zeca

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  im glad that it works for you, but my point is that we should have the right to have a non-intrusive phone just as easily as we have intrusive ones. People shouldnt be expected to learn how to unlock a bootloader, or import one of the few models that support these alternative roms with all security features in place. In the process of installing these roms, some people might fall into the trap of installing them from a suspicious source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lets clarify this. Your principle is “The moment your opinion starts to dictate other people’s lives, it becomes invalid.” My opinion is “People should be prevented from polluting the rivers.” You say the opinion isnt dictating anything, that its our right to have clean rivers that dictates the prohibition to polluting rivers. Ok, fair, as far as the legislation isnt based on the opinions of the legislators about what should be allowed and what shouldnt. If the opinions that “using AI to judge if a suspected murderer is guilty is not good” or “people should be able to disable all ‘AI assistent’ features on their smartphones and not have their data constantly scanned” become popular opinions, legislature may be passed and the consequence will dictate other people’s lives. I see what you mean though that using AI or not only concerns/affect the user. But thats not as true as it may seem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your example is clearly them violating the rights of others. Yes, and its my opinon that they shouldnt be allowed to do so. Not allowing someone to do something does in fact dictate their lives, so my opinion should be invalid, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What if their use of AI affects me? Is my opinion invalid when my opinion is that you shouldnt be allowed to pollute a river that I depend on for accessing water? Have you thought about this for more than 2 seconds?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  these negative comments are missing the point. Soon we may not be able to buy a phone that doesnt have an integrated intrusive ai that scans all you files. Android has one, ios has one. Whats the alternative? using lineage os or some other android rom? having to give up using banks apps and stuff that doesnt work in those roms? most people cant say no to having a phone, so lets ensure these phones arent so intrusive. lets legislate something about this…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't ask for more pixels⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its the difference between maximum gayness and maximal gayness. Maximum gayness is being more gay, or at least as gay, as everybody else; while maximal gayness is not being less gay than anybody else (just as you put it). Two people with maximal gayness can have incomparable gaynessess, and thats the key thing about partial orderings, this possibility of incomparability. there could be many maximally gay people. they wouldnt be equally gay, but incomparably gay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Mobile Browsers That Stick Their Noses Into Your Business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  edge tracks user content while ddg doesnt. if you just rank by the height of the bar, different kinds of tracking get the same importance. But to me, tracking user content is between the worst kinds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  ohh, thats why i got all these downvotes. youre right, i was trying to deny the original claim that trees would ruin any infrastructure we build around them. so, yes, was just saying that some infrastructure can be made compatible with trees, while most implemented infra is not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  trees dont ruin ANY human infrastructure. But the usual urban infrastructure isnt well thought out enough exist around trees. But smarter urbanism is possible and in fact does exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  VIvaldi is cool, but its not open source. If you worry about the trustworthiness of you browser, picking an open source one would be best IMO. Among the chromium-based, there are chromium itself, brave, …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice on enjoying your life⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  youre right, i take it back

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice on enjoying your life⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ohoho, thankyou ☺️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  not everything in a language is helpful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice on enjoying your life⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  neither vague nor a definition

  average is the sum of a list of values divided by the size of the list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  what do you mean by “explicitly non gendered”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, i wasnt advocating you should know any specific grammar. and that distinction is a good point. I meant that learning a prescriptive grammar decently is an important tool for reasoning. im not saying that descriptive grammars are bad, just defending that prescriptive grammars arent as useless as people seem to judge them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, its very arbitrary, but these are sets of rules that you can use to structure your thoughts. language helps us reason. it doesnt matter that it is arbitrary. definitions in mathematics are very arbitrary, but they are a foundation we can lean on to reason about abstract ideas. Being arbitrary is not a testament of uselessness. Different languages, lead to different foundations for structuring ideas. But dominating at least one of those foundations can be very important cognitively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i think that being used to properly structure sentences is important for reasoning well.

  i agree that the effects of books and writing were probably beneficial to the brain, although they might have atrophied the memory and something else. But im not sure about tv, radio, internet and AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  but are they wrong though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Habits of Insects⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its reasonable to make the connection to the coin, as this particular cryptocurrency was propagandized and manipulated by musk, who will be running the agency.