I spend hours on YouTube every single day and I have no clue what a “trending page” is.

The ones calling everyone a nazi, racist and transphobe are a good example of the kind of people I’m talking about.

The media tends to amplify certain views - often from the far or activist left - that I see as quite extreme, making them appear more widespread than they actually are. I’ve seen this kind of agenda-pushing as one of the reasons we ended up with Trump in the first place. And because we didn’t learn from it, we got him a second time. I place a lot of the blame on the people acting this way - and the ones boosting them. I basically “called it,” so now, one of the few silver linings I feel in this situation is that those people got what was coming to them. That’s not how I feel rationally, but emotionally it’s there - it’s a kind of schadenfreude.

I can’t really see a true benefit beyond personal spite. Is that all it boils down to?

Isn’t that what this whole thread is about? Acting out of spite isn’t exactly rational.

That’s ridiculous. Everyone knows that for a robot to perform an operation like this safely, it needs human-written code and a LiDAR.

Well, this is going to be really unpopular here, but: Trump, terms 1 and 2.

I don’t particularly like the man, and I likely wouldn’t have voted for him even if I could have - but the one bright side to him winning is that it made a ton of people I don’t like really mad. I know a good number of those who did vote for him don’t like him either, but they did it as a middle finger to the activist/extremist left - and honestly, I can’t really fault them for that.

Edit: Hit dogs holler.

The kind of basic plug shown in the article is really poor for anything other than concrete. In my 15 years of experience hanging things on walls, floors, and ceilings professionally, I always recommend the Fischer DuoPower as the best all-around general-purpose anchor. As long as you’re using the correct length, these won’t pull out without taking a big chunk of the wall with it.

Now, if you want the absolute strongest anchor out there - especially for mounting something like a TV stand to drywall - I’d go with a so-called molly anchor. Just keep in mind, these are permanent. Once it’s in, it stays in.

It’s horrible advice though if you wish your woldview to pass onto the next generations. Statistically, the people not caring so much about things like climate change are having kids.

I’d start by looking up the ones you recognize, even if you don’t know their names yet. It’s hard to memorize plants you don’t even remember seeing, but if you research the ones you commonly stumble upon - ones you can point to and start attaching names and info to - then the rest builds up organically over time. A book, with pictures, written by a local would be a good start. Goes with birds as well.

I get the feeling that many Americans are under the illusion that most Europeans live in big cities like Paris or Amsterdam. And while it may be true that people in those cities have different shopping habits compared to Americans in similarly sized cities, that doesn’t reflect the reality for all - or even most - Europeans. For me and most of my friends, going to the supermarket once or twice a week by car has always been the norm.

It’s your friend’s claim I’m criticizing - not yours.

Europeans aren’t a homogeneous blob - we’re individuals. There’s no universal consensus among us about what counts as a reasonable distance to the grocery store.

LLMs are AI. While they’re not generally intelligent, they still fall under the umbrella of artificial intelligence. AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is a subset of AI. Sentience, on the other hand, has nothing to do with it. It’s entirely conceivable that even an AGI system could lack any form of subjective experience while still outperforming humans on most - if not all - cognitive tasks.

In their defense: there’s no way to prove that these systems aren’t sentient either. We assume they’re not - and that’s likely true - but we could be wrong, because there’s no definitive way to measure sentience, not even in humans.

Images generated by AI are only “fake” if you falsely present them as actual photographs or as digital art made by a human. There’s nothing inherently fake about AI-generated images as long as they’re correctly labeled.

Also, suggesting that all information provided by generative AI is false is just as bizarre. It makes plenty of errors and shouldn’t be blindly trusted, but the majority of its answers are factually correct.

This kind of ideological, blanket hatred toward generative AI isn’t productive. It’s a tool - nothing more, nothing less - and it should be treated as such. Not as what you hoped it would be or what marketing hype wants you to believe it is or will become.

I’m not saying ASI would think in some magical new way. I’m saying it could process so much more data with such precision that it would detect patterns or connections we physically can’t. Like how an AI can tell biological sex from a retina scan, but no human doctor can do even knowing it’s possible. That’s not just “faster logic.” It’s a cognitive scale we simply don’t have. I see no reason to assume that we’re anywhere near the far end of the intelligence spectrum.

My comment about it’s potenttial persuation capabilities was more of the dangers of such system. That an ASI might be so good at persuasion, threat construction, and lying that it could influence us in ways we don’t even fully realize. Not because it’s “divine” - but because it’s just far more competent at manipulating human behavior than any human is.

I’ve gotten about 90% of the things I’ve ever wanted and I still don’t consider myself particularly happy, so I’m not sure if that is the way to get there.

No and never have as I simply don’t feel like I have the need for it. I didn’t even when my phone only had a physical numpad.

Never as I don’t drink tea nor own a microwave.

Beginning by insulting your opponent isn’t exactly the best way to ensure they’ll finish reading your message.

You have a great day.

Depends on who I compare myself to and how one defines “rich.” To me, it means someone whose passive income exceeds their spending - and I’m nowhere even close to that… yet.