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Zarobi

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  • In your opinion is reading War and Peace the same accomplishment as listening to the audiobook? Why or why not?

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  • Skimming the first study, it was 9 people. Also, it doesn't "disprove" my argument at all. In these studies, the participants were likely sitting in a quiet room, and in the first study at least, half were taking notes and effectively quizzing each other! Of course it was just as effective for remembering. I remember things people tell me in person. It's literally how school works.

    My post was specifically talking about how most people consume audiobooks in practice. They don't sit in a quiet room, taking notes, and quizzing each other. They're doing the dishes, driving, walking, working, reading, watching YouTube while also playing a game on their phone (yes really). Completely different scenario. How many times have you talked to someone distracted and at the end they're like "huh?" Now apply that to audiobooks. I'm sure if you sit in a quiet room and study via audiobook it's extremely effective, but again, most people don't do that.

    There's probably even a study out there proving my point, that people don't listen and retain information properly when distracted, but I'm not going to go looking for it to win an internet argument. Either you get my point or you don't.

  • In your opinion is reading War and Peace the same accomplishment as listening to the audiobook? Why or why not?

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  • I've seen people listen to audiobooks. When I ask them, they can't even tell me what happened in the last 5 minutes. So it cannot be disproven entirely, because I've seen it happen multiple times. What studies are you referring to?

  • In your opinion is reading War and Peace the same accomplishment as listening to the audiobook? Why or why not?

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  • I don't have a problem with audiobooks, but they're very clearly not reading; in the same way that watching the news is not reading the newspaper.

    On a skills level, you're not practicing the act of looking at glyphs and words and translating them into meaning. This is important to practice, because it's actually really hard, especially if the book uses complicated or rare words. Humans have to learn this skill, it's not innate. You also don't learn new words via audiobook; you assume the reader hiccupped and move on.

    On the activity level, you can't consume the book at your own pace. For most people, it becomes a "passive" activity instead of an active one, so you rarely retain the information; especially if you're multitasking or using it as background noise to drown out your thoughts. Most people don't sit quietly and pay attention to every word, I find they have it on as white noise while distracted. You may as well put on music instead.

    The audiobook reader also decides for you what voices characters have, and in a way, dictates the personality of every character. That's an opportunity loss in practicing creativity and imagination.

    I think it's great that stories are reaching so many more people via audiobook. But they're not a book, they're a reading; in the same way that if you read a book to a kid, you don't say that they've read the book.

  • Google goes cash flow negative for the first time as AI data center buildout increases capex to a staggering $44.9 billion in a single quarter — CFO warns that capex will increase in 2027 as company…

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  • There's an alternate reality where Google was good. They improve the world and push humanity forwards with creative and helpful technology. Instead, we get Gemini

  • SHOCK HORROR

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  • Fair enough. There's been a lot of upscaled memes appearing on Lemmy recently, just my luck I comment on the only non-A.I. one

  • SHOCK HORROR

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  • Why are we A.I. upscaling all the memes now? It looks so bad

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    What’s the psychology behind enjoying immersing yourself in negativity online?

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  • Understood. I was just letting you know that you were actually more in line with the original concept of karma, from Buddhist and Hindu religious beliefs, which has nothing to do with a personal scoreboard or rewards.

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    What’s the psychology behind enjoying immersing yourself in negativity online?

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  • There's a difference between:

    • Challenging your ideas and beliefs to better define them and be exposed to new concepts and ways of thinking.
    • Needless toxicity filled with manipulative fallacies to spread the maximum amount of negativity possible.

    It's usually pretty obvious which is happening. In the second case, there's no benefit to engaging with them, because their goal is not a discussion. Most often, they'll deliberately twist your words or "misunderstand" you to frame your words in the worst possible light, just to get one more reaction, or a bit more anger out of you. Like a leech that's hard to get off.

  • Reading anything good?

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  • I don't like audiobooks, so maybe that was my issue with it too? My ex really loved that series and she also exclusively listens to books. I'm hesitant to even call audiobooks reading though tbh

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    What’s the psychology behind enjoying immersing yourself in negativity online?

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  • Some people just enjoy arguments, it's a thrill of dopamine to be a jerk. Being evil or bad or hurting others emotionally is like a forbidden fruit, I used to do the same thing as a teenager.

    When you see a person who has a post history like that, I'd strongly suggest using the block button. It will make your experience much nicer.

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    What’s the psychology behind enjoying immersing yourself in negativity online?

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  • That is karma. You create more good in the world by small acts of kindness, and it spreads. The same way that bad karma spreads. It's commonly confused that karma is a magic thing where you get rewarded for kindness, but usually it's only indirectly if ever

  • Is life really as awful as politics and the Internet make it out to be?

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  • There's a lot of responses here already… But if it ever feels hopeless or overwhelming, I recommend just go to a nearby park, sit on a bench, and watch nature and life going by. Compare what you're seeing, with what you're feeling. Do they match up? Or is there a difference there?

  • What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care?

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  • I had one class in University during my programming degree I didn't understand at all. It was as if I was missing 3 classes of buildup, super advanced maths. No matter how much I asked for help or studied, I just didn't get it. I was actually really distressed by it.

    In desperation, I just memorised every question and answer in the book. Every day, hours of rote memorisation. The exam is worth 60%… and I ended up with a distinction grade. I think that's equivalent to an A- or 3.7 GPA in North American.

    I still have zero understanding of that class, and I've never needed to use it either. It feels like they just threw it in there as torture filler. I think that's a perfect example of what you mean.

  • What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care?

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  • What entertainment do you consume if you avoid all movies and shows? I don't watch much myself either, but I still do on occasion

  • What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care?

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  • I have met 4 Trans people in my entire life, and they are just normal kind people. They're not cheating at sports, or being weird in bathrooms, or anything people are fearmongering; they just want to live their life comfortable in their bodies

  • What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care?

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  • I liked the Hobbit movies lol

  • What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care?

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  • The strength of a gaming console is that it's a known quantity. My Switch will work the exact same as your Switch. Game devs can build and test with confidence.

    This isn't true for PC; there's a huge variability factor. My PC is almost guaranteed to be different than your PC. The unfortunate truth is that you're correct: console games are more reliable, and they always will be. There is no world where that isn't the case. If you just want to play games without any friction, a console is the better choice.

    People here don't want to hear that though and will lynch you 😂

  • Some people's chats with Claude AI found publicly available online

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  • That's a bit misleading.

    A bunch of links in an unlisted share directory were indexed and crawled by Google. A Reddit user found them via Google Dorking, and discovered private conversations they shouldn't have had access to. It's not clear how Google discovered these links. To prevent this, Anthropic should have added a "no index" flag to this directory, which they have fixed now.

  • Future Problems [Ryan Rds.]

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  • Rule of cool is being able to hit the moon with a tomato on a natural 20