any kind of generalization is at a face level absurd like saying the world is flat.

Funny enough, a lot of people willing to use such generalization are the same that will believe the earth is flat.

When YouTube saw us as people and not just metrics…

Because it’s fun. And if it does happens, cuz they may be low odds but they aren’t zero, is something worth telling others about.

Enjoy the completely new text feature: on canvas editing, full opentype support, text flowing into shapes.

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Hey, looks promising!

But you can elevate your class in the Western world.

After a little (big) laugh, let’s assume this is true:

In that case, the thing about the class system is that the upper classes can also elevate themselves. The rich become super rich, millionaires become billionaires, and the bourgeoisie become oligarchs.

All this at the expense of further precariousness for the lower classes. The modern middle class is the lower class of a few decades ago, and the modern lower class is practically in misery.

And today, those in the lower class are already working as quasi-slaves, not to move up the social ladder, but to avoid falling even further.

Every unequal system reaches the same conclusions sooner or later. The misery of the majority is Rome, and these systems are the roads that lead to it.

LMAO even

HELL YEAH!

Well, you aren’t entirely wrong…

• AI uses already existing data to create “new” data / Dreams uses things you experience throughout your life to create the scenes you see

• Both are imperfect facsimiles of reality, very convincing at first but falls flat with a more detailed analysis

• AI tends to hallucinate / dreams tends to be really weird

• Places have no sense of permanence in dreams nor in AI.

• some may argue dreams have no real meaning or purpose, it isn’t a coherent narrative, just like AI.

Of course, it isn’t a 1:1 relation, but I kinda dig it.

Blame the Dunning-Kruger effect. The people I have seen most likely to acknowledge their lack of knowledge in a certain area have been those who are very wise and well-versed in at least one field, such as science, History (like my mom), art, etc.

Mediocre people are mostly convinced that they know everything.

Me too! Nothing helped me think for myself more than my mother yelling at me, “I don’t know! The encyclopedia is right there! Go read it and let me cook, for God’s sake!”

I tend to think that people use AI (and yeah, search engines too) the way children use their parents:

“Mom, why is the sky blue?” “Mom, where is China?” “Mom, can you help me with this school project?” (The mother ends up doing everything).

The thing is, unlike a parent, AI is unable to tell users that it doesn’t know everything and that users should do things on their own. Because that would reduce the number of users.

I am not USian. I live in one of the countries that the United States recently bombed (figure which). I sincerely ask USians: Is what is in those papers really much worse than everything the administration is already doing and is going to do to you and all the world?

That’s why I try, as much as possible, to share only the things I like and am passionate about. There’s already enough negativity in the world without me adding more.

That’s just the Dark Forest Hypothesis

I know. What I said was more aimed at focusing any efforts to promote the proliferation of fandoms in the fediverse on creating a good image of it for that purpose, rather than creating more projects that may not have the desired acceptance and reach.

While on a technical level, the fediverse is entirely capable of something similar to Amino, and a platform could be created that replicates its functionality 1:1, I believe the main problem is one of image.

On the outside, the fediverse is seen as an overly “nerd-centric” place, a place where “they only talk about Linux, FOSS,” and “nerdy” things in general. And it’s often the discussions around those topics that seem to have the most visibility around here, while the few communities about hobbies and fandoms that you can find have mostly modest to low interaction.

The thing is, no one likes to feel like they’re talking to themselves. That’s why many artists and people immersed in their fandoms gravitate to places like BlueSky or Tumblr, or don’t want to leave a cesspool like Twitter, even with their more hostile environments towards them: they have the perception that in those places they will have more opportunity to interact, whether that perception is unfounded or not.

If one create a platform like Amino, for fandoms and communities, I think the technical aspects are the least important thing. One have to create an image of an environment that is attractive and enjoyable so that people who are not so interested in technology will want to join.

Exactly like American Cubans