The most useful thing about interacting with another human mind is that it can see when the question needs to be updated in order to get a correct answer.

A crude example would be:

Q1: how many screws should I use to join these pieces of wood?

A1: It's more relevant to use screws which are long enough.

Q2: Which screws should I use?

A2: This size.

2y ago

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Donates $1 Million to Trump’s Inaugural Fund.

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Churbleyimyam @lemm.ee 2y ago

All lick the anus

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Churbleyimyam @lemm.ee 2y ago

Keep saying I'll make things better but never take the political risks necessary to actually do it. Give the financial industry everything it wants.

2y ago

I'm afraid we've been bamboozled

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Churbleyimyam @lemm.ee 2y ago

Yeah, it's common talking about babies birth weight but that's about it.

2y ago

I'm afraid we've been bamboozled

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Churbleyimyam @lemm.ee 2y ago

Yes. Calculating how much a car journey is going to cost is such a chore. Trip in miles ÷ mpg × 4.5 × £/litre of fuel = cost.

2y ago

What was the last original movie you saw and how did you watch it?

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Churbleyimyam @lemm.ee 2y ago

I agree. Its the same with literature as well. One thing I enjoy about older media is not feeling so drawn to reflect on any social commentary of my own time. To me it makes it more immersive and more about the timeless aspects of the story.

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What is your favorite setting in any fictional media? Games, books, movies, etc. What do you like about it?

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Churbleyimyam @lemm.ee 2y ago

I havent finished reading it yet but I really like the setting in A Psalm For The Wild Built by Becky Chambers. It's a wholesome and positive vision of a world that saw the error of its ways and decided to make amends and do things right, technologically, environmentally and socially. It gives me a sense of hope and pride in humanity which is an unusual thing to get from a setting rather than characters and story.

Also Solaris by Stanislaw Lem for blurring (or even erasing) the distinction between place and person and evoking a powerful sense of wonder and total 'alienness'. It was the last story I read that I was completely captivated by. Horrifying, beautiful and compelling.

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Churbleyimyam @lemm.ee 2y ago

It's probably because although there is some overlap they also have important distinctions. Content doesn't have agency in the same way that software does. Perhaps you could think of it as content saying things to you and software as doing things with you. Repeating what someone is saying to you is considered (rightly or wrongly) to have lower stakes than knowing what someone is doing to you. It's the same idea behind the "sticks and stones" saying.