It’s mind boggling that Google is letting this happen.

Even if I pretend to be a stone cold Google accountant, and look at this… YouTube is a gigantic golden goose. It’s strategic, it’s a cultural lynchpin. And they’re going to let it wither just to boost next quarter and avoid saying “AI is a problem here”?

and more often than not, it’s content that is over two or three years old.

Bingo.

Friend, content that’s over a year old is all you can trust. There’s a lot of it, and its great.

The date filter is the slop filter.

“a lot of people around him did the same.”

Your friend is in la la land.

I know a rich couple that would love to do this and 100% can’t because it’d be ludicrously expensive, even with no kids. And that’s in a place way cheaper than New York City.

…Maybe it was more practical when his parents were working, though?

I’m a huge iced tea fan.

…It’s because Mamdani is not a jerk?

Look, Trump is a human being in an incredible distortion sphere. His actions/reactions tend to skew more “interpersonal” and emotional than Machiavellian, like how he acts immediately after he meets Zelensky or a lawmaker or sees a bad Tweet or whatever; he was like before politics.

Step in Trump’s shoes: he sees Mamdani on Fox News, on his Twitter feed, from his circle. This guy is Socialist Satan from his perspective.

Then the guy walks into Trump’s office, is actually super nice and reasonably balanced, and loves New York too? He’s clearly not an alien lizard like a Clinton.

I’m not surprised Trump reacted this way at all. It’s totally in character. And if you understand this, you understand why Trump has so much popularity: in spite of the massive toxicity he commands, he’s quite human for a politician.

Big instances might be doomed, but ones small enough for folks to “know” each other might do better.

…And that may come with stuff like restricting submission rights to server members? So bots don’t, say, have incentive to build up a “legit” account then post spam.

I think LLM systems will make great automods and mod assistants, too, to help them fight it. Obviously there’s a lot of hate for such things now, but I think that sentiment may settle.

I mean, I think the point is that any bot asking for advice is a total lie.

So is a human being disingenuous.

The gratifying part of this kind of community is helping people with feedback. You don’t get that if you’re talking to a black hole.

Point I’m making is… if you wanted a simulated asklemmy, some specialized LLM agents could actually emulate that very well and give convincingly emotional conversation. But what’s the point? Its not about the text being AI generated or not, its about being earnest.

+1

‘Fuckwit’ or ‘spambot’ is not a synonym for LLM slop. There are plenty of human or sweatshop posts.

Could it perhaps be, I don’t know, the entire rest of the world calling out China’s own genocides?

And no, the US has no leg to stand on when it comes to stamping out ethnic groups, especially Muslims. So?

Random tangent, but I tried PaleMoon to see if it used less RAM these days.

…And it seems they’ve forked pretty hard. All the rendering acceleration is years behind FF, and frankly it lagged on the test page (a web app text editor) I was interested in.

play movie.mkv isn’t rocket science.

The odds of most of my family ever touching CLI is literally zero.

And all the prerequisite concepts below that. You’re assuming everyone knows, say, the concept of a filesystem or URL.

Not that MPV isn’t awesome though; it’s super awesome. For me, you’re mostly preaching to the choir.

I use this, it’s good.

our consciousness should be in a state of non-existence

Sounds like you’re speaking of the Fermi Paradox, and some related things.

But just because the existence of our consciousness is improbable doesn’t mean you can conclude that it’s literally impossible.

You also seem to be connecting a lot of ideas under the assumption that a human ‘point of view’ is necessarily unique… I think this article touches on a lot of your ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

And, indeed, the bias of a human-centric viewpoint is a huge issue in science and an ongoing point of debate, as seen above. That part of what you’re getting at, I really like.

The video makes no sense. It starts with an interesting idea (our observations are limited, which is true) and jumps to “therefore, we can’t assume death is eternal” out of nowhere.

And all the clips are kinda AI sloppy. I mean, the video might not be autospam, but that + the clarity/consistency of the speaker + account age is very sus.

Speaking as one of those “I self isolated and stop responding to friends” folks years later:

Definitely reach out. Emphasize not to worry about the ghosting; I guarantee she’s literally worried sick over it. Do it, even if you have to do it through family. They’ll all be glad.

Transhumanism is cool though! I adore the OA universe, for example: https://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oaeg-front

…I think its important to keep ‘machine learning as a neat tool’ distinct from cultish ‘AI’ futurology. Hence some folks might interpret this questions as “why aren’t you using AI yet, bro!? AGI’s inevitable, get on board!” The latter is what a lot of news/advertising is blasting.

I think you double posted OP.

Fuck Facebook, Twitter.

…That’s the big one. Folks will always get in cults, but never has it been so supercharged and weaponized by algorithmic machines that will, literally, hook into peoples’ brains to make a penny on mis/disinformation: https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

This feels like how Bitcoin was neat for a time, before 99% of the space became pyramid schemes.

…And if “AI” is on the same trajectory as crypto, that’s not great, heh…