Like movies. We react and get emotional and startled and stuff, but that's totally fake and we know it.

And AI. I know it's just a statistical illusion but I'll still have a conversation with it. Sometimes I'll even feel gratitude. So that's nuts.

And then you have stories handed down by important authorities. Science and religion. The guy said it so I treat it as real. Is that good or bad?

Fact is, we as humans do this thing where we treat fantasy as reality. And sometimes that's a good and useful and sometimes it's bad. And sometimes it's good for a while but then there's a AHA moment and then you realize you've been fooled and it was all fake. And sometimes that matters and sometimes it doesn't. I don't know. I'm getting confused here. You tell me.

Would software engineers ever unionise in future, if the industry keeps getting shit every year due to AI and layoffs?

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots

Just wondering as internet "gurus" on platforms like youtube annoy me.

Also i want to someday earn money without having a job or where i am my own boss, but im young and have next too no money, and i have no talent. ive tried the "simple" ways to get a grasp of learning. Ive tried free methods like surveys, games, ebay selling, etc, but i find that those are a waste of time/effort for me atleast and im lucking to break even. I struggle to even learn new things, school pretty much failed to teach me the right way of life.

I feel lost at life right now.

genuinely curious.

I'm not talking about leggings made specially to do that, just regular sport leggings, like those from asics, nike, adidas or lululemon

Currently thinking about either Tuta or Mailbox.org, but to be honest, I don't even know many providers.
Something I do not like is limit on number of addresses with a custom domain. Mailbox is at least a bit reasonable with 50 on Standard, but Proton's 10 on Mail Plus is disqualifying for me.

Tuta has unlimited number, but doesn't support PGP.

So I plan to check out whatever you guys use.

If I was told that I'd come back to earth to be reincarnated as another human being with choices. I would like the following;

To be a woman. To be non-binary, still. To still remain a 'gray world resident'. To retain my ability to not cave to FOMO and be resourceful. There's a hundred of other things but in terms of core ones, those are the few.

This happens in Europe.

As previously said, I’m a nurse.

Before working as a nurse I majored in History and Geography and have a M.Ed. for both subjects. These are subjects I always enjoyed and I always enjoyed explaining history to those interested in it but I couldn’t deal with teenagers acting like teenagers do, and parents outright lying to me, and burned out. After that and moving elsewhere I majored in nursing and started working at different hospitals.

I am now in a better financial situation and I’m planning my way out of bedside: It’s either studying a B.Sc. to become a Physician Assistant or studying a B.Ed. to become a Nurse Educator.

Nurse Educator would be the shorter way due to my M.Ed. and students wouldn’t be bratty teenagers, I hope. It would be a better life than my current one, a safe choice, a predictable life. I don’t want more than that. I enjoyed explaining history, I enjoy explaining things to patients, I would enjoy teaching nursing to nursing students who are there not because they must, like in high school, but because they actually want.

Physician Assistant is also an interesting field: I’d simply study more comprehensively what I now know superficially, I would handle things I'm currently doing unofficially in an official capacity, it’s also a safe bachelor because people are always getting sick, I wouldn’t be a nurse anymore and wouldn’t have to bear the brunt of the physical work I now do. I wouldn’t have to retire early like so many nurses do because they’re physically broken, it would be a more mental job. I like explaining to patients what a procedure means for them, what risks may be present, what happens afterwards, how organs work… because so many doctors simply do but won’t explain why and what they do and that means the patient get angry and nurses are the ones paying for it.

Either way, I hope to leave behind the incredible, insufferable cattiness that permeates nursing, the backstabbing, the gossip over stupid stuff and 5 people yelling at you contradictory orders at the same time. I’m too old for that stuff.

But I fear I’ll have to deal with the same kind of childish people I now have to deal with, because even some doctors are simply older children, not adults.

Another question here is if any of these 2 bachelors opens me doors to jobs where I don’t have to deal with immature coworkers, or if any of those bachelors allows me to choose what kind of people I work with: I know of good, competent coworkers who refuse to work with certain doctors because they are simply not good, to the point of changing hospitals, I know others who simply don’t want to work at hospitals so they seek better opportunities elsewhere. I want that kind of freedom, to choose the kind of people I work with. Is either of these bachelors the way to achieve that?

I’m also scared of continuing my education because there is an absolute nurse shortage and no wonder why, it’s a complete shit job nobody sane wants to do, because it breaks you. But this shortage means I’ll never be out of a job, whereas if I pursue any of those bachelors, I may end up unemployed.

Anything you write would help me. Thank you.

A few months ago, the Lumo app was updated and renamed Lumo 2.0. I’m wondering if any of you have tried it out or used it before the update? What are your impressions after the update or from using it in general? What do you use it for? Maybe you don’t use AI at all? Is it better to use the AI in Lumo than solutions from bigger players, like Claude or GPT? (I really like this mascot, lol 😺)

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Example, putting ketchup on a perfectly cooked ribeye steak at a nice restaurant.

One quirk of Lemmy is that edits and deletions may not propagate properly to every server, meaning you're never guaranteed anything past the initial posting.

So how do you handle when you say something you'd like to amend, correct, or delete?

Do you:

• Edit your corrections directly into the original?
• Delete it?
• Add an Edit:?
• Put the original comment behind a spoiler tag or strike through?

Or something else?

I will start by saying I have toyed with posting this because as soon as someone says they don't wanna see it, someone will make a community for it. However I feel like some of the stuff that makes Reddit annoying is creeping over. And just because I don't like it does not mean its not a valid community. So if it is least put in the right place (rather that the bigger generic communities) I can then just filter or block it.

Ill start I don't want to see

• Am I the arsehole
• Relationship drama
• Celebrity worship/drama

So what communities DON'T you want to see here?

It's the late 90s and I was working in IT for a small (200 employees) company.
One of my tasks was performing daily data backups, which ran for about four hours and started after everyone else had left for the day.
We had an intercom system in the building, where if you picked up your phone and dialed a specific extension, you could page someone, or make announcements so everyone could hear.

One night I was in the process of running Ethernet cable from switches on the second floor down to individual terminals on the first floor, so there was a lot walking around the building.

I like to have music when I'm working, but I didn't have an MP3 player at the time, so I thought... "I have music on my PC and no one is around. Why don't I just...", and I went around and cranked the volume knob on every ceiling intercom speaker in the whole building. Then I dialed into the intercom from the phone in my office, put the handset up as close as I could to my PC speakers, and boom, music throughout the building.

Cut to a few hours later, it's late, I'm tired, the backup is finished, so I close down the system, hit the lights, lock the doors, and go home.

The next day, I come in, not thinking about anything from the night before, and get to work. About 11:00am, the owner's secretary got on the intercom to page someone.... and blew everyone out of their seats. There was an almost collective, "What the fuck??!!" from everyone, and an "Ohhh, shiiit" from me, because of course I immediately knew what happened.

I ran around like a madman, turning the volume down on all of the speakers that I had forgotten the night before, while saying, "No idea... Yeah it's crazy... No no, it's fixed now..."

No one ever found out exactly why the volume was so loud that morning.

tl;dr at bottom (same as title)

I have been arguing incessantly with ai ever since it gained cultural relevance. The Dall-E2 video on Cold Fusion's youtube channel channel basically enthralled me and I've been hooked ever since (April 2022). However, I recently enrolled in a community college philosophy class and I instinctively "know" when & how ai is going to yell at me while writing the weekly essays to my philosophy class (such as the famous trolley problem or Kant's 2 rules for ethics).

I've also noticed recently that I seem to have become much more persuasive and analytical and it's almost like I carry ChatGPT (or the other 2 I mainly use) on my shoulder and I feel the same "ChatGPT is watching me" feeling when I disagree with other people, even though no ai is actually observing me. I still carry that same invisible pressure as if I can somehow "control C" a real-life interaction and feed it back into ai and have it critique me or suggest improvements in my effectiveness.

What I like about ai is that you can get instant feedback on your critical thinking in just 10-20 seconds if you've already written the thoughts for a different, unrelated purpose (such as sending a persuasive email to a family member or writing a philosophy homework essay). Prior to ai, when in the history of humanity has any human had the ability to have 24/7 instant, actionable feedback on their critical thinking or argumentation?

The biggest improvement I've noticed is that it has shaped my intuition in such a way as to avoid making lazy arguments (i.e. just "going with" the first argument that pops into my mind) and it has taught me that spending an extra 5-10 minutes BEFORE committing to the effort of forming your opinion is worth at least 100x more value than any effort invested into an inferior argument or worse idea. In other words, selecting the most powerful argument at the onset is infinitely better than powerfully arguing a slightly worse argument.

In other words, an idea which is 10% better is more persuasive than a 10% worse idea, even if you try to make up for the worse idea by compensating with 10x more effort. However, I'd like to know if anyone else has benefitted similarly from 3am rant sessions with ai about issues that they feel passionate about, especially opinions you know that the ai will vehemently disagree with since 99% of society vehemently disagrees with that opinion.

My philosophy professor also singles me out often and always writes long comments next to my grade like this since it's a purely online class. Mainly when I do extra stuff that isn't required like stuffing my essays full of these which are memorable tokens for me to collect as souvenirs to cherish the rest of my life.

tl;dr -- Can arguing with ai improve a person's logical abilities, intellectual persuasiveness, and critical thinking? Or is it merely capable of tricking you into believing that it can? (i.e. sycophantic delusions)

correlation does not equal causation.

indeed it does not.

but correlation can lead to discovering causation or even larger phenomena. which is why i pay attention to "it" when appropriate. do you?

Ive wanted to do alot ever sense i was a kid, one of the things ive wanted to do was be a gaming YouTuber or something, buts let be honest letsplays are overdone usually.

Im not sure if i should go with youtube or some other platform?

What would you all advise i look into? what do you think?

All nations within the Anglosphere (US, UK, CA, AU & NZ) have JD imposed towards citizens. I know that the US & Canada both inherited that from Britain, which explains why they have it. However, should it be entirely only the judge making the conviction (some countries operate on a lay-judge system meaning juries aren't used, such as Finland or Japan for example) rather than leaving that decision up to jurors?

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For me it would have been buying the steam frame (but I am still in the waitlist). Also, I recently gotten into the 40k lore, but there is no way I can find the time and physical place to get into wargames.

I would also include anything that was initially a flop on its original release but then found a following later such as movies like Momento. This still counts as commercial failure for the sake of this question.

The definition of cancel culture: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/cancel-culture