Perspectivist
@Perspectivist@feddit.uk
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- George Orwell
- Comment on I've spent 3 days working in dust tearing down this bathroom 53 minutes ago:
One like this might work if you don’t want to mess with hoses.
- Comment on I've spent 3 days working in dust tearing down this bathroom 1 hour ago:
I used one for welding in my previous job. It has the additional benefit of keeping your face cool by blowing fresh air onto it and being a full face it protects your eyes too nor does it fog up.
- Comment on I've spent 3 days working in dust tearing down this bathroom 1 hour ago:
It was inspected for asbestor prior to demolition. I don’t fuck with that stuff.
- Comment on I've spent 3 days working in dust tearing down this bathroom 1 hour ago:
Yeah, I can’t argue with that.
- Comment on I've spent 3 days working in dust tearing down this bathroom 2 hours ago:
I’m a general contractor and I’m doing this for a customer.
- Comment on I've spent 3 days working in dust tearing down this bathroom 2 hours ago:
I do, and I have a good one too. My issue however is that because of my beard none of them seal perfectly. I’ll likely just have to invest into a powered one at some point because I do this for living and there’s plenty of more dusty work ahead of me.
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- Comment on What if reincarnation is real, but you were probably plankton in your last life, so you don’t remember anything anyway? 13 hours ago:
Yes, but the point of my response is that I disagree with the premise. It’s a serious answer to unserious question. I’m willing to entertain the idea of something like reincarnation, but I’m not making the same assumptions about what that would actually mean.
- Comment on What if reincarnation is real, but you were probably plankton in your last life, so you don’t remember anything anyway? 13 hours ago:
I see it simply as a continuation of experience after this current biological vehicle dies. I think that the idea of a “soul” - in the sense of there being a center to consciousness where “you” are located - is an illusion anyway, so the notion of that moving into another body isn’t something I’m concerned about.
Of course, it’s an abstract term, and people use it to mean different things, so in that sense, I suppose the transfer of your “soul” is necessary too. I just don’t agree with what most people mean by that term. Even now, the people who do believe in reincarnation assume they’ve already had past lives they can’t remember. So if “you” aren’t your physical body or your memories, then what actually remains? I’d say it’s the bare fact of experience - consciousness itself. The feeling of being.
- Comment on What if reincarnation is real, but you were probably plankton in your last life, so you don’t remember anything anyway? 14 hours ago:
In the traditional sense yeah but it could also be linked to the idea of the multiverse or quantum immortality. Or maybe our physical brain only acts as some kind of a receiver that tunes onto some greater consciousness.
- Comment on Knowing how to do many things while not specialising at anything is the perfect way to be replaceable at work. 1 day ago:
Depends on your line of work, I guess. I’m a self-employed handyman - a jack of all trades, master of none, so to speak. I can really only be replaced by someone even more of a generalist than I am. I often get hired for jobs that would otherwise take two to four specialists, but with me, you don’t need to call anyone else.
- Comment on What if reincarnation is real, but you were probably plankton in your last life, so you don’t remember anything anyway? 1 day ago:
Even if you were a human your memories would still be in your previous brain. I see no reason to assume you’d remember anything from your previous life unless you believe there’s a “soul” that carries your memories rather than your brain.
- Comment on What is the self? 2 days ago:
It’s an illusion that there is a centre to consciousness. It’s a subjective feeling that you are located somewhere up there behind your face looking out into the world, authoring your thoughts and making decisions.
- Comment on Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week 2 days ago:
No clue why this article is being downvoted to hell.
The title has the word “AI” in it - the hivemind is practically trained to reflexively downvote and leave a mean comment anytime those two letters show up.
- Comment on Being asked "Have you gotten the tour yet" upon entering a house for the first time is the adult equivelent of the kids asking: "Do you want to see my room?" 3 days ago:
The gatekeepers have deemed my shed too interesting for that community so I no longer post pictures from there.
- Comment on Being asked "Have you gotten the tour yet" upon entering a house for the first time is the adult equivelent of the kids asking: "Do you want to see my room?" 4 days ago:
Stand in the middle of my living room and look around. Now you’ve seen my house. Want to see my tools shed too?
- Comment on What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life? 4 days ago:
Flashlights really do seem like an endless rabbit hole to sink into. They’re surprisingly affordable too - there are tons of Chinese models in the 30–60 euro range that outperform name brands costing over 100 euros.
You could even turn it into a challenge: try to research the absolute best everyday carry flashlight for yourself and see if it arrives in the mail before you’ve already found a better alternative.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 4 days ago:
this is hypothetical
And we wish to keep it that way - thus the people advocating for halting the development.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 5 days ago:
What do these people have to profit from getting what they’re asking for? They’re advocating for pulling the plug on that cow.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 5 days ago:
In my view, a true AGI would immediately be superintelligent because even if it wasn’t any smarter than us, it would still be able to process information at orders of magnitude faster rate. A scientist who has a minute to answer a question will always be outperformed by equally smart scientist who has a year.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 5 days ago:
I genuinely don’t understand the people who make fun of those sounding the alarm about AGI. That’s like mocking the people who warned against developing nuclear weapons when they were still just a theoretical concept. What are you even saying? “Go ahead with the Manhattan Project — I don’t care, because I in my infinite wisdom know you won’t succeed anyway”?
Speculating about whether we can actually build such a system, or how long it might take, completely misses the point. The argument isn’t about feasibility — it’s that we shouldn’t even be trying. It’s too fucking dangerous. You can’t put that rabbit back in the hat.
- Comment on Why don't police use rubber bullets instead of live rounds? I get if someone is holding a loaded weapon. But wouldn't a rubber bullet have the same effect with out putting holes in another person? 5 days ago:
Putting holes in people is what guns are for. If you don’t intend to do that, don’t use a gun - that’s what hand-to-hand combat training, batons, tasers and pepper spray are for.
There’s also a moral-hazard problem: rubber bullets can still be lethal, but the threshold for using them is lower, which could actually lead to more deaths, not fewer.
- Comment on i enjoy using drugs and that will never change 5 days ago:
I too used to think certain things in my life would never change - until they did.
It’s an interesting realization when you’ve been telling yourself for decades that you need something, only to quit it and discover that not only did you not need it, but you’re actually better off without.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 5 days ago:
If you’re certain an “AI crash” is coming, then shorting AI companies is how you’d not only avoid the fallout but actually profit from it. That’s speculative investing though - basically gambling.
For everyone else without the ability to predict the future, the general advice stays the same: invest in low-cost, highly diversified index funds spread across sectors and regions. The markets are deeply interconnected, so it doesn’t really matter where you’re invested - when the market crashes, you’re getting hit. If you’re all in on tech, you’ll get hit hard; if you’re spread out, you’ll get hit less. But either way, you’ll feel it.
For someone in it for the long run, it doesn’t matter what the market’s doing. I just keep doing what I’ve always done - managing my finances carefully and investing my savings.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 5 days ago:
The main issue in Japan during the 90s was that the government refused to acknowledge the reality of the situation and let the market crash. Instead of allowing bankruptcies and bad loans to clear, they propped up banks and corporations for years - freezing growth and causing decades of deflation and stagnation. The real lesson from Japan isn’t about the crash itself, but about the response: avoiding short-term pain led to long-term paralysis.
If an AI bubble bursts, it would probably resemble the dot-com crash more than Japan’s experience. Central banks act much faster now, bad debt gets cleared out instead of buried, and the global economy isn’t built entirely on AI speculation. So even if valuations take a hard hit, a decades-long depression like Japan’s is very unlikely.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 5 days ago:
If you’re not invested in the stock market, you don’t lose anything when it crashes - and if you are invested, you only lose if you sell at a loss. I understand the anxiety around economic uncertainty after a crash, but I get the sense that many people don’t really understand how “losing one’s investments” actually works.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 6 days ago:
How did you handle previous stock market crashes, and why do you expect this time to be different? I’m heavily invested in the market, yet I’m not losing any sleep over the possibility of a crash - meanwhile, people who don’t even seem to invest are the ones worrying about it. I can’t help but wonder why that is.
- Comment on NVIDIA’s New AI’s Movements Are So Real It’s Uncanny 6 days ago:
Isn’t that bit of an oxymoron? Uncanny implies something doesn’t look natural.
- Comment on What's the best way to deal with a genuinely malicious troll who constantly says the evidence against him is slander when it's not? 6 days ago:
If it bothers you that much, you can always just make a new account to lose the tail - because that’s exactly what they’ll do once you finally get them banned or whatever your endgame is.
Just block and move on. It’s an anonymous message board. Someone following you around and “vandalizing” your posts is completely meaningless. They’re wasting their time - you’ve already won.
- Comment on Traditions are just a society having OCD 6 days ago:
Traditions are experiments that worked.
