[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

Ok but that's different than free will as in, the premise of a society in which a person is able to choose their path in life

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 110 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

For visibility, here is a list of ways around youtube ads the video was supposedly banned for mentioning:

Desktop:

Android:

I personally use Freetube and think it's great

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 157 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Probably what businesses really want is unethical people who are competent at lying about it, and the professor was giving anon practical career advice if not actually ethical advice.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 139 points 2 months ago

I wonder just how much sex has been avoided because of 4chan's politics board

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 2 months ago

What is it with conservatives and punitive anal rape?

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 73 points 8 months ago

Of course, I don’t believe AI girlfriends are going to completely replace relationships. But I do think that, much like online porn, they will be there – always accessible, always a temptation, always a source of instant satisfaction. And I think it’s likely that, for some, a real girlfriend just won’t seem enough on her own, especially considering nearly half of Replika’s users are already in a relationship or married.

Doesn't seem that bad tbh, the dynamic of men being expected to have zero emotional outlets other than their romantic partner has always been super toxic and doesn't make things better for anyone.

The only faint glimmer of optimism I can find in all this is that I think, at some point, life might become so stripped of reality and humanity that the pendulum will swing. Maybe the more automated, predictable interactions are pushed on us, the more actual conversations with awkward silences and bad eye contact will seem sexy. Maybe the more we are saturated with the same perfect, pornified avatars, the more desirable natural faces and bodies will be. Because perfect people and perfect interactions are boring. We want flaws! Friction! Unpredictability! Jokes that fall flat! I hold onto hope that someday we will get so sick of the artificial that our wildest fantasies will be something human again.

This article is pretty reasonable

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 9 months ago

Modern version of this will be ChatGPT jailbreak messages

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 107 points 11 months ago

This had me checking, fortunately SBF is currently in jail and almost certainly headed for prison. Also want to drop a reminder that McAfee publicly announced shortly before his death that he had no intention of suicide and expected assassination attempts after his incarceration.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 11 months ago

It does seem probably fake, but being able to set boundaries and say no is definitely a major saving grace of freelance work, even if you have strong reasons to be professional about it.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 162 points 1 year ago

Coming from Reddit, the very existence of this thread is a breath of fresh air. That there are mod logs at all to be able to document this, that there is a place where it can be posted that is not under control of the mods being criticized, is an enormous improvement over an unaccountable centralized platform.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 95 points 1 year ago

It's actually about power and leverage, not lifestyle. Rich people don't actually spend most of their money on personal luxuries, they spend it on acquiring more wealth, which translates into more control over resources and people's lives. Regular people don't actually spend most of their money on luxuries, they spend it on maintaining their place in a world someone else owns.

The narrative that it is about what level of material status someone is living in or deserves is a distraction. It wouldn't matter at all if the rich started living more spartan lifestyles. They still have the wealth and power, that will manifest one way or another as control over other people's lives, and that's what they're really there for.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 85 points 1 year ago

Tipping is a way to take any tension between the employee and the business owner, and between the customer and the business owner, and make it between the employee and the customer.

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