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  • "Trippy" Reality

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  • IMO the term "hallucinogenic" undersells what psychedelics do in some ways. There is an interpretative layer of abstraction that naturally builds up between you and what you are perceiving. This is useful because it lets you make assumptions about and mostly ignore objects that you know are not necessary to pay attention to, and not be overwhelmed by the experience of being actively aware of all their details, but it also prevents us from considering and experiencing what is behind that layer of preconception.

    Obviously there's also a lot of other things our brains do that is interpretive or corrective, but it's really remarkable to be able to see the world without that one in particular, which is one of the more striking effects of those drugs, and it happens on doses lower than the ones that produce especially vivid hallucinations.

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  • Something supernatural coming to kill me, so I can't explain anything to get help, and when I'm dead everyone thinks I died for some other reason.

  • Other than money, what's something you would want an unlimited amount of?

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  • Well sort of. Is it really yours if you can't be secure in your person or belongings? Being homeless wouldn't be so bad if you had a magically powered hiding space that can be accessed from anywhere that no one else can get to if you don't want them to.

  • The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

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  • It doesn't read like AI slop. This is a well structured essay that has a moderately complex point and efficiently explains and gives specific evidence for that point with citations. It even has a (highlighted for emphasis, near the beginning) note explaining to what extent AI was used:

    This article is written by me and spell checked with AI. Many of the images are generated by AI and are mostly to break up the wall of text.

    The images mostly actually do add to it by illustrating the concepts and being relevant. I'd only really criticize the first (fiber internet infrastructure vs water supply infrastructure) one for being a little lazy in having a duplicate text bubble, and the choice to format with text bubbles with arrows when the arrows don't actually point to anything and it would have been better as bullet points or something.

  • Other than money, what's something you would want an unlimited amount of?

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  • Living space. Imagine being able to instantiate unlimited pocket dimension instances and invite people to live there for free, would be really cool.

  • Would you keep seeing a doctor that required to you agree to the use of AI in your treatment to continue being a patient?

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  • Maybe there's an argument to be made there, but to me the privacy issues with all of the source material being sent to the servers of some AI company, and that company having the ability to put their thumb on the output in addition to the risk of the data being misused or leaked, are so much more of a thing to worry about. Those issues exist independently of how doctors use these tools and what risks those particular uses may have, which honestly I know nothing about, definitely not enough to argue that it is ok, it just isn't something I would personally stress over as much as the other stuff.

  • Would you keep seeing a doctor that required to you agree to the use of AI in your treatment to continue being a patient?

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  • I would only be ok with an AI note taking app if the model is running on hardware the doctor physically has in their office because otherwise any privacy assurances don't mean that much.

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    Age verification alternatives ways

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  • You're mostly right that it's not about child safety, but in that case why are you asking for suggestions about how to do it? What goals should age verification have if child safety is not accepted as a goal?

    Parental control already exists, but seemingly valid criticisms are that it is not a default, has limited effectiveness, and is not easy enough to use. The important detail here is that there are not widely accepted standards for it to interface with online platforms, which are now being pressured to develop privacy invasive child protection schemes they implement independently. What I'm suggesting is that instead of that, letting them rely on "verification" of whether a user is on a restricted device would do mostly the same thing in terms of benefits and be less harmful, if more work is put into building a standard for that and making it an easy to use default.

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    Age verification alternatives ways

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  • IMO the issue is way deeper than the method of age verification because you cannot automate child safety (from what I've read Roblox and Youtube Kids are notable failures here), and tech platforms are going to pick between some half-assed attempt at such automation and entirely banning minors, at which point they find a way to bypass it or go somewhere else on the internet that is also unsafe for children. It's all about deferring blame to someone else, not creating a society where people are making sure the kids are ok, and cannot possibly address the actual problem.

    But if the idea is that people are too stupid to understand this and it's necessary to come up with the least bad form of plausibly functional age verification to placate them, maybe the best bet would be something like those self-attesting OS verification laws but modified to be less shitty. Something like a more voluntary system where when you buy a device, there's a prominent option to get a version of it that is for kids and has parental control software preinstalled as bloatware. This could (optionally!) broadcast a flag (only to preapproved apps and websites!) that lets the service block the user from seeing or interacting with certain stuff, and otherwise do parental control things. It could at least somewhat work since kids don't have the ability to buy their own hardware. It could be open source and collectively developed and funded as a set of common standards that experts have thought about and agreed on.

    It wouldn't solve the biggest issues, but at least it might make it a little simpler for parents who are overwhelmed and need a simpler solution for handling the problem of the raw internet.

  • POV: M$ releases a new VSCode version

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  • Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought it was inherent to the terminal that you can't position the cursor and select text using the mouse, and also inherent that there are not right-click menus.

    If you don't want to use a mouse in your code editor that's a valid preference, but these are very different styles of programs and exist in separate categories. Personally I was using Atom before I was using VSCodium, and I really like most design choices of the latter, it's basically everything I always wanted an IDE to be like. Don't want to stop using the mouse.

  • POV: M$ releases a new VSCode version

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  • Doesn't seem like much of a VSCode replacement though since it is terminal based

  • Crispy chilli oil

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  • I gotta try making this sometime

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  • excuse

    People don't need an excuse to not want to talk to you, which incidentally is itself one of many "great" ways to learn to be quiet. As an example, I once had a roommate who was on some kind of medication for social anxiety, and he was one of the most irritating people I ever met. Failing to overcome his inhibitions was clearly not the main problem, those inhibitions were totally rational, and could have been a stopgap to avoid stepping on people's toes despite not having any intuitive understanding or intrinsic interest in how to do that.

    Probably the girl who is dashing around the room squeeling with joy every time a new person arrives and giving them a huge hug, the girl who is excitedly talking about her hobbies, job, or emotional revelations to a circle of smiling friends and acquaintances, the girl who is grabbing people and dragging them onto the dance floor to get the party started.

    ...

    And maybe someone will say that this whole analysis is shallow and misguided, and that pursuing any of these things by opening their mouth and speaking more would be a betrayal of their deep inner self or something.

    I think something that people who are casually socially successful often don't understand is how important it is to that success to have the correct emotional reactions to other people, and how difficult it is and how wrong it feels to fake those. That is a betrayal of yourself. You should strongly resist approaching friendship as an instrumental goal or a puzzle to be solved. For this reason it isn't well described as a skill, because the most important factors are not skills.

    and you could very easily end up completely alone if you never developed the skill of meeting new people and developing relationships with them.

    Solitude really isn't the end of the world, it could be a lot worse, despite how challenging it is to face. It does no one any favors to think of this as a high stakes game with solitude as the punishment for losing, that's not actually how it is.

    If you want quiet people to talk to you, the main thing would be helping them understand that it is genuinely safe to do so. If you want quiet people to talk to other people, that's probably none of your business.

  • One day, they will both regret this...

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  • wonder why the tub overflow isn't working

    edit: oh good this is already being discussed in great detail

  • Hesitation

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  • Could also go with accusing them of projecting and rescinding the offer on that basis

  • Late Bloomer

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  • Would make sense except they have different clothes and get grey hair

  • Make your own robot dog with open source hardware and software - mevius2

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  • If anyone was wondering looks like they are estimating the combined cost of the components to be $12,905.34, with the servo motor and lidar being the most expensive parts.

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    Is it true that the education system is crap in America?

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  • Maybe in some ways it's better, but being pushed to spend 4+ hours a night on homework and encouraged to think it would be the end of the world if you get a bad grade on an exam really sucks.

  • Spring dating 🌸

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  • I like this, but it is really stupid

  • With Reddit flirting with requiring Age verification, the next Rexit might be around the corner, are we ready?

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  • One option is to do this for them, and just send the link to the instance most suited to your current audience when recommending using Lemmy, rather than trying to explain what instances are, because they don't need to know that to use it.