Perspectivist
@Perspectivist@feddit.uk
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- George Orwell
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 2 days ago:
Billionaires don’t have billions in their bank accounts. That’s not how wealth works. It’s not like they’re sitting on a pile of cash and just want more. The vast majority of it is tied to property and businesses. Thinking that just because one could comfortably retire that they should is kind of like telling a runner to stop running after having completed their first marathon. They’re a runner - runners run. A person who became a billionaire views making money the same way. It’s what they do. It’s what they’re good at and derive meaning from.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 1 week ago:
Nolla-yks in my language
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s a false assumption that AI bubble popping means we suddenly stop using AI and all these data centres will be running idle.
We didn’t stop using the internet when the dotcom bubble burst either.
AI bubble is about companies being overvalued. Not about the underlaying technology being worthless. The bubble popping means these values get adjustest to more reasonable levels. Some companies will go under but not all of them and almost definitely not the big ones.
- Comment on If you had too, how would go about running a Instagram account? 1 week ago:
You wont reach anyone on Instagram with pictures alone - you need to post videos.
I have a carefully curated landscape photography feed on Instagram for which I’m quite proud of. I’ve been managing that page for closer to 15 years. I get more likes on my posts on my few year old Pixelfed profile.
I still have Instagram as it’s a place I can point most people to but nobody is going to independently find me there.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 1 week ago:
I’ve been doing that since -01
- Comment on Recommendation for Android File Manager 1 week ago:
I’ve always used Solid Explorer.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 1 week ago:
Trump is an individual. My criticism is about the blanket judgement of everyone rich and powerful.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 1 week ago:
Sure, but that’s a bit of a motte-and-bailey. It’s like saying that one wishes death for all black people and when challenged they then retreat back to claiming that they were talking about just the ones who rape and murder.
My point is that wishing death for someone simply for being rich and in an executive position is barely different from wishing that to someone because they’re black. It’s unreasonable to be categorically against something purely based on superficial features. It’s a thought-terminating cliché that ignores all nuance and reduces a diverse group of people into a stereotype.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 1 week ago:
Wishing death to someone for any reason is quite an extreme position to take outside of these niche internet bubbles that influenced you to think this way in the first place. I honestly struggle a bit when I try to imagine how you deal with the cognitive dissonance of trying to distinguish yourself from the worst people in history. You might not have the power to do the atrocities that they did, but your aspirations aren’t that different in practice. You just have a different justification for why you think what you wish to happen is actually a good thing - just like these people did as well. You even admit that you don’t really care whether they’re actually bad people or not. Your criteria is “rich and executive position,” which is quite indiscriminate.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 2 weeks ago:
Artificial Intelligence is the broad field of creating machines that can perform tasks requiring human-like intelligence, such as reasoning, learning, or perception. Machine Learning is a subset of AI where systems learn from data without explicit programming. Large Language Models are a specific type of ML model trained on vast text data to generate or understand language. LLMs are very much AI, and while they’ve popularized the term “AI” recently, the hierarchy stands: LLMs are ML, and ML is AI.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s not predefined - chess has about 10^120 possible games. That’s astronomically large number which is way too vast to pre-store or hardcode. It’s intelligence through computation, not a script.
Believe what you like though.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 2 weeks ago:
Entertainment value - not monetary. I don’t pay for an AI because it makes me money. I do it because I enjoy using it.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not predefined though. The rules of the game are but not its actions. It observes the environment and changes its behavior based on that. That’s narrow intelligence and thus meeting the criteria of AI.
A chess player isn’t not-intelligent either just because it’s bound by the rules of the game.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 2 weeks ago:
AI has existed for decades. The chessbot on Atari is an AI.
What doesn’t exist is AGI but that’s not synonymous with AI. Most people just don’t know the right terms here and bunch it all together as if it was all one thing.
If one is expecting a large language model designed to generate natural sounding language to be generally intelligent like an sci-fi AI assistant then no wonder they find it lacking. They’re expecting autonomous driving from a cruise control.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 2 weeks ago:
If I didn’t come to Lemmy I probably wouldn’t even know about the loud minority hating it. All the real people in my life either like it or don’t have much of an opinion to begin with.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 2 weeks ago:
It’s more like the opposite. There’s not much evidence if it saving money or increasing productivity for companies to the extent that it covers the cost of running it where as for the general population it can be helpful with stuff like writing assistance but I bet most people use it like I do which is entertainment. ChatGPT has 800 million weekly users - people clearly are getting some value from it.
- Comment on Are you a market or supermarket enthusiast? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not particularly enthusiastic about grocery shopping. I go to LIDL because it’s the cheapest.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 4 weeks ago:
I wonder the same about people with hundreds of unread emails. Almost as if they don’t know that you can unsubscribe from newsletters.
- Comment on Is there an optimal home/apartment size that most people would be happy with? 4 weeks ago:
My house is 90m², though the upstairs has a low ceiling and mostly just functions as a bedroom, so it’s more like 60m² in practice. While I wouldn’t want to raise a family here, I still find it perfectly sufficient for two people. It also comes with the additional benefits of having fewer rooms to heat, clean, and renovate. I also like that my yard feels a lot bigger due to the smaller footprint of the house itself.
That being said, I would prefer it to be slightly bigger. Maybe one extra room and a bigger-than-1.5m x 1.5m bathroom.
- Comment on Can we have a healthy life only with fruits or fruits and plants combined alone, and if not why? 5 weeks ago:
Going entirely vegan isn’t the easiest thing to pull off for everyone, but you absolutely could cut out the vast majority of animal products that we consume. I think there’s an argument to be made for a certain level of consumption of animal products - perhaps not from a moral standpoint but arguably from a health point of view.
- Comment on Why is ethanol so tasty? 5 weeks ago:
Because you’re wired that way. It’s not universally tasty, but it is to some individuals. I personally don’t like the taste at all - I only want the effect.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 5 weeks ago:
Probably trying to say that just because incels (allegedly) use the term “female,” it doesn’t mean that a person using that word must then be an incel.
- Comment on People who think an attack on another user is approproate for this sub, and the mods that enable them 1 month ago:
Yeah, not only is the way that user is writing actually infuriating, but they’re also doing it because of the attention it gets - this is just more of that.
- Comment on Do you have a flagship phone or a car that's 2021/newer but are struggling financially? 1 month ago:
I consider a 10 year old car to be practically new. Older models are much nicer design-wise anyway than these new computers on wheels.
- Comment on Do you have a flagship phone or a car that's 2021/newer but are struggling financially? 1 month ago:
Total expenses for my almost 20 year old truck are around 300€/month. While not cheap, it’s not that expensive either. Housing and food are by far the biggest expense categories for me.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 1 month ago:
otherwise I just end up endlessly distracted and completely away from the world.
Can you dig more into what you mean by that? I assume you mean distracted by your thoughts, rather than the world itself.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 1 month ago:
This reads like satire but I assume you’re being serious.
I’m not really doing anything instead. I’m listening in both cases - only the what I’m listening to changes. Listening to music - or podcasts in my case - is a bit of an distraction. I don’t want to be distracted all the time. I’m more present when I’m listening to the world instead, and it gives more space for my thoughts. I never even have the radio on in my car because to me, driving is almost a meditative experience and I like to just sit there in relative silence and focus on the driving itself. I’m stimulated one way or another for the vast majority of the day anyway. I think it’s good to have these intentional moments built into your daily routine where you let yourself be bored. It’s good for you.
- Comment on How hard would it be to trap gated communities by crashing dozens of cars into the front of their gates blocking them from leaving ? 1 month ago:
Probably not much harder than to trap them inside a gay bar yet we feel differently about these two cases and that should make one pause and think for a moment about the quality of their thoughts.
- Comment on Are platforms like reddit just "internet noise" and bots or just genuinely the darkest parts of humanity? 1 month ago:
The bigger the group of people, the more bad apples there are among them. It’s just statistics - plain and simple. Reddit is a huge platform, so there’s naturally going to be a great number of bad people there. Something to also keep in mind is the gap between how bad someone truly is and how bad you imagine them to be. We’re pretty quick to judge and label people, especially online, based on just a few lines of text. It’s highly unlikely that one’s assessment of someone’s personality as a whole, based on a handful of social media comments, is anywhere near an accurate representation of their actual views.
Also, these same extremists are just as present here on Lemmy - they just mostly fly under the radar because it’s a rather homogenous group of people from a political standpoint, and those extremist views therefore tend to align with your own.
- Comment on why is radical acceptance not being a spineless conformist? 1 month ago:
What’s spineless about not trying to change things you truly can’t change? Wouldn’t it be delusional to keep trying despite knowing it’ll make no difference? I think the important thing here is to distinguish between things you truly have no power over and things you can’t fix yourself but can still play a role in alleviating - or at the very least, behaving in a way that you’re not contributing to making them worse.
I think my personal worldview has some similarities to what you’re describing as radical acceptance. I don’t believe in free will, so no matter how much of a prick someone is being, I don’t blame them personally for it. I don’t act as if they’re choosing to be that way and could just as well choose to act differently. In my view, they can’t help themselves. They couldn’t have done otherwise. Of course, they’re not immune to outside influences, and I’m not saying they lack the capability to act differently in the future - it’s never people’s future behavior we get frustrated about, it’s their current and past behavior.
That, I simply accept as them being the malfunctioning biological robots that they are, and if anything, I’m deeply interested in how they behave. Like a car running without engine oil, I want to see how far it’ll get and what eventually happens. I do, however, move out of its path. While I might not blame someone for being insufferable, I also, for no free will of my own, don’t want to be anywhere near such a person.