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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is feigned happiness remotely similar to actual happiness?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  To me, happiness describes a subjective feeling, whereas faking or pretending it refers to something you try to display outwardly despite not actually feeling that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are you here and not on Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They blocked 3rd party apps so I left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I have no problem with that. I also think LLMs are far more intelligent than the average social media commenter gives them credit for - and that includes emotional intelligence as well. It’s just that, to me, it sounded like you were implying they can experience empathy from the subjective side, so that’s what I was responding to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  A huge amount of people on social media are conditioned to hate everything AI to the point where even asking a genuine, non-critical question gets you downvoted. A large part of this is people who haven’t really thought deeply about the subject - they’ve just absorbed the popular sentiment from the spaces they hang out in. AI is often seen as a symbol of big, greedy, unethical corporations, so any engagement with it is treated as suspect by default.

  On top of that, there’s also a kind of tribal signaling at play. Being anti-AI has become a way for some to show they’re on the “right side” of issues like workers’ rights, art ownership, or tech overreach. So even curiosity can be read as siding with the enemy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs have way more empathy and respect than humans do

  LLMs are almost certainly unable to feel either of those emotions. Their responses are definitely more empathetic and respectful than those of your average social media commenter, but that doesn’t imply they have any subjective experience of such emotions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you care about up/down votes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I pay almost no attention to the scores on other people’s posts, but admittedly, I do sometimes feel disheartened when I see what I consider an extremist view getting heavily upvoted. As for downvotes, I have those hidden, so in that sense, they’re a non-factor for me. But you’re asking whether I care. Of course I care and anyone claiming otherwise is lying. We’re social animals - we care what others think of us. That’s why I hid the downvotes in the first place: so they wouldn’t affect me. Mean comments are enough to deal with; I don’t need to hear the audience booing too.

  My perhaps unpopular opinion is that while the voting system itself should remain, the scores should be hidden for everyone - and I mean both upvotes and downvotes. Downvotes don’t mean you’re wrong, and upvotes don’t mean you’re right. They’re just indicators of how popular your opinion is with the audience. That dynamic encourages people to self-censor unpopular views and, conversely, to post meaningless one-liners just for the applause.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had no issues with adblocker for over half a year. Works flawlessly on both browser and mobile browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, her family being Muslim is one of the more understandable - though perhaps not justified - reasons for not telling them. The doctrine of Islam quite directly prohibits a Muslim woman from dating a non-Muslim, or “infidel,” so the fear of backlash isn’t exactly unfounded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reducing half of country’s population into a caricature like that is nor true or helpful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Atheist is a bit of an stupid term anyway. It’s like saying I’m non-golfer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is that Jordan doesn’t believe the Bible is literally true, but rather metaphorically true - in the same way people believe a porcupine can throw its quills. It can’t, factually speaking, but if you live as though it can, you’re probably better off than someone who doesn’t and ends up getting too close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zimbabwe to cull elephants and distribute meat to people⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It never was. Hallucinations are in no way unique to LLMs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Month-long awareness celebrations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe we technically have a pride month here as well but it’s only “celebrated” by rather niche group of people. Mostly it’s just a month of trying to make money by selling rainbow colored things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you might be right that the term incel has gone through some concept creep over time. What I’d call “classical inceldom” definitely had a fatalistic core - people who believed that nothing they did could change their circumstances. In those spaces, self-improvement wasn’t just seen as pointless, it was actively discouraged. There’s a strong crabs-in-a-bucket mentality, where even small expressions of hope - like saying a waitress smiled at you - are treated as betrayal. That kind of remark gets torn down because it suggests there is hope, and hope runs against the entire premise of the community.

  So while I don’t necessarily disagree with how you’re framing things, I think it’s important we clarify what version of incel we’re each talking about. Otherwise, it’s easy to talk past one another while thinking we’re arguing about the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  See my reply below.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think there’s been some confusion here, so let me try to clarify what I meant.

  I see at least three different ways people use the term incel, and mixing them up leads to a lot of noise in these discussions. First, there’s the literal definition - someone who is involuntarily celibate but doesn’t necessarily hold resentment or misogynistic views. They might even be actively trying to improve their situation, through social development, fitness, or other personal changes.

  Then there’s what I’d call the ideological definition - this is closer to the original online “incel community” form: people who believe they’re permanently locked out of dating and sex due to genetics or physical traits, and who often adopt a fatalistic worldview and resentment towards women because of it. That group tends to see looksmaxxing as a waste of time or a cope, because they’ve already written themselves off as hopeless. That was the version I was referring to in my comment.

  And then there’s the slur usage, which is probably the most common in everyday discourse now: “incel” as a catch-all insult aimed at men with unpopular, toxic, or misogynistic views, whether or not they’re actually celibate or share any ideological connection to the incel community. This version often gets applied to manosphere types, Andrew Tate fans, or anyone viewed as a reactionary online. But here’s the irony - many of those guys despise incels and distance themselves from that label. Likewise, I’d say most ideological incels don’t align with Tate’s worldview either. Tate’s core message is about self-improvement to gain status and sexual access, while incels - at least in their blackpilled form - tend to reject the idea that improvement is even possible.

  So yeah, I agree there’s a lot of grift and posturing in these online spaces, but we’re not talking about a single, coherent group. That was the point of my original comment: looksmaxxing isn’t inherently tied to incel ideology. In fact, it contradicts the most fatalistic version of it. Conflating them flattens out the distinctions between self-improvement, toxic ideology, and hopelessness - and I think that matters if we want to criticize these cultures without just throwing buzzwords around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How does one promote involuntary celibacy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does a one cat get lonely without other cats, or is the company of humans good enough?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a cat for 18 years and never got the impression that it would’ve been lonely in any sense. No doubt having a friend would probably be better but it’s not one of those animals you absolutely must have atleast two of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New AI test can predict which men will benefit from prostate cancer drug⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The term artificial intelligence is broader than many people realize. It doesn’t mean human-level consciousness or sci-fi-style general intelligence - that’s a specific subset called AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). In reality, AI refers to any system designed to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence. That includes everything from playing chess to recognizing patterns, translating languages, or generating text.

  Large language models fall well within this definition. They’re narrow AIs - highly specialized, not general - but still part of the broader AI category. When people say “this isn’t real AI,” they’re often working from a fictional or futuristic idea of what AI should be, rather than how the term has actually been used in computer science for decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tinder tests letting users set a 'height preference'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Setting a height preference to 6ft filters out around 80% of potential partners if you’re in the U.S. Now imagine how many of the remaining 20% actually match the rest of your criteria. And on top of that, the tiny fraction of a person left after all the filtering still has to find you attractive.

  If you want to date on hard mode — by all means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI's most prominent skeptic doubles down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t human intelligence exactly what most people mean by “general intelligence”? The real question is whether it can be created artificially.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am disappointed in the AI discourse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I 100% agree with the first point, but I’d make a slight correction to the second: it’s debatable whether an LLM can truly use what we call “logic,” but it’s undeniable that its output is far more logical than that of not only the average Lemmy user, but the vast majority of social media users in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite widely accepted definition among philosophers and scientists is “the fact of felt experience” Which is basically how Thoman Nagel defined it in his essay “What’s it like to be a bat”

  “An organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism - something it is like for the organism.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  First, one needs to define consciousness. What I mean by it is the fact that it feels like something to be from a subjective perspective - that there is qualia to experience.

  So what I hear you asking is whether it’s conceivable that it could feel like something to be an AI system. Personally, I don’t see why not - unless consciousness is substrate-dependent, meaning there’s something inherently special about biological “wetware,” i.e. brains, that can’t be replicated in silicon. I don’t think that’s the case, since both are made of matter. I highly doubt there’s consciousness in our current systems, but at some point, there very likely will be - though we’ll probably start treating them as conscious beings before they actually become such.

  As for the idea of “emulated consciousness,” that doesn’t make much sense to me. Emulated consciousness is real consciousness. It’s kind of like bravery - you can’t fake it. Acting brave despite being scared is bravery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German defense minister says draft could return if volunteer numbers fall short⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The title says draft, but the article is talking about conscription. These aren’t synonymous terms. Conscription generally refers to mandatory military service during peacetime, like what countries such as Finland, Israel, and South Korea have. A draft, on the other hand, means pulling random individuals from the general population during wartime to take part in the fighting - like what the U.S. did during the Vietnam War.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Careful what you ask for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, grease does accumulate throughout the entire sewage system. It’s the solids that most easily clog the P-trap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Food itself isn’t the issue - it’s the big chunks and oil/grease/fat. It’s better to pour it down the toilet, since the volume of water you flush it with is greater and the drain diameter there is larger as well (110 mm) compared to the pipes under your sink, which are usually 75 mm in diameter, sometimes even just 50 mm. Solids are also more likely to clog the P-trap under your kitchen sink.

  Eventually, it all ends up in the same drain system anyway, so in that sense there’s no real difference.

  Source: I’m a plumber.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, Social Media Might Be Making Kids Depressed: Depression symptoms jumped 35% as kids’ average social media use rose from seven to 73 minutes daily over a three-year period.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Affects all kinds from ~ 7 to 90 years of age.