We have so chosen to not be ready for what is to come.

The difference is: the demon wants to be summoned.

Consent should matter, you know!

PieFed, at the discretion of community mods, offers restriction of voting to only subscribed community members. This limits drive-by downvoting from All, where people would not have read the community rules (which in PieFed are repeated in their entirety at the bottom of every post from that community).

It also offers restriction of voting to only “trusted” instances, thereby introducing a third category between the binary federation vs. defederation.

I have also seen communities on PieFed that disable downvoting entirely, even to subscribed members, even on the same instance.

Community mods can enable or disable these settings at will iirc.

“B-b-but my side virtuous (in all ways, and can do no wrong), while their side ignoramus (everything they do is because they are poopy-heads)!”

I wish I could add /s here but a good half the population on earth seems to hold to this as an invariant position, solidarity in the face of all obstacles, i.e. the Nazi bar effect.

Case in point: who doesn’t love it when a religious institution offers food and shelter and medical care to the needy, or counsels people to forgive, laying down their burdens and seek therapy to thereby travel lighter through the world? It is the diddling kids part that for some strange reason (/s on this one) people tend to get upset?

Since we were talking about Zionism here, I will mention that Deuteronomy 13:5 (in the Torah, part of the Old Testament for Christian and Muslim and offshoot religious branches such as Mormonism) provides an EXTREMELY stern warning about those who would misuse their authority to lead people astray.

TLDR: intolerance paradox - if you tolerate the intolerant, it corrupts the entire system, giving it a bad reputation when people see the worst excesses and extrapolate that to infer the properties of the whole. e.g. Reddit is fascist, hence we did not stay and put up with it but rather moved here.

(Alt-)“Left” != Left, and in fact shares far more in common with Right (aka: fascism).

I use Mac btw (more to the point, I use whatever you do not use).

You aren’t wrong - she does look like she is on the toilet! :-P

Pam Bondi became AG citing how she was going to bring pedophiles to justice. Donald Trump himself said he was going to drain the swamp of Washingtonian corruption. People say a lot of things, especially in order to get elected.

One of PieFed’s earliest features was the separate distinction between NSFW and NSFL / gore. Although with Lemmy lacking that, I would guess that any poster would be afraid to rely on it without also toggling the NSFW label as well.

People need to: (1) have capacity, like a single mother with 3 kids and commuting to work 3 jobs isn’t going to switch even if it took less than a day, and (2) they need to see the value of doing so first. Lowering the entry barrier will help IMMENSELY, and then after that people are willing to put up with some slight amounts of effort so long as they know in advance it will be worthwhile.

Unfortunately a non-technical mainstream normie isn’t going to know how to check their hardware first, and barely knows what software they themselves use (including the variety of plug-ins) on a daily basis, or how to know which ones they will have to give up using, and seek alternatives for.

If such alternatives exist. Like, on a mobile device (including laptops, or an Android phone/tablet), nobody has ever managed to tell me an actually usable web browser that doesn’t burn up my battery in the background all day long like Firefox does - Firefox is an absolutely horrid shit app, which just so happens to be better than Chrome… barely.

And what program/app is more crucial in this modern era than a web browser? So when people see the state that the CEO of Firefox has put that FOSS program into, and the lack of anyone else (e.g. LibreWolf) making a better app - which again must be usable by non-technical mainstream normie users - then they nope right out and never bother to reconsider.

Note that the market share of people using desktops vs. a laptop or mobile where battery concerns are absolutely critical is dropping, see e.g. this article.

It might at that. Though there will also be a lag time where even after it comes, people have become so inured by the past lies that they are slow to adapt. And hallucinations still exist, especially in the cheaper models where significantly fewer than 10^8 (or was that 2^8?) compute cycles are expended to answer the equivalent of a random Google search query.

It would also help if humans were precise. General “AI” in the sense of movies (such as the one I showed a picture to, in the first panel) do not exist. But LLMs do.

AI is getting better all the time. Eventually it will surpass human intelligence, but that seems decades away. Some challenges that remain are:

1. Untrustworthy proponents, who even if they were telling the truth NOW, that fact would be inconsistent with their past lies.
2. Energy utilization costs
3. Unethical training practices, note how like each of the above this is independent of its actual capabilities
4. While we are at it, how many “AI” answers in the past have been curated with manual effort, or even are due more (sometimes exclusively?) to human answers placed into the area where the supposedly, and falsely reported, answers from “AI” were supposed to have been. I concede this may be a shrinking pool of answers (yet for all we know it could even be a growing one? as in waves of propagation where answers that were previously impossible via AI, become possible, but then there are even more answers beyond that that remain impossible, until AI again catches up to those, and the wave moves forward).
5. Reliability - as in how many answers are worth paying attention to vs. must be discarded (remember those people who trusted the AI answer and thereby had to be evacuated via boat due to the rising tides making a crossing impossible?), and more importantly there a lack of distinction between which answers are which. Even Sam Altman says this, so you don’t have to take my word for anything here.
6. The culture of constant blaming of people for believing the false narratives spread by AI proponents - like you should have just used a better prompt, bro! This happened with Windows too, for decades, as in “you should have just spent 50 hours turning off this list of 100 things that are super annoying and replaced core components of the OS, and then do a large subset of that again and again after every update process… bro!” At some point though, when can we say that “Windoze sux”? Or Reddit? Yes Reddit has technical superiority to Lemmy in many ways, plus there is tons of content there that while it may be elsewhere too (Facebook, Instagram, X) is not on the Fediverse, and in some cases is nowhere else. Yet… we all are here? (And some of us also there too.)
7. The profit incentive makes people distrust anything coming from the source that you linked to. Facebook, Reddit, X, Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. all enshittified, and just because chatgpt has not enshittified YET, does not mean that it will not in the future. I would not have said this as strongly here if you had linked to an ethically-sourced, non-profit or even FOSS source (something running DeepSeek?).

It is true that “AI is getting better”, and it is also true that “A’I’ sucks”, both. And many of us do not spend 10 hours a week keeping up with which of the large (but shrinking?) variety of things A"I" cannot be trusted with vs. where it might be halfway useful (if it does not lead to your early untimely demise, e.g. in interpreting medical advice). Like I would use it to retrieve a link for me to read (& VERIFY!!!) information, but I would NOT trust it to interpret an image for me. It happened to work successfully here, but this is a mere party trick? Beware, any company that is looking to fire all of its staff and rely instead purely on AI - it is not ready for anything close to what the promises claim that it is ready for.

Good point and agreed! I’m a little new to posting so I thought it was polite to include the source where I found it.

It absolutely is, and welcome! 😁

You are talking theory.

Now, in practice invite the MAGA over to your side, and see what happens.

Good luck!

Translation: consent needs to matter. Tankies do not care about your consent. They want to advance the cycle through the destruction phase to get to the other side that is all magical rainbows and fairy dust - just exactly like Russia, China, and North Korea are so well-known for, obviously.

And they will not let anything get in the way of achieving their goals. Not even facts.

Please do not allow yourself to become used like a tool by the oligarchy. Like both the (leftist) tankies and the (rightist) MAGAs have. They share in common a love for authoritarianism - and guess who gets to be at the top there? Hint: it ain’t us!

Tankies want me and everyone that I have ever known or even met to literally die.

Something something bOtH sIdEs SaMe.

But what they will do is ban you for saying that (if you said it in one of their communities)! 😉

Es ist tatsächlich so.

LW is also European, look it up (despite that, it does attempt to cater towards the desires of former Redditors though, that much is true).

ML users aren’t really communists though - they are leftist MAGAs who believe in alternative facts, only paying lip service to communist principles but not in a genuine manner. i.e. tankies.