I'd agree. Also Lemmy is too much just dropping news articles and discussing world politics for my taste. Maybe being just another comment feed underneath a news article isn't that engaging and interesting. I'd like to see more about hobbies and meaningful, sustainable talk about specific topics.
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You can also do it like in Germany where we don't have "freedom of speech" but a freedom to express our opinions. Which doesn't include false factual statements about other people...
Nice article. Right on point.
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Sounds more like a floppy disk drive to me.
Ja gut, das ist natürlich immer die Gefahr. Ich meine letztendlich können sie mich immer als Kriminellen einstufen und mich einsperren oder mir 4 Beamte vorbeischicken und morgens um 6 die Bude auf den Kopf stellen... Ich kann da recht wenig gegen tun. Letztendlich finde ich ist Strafverfolgung ein legitimes Interesse. Ist halt die Frage wie man das Umsetzt. Wenn Sie dafür handfeste Beweise gegen mich sammeln müssen, die einem Richter vorlegen und dann Leute vorbeischicken müssen um meine Wohnung und Geräte zu verwanzen, meinen die das vielleicht wirklich ernst. Und das ist meiner Meinung nach auch etwas Anderes als wenn alle unsere Geräte vorbeugend verwanzt werden. Ich meine irgendwie muss man die tatsächlich Kriminellen ja auch verfolgen können. Nur hat das Mittel der Massenüberwachung halt schlimme Konsequenzen für jeden von uns.
Agree. I've tried some of the use-cases that other people mentioned here. Like summarization, "online" search, tech troubleshooting, recipes, ... And all I've had were sub-par results and things that needed extensive fact-checking and reworking. So I can't really relate to those experiences. I wouldn't use AI as of now for tasks like that.
And this is how I ended up with fiction and roleplay. Seems to be better suited for that. And somehow AI can do small coding tasks. Like writing boiler-plate code and help with some of the more tedious tasks. At some point I need to feed another of my real-life problems to the current version of ChatGPT but I don't think it'll do it for me. And it can come up with nice ideas for stories. Unguided storywriting will get dull in my experience. I guess the roleplaying is nice, though.
Edit: And I forgot about translation. That also works great with AI.
Hmm, teach them what's important in life? What is shallow and what's substancial or meaningful... Consequences and how to grow and find your identity and place in the world... Give them a broad perspective...
I think ultimately you can't tell them which path to choose in life. At some point they need to decide by themselves what's important to them. And I think as a parent it is your obligation to teach them about the world. The opportunities and choices available. Provide them with the tools (knowledge) to make good choices. Make sure their picture is diverse and their perspective includes some proper role-models. (Female) scientists, astrophysicists, doctors, artists, authors, politicians, handymen and people who do useful stuff. Make sure their perspective isn't just watching beauty influencers on TikTok.
You can also tell them what's important to you. Maybe have them ask their grandma, she should have some wisdom available, too.
I don't use it for daily tasks. I've been tinkering around with local LLMs for recreation. Roleplay, being my dungeon master in a text adventure. Telling it to be my "waifu". Or generating amateur short stories. At some time I'd like to practice my foreign language skills with it.
I haven't had good success with tasks that rely on "correctness" or factual information. However sometimes I have it draft an email for me or come up with an argumentation for a text that I'm writing. That happens every other week, not daily. And I generously edit and restructure it afterwards or just incorporate some of the paragraphs into my final result.
That's right. I mean the point is you end up with an information stream that is framed to appease you. And I end up with info that is framed to appease me. Neither of us necessarily gets "the truth". (And it's a skewed perspective and self-reinforcing. Mind that I'm talking about the causality of the dynamics, not identity of certain terms.)
I agree with the perspective on America. I'm afraid we're here in some European countries could be headed in the same direction. At least that's what I think when I see our conservatist politicians invite scumbags like Ron DeSantis over. Or repeat their talking points. And the far-right is on the rise everywhere I look.
Our political system is vastly different however. The wider spectrum and the availability of more than two parties who actually get voted into parliament. Precedent of new parties forming every now and then and rising to like 20% over time. And occasionally they spend their days deciding useful stuff.
But we also have some of the same dynamics. People who wish it were the old times. Asking for simple truths. Wanting capitalism to solve everything. People making up their subjective reality instead of looking at objective facts.
I sometimes try to talk to random people who aren't part of my own echo chamber. And from my own experience, the vast majority seems to be nice and caring people. Everyone has their own struggles in life but they're open and liberal enough to grant the same freedom to their neighbours. But occasionally I meet one of the minority of idiots who think climate change and vaccines are a hoax, immigrants are the most important issue and giving equal opportunity to women is a mistake. And I'm always dumbfounded by that and not sure which world they're living in. I've traveled and saw the glaciers in Switzerland or what's left of them. I read the news and how Spain is struggling with serious droughts. Affecting the price of vegetables in my supermarket severely. And I can't get to work (properly) because the train system is beat-up after Germany has been stingy with investing money for decades. It's kind of whataboutism from my side, but I can't relate at all why we should focus on immigrants or more strict laws concerning gender, now. And I don't see how capitalism is going to solve any of that, because it's what ruined the train system in the first place. And we can look at the USA and see that this kind of capitalism also has negative effects on infrastructure, healthcare etc. Very severely in the case of healthcare for example. And I'm not a communist or tankie at all, I think that's even worse and will also take away our freedom. I think we already have the answer to that problem and it's social market economy. Maybe eco-social if you will. But we need individual freedom and some degree of capitalism. Just not without any limits. The solution is neither of the extremes. And we need to agree on facts and objective reality and base our decision on science and facts, not emotions and tribalism.
And that's kind of why I worry that the post-factual world is a huge problem for society. And we need to address it. I think the internet is the single best tool we ever had to enlighten us. But not everything in it is fine and dandy.
However, I don't think the political situation is caused by the internet or anything like that. It's waging there too, but politics is complicated. And some people just like autocracy more than democracy.
It's the same as long as you watch your subscribed communities. Lemmy is federated and that means generally you have the same access to content regardless of which unstance you chose. I mean we also have individual moderation and "local" and "all" feeds. But I don't use them. It's just too random and uninteresting to scroll through everything.