Perspectivist
@Perspectivist@feddit.uk
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- George Orwell
- Comment on Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned 22 hours ago:
Nor can I figure out this level of unprovoked hostility toward a complete stranger, but looking through your moderation history made it pretty clear that it’s not personal but you’re just lashing out to cope with whatever personal issues you’re dealing with. I don’t like it but get it. I genuinely hope you find some peace, but I don’t want anything more to do with this, so don’t spend your time writing a response. I’ve had enough with trying to deal with mean people online.
- Comment on I never understood what it was people did on Twitter. I understand it even less now that it is X. 1 day ago:
I post post adult content and I follow other people who do the same. There are some extremely niche fetish communities there that you’ll struggle finding anywhere else. I also like that since it’s not a dedicated porn site there’s a lot of people following and messaging me with their personal profiles and getting thirsty comments from closeted gay conservatives, muslims and even extremists is quite fun.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned 1 day ago:
Humans contributing tags for filters would be like fighting the tide with a spoon.
Isn’t that what you’re literally advocating for here? I don’t see the practical difference between having users reporting AI content versus users reporting AI content that isn’t correctly labeled as such.
I stand behind what I said. Give people the option to filter it out of their own feeds if they want to. I don’t wish to push my own content preferences onto people with different tastes. Curating your own feed is the way to go. Not top down control from the tech companies themselves.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned 2 days ago:
Zero tolerance ban still requires a method of detecting AI content in order to enforce said ban. Having such detection system in place would then just as well give people the option to choose for themselves whether they want to see such content or not. Ofcourse such filter isn’t 100% accurate but neither is a total ban. Some of that content will always get through.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned 3 days ago:
TikTok but without users.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned 3 days ago:
Or just had a filter to hide it. I don’t feel like banning something from everyone just because I personally don’t like it.
- Comment on Do you have a flagship phone or a car that's 2021/newer but are struggling financially? 3 days ago:
I consider a 10 year old car to be practically new. Older models are much nicer design-wise anyway than these new computers on wheels.
- Comment on Do you have a flagship phone or a car that's 2021/newer but are struggling financially? 3 days ago:
Total expenses for my almost 20 year old truck are around 300€/month. While not cheap, it’s not that expensive either. Housing and food are by far the biggest expense categories for me.
- Comment on Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut 3 days ago:
It was walking so smooth untill it tripped. I’m sure a minor software patch will fix that.
- Comment on Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time 4 days ago:
And thus it’s newsworthy when they do something stupid which then skews your perception of how safe and reliable they actually are. Deaths caused by self-driving vehicles are extremely rare.
- Comment on Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time 4 days ago:
If there were a news article for every time a human driver did something extremely dumb behind the wheel, like there is for when an AI driver does, you’d never see those articles about self-driving cars - the feed would be completely flooded with stories about the stupid things human drivers do.
- Comment on If you truly love your girlfriend, then you need to buy her an expensive engagement ring. If you don’t have the money, then you don’t deserve to be in a relationship. 4 days ago:
The study indicates that spending between $2,000 and $4,000 on an engagement ring is linked to a 1.3 higher risk of divorce when compared against those who spent between $500 and $2,000.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 5 days ago:
otherwise I just end up endlessly distracted and completely away from the world.
Can you dig more into what you mean by that? I assume you mean distracted by your thoughts, rather than the world itself.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 5 days ago:
This reads like satire but I assume you’re being serious.
I’m not really doing anything instead. I’m listening in both cases - only the what I’m listening to changes. Listening to music - or podcasts in my case - is a bit of an distraction. I don’t want to be distracted all the time. I’m more present when I’m listening to the world instead, and it gives more space for my thoughts. I never even have the radio on in my car because to me, driving is almost a meditative experience and I like to just sit there in relative silence and focus on the driving itself. I’m stimulated one way or another for the vast majority of the day anyway. I think it’s good to have these intentional moments built into your daily routine where you let yourself be bored. It’s good for you.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 5 days ago:
You don’t. None of my highly educated friends own a house while everyone working in trades do.
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- Comment on How hard would it be to trap gated communities by crashing dozens of cars into the front of their gates blocking them from leaving ? 6 days ago:
Probably not much harder than to trap them inside a gay bar yet we feel differently about these two cases and that should make one pause and think for a moment about the quality of their thoughts.
- Comment on Are platforms like reddit just "internet noise" and bots or just genuinely the darkest parts of humanity? 6 days ago:
The bigger the group of people, the more bad apples there are among them. It’s just statistics - plain and simple. Reddit is a huge platform, so there’s naturally going to be a great number of bad people there. Something to also keep in mind is the gap between how bad someone truly is and how bad you imagine them to be. We’re pretty quick to judge and label people, especially online, based on just a few lines of text. It’s highly unlikely that one’s assessment of someone’s personality as a whole, based on a handful of social media comments, is anywhere near an accurate representation of their actual views.
Also, these same extremists are just as present here on Lemmy - they just mostly fly under the radar because it’s a rather homogenous group of people from a political standpoint, and those extremist views therefore tend to align with your own.
- Comment on why is radical acceptance not being a spineless conformist? 6 days ago:
What’s spineless about not trying to change things you truly can’t change? Wouldn’t it be delusional to keep trying despite knowing it’ll make no difference? I think the important thing here is to distinguish between things you truly have no power over and things you can’t fix yourself but can still play a role in alleviating - or at the very least, behaving in a way that you’re not contributing to making them worse.
I think my personal worldview has some similarities to what you’re describing as radical acceptance. I don’t believe in free will, so no matter how much of a prick someone is being, I don’t blame them personally for it. I don’t act as if they’re choosing to be that way and could just as well choose to act differently. In my view, they can’t help themselves. They couldn’t have done otherwise. Of course, they’re not immune to outside influences, and I’m not saying they lack the capability to act differently in the future - it’s never people’s future behavior we get frustrated about, it’s their current and past behavior.
That, I simply accept as them being the malfunctioning biological robots that they are, and if anything, I’m deeply interested in how they behave. Like a car running without engine oil, I want to see how far it’ll get and what eventually happens. I do, however, move out of its path. While I might not blame someone for being insufferable, I also, for no free will of my own, don’t want to be anywhere near such a person.
- Comment on Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea 1 week ago:
False equivalence is a logical fallacy where two subjects are incorrectly compared as if they are equal, despite significant differences between them. This often leads to misleading conclusions, as it oversimplifies complex issues by ignoring important factors.
I think what you meant to say was “boo cars!”
- Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers? 1 week ago:
My unwillingness to mistreat a stranger doesn’t mean I respect them.
- Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers? 1 week ago:
Because I try my best to treat other people the way I wish to be treated myself. I have no desire to harass anyone, and if I did, I’d feel awful about it. There are enough jerks in the world already, and I don’t want to add to that. Nobody has ever stopped acting shitty because people responded by acting shitty toward them. What you’re advocating isn’t virtuous, no matter what story you tell yourself about it. You’re just trying to justify your own bad behavior so you don’t have to feel guilty when you go to bed at night.
- Comment on NATO Overtakes Russia in Ammunition Production: ‘We Are Turning the Tide,’ Rutte Says 1 week ago:
I hope it’s true but the article seems to rather imply that we’re on track to do so, not that we’re there already. Manufacturing “more than we have done in decades” doesn’t say much when the production numbers have been embarassingly low.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 week ago:
I was commenting on what another user said, not on the article OP posted. Not every reply in the comment section is a direct response to the topic at hand. I was talking about the definition of terms, not the stock market.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 week ago:
Yeah, okay, but I still don’t know how this relates to what I said.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 week ago:
I don’t how this relates to what I said.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 week ago:
Even Grok AI follows up with that reminder when it mentions X.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 week ago:
Just a reminder that the term “AI” stands for a category of systems that contains a lot more than just LLMs.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 week ago:
Microsoft already had a proven business model and established products and services before the AI boom. If a company goes under it would almost certainly be one focused almost entirely on AI such as Palantir.
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 1 week ago:
Even if we replaced every single vehicle in the US with self-driving ones that are 10x safer drivers than humans, that would still lead to 4000 people dying each year plus many more being injured. “Who is responsible” is more of an philosophical question at this point really. It doesn’t quite make sense to punish the head of Waymo for cutting down traffic deaths ten-fold. The need to have someone to blame is something humanity needs to grow out of. Just like the need to drive.