asklemmy Asklemmy Do you think AI is more likely to end Humanity or to end Capitalism?
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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 10 months ago 100%

    such as the key jailbreaking method right now being an appeal to empathy

    Honestly the most optimistic thing that's come out of this. A potential AGI singularity is still terrifying to me...but this does take the edge off a bit.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy In your opinion, what's the age limit for Trick r Treating?
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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 11 months ago 89%

    18/20 because after that you ought to be able to be a candy-giver. This whole thing only works if we have enough candy-givers, and too late of a cutoff age skews the balance.

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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 11 months ago 100%

    Maybe people won't pay money for it. Maybe they will. The problem isn't that people may or may not pay money--it's that you've placed your sense of worth in monetary value.

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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 11 months ago 100%

    Read some existentialism, no joke. I don't agree 100% but I read a bunch of Beuvoir over the weekend and one thing I did like was it made me internalize the idea that coming up with a project I care about and achieving it is worthwhile in and of itself regardless of if it "could" be done by someone/something else.

    Think about it this way, there are mathematicians from 500 years ago who did a lot of stuff by hand for hours that I could work out with a calculator in seconds today. But does that mean all their work was worthless? If I create a fairly shitty drawing, but I'm proud of my having created it, am I wrong to be proud simply because my friend who is a great artist could make a better one in half the time?

    It's not just about the journey, but it's not just about the destination either--its about the journey to the destination, and placing value only in one of those things will cause you to be at a loss for the rest of your life.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Why do so many mobile versions of sites run worse on phone than desktop versions?
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  • technology Technology So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off
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  • programmerhumor Programmer Humor I swear I didn’t change anything
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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 11 months ago 100%

    As a full stack cloud dev usually for me it ends up being some lag between when Azure claims a thing was updated and when it actually was.

    (shout out to azure B2C custom policies for taking like 10 minutes to actually reflect changes despite giving me a lil green checkmark)

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  • technology Technology So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off
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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 11 months ago 100%

    That's a weird argument. Most technological advancements are directly beneficial to the work of only a minority of people.

    Nobody declares that it's worthless to research and develop better CAD tools because engineers and product designers are a "vocal minority." Software development and marketing are two fields where LMMs have already seen massive worth, and even if they're a vocal minority, they're not a negligible one.

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  • technology Technology So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off
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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 11 months ago 100%

    AI ≠ Micros*ft

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  • nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions Why the Bible is divided by verses and numbers?
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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 11 months ago 100%

    For easy indexing. Lots of influential literary works have this. There's a universal standard indexing for both the works of Plato and Shakespeare, for example.

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  • technology Technology So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off
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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 11 months ago 100%

    "big data" runs the content recommendation algorithms of all the sites people use which in tirn have a massive influence on the world. It's crazy to think "big data" was just a buzzword when it's a tangible thing that affects you day-to-day.

    LLM powered tools are a heavy part of my daily workflow at this point, and have objectively increased my productive output.

    This is like the exactly opposite of Bitcoin / NFTs. Crypto was something that made a lot of money but was useless. AI is something that is insanely useful but seems not to be making a lot of money. I do not understand what parallels people are finding between them.

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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 12 months ago 97%

    To be fair, Spotify's recommendation system is the only algorithmic content feed that I feel actually gets me the kind of stuff I want rather than just exploiting my psyche, so I wouldn't be surprised if Spotify's AI integration is likewise the only of it's kind that has real benefit.

    It could also be completely useless, who knows 🤷

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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 12 months ago 100%

    Why do you assume there is one?

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  • linux Linux Microsoft causes learned helplessness
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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 12 months ago 54%

    Very good post. Very true post.

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  • firefox Firefox Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet. | The Mozilla Blog
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  • gaming Gaming Is there an indie games bubble?
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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 12 months ago 100%

    Domain name were a speculative asset. This supports what the person you're replying to is arguing.

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  • technology Technology DOJ finally posted that “embarrassing” court doc Google wanted to hide
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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 12 months ago 100%

    I love this bot

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  • technology Technology Opinion: The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art
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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 12 months ago 98%

    "Intellectual property" is a silly concept that only exists because under capitalism massive powerful corporations benefit if they can leverage the legal system to permeantly keep knowledge, innovation, and art behind a paywall, and people in society are dependent on monetary gain to survive.

    We should, to the fullest extent of the law, make it such that proper credit is given to people who make things, but calling something "theft" when the person you're "stealing" from literally does not lose anything is asinine.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What do you want to see more of on Lemmy?
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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 12 months ago 100%

    Just decent quality content for various topics which aren't politics or tech. For the good of increasing the size of Lemmy, I think everyone ought to find a couple things they're interested in as hobbies and just dare to make content about them.

    Lots of niche communities have the problem where no one posts because no one posts. At some point, you have to just pull the ripcord and start the darn thing, even if it takes a while.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Hey Lemmy, what is your ultimate pick-me-up song?
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  • technology Technology The AI Revolution is Rotten to the Core
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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 12 months ago 100%

    Don't get me wrong, I think that since AI is here we absolutely ought to keep it as free for the average person to engage with as possible because the corpos are gonna do it regardless of legality.

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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 12 months ago 100%

    Technological advancement is cool. Widening the power divide between megacorporations and the general population and allowing rich assholes to have greater power and control over the average person is not cool, and unfortunately, that's what technological advancement is doing.

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  • programming Programming Say I want to make an app on my phone for personal use. How to begin?
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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 12 months ago 100%

    Generally UI related stuff is opinionated framework-heavy, so the best place to start is see what technologies similar-ish apps use and then read their documentation.

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  • science Science NASA aims to destroy an Empire State Building-sized asteroid
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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 12 months ago 100%

    It's still good that they monitor and investigate stuff like this ahead of time. NASA, historically, has allowed for a ton of really cool practical advanced in technology to occur because of research they do on stuff like this, and I think it's entirely worth it to work on this kind of stuff even if we never have to actually shoot it down.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Can two drunk people consent to having sex with each other?
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    Why do you think that? I do not see any connection between my comment and you conclusion here.

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  • nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions LGBTQ+ people are protected against being fired for being LGBTQ+, does that mean straight people can be fired for being straight?
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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 1 year ago 100%

    No. It quite literally means that you also cannot be discriminated against for that. In fact, the protections that make it illegal to discriminate against LGBTQ+ individuals are the exact same protections that prevent discrimination because of your being straight, and if you were to repeal the former, the latter would be lost as well.

    You have it, quite literally, entirely backwards.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Can two drunk people consent to having sex with each other?
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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 1 year ago 83%

    So since I don't drink I can't hookup with drunk girls?

    No. Also I hope the women you know are aware that you are not a safe person to be around.

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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 1 year ago 100%

    I think you're misunderstanding what I meant but that may be my fault.

    Would "Two people of equal drunkness can do whatever under the same terms and conditions as two non-drunk people" be better?

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  • adhd ADHD Methylphenidate finally made me feel "normal" and able to get my shit together, I have one huge problem, though. (30, M)
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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Can you recommend books with meme culture humor?
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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 1 year ago 72%

    Don't sweat it. Some people just like to hate on things. You're allowed to ask question on an Internet forum dedicated to asking questions.

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy What's your Mario Kart main?
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  • unixporn Unixporn [Hyprland] Gruvvy Hyprland on NixOS
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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 1 year ago 100%

    Oh how I can't wait for the day that I can upgrade to an AMD graphics card instead of using Nvidia

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  • science Science Wolves and dogs recruit human partners in the cooperative string-pulling task
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  • Lanthanae Lanthanae 1 year ago 100%

    How so?

    Humans are animals. "Non-human animals" is the most direct and accurate way to specify the set of all animals that aren't humans.

    What about it do you consider strange?

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    Programming Lanthanae 1 year ago 100%
    Tips for improvement in a small company environment?

    Hey all, I am a software developer at a small company where I'm one of two developers. The other dev is primarily back-end and has been working off some basic cloud infra set up by an external company before I joined, so I'm essentially running solo on the frontend, some of the backend, cloud architecture, project management, etc. (really, everything except database management some of the existing api endpoints). So, what are the best ways to improve in this scenario? How do you prevent a limited learning environment from limiting your growth? Has anyone been in a similar situation and learned some tips for making the best of it? Any ideas? (Also, I know it's frequent advice to just say "move companies" but this job is a really unique opportunity, and I absolutely love the company, so I am not interested in doing that.) Thanks :)

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    boardgames Lanthanae 1 year ago 91%
    Ideas on converting an old folding table into a game table?

    Hey all, I've been wanting to host game nights at my place, and was hoping to use an old folding table I have since it fits nearly under my couch (I have a small apartment) and, is cheaper than buying a whole new table. Of course, I can use the table as-is (it's just a standard folding table after all) but I was hoping I could get some ideas on ways to have it better suit tabletop gaming. Right now my only idea is to get a neoprene mat for the top, but I don't have any good ideas on how to non-destructively adhere it to the top of the table.

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    ErgoMechKeyboards Lanthanae 1 year ago 100%
    Moonlander resell, how to get good price?

    Hey all, I got a Moonlander keyboard a while back and I'm noticing that it hurts my wrist more than a normal keyboard.Im thinking maybe I should have gotten a split staggered keyboard instead since the columnar layout is making it really difficult to reach things with my pinky and is overall hurting my hands. I think I'm just gonna sell it and try again with a split staggered board. Where should I go to resell?

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    ErgoMechKeyboards Lanthanae 1 year ago 100%
    Worried I wasted money on my new Moonlander, will I ruin my muscle memory?

    Hey all, I just purchased a Moonlander and after using it for a day, I unplugged it and packed it back up because I noticed my muscle memory on my laptop was already deteriorating! I want to be an ergomech user, but I also need to frequently use my laptop by itself with a standard keyboard. Is it possible to keep my muscle memory for both? Have any of you had success switching back and forth between a split ergo and a standard keyboard? Any advice or reassurance is appreciated. This was a massive purchase for me and this issue has me very disheartened at the moment.

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    Phruleosophy

    Secret third option: say you like Aristotle purely because of the ancient Greek aesthetic

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    AnarchyChess Lanthanae 1 year ago 98%
    Chess but it adheres to the US flag code

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    FOSS Lemmy moderation tools?

    Does anyone know of FOSS moderation tools or automod bots that exist for Lemmy? I was intending on starting work on some solutions but if projects already exist I'd rather contribute to those rather than risk creating [15 competing standards](https://xkcd.com/927/)

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