Thorny_Insight @ Thorny_Insight @lemm.ee

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Like by sticking them deeper?

What's the alternative? We either don't create this technology at all or we do and accept the fact that it's going to involve a lot of trial and error. You don't just skip all that and jump to the final product. There's only so much you can test on animals which exactly isn't the most ethical thing to begin with anyway. At some point you're going to need to stick it in a human brain.

The first heart transplant recepient died after 18 days. Should we have not done that either?

Yeah, “just shove it in deeper” sounds like a brilliant plan.

Does your past experience in brain surgery suggest that this might be a bad idea?

They're volunteers with next to nothing to lose. This isn't some healthy person who just wants to play angry birds with their mind. They're getting an experimental device planted into their brain. I'm sure they're aware of the risks.

Someone paralyzed from the neck down for whom this enables the use of computers, which they before couldn't do, probably would rather have the outdated model than none

It's the winter that makes summer so enjoyable. Can't appreciate nice weather if it's like that every day.

Oh don't worry. They're fine.

With that much money I could buy 8 houses like the one I live in right now.

The only reason I don’t do the same thing is that I want to be aware of how prevalent the toxicity is.

I'm not sure I entirely agree with the logic here. I did a similar thing years ago by pretty much stopping paying attention to the news. You'd think that would lead to me not being aware of what's going on in the world but turns out one does not simply just turn off the news. When something actually newsworthy happens I'll hear about it just the same way as everyone else. It's effectively impossible to avoid even if you try to. The only kind of news I more or less totally insulated myself from is celebrity gossip and other similar entirely meaningless trash.

Also I don't block people to create an echo chamber for myself. More often than not it's not what people say that get them blocked, it's how they say it. I'm more than willing to engage an actual nazi on a debate as long as they're approaching it in a good faith even to some extent. It's people that are just throwing shit that I'm trying to get rid of. I'm basically just trying to improve the signal-to-noise ratio but the noise will only get quieter but never dissapear completely.

This is the only way. Ruthlessly blocking everything you're not interested about seeing.

By blocklist on Lemmy is 1200+ users and communities long and even though I still see plenty of toxicity the difference is still noticeable. The only issue with it is that it's quite blunt tool. An user might be making inflammatory comments only on threads about a certain topic and then get blocked for it but then I'm not seeing any of their other content either which rarely is all toxic.

Negativity get's more engagement on Lemmy aswell. The vast majority of content on the front page is about the world being on fire.

It's not inherently toxic but I'd argue the experience is a net-negative. Social media rewards all the bad and inflammatory behaviour that makes it so. The incentives are not aligned with being nice to each other.

One of the culprits in my mind are visible like counts. The ability to up- and downvote messages is a good one but the scores shouldn't be visible to anyone. Comments like "ACAB" or "eat the rich" bring zero value into the discussion but rather are just meant to fish likes from your own team and annoy the opposition. I doubt that removing that feature now would no longer solve the issue but it's one of the main things that trained us to act that way.

Personally I'm hoping for more powerful tools for curating our feeds. It's probably going to have to be AI based as I can't imagine how else you'd do that but on top of just simple word and domain filters (which even lemmy doesn't have) we need smart filters aswell that you could enable which filters out topics you don't like seeing. Kind of like with enough people using adblockers it would discourage ads-based bussines models and incentivices companies to come up with alternatives. With enough people using similar blockers for toxic content the people creating would quickly realize they're shouting into the void.

I'll grant you that the name is misleading. They should change it. It's also plausible that there's some number of customers for which the false marketing claims may have been the deciding factor in their purchase decision.

Is there something else you feel I'm confused about?

Did it get stuck to your teeth when you tried biting it? May have been a Merkkari

I don't know what the difference is. Liquorice and salty liquorice are similar but separate products.

I remember seeing on a food show years ago a burger with a doughnut as a bun. I've never tasted one but I thought to myself that might actually work.

Salty liquorice ice cream, probably.

It's not a weird taste to me but I'd imagine the vast majority of non-Finnish people would absolutely hate it.

Fair enough. I don't use Discord so I'm not sure but my understanding is that it's free to use. So how do they fund it? I presume by collecting user data to target advertising or to be sold to 3rd parties.

My point here being that collecting data to figure out the user's age and gender isn't particularly uncommon.

No, the other user is claiming that they don't have a "working" full self driving but is being vague about what they mean by "working".

Full Self Driving is just the name of the software. There's also autopilot but that's different. The end goal of it is to eventually be capable of level 5 self driving so that's why it's named like that even though it has been a work in progress all of it's existence. Wouldn't make much sense to call it "partial self driving under supervision" because Full Self Driving is a better marketing term. Misleading? Well yeah perhaps but that's what marketing teams do. Nothing new there. Not a single Tesla owner is under the illusion that you can just enable the system and take a nap. Doesn't mean people don't do that but they know that they shouldn't. The system tells you that every single time you enable it.

Personally I don't see a huge issue with that name. It's level 2 meaning that it needs driver supervision and it's by no means flawless but it does what the name implies: drives itself. It's not just an advanced cruise control like for example the Mercedes Drive Pilot but it is actually capable of independently driving itself and especially with the V12 it's actually getting quite good at it.

Well, I mean.. Besides the first two those are not the worst rules to live by. As an agnostic I'm obviously against pushing your religion onto others but I think I'll reserve my outrage for something more important.

Agreed. It's also a great way to get extra calories with plenty of protein and fats and minimal carbonhydrates.