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> Then they can be okay with the majority saying you know what, we're sick of you, you can either stop having your toys or you will be segregated from us and live under your own su…

Alternatively, if you're attractive (or any other useful trait), use it for public good.

> Take what's currently happening to Flock cameras as an object lesson. People are so fed up with Flock that they're cutting their cameras down en masse, sometimes wiping them clea…

> Recently cut out cannabis I've found if I cease cannabis use by 5pm each day that it doesn't impact my sleep (or ability to dream and remember them). I also need to be done exerc…

> The solution is non profits or open protocols. This is a decent brain storming along those lines for social media in particular, but it could also apply more broadly, like you sa…

Relevant: In Praise of Idleness https://ia801002.us.archive.org/27/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.4...

> LLMs by definition do not have the full training dataset available, though. That makes it even worse, then. This proves the original point. > The idea that people or corporations…

Not in a traditional sense, but obviously on the surface, they're using the info to regurgitate in some fashion and serve back. The point is that even under the best intentions, ha…

> are being digitised so they can be found in electronic searches What guarantee do we have that the book contents will be served unfiltered and unaltered?

> why dilute it with this kind of bullshit: > > It is equivalent to book burning in the past. A form of thought control That's only bullshit if you trust AI companies to serve the …

> Stop sharing your opinions. You will literally be extinct soon. Your existence doesn't matter. What an insane take. You have no idea what that person's contributions are to this …

Euro countries with >2 parties have the similar capture problems.

> The Americans have what’s basically a cultural trait at this point of deflecting ownership of their government’s actions with “not my president so not my failure” abdication of r…

Like everything else, it's only a matter of time before capital gets its way. Democracy is illusory in case you haven't noticed.

If they wanted to do that, they'd pick stronger arguments for starters. But either way, social media updoots and shares aren't going to change anything with capital's plans, so it'…

Social media fosters that kind of behavior. Plus, people usually don't look into issues before deciding which "side" to be on, and more importantly don't examine if the sides are a…

I've long suspected that monied interests are seeding social media with weak arguments about water as a distraction, and people mindlessly re-share that as part of their identity. …

> Grocery prices at Aldi, Walmart, Costco are amazingly low, especially when accounting for the freshness, quality, and variety of foods today vs. 30 years ago. Many prices at thos…

And as my parent comment says, voting for complicit Dems is a future vote for him. Treating a corrupt system as legitimate is what perpetuates it. Only one of the three options mar…

> You might as well say neither side are perfect (which no one disagrees with). Maybe if you want to manufacture consent for the broken system which continues to make lives worse w…

> We're going to take the "both sides bad" intellectual dishonesty The intellectual dishonesty is pretending that not calling out both sides will lead to any kind of long term solu…

> They don't need any more incentive or backing from monied interests Because they are the monied interests. What they don't want is for the conversation to turn from people blindl…

> Power though? Still a problem. I've long suspected that monied interests are seeding social media with weak arguments about water as a distraction, and people mindlessly re-share…

False dichotomy. There's no reason it couldn't impact software as well as other things. Also, it's obviously not the only acting force.

How does impaired human memory and increased risk taking relate to software stability?