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Internet is information. Information can easily be sent long distances through wires, so we use wires to cross the ocean, but information can still be sent shorter distances wirelessly through electromagnetic waves, so on land we build a bunch of towers and install routers in our homes to let us access that information wirelessly wherever we are.
You’re right, but why would that matter to the police? Just because someone says they care about something doesn’t mean they do. When a person or group shows you what they truly stand for, you should ignore their words that say otherwise.
I agree that you don’t have to be actively aware of all aspects of reality at all times, but my point was that we do live in reality. That’s inescapable - even when we’re asleep reality continues on around us and including us. We’re inseparable from it.
You can’t not take reality. You either take reality as it is, or take it with a blindfold on, pretending it makes you safer. One gives you the opportunity to change reality as much as you can, which granted isn’t much for one person on their own, but the other only lets you stumble around in the dark, so I know which one I’ll take.
I generally approach the concept of free will like this: think back to a decision you mulled over for a while before finally making a choice. If you went back in time to that exact scenario again, being in the same state of mind, thinking the same thoughts, feeling the same feelings, experiencing the same experiences… if every single atom in the entire universe were in the exact same state as it was in that moment, would you ever really make a different choice?
Something made you choose one thing over another the first time around, and I believe that whatever factor that was would have always been there, causing you to make that decision again even if the scenario played out over and over on repeat. If that’s true, then free will, the concept that humans have the ability to make a decision completely freely from any physical factors, would be false.
For free will to be true, such a scenario played out multiple times in exactly the same way, down to the exact placement of the atoms in the entire universe, would be able to have different conclusions due to the decisions of creatures with free will. You would have the ability to make a different choice even when literally everything else is exactly the same as when you made the initial choice.
Essentially, I believe that if someone knew the exact state of every single atom in the universe at a given moment, they could figure out the next moment, and the next, and so on, thus predicting the entirety of existence throughout all of time. That’s obviously impossible due to the immense complexity of the task, but it would still mean that whatever happens was always going to happen, and thus free will doesn’t exist. Even the atoms in your brain would be predicted, including the decisions that arise from them.
Lack of free will shouldn’t be confused with the inability for your decisions to be swayed by various factors, it just means that those factors were always going to be there at that moment to sway you. That’s just my understanding of things, and I could obviously be wrong, but it makes sense to me.
All I see is the thin facade being ripped away from a world where we thought we were making progress that clearly hadn’t actually happened. We thought things were on the up and up because our overlords allowed us to have some positive change for a while, as a treat.
Maybe now that we know it was all a joke at our expense we can fight to make some real progress for ourselves, instead of claiming that we already succeeded in winning safety for the marginalized because some companies changed their logos for 30 days every year.
More like there are a few lucky people who think it’s their right to fuck around, and that it’s the duty of everyone else to find out.
We as a society just accept everything. It’s what we were trained to do. We get mad and make posts like this one, then go back to our daily lives, having changed little to nothing about our behavior or the behavior of others. It’s not necessarily our fault - it’s difficult for one person to make a real change, but that’s just the reality of our society.
I learned my lesson, and from day 1 at my current job I held myself back. If I could do something in an hour, I took 3, and if I found a new way of doing things that speeds things up, I kept it to myself. For the first time in my life, I’ve managed to keep a normal workload and not get burned out with an ever-moving goalpost every time I exceed my manager’s expectations. I thought it might put a target on my back when it came to layoffs, but at least for now it seems that my manager appreciates that he knows exactly how much work I can do in a week, and I get good yearly reviews and fair raises.
Remember during the French Revolution where, when told that her people were starving because they didn’t have any bread, Marie Antoinette wondered why they don’t just eat cake? Rich people have always been idiots who believe they’re smart. They live simple lives due to the luxury they enjoy, and wonder why poor people without such luxuries think life is so complicated.
Yeah, I generally assume all wealthy are as corrupt as this, slipping the right people the right amount of money so that they never have to actually pay for their crimes. Trump just does it out in the open because he’s not just your normal corrupt politician, he’s a showboating corrupt politician.
This was objectively a bad decision, but regardless, none of us would be here talking about this streamer if it hadn’t happened. Most won’t donate, but the more people that see it, the more likely it is that someone will donate.
Pretty hilarious that in pursuing AI we made it so that we can’t even build the computers to use it anymore.
We’d still need librarians to do the work at the physical libraries, and they’re always going to be the better people to ask. They’re not just people who like books; there is a lot of studying and training to be a librarian - I know 2, and they’re both among the smartest people I know, and definitely the most well-read. I’d go to them for a book-related question before I do anything else.
It’s not as convenient as just typing something up online, but that’s kinda the point. Unchecked pursual of convenience is what got us here - do the tried and true thing that takes a bit more effort, and you’ll be surprised at how much better it works than the convenient option.
Regardless, if someone’s trying to get to the moon so they can enslave us all and rule over us from their moon fortress, I don’t care if all they’ve got is a really long ladder, I’m breaking the ladder.
I’m sure that applies to a lot of people, but even when I have, like, 1 day of stress and a month of chill time, I still spend the whole month laying around doing nothing if I don’t force myself to do something productive.
Decompression time is definitely important, but it’s also important to know yourself enough to identify when you’re fully decompressed and ready to do something healthy for your body and mind, even if you just wanna watch another youtube video.
In America, if we only replaced the fields growing corn for Ethanol production to add to gasoline, leaving every other field alone, we’d have enough energy to power the whole country with a huge surplus to spare. We’re already using the fields for energy production, we’re just being inefficient about it.
People spread things that they agree with, yes. Spreading ideas we believe in is why we evolved to communicate in the first place. Ironically, talking about it as if it’s some novel take is very similar to how Pizzacake made a comic about AI being bad. It’s like, yeah, we know. At least with the comic it’s humorously exaggerated so we can get some amusement out of it. Make a humorously exaggerated comic about a pandering cartoonist and I’ll enjoy that, too.
I’m glad I learned that excessive convenience is a bad thing before this became the norm.
Yeah, the wide open world with free flying and fireball breath has me concerned. Spyro is more of a puzzle game, where you have to figure out how best to use your limited abilities as a young dragon to navigate a level designed with that gameplay in mind. This looks more like an open-ended adventure game. Hopefully they were just showing off a particularly large level at a time when he happened to have some temporary powerups enabled.