Steve
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- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 4 hours 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"? 12 hours 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"? 16 hours 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 days ago:
Depressingly, that would be a relative improvement.
- Comment on Minimum Wage Needed to Meet Cost of Living in US States (OC) 2 days ago:
Well damn then.
That’s extra depressing. - Comment on Minimum Wage Needed to Meet Cost of Living in US States (OC) 2 days ago:
I’m pretty sure the cost of living numbers are for a household, not an individual.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days 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 days ago:
United Federation of Planets
- Comment on If youre bi do you have to prove it? 3 days 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 5 days 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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.
- Comment on What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world? 1 week ago:
I’m not sure that would be very difficult if we tried. The current issue in picking a human global ruler, is that it would require super human traits. By definition no human could satisfy them. But a sufficiently advanced AI might.
- Comment on What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world? 1 week ago:
It’s certainly reasonable to offer a charitable interpretation of the question. Rather than assume mal-intent.
“What would it take for an AI to be given governance over the world?”
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 week ago:
I had situations like this at least a few times a year in school.
I usually managed to convince the teacher I was right.And yah this kid is almost certainly ND.
Not just the answer, but the handwriting screams dysgraphia. It looks a lot like mine. - Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 1 week ago:
I’ve had success imagining the reaction a bully is looking for, or expecting; Then giving them a reaction that confounds whatever they had in mind. Don’t play their game. Make a new game for you to play. One they won’t understand.
My first thought in this case, is to stop by and give him a list of requests you’d like him to play the next morning. If he immediately refuses, just ignore what he says and thank him, because his sound system is way better than yours. That interaction will confuse the hell out of him. He might just stop. If he does or no, go back the next day and ask why he didn’t play your request list. If he did play your list, go back and thank him, by giving him another list of music from someone else in your family.
That’s just off the top of my head, maybe you can some up with something better. Just remember to make it your game, not his.
- Comment on what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”? 2 weeks ago:
They aren’t direct synonyms. As one refers to an event, while the other refers to a state of being. However the confusion is easy, as either invariably involves the other, they can both safely inferred.
- Comment on Company agrees to 4-day week at full pay—worker reveals dramatic result 2 weeks ago:
That’s a whole different thing.
- Comment on Company agrees to 4-day week at full pay—worker reveals dramatic result 2 weeks ago:
Just wait until you try 3x12s. I could never go back.
- Comment on ‘One-Punch Man’ Season 3 Rights Secured by Viz Media for Multiple Territories 2 weeks ago:
I could just as easily say, watching OPM for the art and fights is like watching American Psycho because Patrick Bateman is a role model. You’re missing the whole point.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Not when you cold and need to start a fire