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- Comment on If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then? 1 week ago:
If AI takes most of our jobs, people will earn less and have less money, which restricts consumerism.
Consumerism can only stay running with UBI and that’s why it should be implemented.
Tell your local politicians that measures that give people more money are good for the economy. Maybe that will make them listen.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 week ago:
“free” is the sound that natural gas makes as it is released from its underground prison …
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 week ago:
While AI (as it is currently done) is a bubble,
the article is still rather interesting. It discusses that China’s grid is superior because it has state backing, instead of being privately owned (and therefore short-sighted). Which is true, and America has a lesson to learn from that, if it wants to have a part of the future.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 week ago:
also propaganda is just political ads
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 week ago:
well i guess we’d have a better time thinking about non-profitable alternatives, then.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 week ago:
depends on who you’re talking to, and in which rooms.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 week ago:
yeah the commercialization of the internet is the problem, 100%. if it were hobby projects, it wouldn’t suck so hard.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 week ago:
This is a good point. It’s like asking the question: “What is more important in politics? People, or ideas?”
People respond very differently to that. To some it’s people, and to some it’s ideas. That is why you have Xitter-like microblogging which is focused around people, and reddit-like communities which are focused around topics/ideas.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 week ago:
lemmy does have problems though. Lots of emotional, judgemental and brigading content still. But it’s less here than elsewhere, probably.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 week ago:
The reason why it brings out the worst in people is because it has open borders. You can shit into the network and move on. If you were forced to stay and live with your shit, you’d shit less into the public domain.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 week ago:
if we’re immune to the problems, it would be because people here use critical thinking skills instead of swallowing large amounts of contents. that’s the sole reason, it has nothing to do with the network’s size.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 1 week ago:
first of all, it’s a broad overgeneralization to assume that all social media is created with the intention to manipulate people. there was honest people running social media, but it’s long past. (in the corporate domain)
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social media can be useful if it presents non-emotional, non-brigading content. rational discourse is one of the valuable options possible. throwing away the whole internet because Xitter sucks is throwing away the baby with the bathwater.
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but yes, social media is the new Volksempfänger and manipulates people (social engineering)
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- Comment on Intel collapsing? 1 week ago:
Of course intel will collapse within the next 10 years.
They have focused exclusively on high-end, very expensive processors in the past. Now that moore’s law is no longer true, that doesn’t work anymore, because ARM chips are catching up in performance, at 1/10 of the price.
- Comment on Choose one before starting the game... 1 week ago:
I’m actually wondering how much of this has to do with the climate, i.e. the physical weather patterns. something like: living in northern countries historically meant that you had a tougher time getting through the winter, because the winters are harsher and longer, so you need to store more food and make sure it doesn’t spoil, which requires extra planning. so as a historical consequence, northern countries end up with a higher degree of organization, including bigger states, more organized tax systems, overall bigger and more organized structures.
You can see many examples of this. all big empires historically have had their center on the northern hemisphere, including england, US, europe, USSR, china. there’s (almost) none on the south.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
i think “no objections” is a bit tongue-in-cheek maybe, or at least that’s how i use the phrase. like if you say “let’s go on a trip and have fun, no objections” :P they can obviously object, but it’s a figure of speech that they shouldn’t object because you think it’s fine or sth. maybe that’s a matter of dialect and local slang though :D
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on beaver girls rise 2 weeks ago:
The ecosystem is so hollowed out that higher-up the foodchain species like beaver have a tougher time feeding themselves, while lower-down species have to re-populate an underpopulated environment. of course you’d rather be a mouse than a beaver in these days.
- Comment on Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries 3 weeks ago:
they say suicide is a long term solution to a short term problem or sth
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 weeks ago:
it’s 2000-01-01 for me
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 weeks ago:
“you’re gonna go to hell!”
if where all the christians go is heaven, then i’d rather go to hell
- Comment on Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings 3 weeks ago:
also work for what you believe in, whether that be community service, supporting your neighbours, making a computer game, chatting with friends, everything helps as long as you can believe in it with your heart
- Comment on Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings 3 weeks ago:
the hollowness of what they do
i suspect they intentionally hollow out their soul to save weight or sth
- Comment on Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings 3 weeks ago:
the way i understand it, the company has an obligation to fulfill “shareholder value”, which is maximizing profits in 99% of cases, at least on publicly traded companies.
- Comment on Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings 3 weeks ago:
it’s crazy for me to watch people rapidly waking up to that fact after i’ve said it for what feels like decades and was completely ignored for the longest time.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 3 weeks ago:
they’re blaming it on the middle men
In a statement to Kotaku, a spokesperson for Valve said that while Mastercard did not communicate with it directly, concerns did come through payment processor and banking intermediaries.
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty proud of myself as i believe i could at least build a water turbine to produce electricity and light bulbs, at least i know the building plans for them, but i lack the mechanical skills to actually weld together things.
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 3 weeks ago:
I think there will be a large decline in population numbers, but it should be through low birth rates and not through wars/famines. also, it will take probably a century or longer, and not happen within a few years.
we’re facing extreme economic pressure in the next 5 years to successfully implement economic reforms (tax the rich, universal basic income) to be able to survive. but, as many people have pointed out already, UBI is ultimately only a bandaid solution, because it relies on political goodwill from activists fighting for the good cause, and that makes it questionable whether it can stay implemented un-interruptedly for very long times. so, population decline would make the society more resilient because people could demand higher wages, because there’s lower supply of human labor, and that would be a long-term solution.
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 3 weeks ago:
nah, the idea that everything is made from atoms is not very useful for most practical applications. you can even build fully-functional wind turbines and lightning bulbs without ever understanding anything about atoms.
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 3 weeks ago:
this but unironically. democracy can only function in a society with good education, otherwise you end up with populists.
and education gets to the people because it pays off for the people economically. you give 18 years of your lifetime, you receive a well-paying job afterwards. if economic growth slows down, people won’t be engineers anymore and people will receive less education, thus weakening democracy.
