A 50-something French dude that's old enough to think blogs are still cool, if not cooler than ever. I also like to write and to sketch.
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Do you use the ability at all?
nope. I'm getting old enough, and my health is not that great, to not be keenly aware of how short life is. No matter the ratio of the exchange. I'm definitely not an Achilles ;)
If I was to answer that type of argument, I would consider those:
- why do you close the door of the bathroom when you use it?
- Can I watch you fuck?
- Show me your last income declaration
- Give me your credit card
- Why do you wear clothing?
- Why do you lock the door of the house?
but I tend to ignore people using the "I have nothing to hide" argument
for music: mpv to play good old audio files saved on a hard drive, from ripped CDs.
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Agreed.
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I’d argue that in some applications, this is fine.
It sure can be. Like I said, a bit like an address book has its purpose. But even if it has pages and printed text in it, an address book is not a book anyone would want to read, it's just a stack of pages.
I have not considered UBI to be honest, maybe I should give it more consideration.What I worry a lot more about is the way 'creativity' (as the OP tried to frame it) is being hijacked and privatised by very few corporations/private interests. The same that pillaged so many of our art history and creations in order to make their own version of it they want to sell us back.
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How do you feel about the fact that art created by AI this year is not much different from art created by humans? I think those who have seen it themselves understand what I mean.
I would say It's quite... challenging to hope to hold any discussion about an hypothesis that requires all participants to already agree on it. That's more akin to entering a cult.
But here are a few remarks worth keeping in mind imho:
- Art is not limited to visual art. Far from it.
- Visual art is not about portraying something in such or such specific manner (be it realism, surrealism, or whatever else) it is about sharing an experience (which no AI can do, as it doesn't live and can't experience shit by itself) and it is about sharing an emotion that can be ranging from the pure emotional one to the most cerebral. Things that no AI, no matter how sophisticated it is, can experiment either as it certainly has no soul and it has no mind. At best, an AI is a complex set of statistical textual analyses. At best. Hence it's ability to spit out pure non-sense with the same seriousness as it will spit out factual data.
- Randomly copying and iterating randomly is not 'creating' anything it's playing with volumes of data (and violating copyright). Art is all about making decisions and following one's own path.
- AI art is boring. Like reading an address book would be (edit: still, even boring it can be useful like an actual address book). People are more then welcome to enjoy boring, like they're more than welcome to watch shit shows on the TV, if that's really what they want to get out of their life. I'd rather not and therefore I focus my time on less boring (and human made) art.
How do you feel about the fact that now and in the future, AI will do most of the creative work
If by creative you mean mimicking/monkeying what human do, well... AI can 'do' all the 'creative' work it can. It won't make me enter any art gallery or museum to look at it and it will certainly not make me willing to spend a cent accessing it either.
No more than, say, good (bad?) old Microsoft Clippy ever pushed me to enter a bookshop in order to check if it had published anything under its name.
How do you feel
And you, how do you feel about asking questions that aren't questions? And what do you get out of trying to portray AI as what it is not?
Edit: some clarifications + typos.
Should we tell people Lemmy exists
Tell them, sure. Preach it to them, a little less so imho. I often see people being such a pain in the you know where insisting on making other people using whatever it is they're using, or proving them wrong when they don't want to. It's not the best way to make it attractive to anyone.
or is the organic slow growth much better long term?
There is no assurance it will get better. The reality is that it can fail, like it so frequently happen with anything 'organic'. Living things can grow for sure, but they can also not grow at all and die. For many reasons, including the lack of care and... excessive care too (try giving too much water to a plant, or too much food to some creature).
What I do is tell people wanting to reach me I don't use centralized social media at all. And that they can find me around here (or on my blog, or through email).
A few will indeed reach out to me using those, while most will simply not bother trying. Quite normally, I would say, as most don't care about reaching out to me specifically (or anyone else, for that matter), they care about getting an answer (from anyone) to whatever is bothering them, or getting instant feedback/validation. And they care about it as easily as possible, putting in as little efforts as possible... meaning they're not looking forward to trying new and less popular ways.
Depends how long you keep them in the fridge.
by not generalizing what someone(s) may say to what all persons sharing the same gender would say?
I was using Lemmy, I now use Piefed and I quite satisfied (it's not perfect, sure, neither am I ;).
Can't recall why I switched but I know there was some technical reason.
To me, they're just two ways (among a few more) of accessing the same fediverse. I use the Web UI, on a desktop computer as I don't do social media on my phone.
Am I even allowed to create a thread even though this is my first time here?
Yep.
Or are there rules like Karma points, like in Reddit?
Nope. Just avoid acting like if you knew everything better when you don't. It's ok to be a newcomer and to make mistakes, as long as they're only mistakes.
Any input would be appreciated
Learn to use keywords filtering and maybe limit you home feed to 'Subscribed' instead of 'All'. That will limit the content to whatever is being posted in those communities you're subscribed to. Removing all the rest. In my case it helps making sure I don't see much (no memes, barely anything political and barely any news beside the few niche topics I'm interested in).
Also, don't be afraid to block people when you realize they're becoming a nuisance. Your time is precious, or it should be, don't waste it with people that just wish to trigger you. I certainly don't hesitate myself.
Thanks. And nice meeting you all!
Nice to meet you and welcome, obviously :)
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Do “anarchists” hear themselves? I don’t know if OP is an anarchist, but this is why I don’t take them seriously. Their ‘ideal society’ always leads back to what is—in its most fundamental form—a government.
Not really (I'm not an anarchist, if that matters)
A government is an institution created to hold power between people and to act on their behalf (executive power) it is also a regulatory system (law, rules justice... the legislative and judiciary powers). That would be common with most 'local' entities. Albeit at a much smaller scale. More on that important nuance next.
A government is also an autonomous organism, a thing in itself, autonomous, with its own objectives. An administration or multiple ones, offices, bureaus, services, departments. It also a lot of people working for it. Things that are not found in local/smaller orgs. It's so autonomous that it tends to grow beyond its original limits when left uncontrolled . It grows in order to sustain itself and in order to weakens/get rid of whatever it considers a threat to its own existence (any other form of power, say local vs national or federal). It will grow as much as it can even at the cost of the interest of the very people who devised it to begin with.
That's why most democracies were supposed to have devised safe-guards against such excess. But the threat is always there. Suffice to watch the present US government to realize it doesn't work as it should: the US executive is eating away the very fabric of country 'democratic' roots and values, and getting rid of all safe-guards by all means (corruption, threats,...). BTW, something remotely similar but less dramatic and much slower is happening in the EU: we're witnessing a lot less democratic control happening, in exchange for a lot more bureaucratic control (even against ourselves and our own will, us the citizen).
Such a derive would hardly be possible with a local for of power (aka limited and surrounded by many other powers like it). A,d individuals in each one of those power would still weight enough to keep it under control (by sheer egoism) and even if, for some really odd reason, all individuals in one of such power would agree to abuse it at the exact same time and to go in the exact same direction (which would already be very impressive, in itself) all other powers existing around that one would suffice to put it (and its too confident members) back in its place, if not effortlessly at least it would be done.
As I understand it, the anarchist idea of small/local powers lies in the co-existence of many of them that would be as different and autonomous from one another as possible. Which is kinda neat but it's also something that not many in the wide anarchist spectrum (from the far left to the most right extremists, so to speak) seem to be willing to accept. I mean, they're all fine with the theoretical idea of having many independent smaller groups co-existing one next to the others but most of them only seem willing to tolerate the existence of like minded other groups... which, to me, is the main reason why I can't imagine anarchism getting that far ever: they too want the world to be a perfect image of themselves. Which makes them behave very much like any of the more traditional/structured form of organizations.
then the newly discovered Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are translations of the western names (e.g. Neptune is “king/ruler of the sea star")
Not sure to understand your remark. I mean, like you noticed, most planets save the earth (soil) are named after Roman (and a few Greek) divinities; aka Western names.
Beside that to answer your question I would say: 1, 2, 0, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Or if they were to be renamed in a more considerate way, we would need to know why they need to be renamed. I mean is there any reason to change the names? I like 'Bob' a lot by I'm not sure it would make for great name for 'Mars', nor would 'Penelope' (another Greek character btw, unlike Bob) for 'Venus' ;)
More or less 0. Just like I don't use my phone much, I seldom use any data. I don't watch/listen to content on my phone, I don't take much photos. I don't even check my emails.
I just checked on their website, for January I'm sitting at an impressive 360 megs (130 giga available monthly) but this month is a massive increase in my usual data consumption as I've taken a lot more pictures than I use to (we're visiting new apartments).
I pay 12€/m each for both my spouse and mine (each with a 130g plan that we never use, it's the smallest plan we could get), plus 2€/m for a third line that has no data plan at all (that we use as a 'trash/publicly shared number' we almost never answer). This cheap plan could suit us if it wasn't that limited when moving abroad (the reason why I pay for those 130g plans we don't use is they don't have those limits) and if it had some data associated to it for those rare times when we need it, like it just happened this month. Those plans are all without engagement (and we provide our own phones)
Here in France, customers need to regularly check their invoice to make sure the operator has not silently activated a new 'feature' free 'for the first month' that automatically switch to the paid tier the following month. Without the customer asking anything. It happens very often. And it can quickly ad up.
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As much as needed for the story to exist? I mean, We're not talking watching porn here, we're talking watching a movie or a series, aka a story. Sex is a legit part of many stories but outside of porn I don't think it's that often required.
So, if there is no story or if the main selling point of the series is to show sex scenes or play with sex allusions, I will quit watching it very fast, no matter how soft/hard gay/straight/fluid/whatever the sex scenes in it can be. I don't give a, you guessed it, fuck ;)
An apple among many other fruits, some salad with a light dressing.I may also hunt for bare carrots, Bugs Bunny like ;)
A slice of handmade bread I just cut, too. Just the bread, it tastes so good.
Does anyone else feel this way? Have you found ways to reconnect with technology?
I've been stepping away slowly for a few years now. Back to low-tech and analog... and back to privacy/ownership/control. I don't plan on giving up on tech at all, I just put it back at its place which is one tool in my toolbox that contains many more. One tool that, I quickly realized, was not even the most essential (pen and paper would be, for me).
Sure, not all communities are the same, that's fine. There are plenty of communities I'm not interested or I see I won't fit in. There are others I don't have that impression.
. I like it a lot here but I feel like I need to engage a bit myself to create the great discussions I used to simply observe on Reddit.
+1
How to create great discussions on Lemmy?
I can't tell about 'great' save that it has a lot to do with both the topic discussed and the people involved, but I consider being honest combined with 1) not being afraid (ie, no self-censoring) and 2) not trying to create polemics (throwing random shit knowing at least one will trigger some emotional reactions) as an excellent starting point to a potentially interesting discussion.
(Yesterday, I was reading (not commenting) a thread on some public transportation discussion. It was very interesting.)
Next to that, and equally important imho: don't try to push new content for the sake of adding content. No matter how clumsy or simple, I prefer posts that the OP finds genuinely worth sharing or discussing with others. I don't need to be entertained with constant new content. Like with eating, I prefer quality over quantity ;)
Can I reply after a day or two if I am too busy to reply immediatly?
Sure. Some like me won't mind (I do that too) while others won't like it, and some can't even be bothered to click a discussion that is more than a day old. That's fine. It's their right to prefer freshness but they also don't own Lemmy and they don't get to decide how we should all use it.Lemmy is ours to make it exactly what we want it to be. So, make if yours by answering/participating at your own pace :)
I have no opinion. Never tried it.
I do worry more than a few prostitutes may not be that willing to do that, though.