I genuinely don’t know. I only know what makes me momentarily forget about the lack of happines but I don’t think that’s the same thing.

Risking your life to inconvenience other people is a weird form of fun I must say.

In this particular case I’m okay with it but I don’t see it as stealing. Human artists are influenced by the art of other artists the same way. It’s only stealing if you’re selling copies of the original piece as your own. I wouldn’t have any problem with someone copying my entire photography portfolio to train an AI to generate pictures with my style because it takes nothing away from me. Just sell them as your own then instead of claiming they were taken by me.

I’ve yet to detect even a hint of right-wing / nazi bias on Grok. I get that it’s a popular narrative but it simply just doesn’t hold true according to my experience. It’s not that much different from ChatGPT really - just slightly less restricted.

I hope you didn’t bet much. Just goes to show how one shouldn’t make assumptions based on tiny bits of unrelated information.

Where do you draw the line on what counts as property? Surely people can have some things that are theirs?

I didn’t - I created it.

I’m a self-employed home improvement contractor. I got laid off from my previous job as a plumber and I didn’t want to just find a different company to do the same thing for, so I instead took this decade-long vision of a better alternative and turned it into a business.

In my personal case, especially among the people I hang with here, my positive attitude toward generative AI seems like one of the major ones. Many people really don’t seem to like it when someone mentions enjoying using these tools.

TWD zombies ofcourse.

Two halves of rye bread, toasted, butter on the bottom half. Gouda cheese, cucumber slices with salt, and mettwurst.

I eat 4 of these every single day.

For people confused about the naming of Li-ion batteries: 18650 batteries are have 18mm diameter are 65mm long and cylinder shaped. 21700 have a 21mm diameter are 70mm long and cylinder shaped.

When I learned this they went from confusing to really intuitive.

YSK: Nitecore makes USB-C rechargeable AA batteries that are 1.5 volts like a standard alkanine batteries and not 1.2 volts like your typical rechargeable Ni-Mh batteries.

If we focus on negative emotions, the ones like irritation or anxiety are more sneaky. I don’t tend to notice them the moment they arise, and when I finally do, they’ve already poisoned my mind and it’s much harder to get rid of them. Anger, on the other hand, is such an immediate and strong emotion that there’s nothing sneaky about it. It won’t go undetected but rather acts as this kind of mindfulness alarm. The moment anger arises, my mind shines this spotlight on it and it loses meaning and kind of just vanishes. If I, say, make a big mistake or break something, the anger does arise, but I immediately realize that it already happened and getting angry over it is just additional negativity on top of an already bad situation, and I then just let go of it. It’s not that I repress it but rather I simply just don’t feed it. You can’t really stay angry for much longer than seconds unless you start telling yourself a story to maintain that anger. It’s mostly optional.

It’s probably not that I’m surprised by myself - because being me is my normal - but rather other people acting differently that surprises me, as it highlights the difference between us. The first thing that comes to mind is my seeming incapability to get angry at things or people. I just don’t tend to feel much extreme emotion, and it’s so odd seeing other people lashing out. Online it’s different, as I just assume that those people are kids with undeveloped brains who write those angry comments on political threads especially, but I often see adults acting that way in real life too, and it just boggles my mind how someone can get to that age and still completely lack the ability to control their emotions.

Not really. It’s mostly old age I worry about - not dying.

I’m however slightly optimistic that I might be able to reach so called longevity escape velocity during my lifetime due to advances in medical science and life extension therapies.

My personal philosophy with first aid kits is to start from treating life threatening wounds and then build up from there so the three absolutely most crucial pieces would be:

• Tourniquet
• Pressure dressing (e.g. Israeli bandage or OLAES) - for bleeding that doesn’t require a tourniquet.
• Hemostatic gauze (like QuikClot) - helps stop bleeding, especially for junctional wounds (groin, armpits)

Other than cancer nothing else really. Not even the people who use the word “hate” when they mean “dislike”.

I don’t think that’s the case. Before the karma system there wasn’t really an incentive to dunk on someone. Maybe for someone who just wants to be a jerk, but they didn’t really get any applause for it. Nowadays every piece of content put online is put through the filter of “How will this be received?” It’s performative from the very beginning.

Online discourse stopped being about changing minds and started being about farming clout.

Most replies aren’t written to the person they’re replying to; they’re written to the invisible crowd that hands out upvotes. The goal isn’t persuasion, it’s applause. That’s why nuance is dead: nuance doesn’t get you 500 upvotes and a gold award. A savage one-liner that owns the libs / the chuds / the tankies does.

If you actually believe your view is correct, the morally consistent move when you meet disagreement is to engage and try to convince the other person (ideally while staying open to being convinced yourself). That requires listening, steelmanning, and sometimes admitting “yeah, you’ve got a point there.” None of that is rewarded here. What is rewarded is the quick, brutal dunk that signals “I am safely on the correct side” to the rest of the hive.

So people don’t debate in good faith anymore; they perform righteousness. It’s easier, it feels better, and the points roll in. We went from trying to do good to trying to feel good, and the karma counter is the drug that keeps the whole circus running.

Toupee fallacy