I didn’t follow the events up close personally but my impression of the whole Jenna Marbles controversy was that she could’ve just stopped reading comments and kept making videos but instead she let a small online mob bully her out.

21 degrees Celcius.

I have basic mid-range Samsung that’s 5 years old and not showing any signs of giving up. Back when there was still a benefit in choosing a flagship model I still was getting the same 6 to 7 years of use from one.

Well, it’s called an illusion for a reason.

As much as is possible, yes, but that’s still far from AI doing all or even most of it. It still needs a ton of managing from the user to produce anything even half acceptable as an output.

I personally just spent an hour turning this SketchUp screenshot into a presentable design plan. It’s far from set and forget. It needs the user to hold its hand all the way through the process.

What you want and what you want to want are not always aligned. I want to sit inside and do nothing for the rest of the day after I get home from work. It’s not what I want to want but I don’t have the freedom to not-want it. I wish I instead wanted to work out, meditate, read and do woodworking projects.

There is no free will but there is an experience of freedom.

We do things for two reasons; either you want to or you have to. There’s clearly no freedom in having to do something but it’s not exactly like you can choose your wants (and not-wants) either. However, your actions are still aligned with your underlying desires which is what gives the experience of freedom despite the fact that you did not author those desires.

So yes, it’s still a voluntary action. We do stuff for a reason - it’s not fatalism I’m talking about where everything is pre-determined and stuff keeps happening even if you just sit and wait.

Having an LLM do anyone’s job for them is a bit of a cartoon example. There are very few jobs it can do in its entirety. It’s about to what degree one uses it to help with their work. Nothing wrong with having assistance for as long as it actually helps you do your job better. I’ve had one solve multiple technical problems/questions for me but I still need to do the work myself because an LLM can’t even turn a wrench.

Not that I spent much time thinking about it in the past but the belief in free will was something I was disillusioned from by hearing Sam Harris talk about it and then reading his book on the subject.

Now I believe there is just consciousness and its content. There is no “you” that’s separate from this process that’s authoring your decisions. Nah, everything follows from past events and the belief that you could have done otherwise is just an illusion. How could you have done otherwise. We already know what you did in this timeline. If we rewind back the universe without changing anything you’d just make the same choice again and again and again.

I’d say it has made me a much more empathic person overall. Hating someone for example is no longer compatible with my world view. Not liking, sure, but treating people as if they chose to be this way and could choose to be different but won’t - that’s bullshit.

Charles Whitman is a good example. Shot a bunch of people from a clock tower, left a suicide note saying he doesn’t know why he does this and tells doctors to study his brain when he’s dead. Well, they did and found a pecan-sized tumor near his amygdala that could very well explain this behaviour. Would you still hold Charles morally responsible after learning this? I wouldn’t. I basically just live as if everyone has a brain tumor.

Christmas and midsummer are the only ones I “celebrate” in any meaningful sense. Or at least used to. No point of celebrating much of anything when you’re alone.

I didn’t engage in politics on reddit because there was other content there. Here not so much.

Started with ChatGPT and then switched to Grok. Probably would try Claude next if I were to switch again.

In my experience these systems aren’t yet on a level that they could maintain a casual conversation that would in any way scratch the itch like talking with a human would. It’s painfully obvious that you’re talking to a bot. It’s more like an autistic expert of every field that you can interview and it has endless patience to answer stupid questions and explore the nichest of topics.

However, this is also the worst they’ll ever be so it’s only a matter of time untill you can’t tell it apart from a human.

I still don’t see what is being kept away from everyone else. Who is left without if I own a billion worth of stocks in different companies? The cartoon example would be me finding a cool rock that suddenly everyone in the village wants and I even get astronomically high purchase offers from the neighbouring villages but I choose to keep the rock to myself effectively making me the wealthiest person of the village - on paper. Is the rest of the village being deprived by that fact that I refuse to sell it and buy everyone a Lamborghini?

I’m only focusing on the hoarding part here. I don’t understand what is being kept away from others. In the case of Elon, he owns shares in companies he founded. He’s not a housing investor. What seems to be implied here is that if you start a company and it grows too large then it gets nationalized or something. These are the specifics I’m trying to figure out here. Is Norway’s oil fund hoarding wealth away from the rest of the world? What you’re speaking of sounds more like criticism of the power that wealth comes with, but that’s not quite what’s being discussed here either.

They’re hoarding it in value.

This is what I’m trying to get you to explain.

I’m gifted Mona Lisa, my net worth is now billion dollars. Am I hoarding billions in value?
I start a business and it becomes very succesful and it’s valued in billions and as a majority shareholder it makes my net worth now a billion dollars. Am I hoarding billions in value?

I don’t understand who is keeping what away from everyone else. What is being hoarded exactly? What is “value” here?

I sometimes waste uncopious amounts of time writing comments on Lemmy. I choose my words extremely carefully and fact check all the claims only to then be willfully misunderstood by someone who didn’t even bother to read what it is that I actually said.

Make sense?

No because it doesn’t answer my question. I asked about hoarding wealth - you’re talking about spending habits. Your average billionaire can’t just walk into a bank and withdraw, say 10 million. They probably don’t have anything even close to that much of liquid wealth.

Already have thousands of times over. My ‘net worth’ is almost entirely due to my ownership stakes in Tesla and SpaceX. I have <0.1% that is cash. Tesla and SpaceX employees all receive stock/options and Tesla is >80% owned by retail investors and index/pension funds, so value increases apply >80% to them.

From Elon’s twitter

That is not what I asked about, though. The claim was that they’re hoarding money/wealth. This makes it sound like they have a lair full of chash somewhere like Scrooge McDuck.

Musk owns multiple succesful companies. His “wealth” is the value of these companies. You can’t buy a house by stating you own SpaceX, they want cash.

Could someone for once please explain what you guys actually mean when you say the wealthy are hoarding money? I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a straight answer to this.

Anything made by Knipex. Why cheap out and pay 10 euros for shitty waterpump pliers when you could spend 30 and get the absolute best ones money can buy. I think everyone should own at least one pair of 180mm Cobras.