So they're trying to crash the oil stock?
We're just trying to sell art here. Save the philosophy.
Me too. There are some amazing knitting machines now.
3d printed? Knit? Handmade plushy?
This is a definite application for those new AIs.
But how to train it?
Get a credit card
Use card to pay for getting your teeth done
Burn the card
Wait 7 years
Repeat till dead
The sales numbers are a pretty objective measure, actually.
You're the second person to note the 40. I intentionally said "about". That means anywhere from 0 to 100
Totally blank page by default?
A reaction to the creator's poetry. Like contriving words for a tune. Except instead of words it's sights, sounds, money, gravity, thoughts, people, etc.
I figured that, in addition to no feeling of suffocation, nitrous oxide would also provide a righteous high.
Meh. He shoulda quit while he was ahead.
Speaking as a person who's skin is as thin as rice paper, we ragequit daily.
They like it or hate it. There is flocking behavior too. Simple. Pretty easy to model, no doubt.
The membership of Lemmy is overly-emotional, flibbertigibbety infants, as a rule. It's disheartening. It's the mainstream. Bobbleheads as far as the eye can see.
Since I try to align my beliefs with reality, and I don't tend to follow news sources that don't accurately portray reality, ideally I wouldn't follow any news source that I regularly disagree with.
Said every dogmatic, orthodox zealot since the beginning of time.
Consider the words on the screen. There are two sources of information.
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The words, how they're arranged and such.
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The meaning that you assign to the words. Meaning drawn from a lifetime of memories.
99% of the information comes from the assigned meaning. So 99% of what's going on here is you talking to yourself.
"How impressed everybody is" is the basis of money, law, self-worth and our models of reality. But that's a pretty shabby basis if you ask me.
The subjects that you can't even bring up without getting downvoted, banned, fired, expelled, cancelled etc.
Data. Lor.
Lore.
Data and Lore are 2 different kinds of information.
That just occurred to me.
I mean, we could speculate and explore the strange future and stuff. Just without that tired trope of "well, science and technology progressed a bunch and then we got this really great machine".
I mean there's gotta be another way. Examples?