Steve
@Steve@communick.news
- Comment on Any Engrish-like community in here? 5 days ago:
Or would it be a community of first generation immigrants venting their frustrations with English itself?
- Comment on The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun 1 week ago:
But you are if the personal incentives in your situation are bad enough.
For an extreme example. You might not want to support the black market for human organs. You know how terrible it is as a system. But you’ll die if you don’t buy a black market organ. Is it reasonable to expect everyone to give their life for that ideal? No.
- Comment on The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun 1 week ago:
It is possible (common really) for individuals to make completely rational, sensible, even correct decisions, which ultimately contribute to a larger systemically catastrophic problem. It comes from improperly aligned incentives within the system. For examples, you can reference the prisoners dilemma.
- Comment on Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology" 1 week ago:
That’s my kind of humor
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 1 week ago:
Is everyone democrats in this observation?
I’m neither, for the recordAnd I neither said, nor acted like, she was telling the truth. Mearly pointing out that Rump is ignoring his own “intelligence”.
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 1 week ago:
Trumps own head of intelligence says they’re years away.
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 1 week ago:
Newer devices have been designed and made in the decades since.
Are cars more sophisticated today then they were in the 1940s? - Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 1 week ago:
After world war two, Europe was busy putting itself back together. It left an opening that the US stepped into. And who wouldn’t like to be the big dog in the yard.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 1 week ago:
Ask them questions. Have them explain how, why. When you find contradictions or confusion, ask how they resolve them.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 2 weeks ago:
The it sounds like you should be arguing for different semantics, that match the experience of living breathing human beings.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 2 weeks ago:
If they don’t, they’re still transitioning their gender. Exactly how much they decide to change themselves doesn’t matter. That’s the point of the term.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 2 weeks ago:
Gender isn’t biological. You’re conflating with sex
- Comment on If we ask 100 random ppl to describe their ideal society, which real/fictional countries would the answers resemble the most? 2 weeks ago:
Depressingly, that would be a relative improvement.
- Comment on Minimum Wage Needed to Meet Cost of Living in US States (OC) 2 weeks ago:
Well damn then.
That’s extra depressing. - Comment on Minimum Wage Needed to Meet Cost of Living in US States (OC) 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure the cost of living numbers are for a household, not an individual.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Unless you’re actively being targeted for some specific reason (NSA kind of reason) in practical terms it’s unheard of.
- Comment on If we ask 100 random ppl to describe their ideal society, which real/fictional countries would the answers resemble the most? 2 weeks ago:
United Federation of Planets
- Comment on If youre bi do you have to prove it? 2 weeks ago:
How would you?
Date men and women? Anyone can do that.
Go further? You could be still be pretending.You can’t really externally “prove” an internal subjective feeling.
- Comment on Anxiety is the most common mental health problem – here’s how tech could help manage it 3 weeks ago:
This kind of sounds like it should be a !nottheonion@lemmy.world headline.
- Comment on Google’s nightmare: How a search spinoff could remake the web 3 weeks ago:
Google CEO Sundar Pichai seemed genuinely alarmed at the prospect of being forced to license Google’s search index and algorithm
This is almost exactly what Kagi suggested.
The hardest part of internet search is building the search Index. It’s massive. Practically a whole copy of the internet. Selling other provider access to Google’s search index means new businesses and new business models can be created. My only concern is the “and algorithm” part. That almost sounds like the current state of things. Where companies can run queries to google and receive standard results filtered by Google’s algorithm. Direct access to the index is needed without Google’s algorithm, so others can use their own algorithm. But maybe they meant and/or, so companies can choose to be a real “Google white label” or something more. - Comment on What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world? 3 weeks ago:
I’m still not sure I understand exactly. Are you asking about individual autonomy, or the collective autonomy of humanity?
I would say there’s no real difference on an individual level. I guess conceptually, humanity as a collective entity, might loose autonomy. But I’m not sure that matters.
- Comment on What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world? 3 weeks ago:
Answer to what? The question I asked you? I don’t have answer. Safety without giving up liberty just seems fine to me.
- Comment on What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world? 3 weeks ago:
And if you don’t have to give up liberty?
- Comment on What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world? 3 weeks ago:
The Empire was peaceful for thousands of years.
You’d rather have constant war and chaos? - Comment on Why is DOGE still around if Donny and Elon aren't getting along? 3 weeks ago:
Which is why the news needs to ignore his shit talking rather than broadcasting it
- Comment on Why is DOGE still around if Donny and Elon aren't getting along? 3 weeks ago:
You’re forgetting how often Rump says all sorts of things he never follows up on. This is why I keep saying we need a better news media. One that can recognize when something is genuinely news worthy. None of the details of this feud matter. Only maybe a single story about them having a feud would be needed. And if it were TV news it would be the last story. A funny fluff piece that doesn’t actually matter.
- Comment on What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world? 3 weeks ago:
You’re still thinking in very small human scales. Culture isn’t fixed. All cultures are dynamic. They are being created, changing, and disappearing, throughout the ages. 500 years ago all the various Christian and Muslim cultures were vastly different than they are now. An immortal Artificial Super Intelligence could spend centuries, 100 generations or more, subtly tweaking all various cultures toward a more harmonious coexistence.
- Comment on What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world? 3 weeks ago:
It’s really only certain aspects of a few cultures which drive them to be intolerant of other cultures, that would need to be changed.
Those certain aspects which cause intolerance, would need to be changed. Nothing more.
- Comment on What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world? 3 weeks ago:
My statement you quoted says nothing remotely like “unify the world into a single culture.” Read it again. “a more globally compatible culture.”
There are many different yet compatible cultures, that are able to exist together in the world. It’s really only certain aspects of a few cultures which drive them to be intolerant of other cultures, that would need to be changed.
- Comment on What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world? 3 weeks ago:
Conflicting things could be true at the same time in different places. Having one ruler doesn’t require one set of rules. There could be, and would need to be different rules for different communities.
One person who understands and is willing to accommodate that, is an example of the kind of super human trait I was referring to.