JonEFive

@JonEFive@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re already there, it just looks different than what you describe. Food, shelter, and healthcare all require money in the US. Sure you have some free will, but does it ultimately matter? Are you really gonna go be a homesteader and live off the grid?

  You have to work- sell your time, rent your brain and body out to whoever you can find to pay for it. You are unlikely to ever truly own the place you live. Either rent or long term mortgage, someone can come kick you out of your home if you don’t constantly prove your worth. You must pay for your food, even the basics. Without selling a part of your life, you don’t eat. In that case, how much of your life do you really own?

  Beyond that, nobody chooses to get sick. Especially not so sick that they can no longer work. But of course, it happens. Are you valuable enough for medical care? Have you sold enough of your life to earn healthcare, even when you can’t work?

  Do you, as a human resource, generate enough value that you will continue to be fueled, stored, and maintained?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the gripe against AI the same as CGI when first being used?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In terms of developing visual works, the difference is that AI is generally trained on images and videos that the companies have no license to. With CGI, it wasn’t like they were just taking a bunch of other people’s art, someone still had to do creative work.

  It isn’t so much that they’re putting creatives out of work, but how they’re doing it. These AI models wouldn’t exist without art developed by humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨devinetly organic...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No that’s an orange. It’s what we call the things inside our body.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨devinetly organic...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, that’s original. It’s just another way of saying “living thing”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we are not the same⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, someone finally found the liminal bathroom. How unsettling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The theory that we live in a simulation involves simulants running their own simulations; wouldn't that require impossibly more resources for the main sim?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You are in a coma. We’re trying a new technique to communicate with you. We aren’t sure where or when this message will appear to you. You’ve been in a coma for 20 years. Please wake up. We miss you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The theory that we live in a simulation involves simulants running their own simulations; wouldn't that require impossibly more resources for the main sim?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The fun thing about this is that we have evidence that this is how our reality works. The double slit experiment showed that particles change their behavior when observed. (Gross oversimplification and only under very specific circumstances but still extremely fascinating.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The theory that we live in a simulation involves simulants running their own simulations; wouldn't that require impossibly more resources for the main sim?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but not even close to as much as the alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never had to differentiate before like I have in this conversation. I think I would say “US Americans” since it seems to adopt other languages calling us something like United Statesans without creating an odd word like Statesans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Puedo harcerte una pregunta? si eres de mexico, te llamarias americano? Querrias hacerlo? Soy de los Estados Unidos y no me importa si te llamas americano, pero no se por que querrias. Yo diria que “soy norteamericano” o “soy latinoamericano”.

  (Lo siento si mi espanol es malo, estoy aprendiendo).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you just summoned a demon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, fun - I just used Brazilians as an example in another comment. Would you ever say “I’m American” when you’re talking about your continent?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  While technically correct, I’ve never heard a Brazilian refer to themselves as “American” when they intended to mean South American. Linguistically, when you say “American” you’re talking about a citizen of the United States, not just any person from the western hemisphere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you exit a dream?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  It didn’t say anything because your brain didn’t know what to put in that text, it just knew there should be text there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you exit a dream?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re reading this, we want you to know that you are stuck in a dream. We’ve been trying to wake you. Please wake up. We miss you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  This was going to be my guess too. I’ve heard the “soy contains estrogen and can screw up your body if you eat too much.” nonsense.

  I hate when people say stuff like that as they drink their 4th can of Coca-Cola of the day.