First of all, your over-simplification of why the economy is so terrible is almost certainly inaccurate but I’m not even going to get into that as neither of us has the faintest clue of how the economy even works.

Secondly, I don’t think that’s what people mean by “being stupid” with their money. It’s more about buying things because you want rather than need them which is something we all do to some degree. Only buying what you need would basically mean living in a tent by a campfire eating canned beans. When people tell that to you it’s not to win an argument but to end it. They don’t want to hear it. It’s not like they don’t know what they’re doing.

That is fucking hilarious. This place is such a parody of itself. Poe’s law at action.

Extreme? I’d say that who ever isn’t curating their feed by blocking users/content on a weekly basis is just mindlessly consuming what ever is fed to them.

It’s a single user who likes the attention they get for it. Block and move on.

Assume what?

whenever I cut somebody off majority of the time I explain why in a respectful way without arguing with them.

But you’ve done it more than twice where as most people never have to do that. It’s a major red flag.

If every person you run in to seems to treat you terribly, then one should consider what the common denominator between all of these people are. Usually the only one is yourself.

No. That’s kind of the point of the platform. Each instance has their own admins and mods.

This isn’t about me.

It depends on the instance. On feddit.uk they just want to make sure you’re a real person.

What do you tell the admin when you give a reason to join on a new account? Do you just tell them the truth?

Nobody has ever asked about it.

It’s never going to be clever or subversive.

The AI doesn’t need to be clever for as long as the person writing the prompt is. It’s just a tool. It doesn’t do anything on its own. What you get out reflects what you put in.

I have over 10 accounts, though I only use one at a time. When I get to 1000 - 1500 comments, I abandon it and make a new one. Had to deal with a stalker in the past and I’m never putting my entire comment history under a single username ever again.

It doesn’t - you only notice the low-effort ones that default to the generic style where as the rest fly under your radar and go undetected. It’s called a toupee fallacy: “All toupees look fake, I’ve never seen one that didn’t”

I don’t see the issue. I have a friend I hang out with once a year for a day and we don’t talk eachother a single word for the remaining time.

Bold claim considering there is no agreed upon definition on what we even mean by the term intelligence.

• The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge.
• the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations
• the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (such as tests)
• the act of understanding
• the ability to learn, understand, and make judgments or have opinions that are based on reason
• It can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information; and to retain it as knowledge to be applied to adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.

Guess what else heavily relies on pattern recognition and probabilities? Humans.

Which is a so-called thought terminating clishé: a slogan intended to end discussion without even engaging with it.

AI isn’t any one thing. It’s an broad term used in computer science to refer to any system designed to perform a cognitive task that would normally require human intelligence. The chess opponent on an old Atari console is an AI. It’s an intelligent system - but only narrowly so. That’s called “narrow” or “weak” AI.

It can still have superhuman abilities, but only within the specific task it was built for - like playing chess or generating language.

A large language model like ChatGPT is also narrow AI. It’s exceptionally good at what it was designed to do: generate natural-sounding language. What people expect from it, though, isn’t narrow intelligence - it’s general intelligence. The ability to apply cognitive skills across a wide range of domains the way a human can. That’s something LLMs simply can’t do - at least not yet. Artificial General Intelligence is the end goal for many AI companies, but LLMs are not generally intelligent. However they still fall under the umbrella of AI as a broad category of systems.

VLC has hotkey for this. It’s pretty easy to tweak with just trial an error and no need to go to settings to guestimate the values.