Carnelian @ Carnelian @lemmy.world

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We probably will, eventually

My old boss told me one time (I’m translating from corporate speak) that it’s 100% totally okay to personally inflict any amount of environmental damage that benefits us in the short term, because the solutions to climate change are on the way. Like it’s a totally forgone conclusion that the bright minds working on these problems will solve them. Always have, always will.

You and I and every sane person agrees minimizing the damage is best either way. It just reminded me of that convo lol. Bro was using the “confidence in human ingenuity” as a blank check excuse to actively cause the damage that will need to be undone. Absolutely insufferable. If it were 100% confirmed there were no way for us to survive what’s coming he’d still run the business the same way just with a different convenient excuse

I mean, is it really that easy? Do I need a certain amount of dietary fat each day? Does saturated vs unsaturated fat matter? Avoid sugar, okay, can I eat fruit with breakfast? What about carrots? Oh you mean avoid added sugar. Then can I use honey instead? Fish is good, can I have canned tuna every day?

And so on and so on. You’re not wrong, but pretty much any attempt at a short summary like this runs into issues when it comes time to start planning meals. There’s actually a lot of important things that go into which the general public doesn’t yet have a strong consensus for

We seem to be constantly adding more words that meaningfully help us navigate the current moment, though. Like enshittify, or 67

Greek yogurt with frozen blueberries, and a glass of fruit punch!

Who doesn’t like bloated dependencies, it’s like you get more software per software

Presumably caused by people browsing on their blow-off-some-steam deck

Well now I don’t know who to believe

It’s mad annoying. You’re not even being paranoid, there have been several cases lately where these wannabe celebrities refuse to back off after being politely refused. Problem is they’re the ones filming so they harass you then just start the clip around when you start getting pissed off lol. Then somehow they all have an army of like a thousand angry men who will send you death threats irl over your ‘mistreatment’ of their favorite influencer

I mean honestly the trans communities on reddit felt totally botted to me, even a few years ago. My assumption is it’s just deliberate rage baiting and community disruption.

I’ve been out of there for a long time now, haven’t seen this particular expression. It’s pretty heinous, it seems basically like transvestigating, no? Like how could you interpret that other than an accusation of not really being trans?

But the fucking LLM button.

Little penguin sticker

How would it differentiate between good and bad ideas?

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Thank you for determining if the heart of each piece of content weighs more or less than a feather!

wow thanks for advising me to pick better battles, yes I’ll check my corner upon gender before selecting my next opponent

Make sure to drink some water before you go to bed tonight, okay?

You drunk or something guy? After two days of being online constantly you decide to finally dig this back up to make some “I’m so over it” announcement and insult me for two paragraphs?

What exactly do you want out of this interaction, me to say “wow thanks for not blocking me, yes I totally believe you when you say you are mature and unaffected one”?

And since you asked so politely, no, I’m not a man. Nice guess though, want to try again?

Thank you for creating inter-faith content!

The world is really just a whole bunch of individuals. So whenever one of us has these moments of reflection that lead us away from hatred, that is an example of the world healing :)

We can’t really draw any bigger conclusions based on this information, like if across the world more people are going one way or the other.

But the average global trend doesn’t need to be encouraging for us to be encouraging. On our little level, in our local community, with the people who see us and hear us in our daily lives - we can keep pushing for more positivity and healing right here.

Even just sharing this story of your acquaintance making progress is encouraging, so thank you!

Thank you for keeping things in perspective!

Pulling my hands away really quickly so all the cupped water falls all at once and makes a huge splash 😌😌😌

I’m sorry, you literally openly praised Scam Altman’s product as a massively superior option to web searching yes? Highly nuanced, saves you a ton of time, remember? And your response to the most obvious flaw with this use case is to deny you are affected by the problem in any way and to deflect the topic onto my attitude?

You genuinely remind me of my late uncle who snapped at us every time we told him to quit smoking. He was so convinced it wouldn’t catch up to him, had a hundred justifications. I’ll never forget the way his young daughter cried at the funeral. And before you and your “AI enhanced workflow” get into a whole thing about how cigarettes are different from computer programs, I’m not calling ChatGPT a Marlborough Red, I’m calling you bull headed. I could have just said as much, but as you’ve noticed, I like my fluff.

Anyway, I love how on the one point you addressed, your actual argument shifts from “it’s incredibly beneficial” to “it’s merely an insignificant fraction of my workflow!” Like, notice how your literal first instinct isn’t to defend the usefulness of chatgpt in this instance but to defend the integrity of your French by assuring me you are using legitimate sources as well.

This is the same pattern all AI victims I’ve spoken with have fallen into. It begins with “oh it saves me so much time it’s so useful!” Then as we interrogate how it’s useful to them it turns out all it does is waste their time with a bunch of bullshit they need to verify when they could have just gone directly to the source they use to verify in the first place.

That is if they even bother to verify, btw. But I honestly don’t know which direction is worse. A huge issue is the ones who “verify” are then always completely convinced that they have verified everything correctly. You can imagine the dangers of this mentality