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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

  • George Orwell

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  • What if you gave him so much money that he’d never have to work again? Then he’d have even more time to focus on relationships and personal interests. Would that still be a net good thing? And if not, how is that any different?

    When I think back on my life, the meaningful parts aren’t just about getting things - they’re about working toward them. My first car was a cheap piece of junk, but I bought it with money I earned myself, and I loved that thing. I’ve gone from one cheap rental to a slightly better one, and eventually to being able to buy my first house. It’s an old, tiny granny cottage, but I paid for it with my own earnings, and I’m sure I’m far more emotionally attached to it than I’d ever be to a nicer house someone just gave me.

    The same goes for my body - I’ve spent decades working out to look the way I do. That process has taught me more about discipline and effort than almost anything else. It’s not something I’d ever want handed to me.

    There’s a term for this - the IKEA effect. Studies show people value their IKEA furniture more than pre-assembled, more expensive pieces because they built it themselves. I think that applies to life too. It’s not about the destination - it’s about the journey.

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  • …you bought him a house? I mean, good for him, but that’s pretty wild. I’m guessing the car probably isn’t an ’05 Toyota Yaris either.

    When I was 20, my parents gave me 50 € a week for a few years so I could just barely cover my expenses, since my student financial aid didn’t quite cover rent and living costs. That stopped the moment I got my first job, and I’ve pretty much been on my own ever since. They did help pay a few repair bills on my first car and backed my mortgage, but beyond that, I haven’t gotten any financial help from them.

    I honestly think you’re doing him a disservice by helping that much. I don’t think I’d appreciate money the way I do now if I hadn’t had to struggle through those early years. It was reassuring to know my parents were there if something truly catastrophic happened, but I’m grateful they only helped just enough to keep me afloat - and not a bit more.

  • Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week

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  • 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.

  • TIL: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, inflation has been less than 3% for the last 12 Months

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  • That claim is only controversial among people who don’t understand macroeconomics. Those are often the same people who think deflation is a good thing.

  • why do so many people think the brain is somehow totally isolated from the body?

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  • The findings from those split-brain experiments are fascinating - and maybe a little unsettling.

    I often wonder whether the “second consciousness” is created the moment the corpus callosum is cut, or whether it was always there, just hidden by the brain’s integration. If it’s the latter, that opens up some really interesting implications. For instance, when you feel like you should do something but don’t want to - could that inner conflict actually be the two hemispheres quietly disagreeing with each other?

  • why do so many people think the brain is somehow totally isolated from the body?

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  • But if we cut the bridge between the two brain hemispheres that allows them to communicate with eachother - the corpus callosum - it still feels subjectively like “you” remain unchanged. Yet there are ways to communicate with each hemisphere independently, as shown in the so-called split-brain experiments. The findings show that the two hemispheres often give different answers to the same questions. They also show that if you tell the left hemisphere to perform an action and then ask the right hemisphere why it did it, the right side will invent an excuse. So the question is - which hemisphere are you?

    My answer to that is that it’s neither - there is no “you.” The sense of there being a center to consciousness is an illusion. There’s only consciousness and its contents. If we could perfectly copy your brain, that copy would also subjectively feel like you.

  • Anyone else not watch movies or TV shows?

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  • I've averaged probably 4 movies and 0.5 tv-series a year for the past 7 years or so. Granted, I don't play video games or listen to music either. I mostly just watch YouTube videos and listen to podcasts.

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  • Isn’t it possible to acknowledge biological sex as a fact while also recognising that gender identity is about subjective experience?

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  • I don’t know about the average user, but the average commenter - almost definitely, yes. Making any kind of centrist or right-leaning noises here gets you mobbed instantly, so most people just don’t bother. Whether that reflects the actual majority or just a loud minority remains unclear.

  • In hindsight, how much did you like your younger self? If present-you met your younger self (say, age 10) from an alternate timeline, do you think you could be friends?

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  • Hopefully that makes your future self proud as well.

  • In hindsight, how much did you like your younger self? If present-you met your younger self (say, age 10) from an alternate timeline, do you think you could be friends?

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  • I've got so much cool shit to show the 10 year old me that I know he'd be stoked about. I bet we'd get along just fine. There's not many activities that the 10 year old me likes that the 34 year old me doesn't.

  • What are your thoughs about YouTube clickbait?

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  • If the clickbait is done well or the topic of the video is genuinely compelling, then I probably don’t mind - but when it’s really generic, it’s a total turn-off for me. Some things instantly disqualify a video, like obviously AI-generated thumbnails or when they include hot girls just for clicks. I’ve seen how the view counts on those “cabin life” channels spike the moment they add a girl in yoga pants to the thumbnail, so I can’t really blame them - but because it’s so transparently manipulative, I just want no part of it.

    Another thing that really irritates me is when I see that same generic “shocked face” in every thumbnail, and when I check their channel, it’s literally the same three photos recycled across dozens of videos.

    I have huge respect for YouTubers who don’t play those games at all. Some good examples are Foresty Forest, Andrew Camarata, Matthias Wandel, and post10.

  • Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban

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  • this is hypothetical

    And we wish to keep it that way - thus the people advocating for halting the development.

  • Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban

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  • What do these people have to profit from getting what they're asking for? They're advocating for pulling the plug on that cow.

  • Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban

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  • 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.

  • Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban

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  • I genuinely don’t understand the people who are dismissing 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.

  • How do you kill time at work?

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  • When I'm done I go home. Benefits of being self-employed.

    This wasn't ever much of an issue in my previous job either. Work fills the time given for it. If there's literally nothing to do then I'd browse reddit/Lemmy or watch YouTube videos.

  • Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot

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  • It feels like more and more people are taking pride in what they don’t do or what they aren’t, rather than in what they actually stand for. You see it in the people who brag about not using ChatGPT, not being on Twitter, not owning a car - or in those who define themselves by their hatred for others: the rich, meat eaters, republicans, whoever the current outgroup is.

    It’s like their entire identity revolves around opposition. Their sense of belonging comes not from shared values, but from shared resentment. If the only thing that unites you with your tribe is who you hate, then you don’t really have much of a tribe - just a mob.

    What’s most ironic is how many of these same people see themselves as independent thinkers, even though their views often are completely predictable once you know what they’re against. It’s as if they can’t even decide what they believe until they’ve first heard what “the enemy” thinks.

  • Lemmings who made it out of incel-dom, what advice would you have to your previous self?

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  • If you wouldn’t want to date yourself, then why would anyone else? That might not help someone who feels doomed to be alone, but that’s really what it comes down to. The way out isn’t resenting others for not liking you - it’s becoming the kind of person people would want to like.

    I also think there’s a lot of confusion around the idea of “nice guys.” It’s not that women love jerks - it’s that being a jerk can act as a proxy for confidence and perceived high value. It can work in the short term, but it’s not sustainable. What most people really want is someone who can stand up for themselves without constantly posturing. Being nice isn’t virtuous if it’s all you’ve got. Being capable but choosing to be kind - that’s the ideal. People want someone with boundaries, not a doormat.

  • Why should I care about some document a bunch of old pasty geezers signed, and called the bill of rights, hundreds of years ago? I didnt get a say in it why should they?

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  • It doesn’t really matter whether you care or not. You didn’t get a vote on gravity either, yet it still governs your life.

    The question isn’t why you should care about a document you didn’t write - it’s whether you want anyone, including yourself, to live under a government without clearly defined limits written down.