NASA getting press and good PR for a rocket launch and return to the moon.

Administration: “Oh you like that? Fuck you. It’s trashed, now, because we fucking hate you.”

I think they are just trying to be as hateful as possible.

For the most part that is my preference, but there needs to be some mechanism for discovery. Timeline isn’t bad, but I tend to avoid it once I have enough subs. For example, I probably don’t visit /all in Lemmy but maybe once a year at this point. I’m sure there are new communities I’d have interest in that I miss. Probably a bunch.

So yeah. It’s good to have a good discovery algorithm, but it’s also addictive. So it’s good not to have an algorithm, but then it gets difficult to hit critical mass for both creators and consumers.

Shrug.

We will simply pass laws requiring them to be adults! Easy!

I hear we aren’t take taking sexual assault accusations seriously any more, but I doubt the reasoning is to allow women to defend themselves when they try to rape them. That would be very off-brand for this administration.

You have to get through armed guards to get onto a base. Why would soldiers need to be armed for personal protection?

The algorithm at really good at presenting people who were relevant to my interests. People I wouldn’t have any idea I would like. Like Mr. Global for insight into oil markets. Stoobs and Kit Lazer for movie reviews. The autistic stats guy for analyzing truth behind headlines. Some guy for Dr Doom facts and anarchist POV on current events.

Like there were people that if you described them to me, I’d be like… pass. And yet I found them educational and interesting. I don’t know how another platform offers that algorithm, even if the other features are great. It’s not a knock on anyone else. I have zero interest in YouTube shorts, for example.

That’s nothing against loops.video. I might like it if I tried it.

I found TikTok to have a great algorithm for what I wanted to see. I discovered some quality content there. That said I haven’t used it since the buyout and I miss some of the posters in a way, but it’s not like they were irreplaceably filling some void in my life.

The federal government will just “bail them out”.

I agree AI is useful, but an unprovoked personal attack in defense of AI — in a thread about AI exacerbating mental health issues — doesn’t make for a convincing counterpoint.

Yes, but it’s also the natural conclusion to “so technically the rules say…”

Cholesterol can’t work fast enough.

It is so fucking painful to have my existence tainted — without any direct recourse — by these… taints.

That’s pretty freaking awesome, mate. Thank you!

Possibly but the main thing we find useful is the OTP generation. This means we can both use shared accounts without having to ask the other for a code. That’s probably an edge case, and not enough sites support it, but it’s really nice for the ones that do.

I doubt that is available in self-hosting but I’d be happy to be wrong about that. I have a raspberry pi serving up a couple of local things and I could register a domain if I had a use case for connectivity outside the house.

I see by your lack of pluralization that you’ve realized there’s only one person here and everyone else is bots. However through inference and deduction, you are therefore also a bot. I have good reason to believe I am the non-bot though I wonder if I could know for certain…

That was a lot of effort for a typo joke…

The major thing AI lacks is continuous parallel “prompting” through a variety of channels including sensory, biofeedback, and introspection / meta-thought about internal state and thinking.

AI currently transforms a given input into an output. However it cannot accept new input in the middle of an output. It can’t evaluate the quality of its own reasoning except though trial and error.

If you had 1000 AIs operating in tandem and fed a continuous stream of prompts in the form of pictures, text, meta-inspection, and perhaps a simulation of biomechanical feedback with the right configuration, I think it might be possible to create a system that is a hell of an approximation of sentience. But it would be slow and I’m not sure the result would be any better than a human — you’d introduce a lot of friction to the “thought” process. And I have to assume the energy cost would be pretty enormous.

In the end it would be a cool experiment to be part of, but I doubt that version would be worth the investment.

TBH, $10/year is a small price not to have to get my wife to change again after lastpass. She is not equipped to deal with enshittification.

There’s no way Trump is treating the Presidency like a Temu Sham-Wow! I would bet money on this being fake. But I’m not. Because I can’t categorically rule out the possibility.

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No disagreement. I was reinforcing the sentiment rather than disagreeing.