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- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 7 hours ago:
Tariffs will be super hard on american economy. There is no universe where current tariffs and migration policy wont mean stagflation from hell. But that’s a price that might be worth/necessary paying. However, if american blue collar are able to organize, there is a possibility that blue collar salaries will keep up with inflation and that implies economic power is transferred to the working clas (supply and demand will be on the side of blue collar at least). Transfer of economic (and political) power is very much needed if the US democracy shall survive (or return from the dead).
But it’s all a big gamble for sure. Chaos and feudalism/fascism is probably the most likely outcome. Everything is so complex that it’s impossible to know for sure. Hopefully evolution has empowered us with enough accurate intuitions.
- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 7 hours ago:
Take them meds bro.
- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 1 day ago:
I believe the tarrifs are good. Though for other reasons than Trump. The current (previous) situation is super unstable and unsustainable. It basically require a global US monopoly of violence (which was the case for about 30 years). Trade imbalance implies war (as stated by Keynes).
However, the arguments of the Trump administration are completely false and uneducated.
We’ve all been drenched in neoliberal propaganda for about 50 years (disguised as science), so it’s not weird people are unable to think outside of the box on this matter.
Also, super valid question. Don’t get the down votes.
- Submitted 1 day ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects. 1 day ago:
What languages and patterns will be considered woke?
For sure memory safety and dependent types. C++ will probably be shoved down our throats.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 1 week ago:
Fuck Reddit.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 1 month ago:
Because its a more user friendly experience. Your grandma can use it with no hustle. Matrix is more complicated UX and also much slower and buggier (at least if you use Element and matrix.org). Ive actually started to prefer Delta Chat over Matrix.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 2 months ago:
Yes. 👏
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 2 months ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 2 months ago:
Great and sober answer.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 2 months ago:
I promise, objective qualities are fare easier to define than subjective ones like “soulless”.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 2 months ago:
Don’t really know the definition of AI bro, but most people here would probably put me in that box.
How can someone not value the ingenuity and creativity behind a work of art?
Generative AI can for sure be creative. It can synthesize new information, probably similar to how your brain synthesize new information.
I really don’t care if some random blockbuster CGI is the product of an artificial or organic neural network. The movie probably suck either way. I don’t have an emotional attachment to things made by people whom I don’t know and who uses a craft or art which I don’t care much about. If my son made a drawing I will probably like it even if it looks like crap. And I would like it if he used an AI tool to produce something cool too.
You probably use lots if things without caring about if it was made using an “artificial” process or made by hand.
Also, likely you wouldn’t be in a position where you had the luxury to even reason about this subject, if automatic processing and artificials never became a thing. Everything in your life would just be about survival. Computers wouldn’t exist for sure.
For some reason you don’t like it when you’re aware that some “art” was made, using automatic processing or “AI”. And that’s fine. But don’t expect different people to feel the same. That goes for about anything.
Do these people not see or feel the human behind it all?
Speaking for myself, no. But there are exceptions. Like if something is made by a loved one. Though it’s because the object makes me think of that person, and if it was made specifically for me, I know that person care about me.
And are these really opinions that you’ve encountered outside of the internet?
I know few people who feel as you do. And the ones who do, usually doesn’t know much about technology and also haven’t given much thought to the philosophy of this subject. Also, the only ones I can think of, that share your feelings and are vocal about it, are hobby “creators” of “art”. My guess is that you’re part of a pretty small but loud minority and that you will change your mind when you’ve given this subject a bit more thought. If you can realize how you can utilize this new tool in your practice, you will provably change your mind quicker.
I do programming for a living and I think that AI code assistants are awesome and that they really boost my productivity. I can spend more time on the interesting and hard parts of programming. The tool would suck if it wasn’t for my knowledge, skill and final touch. In the hands of someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing, it will produce bad results faster (which usually is what junior developers do, with or without AI assistance).
Most people probably don’t care how something was made, as long as the final product is cheaper and/or of the same or better objective quality. Also, I think that most people are glad that they’re now able the produce their own content without having to learn the specific craft or art involve. I’ve had a good time for sure. Overall, I think this AI thing is a very good and democratic development in society.
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 2 months ago:
As a millennial, I’m probably not alone when I write Red Alert, Atlantis, Diablo and Fallout 2 on a computer without internet connection. Also endless demos from PC Gamer CDs.
The more unusual game I want to add is Warlords 3. Got it as a Christmas gift from my cousins boyfriend (he was maybe 20 years older than me). Probably because he wanted someone he could play shared screen PvP with. Spent a lot of time with that game.
Also playing Tibia on a 33k dial up connection was special. A very laggy and expensive experience. Always afraid that mom would just turn off the connection because she had to make a phone call. And the true horror I felt when I encountered another player or a new monster deep within an unexplored dungeon. I didn’t like WoW when it came out. Probably because of emotional bluntedness that free PvP in combination with gear + xp loss causes.
And I’m still chasing the dragon.
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 2 months ago:
That must have been really awesome. ❤️
- Comment on Why is it considered sexist to ask women to smile? 2 months ago:
I don’t know if it’s sexist but it sure as hell is annoying. Don’t tell people to smile if you don’t have a very good reason.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 2 months ago:
Ah! LOL!
- Comment on How active is Lemmy now? 2 months ago:
Ok, I rephrase. Zero ads on Lemmy. 🙂
- Comment on How active is Lemmy now? 2 months ago:
There are huge subreddits that are basically dead or just filled with spam. The ratio of active/passive users on Lemmy must be much much larger. A Lemmy community with 100 active members almost feels like a subreddit with 10 000 members.
- Comment on How active is Lemmy now? 2 months ago:
To be fair, that happens on Reddit as well.
- Comment on How active is Lemmy now? 2 months ago:
I’m an active user who post and comment regularly, and I would say that the experience is very similar to Reddit. Except for less adds and smaller numbers on the main/all page. The experience is probably very different if you’re mainly a passive consumer of content.
Though I’ve never been active in “large” subreddits and I tend to block them from my feed. So guess I don’t know what I’m missing.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 2 months ago:
WH40K: Chaos Gate
- Comment on is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs? 2 months ago:
Just quit.
- Submitted 3 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 95 comments
- Comment on Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package? 3 months ago:
Total war: Warhammer 3? Baldurs Gate 3? Maybe those are available on console as well…
- Comment on Should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea? 3 months ago:
I guess the counter argument would be that the situation will only get worse the longer you wait. This has happened many times before.
- Comment on Should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea? 3 months ago:
That’s an argument I don’t agree with. I believe the perceived risks of nuclear fallout is negligible in most cases.
- Comment on Should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea? 3 months ago:
I agree. But hopefully I’ll learn some serious arguments.
- Submitted 3 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 8 comments