Really worth listening to this podcast as well. It's a guy teaching corporate teams to make best use of AI. He goes over how to use it to get really great use by using it as a discussion rather than just asking it a question and expecting and accurate answer in the first instance
AI has been most useful for tech support for me. I wouldn't have been able to switch to Linux completely if AI didn't instantly find solutions for me, rather than being told by the community to read tomes of documentation.
I also use it a lot to find how to get office apps to do what I want.
I'm famous at work for being a poet, when I actually just ask AI to write a short witty poem.
You can use image generators to make nice personalised cards to share on special events.
AI can make mind maps and things like that if you tell it what you want.
NAS is not a product for normies, so there doesn't seem to be huge demand on the secondhand market. So that works out better for buyers and you can usually pick up a pretty great deal secondhand.
This guy has done a lot of great work in trying to understand how conspiracy thinking works, how minds can change, how arriving at a state of "knowing" is an emotional state (and not a rational one), how biases change people thinking, etc.
Thanks. Comments don't really bother me. It would be a hard life trying to use social media without thick skin.
But your quote came at a good time to make the point I was looking to make.
For your question about news, I would highly recommend using an RSS app. Whichever news source you use, its much better when you get your news in time order instead of their stupidly curated website front pages.
I don't have an answer to your question, but I love your John Stuart Mill quote. I've just had a barrage of comments trying to rip me apart for suggesting that a political opponent's position should be understood; and no comprehension of the point this quote puts across really well.
Make a group in your preferred chat app (WhatsApp, telegram, discord, signal, whatever). You're the only person in this group. Take a screenshot and share it to this group. Now you can open the messaging app on whichever device you want and the picture is right there for you.
Why only kids? We all need to be protected from social media.
I don't know how to suggest good national policy, but I think social media should have these:
controls on how far you can doom scroll
being able to opt out of algorithms by seeing things in time order and from (optionally) only white listed sources and allowing block lists in a variety of ways, etc, etc
heavy moderation of blatantly illegal content.
heavily curated advertising (or none at all, users can pay)
separation of political content (maybe a system of tagging so topics that are not of interested can be hidden......maybe this could be crowd sourced)
Strict control of data collection
The ability to delete/be forgotten
I don't know how propaganda or corporate interests can be excluded, but that would be ideal.
Controlling children's access is so insurmountably difficult, I don't even know where to start.
I know this is a joke, but if this is genuinely how someone thinks, then it so self-absorbed and narrow minded to not be able to step out of your own mindset.
The comment implies absolute good/evil and that people are knowingly acting evil. The people you don't agree with do have consistent moral principles that they are working with (however misguided or skewed they may be). I can't stand racist/sexist people either, but if you can't see how these people are worried that "woke" people are destroying their view of society and threatening their morals, then you won't really be able to engage them to change their minds. This entrenched thinking is why all discourse is now just shouting matches at each other.
You can optimise further by doom-scrolling for another hour while you cry. Multitasking increases productivity and let's you waste twice as much time in half the time so you can waste even more time.
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