinely news worthy. None of the details of this feud matter. Only maybe a single story about them having a feud would be needed. And if it were TV news it would be the last story. A funny fluff piece that doesn’t actually matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re still thinking in very small human scales. Culture isn’t fixed. All cultures are dynamic. They are being created, changing, and disappearing, throughout the ages. 500 years ago all the various Christian and Muslim cultures were vastly different than they are now. An immortal Artificial Super Intelligence could spend centuries, 100 generations or more, subtly tweaking all various cultures toward a more harmonious coexistence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really only certain aspects of a few cultures which drive them to be intolerant of other cultures, that would need to be changed.

  Those certain aspects which cause intolerance, would need to be changed. Nothing more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My statement you quoted says nothing remotely like “unify the world into a single culture.” Read it again. “a more globally compatible culture.”

  There are many different yet compatible cultures, that are able to exist together in the world. It’s really only certain aspects of a few cultures which drive them to be intolerant of other cultures, that would need to be changed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Conflicting things could be true at the same time in different places. Having one ruler doesn’t require one set of rules. There could be, and would need to be different rules for different communities.

  One person who understands and is willing to accommodate that, is an example of the kind of super human trait I was referring to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure that would be very difficult if we tried. The current issue in picking a human global ruler, is that it would require super human traits. By definition no human could satisfy them. But a sufficiently advanced AI might.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s certainly reasonable to offer a charitable interpretation of the question. Rather than assume mal-intent.

  “What would it take for an AI to be given governance over the world?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had situations like this at least a few times a year in school.
  I usually managed to convince the teacher I was right.

  And yah this kid is almost certainly ND.
  Not just the answer, but the handwriting screams dysgraphia. It looks a lot like mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had success imagining the reaction a bully is looking for, or expecting; Then giving them a reaction that confounds whatever they had in mind. Don’t play their game. Make a new game for you to play. One they won’t understand.

  My first thought in this case, is to stop by and give him a list of requests you’d like him to play the next morning. If he immediately refuses, just ignore what he says and thank him, because his sound system is way better than yours. That interaction will confuse the hell out of him. He might just stop. If he does or no, go back the next day and ask why he didn’t play your request list. If he did play your list, go back and thank him, by giving him another list of music from someone else in your family.

  That’s just off the top of my head, maybe you can some up with something better. Just remember to make it your game, not his.