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Acamon

@ Acamon @lemmy.world

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  • NSFW

    Does anyone else have a sexuality based on emotional connection with ordinary-looking people and find mainstream sex culture to be unrelatable?

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  • I think there's a way that society represents "what sex is" that is very different from most people's experience of it. For various reasons, Hollywood/advertising/porn all promote skinny and heavily made up women. And even if they find those kinds of actresses or models hot on the screen, that's not the kinds of women most men actually crush on.

    The reality is most people have a fairly limited number of sexual relationships, and they're often with people who do not meet some abstract societal idea of 'hotness'. A lot of the time people are attracted to people because they like them, and they have good chemistry. Sometimes it's more of a 'type' or whatever (knew a guy who was really into short girls, and then I met his tiny mother...)

    Same with relationships or sex or whatever. People learn a bunch of expectations and assumptions growing up, and then as theynget older they realise that most people don't actually fit that arbitary standard. Sure, some guysnare horny all the time and just want emotionless sex, and so do some women. But it's not as 'normal' as some media would suggest.

  • The Neighbors

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  • If it's a message to the household, shouldn't the writing face the other way?

  • What is the best fake version of a real website from a movie or tv show?

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  • People who don't have much friends: Do you think you would've have a better social life if the internet didn't exist?

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  • France. It's great and i love being here, but I teach English so there's a lot of having to speak English and not a lot of push to speak French. Things should quite down in six months and I hope to be able to focus more on French and start actually gaining confidence in talking.

  • Would you rather know every language, but...

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  • Given that almost everyone in the world speaks one of a tiny fraction of world languages, there's less than 0.1% chance that anyone you ever meet will be able to understand you. Google Translate only covers 250 of more than 7000 world languages, so there's a 97% chance I can't even use online tools to get my message across.

    If it was weighted it would still suck as I'd need to travel to other countries based on what i happen to speak (if it changes each year). That doesn't sound worth it, especially not for the rest of my life. If it changed after every sentence, it would be like having an awful speech impediment. Trying to have a conversation would involve repeating myself half a dozen times until I hit the right language, and only if I'm in top 5 langauge areas. If I was trying to speak french I'd need to repeat myself 20 times before I was likely to be understood.

    And what's the benefit? That I can understand lots of langauges but can't functionally communicate?

  • People who don't have much friends: Do you think you would've have a better social life if the internet didn't exist?

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  • I don't know. It's something I think about a lot, especially when I'm wasting too much time online. But it really isn't that simple. I had lots of friends and saw them pretty regularly, but I moved countries to be with my partner and I'm very happy with that choice and our life together.

    But I don't speak the language here, I'm learning but slowly. So if I wasn't in message groups, sharing memes and video chatting my friends back home I'd feel pretty lonely. And it would make the couple of trips home each year much more awkward. By keeping in touch so regularly it feels totally normal to spend the day with a friend, even if I haven't seen them in 9 months because I know all the little things they've been up to or excited about.

    On the other side, if I had none of that, maybe I would have worked harder at learning the language. Especially with the lack of distractions the internet provides (being able to watch tv in English instead of local stuff is probably the biggest hurdle to learning), but realistically we're busy and live in the country, so if I had some intermediate language skills and was vastly more lonely I'd probably not have made any real friends. I'd just go to some more social events in the year and participate a bit akwardly and feel sad.

  • Ok, honestly, is cast-iron really any better than a non-stick, stainless, copper (anything else?) pan?

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  • They're all fine with some extendent. It really depends specifically what and how you're cooking. I like cast iron for steak because you can heat it up a helluva lot, even without fat, while trying that with non-stick pans can damage the coating and make some weird smells. Similarly, I prefer it for frying eggs because I like to use a metal slice to flip eggs, and worry about scarcjing my non-stick. But I have both and happily use both.

  • Gus is a loner by nature, but all the cats love little Artie so he's allowed to join the perch

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  • No wonder. Artie is straight-up adorable.

  • I'm pro science until science disagrees with me

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  • My conclusion was that raising minimum wage gave people more money to spend (obvs), and although it could be linked to some increase in inflation, that that cost was borne over the wider economy, so those on MW still saw an meaningful increase in real terms spending power. The evidence for MW rises causing unemployment were mixed, but meta-regression analysis showed that there was significant publication bias in MW studies (preferring those that showed MW raised unemployment) and once that was accounted for, MW was neutral on unemployment. Apart, perhaps for a small effect on teenagers.

    But it was a few years back that I had to look in to that, and the studies themselves are often focussed on data from decades earlier. And that's the problem with a lot of economic research claims, while it is helpful to examine historical patterns and learn from them, it isn't easy to isolate the confounding factors and get to some general law. I feel it's closer to history than physics (despite the aspirations of some economists), you can learn from the past, but current society will be different in significant ways that might make things play out quite differently.

  • I'm pro science until science disagrees with me

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  • Funny meme, and natural part of human nature. But, while disregarding information that doesn't agree with your worldview can be bad, the reason it's a intrinsic bias is because most people are right about most things in their everyday life. If a stranger tells you that you owe them 20$, you're probably going to trust your gut that you don't, rather than start looking for evidence. Obviously, that breaks down when it's about anything abstract or complex, and there when we get science involved.

    But if you're somewhat experienced and well read in a scientific area, you develop the same confidence in your understanding that leads you to dismiss some findings as unlikely. This can be bad, and one of things slowing scientific progress (see Planck's principle), but it's also a useful heuristic. If you've read enough economics papers, you develop a reasonable bullshit detector. Not that the research on the wealth tax you referred to is necessarily bad, but it's going to be using a model or drawing conclusions from some related data, in ways that (I suspect) would not convince me if I read it. Once you've read 30 articles showing that raising minimal wage cuts real spending power vs 30 that show it doesn't, you see how 'good economic research practice' can lead people to very different conclusions.

  • Do people actually call their parents by their name (as in First-name basis)? Have you ever done that? Or witnessed someone doing that?

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  • I've probably done it occasionally, when calling them in a public space shouting 'Daaad' as an adult feels a bit weird. Same with talking about them to a third person, I might use their names rather than say "my mum" the whole time.

    But face to face, talking with them? It'd feel pretty weird, too impersonal and distant. If I saw someone else doing it tontjeir parents, I'd probably note it as unusual, but would be shocked.

  • What are some non-AI examples of slop?

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  • That's a really good example, just a mix and regurgitate of older, better work trying to give consumers what they think they want.

  • Help me build a playlist?

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  • Moog Cookbook do covers of alt rock songs on (surprise) moog synthesizers. Always felt they sound quite Jellyfishy.

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    Should I change my name?

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  • Most of the time you don't even need to say it's your middle name. I've known lots of people who went by their middle name, generally guys in families where they, their dad and their grandad are all officially 'John', but actually go by their unique middle name. Its not that unusual.

  • What are some non-AI examples of slop?

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  • Oh man, that's soothing. A recipe, for a meal, and it explains what I need to do, in the order I do it, and the pictures actually show the cooking. This is some next level stuff. I hope it catches on!

  • What are some non-AI examples of slop?

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  • I remember those. Awful.

  • How would you tell to your friend that AI has, with no doubt, lowered his skill?

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  • Maybe you could ask him to measure how effective it is, by doing some tasks with ai and without, and measuring the time. If you want to make it non judgmental you could say it'd be helpful for you to hear if it's really worth the effort of trying some ai yourself. And then if he sees that it doesn't end up saving (and sometimes costs) him time, he might accept it.

  • What are some non-AI examples of slop?

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  • I agree. It's a sliding scale with generative AI currently being the lowest point (for now at least, once the dataset is a slop ouroboros, it's only going to spiral downwards). Lazy, corporate filmmaking is bad, but lots of film noir classics were basically pulp movies knocked out to meet demand and are now widely regarded as classics. Because there's a difference between even the most committe overseen, cashgrab product that was still made by a human with their own strengths, tastes and biases vs a genai slop factory.

    But my aversion to ai slop has heightened my awareness of it, which in turn has made me notice how many things are slop adjacent. I notice myself writing a message and realsing I'm using a bunch of standard phrases and structures. I'm not an llm, but there are times when our individual responses aren't that different. I look at stock photography, where a complex family dynamic has been reduced to "teen sits on bed looking down, woman gestures angrily" and I realise that we've been traveling down this road for a while now, ai has just cut the brakes.

  • Which one of your views gets you labeled as "the other"?

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  • I respect your experience, and I'm sure that is true for you. I'm not sure what country you're from, or what generation. These sorts of things are pretty dependent on a lot of different social factors outside of gender. My experience has been that, in terms of groups conversations being dominated by sex chat it goes gay men, lesbians, straight cis women, straight cis men. But its super socially dependant - most of the men I've spent time with are total nerds, maybe army guys or jocks are different? Living in Britain, France and Germany the norms around those sort of conversations have been very different, and I bet America and Japan are different again.

    My bigger point was you can't infer how much something pre-occupies a person by how much they talk about it. I've know women who enjoyed talking about relationships and sex with friends, but were happily single and not that interested in it beyond gossip. While some guys would never discuss it directly but pretty much every decision and interest in their lives had come out of a desire to meet and impress women.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What are some non-AI examples of slop?

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    Should bots get reported?

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    Easiest way to have a forum style/threaded conversation with friends?

  • Cooking @lemmy.world
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    Experimenting with sous-vide: 'roast' beef

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Circuit tracing LLMs reveal some bizarre reasoning processes

    www.techspot.com /news/107347-finally-beginning-understand-how-llms-work-no-they.html
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    Anyone willing to justify chicken and waffles?

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    Alternative to discord?

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    Has anyone ever heard of the "classic prophet-squeeze-monster trope"? What could it possibly describe?

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    Anyone still live-streaming their life like oldschool webcams?

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    Can we estimate how many deaths a company is responsible for?

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    If "AI" doesn't attract customers why are companies hyping it so hard? Are they just dumb or is there another factor?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Learning computer/OS for kids, that teaches command line?