It was kind of impossible to know how far it could go anyway; seeing the pace at which it’s been advancing, even despite all the hallucinations, has been blistering. I mean, look at me; I’m recording this partly via Whisper+ using an offline, open-source model by speech-to-text (manually cleaning it up after delivery, of course, but still). Even just 6 years ago, people would have been, like, “WTF?! How is that sorcery possible?”

Wasn’t it even just 2 years ago that it struggled big-time with legible text and kept butchering hands and fingers on visuals of generated people? Even that already is a thing of the past, which itself was incredible to even see at all right after COVID times. The speed is bewildering…

Anyway, I digressed a bit. The book Empire of AI comes to mind in terms of researchers’ intentions indeed.

Definitely.

Can we be human volunteers to help bypass them?! Sign me up, if so!

But surely you’d agree that we have more than enough space for even lifetime storage, no? Compare that to the junk emitted from nearly everything else. What is your proposed alternative?

I knew it was something around there, thanks!

Indeed, nuclear is among the safest and cleanest forms of energy currently available to us! All the waste in the world for life barely fills a few football fields’ worth of space, if I recall correctly.

The answer here is always “capitalism,” of course!

Use the Slide fork!

Of course there are redditors around; I’m another one of them. We frequent the cool subs like the very human /r/FreeGameFindings and ignore the rest of the noise. Milk Reddit for the best of what it has to offer and dismiss the rest. I see nothing wrong with this approach for as long as Lemmy is still budding, relatively speaking.

Historically, “social media” meant non-anonymous social connections in which nearly everyone knew everyone’s real names; in contrast, Reddit or Reddit-like networks like Lemmy were called “content aggregators.”

We’re also not in a bubble (what bubble anyway, of anticapitalism?) if we’re diversifying our exposure to different sides. The most important aspect is that Lemmy instances seem to be among the more bot-free forums, whereas FB is completely overrun by “AI” spewing lies and fake studies, for example.

I would argue that it only makes you “sick” (what kind of sickness, anyway?) if this is your primary means of your socializing. Message boards involving strangers utilized in one’s life in this way should only be a temporary lifeline while you work to gradually build/rebuild a habit of regular, in-person contact. As long as you’re diligently striving towards that, it’s likely a (perhaps small) net positive. Social media, content aggregators, forums, message boards, etc. are only a net negative if they’re your primary approach to voluntary contact with people.

now it’s pretty much just piefed/lemmy, and will eventually delete these too

Really? What’s wrong with stuff here?

Fox news literally argued in court they’re purely entertainment, like the onion.

Wait, they did? Wow, accuracy!

knew.her

can wants to

FTFY

Do Linux phones need to run a Kickstarter?

against its desires

Parasitism has nothing to do with will or even awareness. Technically, our gut bacteria could be considered parasites, no? Yet the best of ours even help the body last longer.

The missing Oxford comma… *twitch, twitch*

Is it really fixing if it’s only short-term with mounting technical debt?

Wow, I don’t know how I missed that. That was absolutely right to remove.

Okay, so this led me down the rabbit hole of violent vs. nonviolent revolutions throughout history. There seems to be a fair amount of somewhat conflicting data:

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/social-science/how-did-the-revolution-affect-the-everyday-life-of-people-of-france/

https://polsci.institute/political-theory/transformative-power-of-political-violence/

https://reddit.com/comments/8heei4 (I know we’re on Lemmy… but /r/AskHistorians has good stuff!)

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/revolutionary-violence-and-counterrevolution/F39A56769C951BA7EE35166F03C4A80D

I don’t know if I’m doing enough critical thinking/reading here, but it seems mixed. Hopefully more bad trillionaires (which is where I’d stop it already since there is so much power there as it is) can learn to follow Mark Cuban’s lead. And hopefully we can get Star Trek replicators, which would solve a lot of problems!