afraid_of_zombies

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Hail the Omnissiah! Praise be to the machine-god.

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afraid_of_zombies,

It depends where you live but it was figured out to be about 110k a decade ago on average in the US. Where I live that sounds pretty close maybe 140. However, I am biased since I truly don’t want to own a house. Would rather rent.

Does AI-generated art posted on lemmy bother you?

I find that i can spot AI Images fairly easily these days, especially the sort of fantastical tableaus that get posted to the various AI communities around lemmy. I’m tired of seeing them; it all looks the same to me. Was wondering if im being too sensitive, or if other people are similarly bored of the constant unimaginative...

afraid_of_zombies,

The printed book is made of paper and, like paper, will quickly disappear. The handwritten book is made to last and made by hand.

afraid_of_zombies,

All ideology can ever do is reassert itself endlessly

I read that quote many many years ago and it has influenced my career and personal life more than any other sentence.

afraid_of_zombies,

So… is an algorithm even capable of producing art?

What is it exactly do you think humans do? An algorithm is a sequence(s) used to achieve goal(s). Isn’t problem solving one of the most important aspects of our existence?

afraid_of_zombies, (edited )

I for one welcome our chatbot overlords.

afraid_of_zombies,

Hey instead of pointing out how imperfect I am why not just defend your argument?

afraid_of_zombies,

Do you find insulting people to be convincing?

Why not just show your data? Prove that the human mind is not just a very complex biological computer? Preferably with math.

afraid_of_zombies, (edited )

Just think of all those copyists the printing press put out of work. We should have abolished the printing press and gone back to hand copying.

afraid_of_zombies,

Personal attacks will get you nowhere.

afraid_of_zombies,

Oh sorry I forgot to ask. How is copying the same as stealing? If I take your money you no longer have it, and I do. If I copy your idea do you still have your idea?

afraid_of_zombies,

I find it funny that no one else (including me) even considered selling it!

I was inspired by a yt video I am listening to say too much now.

Howard Zinn people's history of America, I'm reading it at the moment, is there any alternative?

Hello, I’m Italian and I’m reading what I understood to be a classic in American HIstory. I’m throug 100 pagesi in and I have the feeling that the author is a bit too partisan and unbalanced. Sometimes I feel that he had already decided what happened and then he tries to find facts that confirm his prejudices....

afraid_of_zombies, (edited )

Meh you might as well keep reading him. Fake history sells better than real history. He took his alternative facts, fit them into his model, and did it in an entertaining way. And this is of course justified because some history class somewhere supposedly was too cheerful.

Lets stop pretending that we care about what is true and what is not.

afraid_of_zombies,

Sure.

As I said it doesn’t matter and I am tired of pretending otherwise. Just pick a book that agrees with what you think already and read it. We are a post-truth society. You read his alternative history because you wanted confirmation now you want other books that also confirm you. Since the plural of anecdotes is data, the plural of opinion is alternative facts, the plural of lies is our truth.

afraid_of_zombies,

Is there a way we can convince everyone to try to donate blood so if nothing else everyone get a free iron level screening?

afraid_of_zombies,

TA: In the UK you fucking PRICKS.

I am not understanding. Are you saying that you can’t read the label on the product?

afraid_of_zombies,

More strict sanitation laws often. It doesn’t matter how non-food related the system (like the box crushing machine) if it is going in a US food plant it will follow IP69K.

afraid_of_zombies,

That doesn’t seem likely. Look at the label more closely.

afraid_of_zombies,

Such language.

afraid_of_zombies,

Might be a bit shocking but it wasn’t knowledge that deconverted me.

afraid_of_zombies,

Says the man who rigged the lottery. We don’t need god anymore than we need cancer

afraid_of_zombies,

No, but they enable those that do.

afraid_of_zombies,

When words fail

George Bush said god spoke to him in a dream and told him to invade Iraq to usher in the apocalypse.

afraid_of_zombies, (edited )

How to not be a dick for those who don’t have empathy

To put it charitably it has room for improvement here.

afraid_of_zombies,

They are irreconcilable. People who try to merge the two are using double-think also known as cognitive dissonance. I know, I did it for years.

Religions make claims and the evidence more often than not doesnt support the claims being true. You are free to try to square the circle, but you will fail. And the extent of your failure will be the effort you put in.

Just to poke at Buddhism. Sidrattha made claims about the geography of the world, those are not true and we have lots of good data backing up a round world. He made claims about rebirth and the soul which logically contradict each other.

afraid_of_zombies,

It’s funny how it works one way and not the other. If we had even a hint of positive evidence for God you would never stop hearing about it. But since we don’t we are told that we have to pretend this is outside our knowledge. Heads I win, tails you lose.

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