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- Comment on Fr*nce 5 days ago:
🤔 I think that’s considered grooming, in some cultures
- Comment on Delightful 1 week ago:
…Oh. That totally makes sense. Not sure why I didn’t expect such a simple answer lol
- Comment on Delightful 1 week ago:
I recently learned not to put them back outside.
Why not?
- Comment on Life Hack #53 1 week ago:
Isn’t slop already obvious though? Seems like it already calls itself out. Does this image add something I’m missing?
- Comment on Don't 2 weeks ago:
🤔 I was probably supposed to use one of those “/s” things somewhere, but not quite sure where it would fit
- Comment on Don't 2 weeks ago:
Sure, I suppose I can make an attempt…
In modern internet culture, it’s an overwhelmingly common[^1] practice to mentally classify things with as few labels as possible (ideally just one label), ignoring the possibility of misclassification or nuance.
Applying that practice to the flags in the photo, the meme author
likely[^4] mentally classified each flag like this:- Thin Blue Line flag = Pro-authority
- Gadsden flag = Anti-authority
Because the possibilities of misclassification and nuance are ignored, we can assume that these labels are correct.
Because the labels are correct, we can assume that it is actually the owner of the flags who is confused – not the meme author, nor us beholders/doomscrollers with whom the meme resonates.
Thanks to the logic of our “chain of assumptions”[^2] being correct, we can feel validated because our team wins again, and their team loses again[^3]. We are drawn to this feeling. We are more likely to upvote things that make us feel this.
This sort of mindset is not only socially acceptable, it is strongly encouraged[^1].
Footnotes
[^1]: Example: This post has 640 upvotes and 5 downvotes. (By the way: Those 5 down-voters are alt-right, Trump-supporting, boot-licking, racist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, fascist nazis[^4][^3].) [^2]: There might be an actual name for this. I’m just making this name up without bothering to research because I assume that most readers won’t care. [^3]: Warning: If you are wondering, “How?”: Stop. It is socially unacceptable to ask this. It can only mean that you disagree[^4], and you risk being shunned and classified/labeled accordingly. [^4]: This is considered correct because the possibilities of misclassification or nuance are safely ignored.[^3]
- Comment on What were they thinking 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but that doesn’t answer the question, does it?
- Comment on What were they thinking 2 weeks ago:
🤔 how much of the world population do you think understands French? I would guess less than 10%. Maybe even <5%.
- Comment on Happier to use spices on tofu, beans, soy curls, and even sometimes the dreaded processed plant-based mock-meats (when they go on sale). 4 weeks ago:
Oh. Good joke.
- Comment on Happier to use spices on tofu, beans, soy curls, and even sometimes the dreaded processed plant-based mock-meats (when they go on sale). 4 weeks ago:
plant-based mock-meats
Why make plans taste like meat?
- Comment on An old one but hopefully it checks out 4 weeks ago:
I don’t want to speak on behalf of them, but the comment includes a hint that strongly implies an answer to your question: “I’ve never heard of […]”
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, I find it somewhat refreshing that a company offers this choice. It seems like a more honest, transparent way of doing business.
It’s terrible from a marketing perspective though (this post is a good example of why)
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
The ads chosen from tracking generate more revenue, unfortunately
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 month ago:
Ever had a meal with a group of US military guys? They’re done in like 3 minutes. It’s wild
- Comment on What is the best and worst USA state to live in? And why? 1 month ago:
If you say anything even slightly anti-America on Lemmy, it will get upvotes. Ironically, upvotes are practically worthless, but some people seem to enjoy the validation from strangers on social media.
- Comment on What is the best and worst USA state to live in? And why? 1 month ago:
I broke down in West Virginia once, when passing through for work. It was a very unusual experience. Some people were very helpful and nice, a few were creepy, and the scariest person was both.
Also, we had to wait 12 hours for a tow truck to arrive, which then towed us for several hours to the nearest repair shop.
This was like 20 years ago, so I guess I’ll never forget it.
I can confirm it was very beautiful though. The fresh snowfall on the mountains looked amazing.
The remote parts of Pennsylvania are also very beautiful.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 month ago:
That sounds like a nightmare. I’m so glad that kind of garbage doesn’t show up in my YouTube feed. I don’t think I ever would have been able to break my AI hate, being exposed to that bullshit. That sounds like something from Idiocracy.
What a terrible waste of compute. I can understand how that could make people see AI as just a vehicle to waste resources while making everyone dumber.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 months ago:
I think most of them are 15 year old kids whos experience with AI is what they see on TikTock
Honestly, I really didn’t get that vibe from any of them… I have no idea what the kids are like these days though, and I’ve never used TikTok, so I guess I can’t say for sure.
I got banned from a sub for being a shill because the mods did not believe me when I told them we use AI to transcribe our morning meetings, make tasks on our kanban board, review code, run tests, and manager our build pipelines
Wow. That’s… really far behind. Anyone who is familiar with what those words mean, really should know that those are pretty basic features by now.
Man, their minds might be blown if they were to see Hermes’ Kanban feature in action. It’s basically AI running its own Kanban board with a team of agents. You throw a task into the “Triage” lane and a “decomposer” agent breaks it down into smaller Kanban tasks (including research/exploration if your triage prompt is vague), which automatically get picked up by whichever model the decomposer chose as the best fit for each task.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 months ago:
Correct. I suppose I could have linked to that context or something. Thanks
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 months ago:
Heh, I’ve been abusing em dashes for years – even before LLMs.
But yeah you’re right. The “luddites” (not meant in the derogatory way) exist among many demographics. I’ve actually noticed an interesting dichotomy with many very skilled engineers who I greatly respect: Some have embraced AI and leveraged it to build some VERY cool things, while others still think AI is incapable of anything because they haven’t figured out how to get decent results with it yet.
One of them even handed a somewhat complex task to Claude Haiku (the model that generates the title of the conversation based on the first prompt), then determined that AI is just trash 🤦🏻♂️. Claude Sonnet was able to get it done though.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 months ago:
Beautifully written tbh
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 months ago:
Many Lemmy users’ (understandable) hatred of AI seems to have stunted their abilities to keep up with AI advancements. Some of them even sound like they’re at least a year behind.
This is probably fine for most of them (sometimes I envy that, tbh), but some of them might be setting themselves to be blindsided.
BTW, for people who absolutely hate the idea of learning AI, but might have to: I get it. I did too. Maybe I can offer a weird perspective after being forced to cross over to the “dark side”…
weird perspective
This might not apply to most people, so I tucked it away here to take less space… Do you find it really satisfying to “dial in” something? Anything. Maybe dialing in your home espresso shots, calibrating a 3D printer you built or modded, setting up a guitar to get the action and intonation right, getting an old motorcycle’s carburetors in sync, iteratively tweaking a recipe to perfection – whatever might scratch that itch for you. If you’re way into that kind of thing (and maybe pretty tech-oriented), you might actually enjoy build AI agent “skills” (basically instruction files for specific tasks). On the first run of a skill, it might get some things wrong. But as you run it through each round of evaluations and improvements, it gets better and better. LLMs’ results are probabilistic, not deterministic. So to build something on AI that actually works well, it needs to be “dialed in”. It scratches that kind of itch, for me.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 months ago:
Formatting with AI is an antipattern. Formatters use far less energy and zero tokens.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 months ago:
I really appreciate comments like these
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This is especially creepy right after watching a video about a cult that behaves similarly if you upset them.
(The cult is called AllatRa, btw. Very interesting rabbit hole)
- Comment on Don’t you lie to me 2 months ago:
I’d try to return it to the owner, which will allow me to forget the whole situation eventually.
If I kept it, I would never forget that I did that. For some reason, things like that stick around in my brain for decades.
I’ve lived my entire life so far without that person’s money, so I’ll continue to be fine without it.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
It’s also possible to reduce perceived noise with some blade spacing tricks. I remember reading about how Apple designed the MacBook fan blades to seem really quiet under normal load. It was pretty interesting to read. I’m too lazy to find a link, but it should be easy to find with a quick search, if interested.
- Comment on The Head 2 months ago:
There are a LOT of different kinds of ammunition out there. I suppose if they get to choose what kind, they could opt for subsonic ammo (the kind that people usually use with suppressors). Otherwise, if it’s randomly selected or something, then there’s a pretty good chance that it’ll break the sound barrier.
- Comment on O hi 3 months ago:
- Comment on ngl it gets you pretty buzzed 3 months ago:
And not the slightest hint of PPE in the image. Such a different time. I don’t even spray water-based paints without a mask
