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- Comment on Normal people probably don't consider themselves normal. 10 hours ago:
I kind of think normal people don’t even exist. Everyone is weird in their own way. What we call normal is just the average of all these uniquely strange individuals - but that kind of person may be nothing more than an abstraction, like saying the average family has 2.5 children.
- Comment on How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation? 11 hours ago:
I’ve got one too!
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 11 hours ago:
Agree. Blocking / keyword based filtering is quite blunt tool. I’d much rather tell AI what I don’t want to see and have it analyze the content for me.
- Comment on The human hand is incredibly good at seeing what's inside your pocket 16 hours ago:
Too bad that my brain apparently still can’t figure out the difference between they keys for my front door, shed and bike lock. Still requires 3 tries just like with USB sticks.
- Comment on How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation? 16 hours ago:
Samsung somehow managed to include removable battery, a headphone jack and SD card slot in the XCover 6 Pro while maintaining ip67 rating and a price of under 700 euros. I’m sure they’ll be able to figure it out.
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 16 hours ago:
That’s the thing - consuming anything even remotely resembling a healthy news diet requires actively avoiding most of it. Unfiltered news consumption means getting firehosed with information to the point of paralysis and depression. I wouldn’t be surprised if even a hermit living in the woods knows the latest about Trump and Musk. There’s no way to avoid hearing about them and who ever suggests you can clearly haven’t even tried.
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 17 hours ago:
Not everyone wants to spend their entire day reading about the politics of a country they don’t even live in. Have you considered that some people prefer getting their news once a day from a proper news outlet, and then spending the rest of their day focused on topics they’re actually interested in? That’s not “sticking your head in the sand,” it’s having healthy boundaries.
- Comment on Italy approves draft law outlawing violence against women 18 hours ago:
Has violence against women been legal untill this point? Well, about a time to outlaw it then. I wonder when violence against men was outlawed or wether that will still remain legal.
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 19 hours ago:
Lemmy doesn’t have a recommendation algorithm, yet our feeds are just as bad - if not worse. If your daily interest revolves around reading about U.S. politics, this might not be obvious to you, but for the rest of us, it’s painfully clear. And before you suggest “just avoid political communities” or “stick to your subscription feed,” let me assure you that doesn’t work. It’s not just political communities - it’s everywhere. I can’t even read articles about space without people injecting their opinions on the CEO of a certain rocket company. Even communities like microblogmemes are beyond salvation. If you limit yourself exclusively to communities where the “no politics” rule is actually enforced, you’ll exhaust new content within about two minutes each day.
My point is that the algorithm itself isn’t the sole issue. Algorithms can actually be helpful, provided you invest even minimal effort into training them. YouTube doesn’t bombard me with politics because it knows I’m not interested. Lemmy’s user base, however, seems so addicted to outrage that outrage inevitably dominates everyone’s experience here. If we measure the quality of social media by counting the “regrettable minutes” we’ve spent there, Lemmy would rank at the absolute bottom. Even Twitter doesn’t irritate me as consistently as Lemmy does. I’ve gone to great lengths setting up content filters to block politics, but even when half my feed is blocked, the majority of what’s left is still U.S. politics.
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 20 hours ago:
I don’t really care. I have nothing against amazon.
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 2 days ago:
I’ve ordered from Amazon once. That’s the only occasion I’ve used any of their services. I’m not intentionally avoiding them, I just don’t have the need for any of it. I’ve always just used ebay and Aliexpress instead.
- Comment on Albania to block TikTok in the coming days 2 days ago:
Why? Because you don’t like them?
How about we just let people choose rather than having the government choose for us?
- Comment on Is cops being evil/lazy/incompetent a USA specific thing, or is it the same everywhere in the world? 5 days ago:
That’s quite a broad generalization even if just talking about US cops.
- Comment on Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says AI should moderate social media 6 days ago:
I don’t think it’s that. LLM’s very much are actual AI. Most people just take that term to mean something more than that when it actually doesn’t. A simple chess engine is an AI as well.
- Comment on When making a post that fits multiple communities, should I just pick the most relevant/popular one or repost to the other ones as well? 6 days ago:
Given your name, I’d expect you to have an opinion already.
I do but in this case my opinion doesn’t matter if the masses feel differently.
- Comment on Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says AI should moderate social media 6 days ago:
I don’t think this is about LLM’s. That’s not synonymous with AI.
- Comment on What's easier to shoot, a bow or a firearm? 6 days ago:
Gun is far easier to hit your target with. Crossbow is compareable with much lower range but a bow, wether it be long, recurve or compound is quite hard.
- Submitted 1 week ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 21 comments
- Comment on is shadowbanning a thing on lemmy? 1 week ago:
Technically every ban here is a shadow ban as you don’t get notified for it.
- Comment on Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says AI should moderate social media 1 week ago:
We’re all living inside echo chambers already. Nobody wants to be forcibly fed a “balanced” online media diet. Just imagine what the feed would be like if it contained an equal amount of content from every social media platform in the world with all possible views being represented. People would either not want to engage with it at all, would just fight and argue all day or start blocking opposing views to get back into the echo chamber. I think people should be free to choose for themselves what kind of content they consume.
- Comment on Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says AI should moderate social media 1 week ago:
I couldn’t agree more. Human moderators, especially unpaid ones simply aren’t the way to go and Lemmy is a perfect example of this. Blocking users and communities and using content filters works to some extent but is extemely blunt tool with a ton of collateral damage. I’d much rather tell an AI moderator what I’m interested in seeing and what not and have it analyze the content to see what needs to be filtered out.
Take this thread for example:
Cool. I think he should piss on the 3rd rail.
This pukebag is just as bad as Steve. Fuck both of them.
What a cunt.
How else is anyone going to filter out hateful content like this with zero value without an intelligent moderation system? People are coming up with new insults faster than I can keep adding them to the filter list. AI could easily filter out 95% of toxic content like this.
- Comment on YSK: If your house has a split AC unit it probably could use a cleaning 1 week ago:
It’s impossible to get a vacuum in all the nooks and crannies. Especially between the fins. Compressed air is pretty much the only option.
- Submitted 1 week ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 week ago:
By free will I mean the ability to have done otherwise. This, I argue is an illusion. What ever the reason is that makes one choose A rather than B will make them choose A over and over again no matter how many times we rewind the universe and try again. What ever compelled you to make that choise remains unchanged and you’d choose the same thing every time. There’s no freedom in that.
I also don’t see a reason why humans would be unique in that sense. If we have free will then what leads you to believe that other animals don’t? If they can live normal lives without free will, then surely we can too, right?
I don’t know where our curiousity or the desire to help the less fortunate comes from. Genes and environmental factors most likely. That’s why cultural differences exists too. If we all just freely chose our likes and not-likes then it’s a bit odd that people living in the same country have similar preferences but the people on the other side of the world are significantly different.
Also, have you read about split brain experiments? When the corpus callosum is severed which prevents the different brain hemispheres from communicating with each other we can then with some clever tricks interview the different hemispheres separately and the finding there is that they tend to have vastly different preferences. Which hemisphere is “you”?
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 week ago:
Then please explain your reasoning. Statements alone are meaningless if you’re unable to back them up explanations.
- Comment on The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy 1 week ago:
I find that keyword-based filtering seems to work better than blocking. We’re at a point here that if one is blocking all communities where people post news and politics to then there’s nothing left to browse because you’d need to block virtually every even slightly popular community.
My current record so far is refreshing the front page and seeing 4 posts with all the others being filtered out. That’s how bad the politics and news spam has gotten. And people wonder why normies aren’t coming here…
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 week ago:
Who wants AGI other than war pigs and billionaires?
Every single person suffering from a chronic / terminal illnes for example.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 week ago:
Why is AGI not in reach? What insight do you have on the matter than you can so confidently make an absolute statement like that?
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 week ago:
That’s not my argument at all. I never said an algorithm is AI just because it has many steps. The key difference isn’t complexity - it’s the nature of what the algorithm does. A Tic-Tac-Toe AI can be extremely simple yet still counts as AI where as something like a game physics engine is extremely complex yet it doesn’t simulate intelligence, just physics. Bubble sort follows a fixed sequence with no decision-making. A chess engine, on the other hand, evaluates different moves, predicts outcomes, and optimizes decisions based on a strategy. That’s not just ‘many steps’ - it’s a process of selecting the best action based on the current situation. If you think my argument is about complexity rather than decision-making, you’ve misunderstood my point.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 week ago:
What is inevitable? At no point have I claimed that our actions are set in stone. That would imply fatalism which equally suggest that things can happen without anything causing them to happen.