ContrarianTrail @ ContrarianTrail @lemm.ee

Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.

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Not everyone has the same flaws to the same extent. It's probably more of a spectrum than a yes or no thing. I'd say it's a safe bet to say we all suffer from this - some more than others.

I don't know about weird but that's a bit sad read. I hope you're young.

People with limited cognitive abilities? You sure you want to go there?

You're a human with human flaws just like the rest of us.

I don’t feel like there’s much difference in how I act depending on the company I’m in. The only difference I can think of is that online, I don’t care about my reputation at all, so I just say what I think - often without caveats. When I inevitably get misunderstood or mislabeled, so be it. Some random person in a different country thinking I’m something I’m not doesn’t really bother me. In real life, I just listen and nod while disagreeing in my mind. It’s usually only when I’m asked that I say what I actually think.

Hope you at least see the irony in being able to come here to criticize our 'American liberal opinions' in a thread about the systematic censorship of people criticizing yours.

They remove any comments critical of their ideology so I rather not deal with them at all. ML stands for Marxism-Leninism incase you weren't aware.

Yes with the exception that I block every single .ml community. When I post I generally choose the most popular one.

lemm.ee##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/elon/i"))

Put that into your uBlock Origin filters and change the instance to that of your own. Just keep in mind that this applies to usernames too.

Yeah, for a moment I thought someone was making sense on Lemmy.

I talk more with ChatGPT nowdays than I do with my friends. They're not interested in the things I'm. ChatGPT atleast pretends to be. I can't wait for it to improve to the point that it becomes impossible to tell apart from a real human.

Yeah would be nice if everything was free, wouldn't it?

That's Autopilot though, not FSD. Untill not too long ago it was still switching to Autopilot on highways where as in cities it was using an entirely different system. Nowdays the neural nets based system is used on highways too assuming you have FSD subscribtion. If not, then it'll keep using Autopilot which is less advanced system.

I wouldn't mind paying but once more and more site adopt the subscribtion model, then prices like $10 a month becomes unsustainable when you need dozens of subscribtions. I believe that microtransactions are the future of the internet. All content should cost for you to view but only a little bit so that it adds up to like 20 - 50 bucks a month and the money goes mostly to the creators rather than platform.

Never bothered me personally. The reason I block people is that I no longer have to see their posts. I find some level on enjoyment in the fact that on Lemmy there are people constantly wasting their time writing replies to me which I'll never read.

Tesla recently switched from human-written code to full neural networks with their FSD system, which resulted in a significant leap in how reliable and human-like it became. Nowadays, it’s safe to assume it will perform better than the average human driver on most trips, but it’s still not reliable enough to be blindly trusted. You still need to sit there, paying attention to make sure it doesn’t do anything stupid. It’s, by far the most advanced 'self-driving' system available on a vehicle you can buy.

The reason it’s constantly in the news is that anything related to Elon, AI, or self-driving is guaranteed to get clicks in today’s mediascape. It's not a flawless system by any means but it's also not as bad as people make it to be.

Exactly. The current rate is 80 deaths per day in the US alone. Even if we had self-driving cars proven to be 10 times safer than human drivers, we’d still see 8 news articles a day about people dying because of them. Taking this as 'proof' that they’re not safe is setting an impossible standard and effectively advocating for 30,000 yearly deaths, as if it’s somehow better to be killed by a human than by a robot.

Technically, it’s 'mute,' not 'block.' In most cases, blocking not only prevents you from seeing their content but also them from seeing yours.

What Twitter is being criticized for here is changing blocking to work similarly to how it does on Lemmy, with the exception that you still couldn’t engage with content from users who have blocked you, whereas on Lemmy, you can.

It’s being argued that 'weakening' the block feature in this way makes stalking and harassment easier.

Me? Nothing. That's all I need it for.