Or to rephrase it: does a knife/scissors/etc just split something or does it remove something?

So, solids aren’t really solid. Like, at an atomic level no two molecules are actually touching. Think of it like a magnet floating above another.

What you cut it with matters too, something insanely sharp like a medical grade obsidian blade wieled with skill is so sharp, it’s just going to separate the molecules. And remove very little material.

Try to cut a piece of paper in half with a baseball bat, and lot of material won’t be attached to either of the two biggest pieces. Because it’s a big blunt object.

Why do you keep making and deleting so many accounts?

If you kept the same one, a lot of people would block you and stop down votng every post you make from a new account

Yeah…

But you know how people are already comparing vibe coding to 40k where “priests” pray to computers and hope if they do the exact same thing they’ll get the same result they want?

If we start walking down this road of even the chat or not understanding why what it did was better…

Serious unintended consequences are going to be inevitable.

Like, I swear nobody knows the paperclip story anymore.

Instrumental convergence posits that an intelligent agent with seemingly harmless but unbounded goals can act in surprisingly harmful ways. For example, a sufficiently intelligent program with the sole, unconstrained goal of solving a complex mathematics problem like the Riemann hypothesis could attempt to turn the Earth (and in principle other celestial bodies) into additional computing infrastructure to succeed in its calculations.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence

I mean, we can make a very very solid argument that much of our current problems are caused by high level stock trading being done by algorithms who’s only instruction is “make numbers go up”.

This shit aint even hypothetical anymore, it’s just instead of “make as many paperclips” we told it “make more money than you did yesterday”.

Which is why we’re burning down the planet to make billionaires even more money

I mean, it makes perfect sense.

It works better, is cheaper to the point it’s probably free, and while they’re definitely going to store/sell your data, they’re actually less likely than an American tech company.

And that’s not even getting into how many people are in China and would view it as the default

When America was founded they intentionally choose not to designate an official language, because it was a federation of lots of people from different cultures who spoke different languages…

We had a pretty decent run all things considered.

In fact, you could make a pretty good argument that the initial diversity was one of the main strengths, and we saw the biggest issues in areas with segregation and artificial means to keep different groups divided, with racial based slavery obvious being a huge early exception.

Every American knows what CNN, WSJ and USA Today are. How many Poles know what the BBC is?

That’s a wild statement tho…

BBC is global company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_News_Polska

There was a 20 year gap 2005-2025, but less than a year after they came back, I can assure you most Poles today are very aware what the BBC is…

You read my initial comment…

And thought it wasn’t pointing out how you didn’t know what you were talking about?

That’s literally why I had to simplify and be blunt, and guess what?

It worked.

I had to really really dumb my comment down for you to understand it, and once you understood it, you got mad and accused me of having a mental illness…

Why would anyone ever try to help you when this is how you act?

Which likely explains why you have such fundamental misunderstandings.

If someone explains something to you, you either don’t understand any of it, or get insulted someone didn’t agree with you

Best of luck bro.

And dogs will start marrying cats!

/S

What the actual fuck are you even talking about?

Seriously, nothing you’re saying makes any sense.

but now I am starting to see it myself, blatant bots posting really crappy AI images

There’s one account that mods a shit ton.of AI image communities…

If you block that one account, it will.pretty much fix all of it. They’re super weird and going off memory they mod an insane number of communities for AI images, so I wouldn’t worry about pre-emptively blocking everyone, because it’s just the one account posting most of it.

But as you see posts block the community.

It ain’t that difficult.

But there’s entire instances that the admins have lost it to AI brainrot already. That’s where the communities are usually hosted and no amount of facts, logic, or even opinions and feelings will get those admins to “do something” about it.

The fediverse isn’t centralized, you’ll never “get rid of” any subject or topic. Because even if the big instances do, anyone can make a new one.

“Fighting” the people who’s brains have been rotted by AI will never be productive and most likely drives them further into AI

Not sure why it still needs repeated so much, but:

Don’t feed the trolls

Block them and move on.

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Well, OP edited the title, and I can just say that instead of accusing you in turn if being illiterate, see how much better that works?

1. What does any of that have to do with Russia?

2. Do you not realize the idiots doing that, also think they’re “on the side of the poor, weak, disabled and oppressed”?

Well, yeah, we didn’t evolve to occupy a place, we kept getting wiped and having to start over. While something like a Greenland shark goes 50 years before it can reproduce.

We evolved as prey, but we don’t have any predators left. So there’s nothing to control our population.

But that’s way off topic

Market saturation…

The theory of natural limits states: “Every product or service has a natural consumption level. We just don’t know what it is until we launch it, distribute it, and promote it for a generation’s time (20 years or more) after which further investment to expand the universe beyond normal limits can be a futile exercise.” —Thomas G. Osenton, economist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_saturation

Corps want more people, not less. Because people are potential customers, or cheap labor. Even if neither, their existence as extra unneeded labor reduces the price of labor.

You seem to have been talking about “population saturation” which I get the meaning of but I’m not sure it’s a thing.

Shadowrun Returns

Check out “Cyber Knights: Flashpoint”

Early access and super cheap, gets almost weekly updates that won’t break a save.

Very, very similar. But much deeper and if we’re patient and support it could be bg3 level.

Like, seriously the only other time I’ve enjoyed an early access was bg3. It’s deep enough to run it like a rouge light. Especially since if you go a couple months without touching there’s a bunch of new content when you come back.

It’s because our economic system requires constant increases to profit margin.

Once a company gets to market saturation there’s only three ways to do that:

1. Make product shittier

2. Make product more expensive

3. Mergers

We can just not use the ridiculous economic system we’re currently using tho, it’s easily fixable.

Yeah, it’s not that people don’t like the lemmy.ml users, or even really their mods…

It’s (at least one of) the admins.

If they see something they don’t like on their server, they delete it and give a very very short ban. Because they don’t want those people gone. They want them enraged and chomping at the bit to come back.

It’s ran like a troll instance, and it’s not alone.

The only time they permanently ban someone, is when they see someone in a neutral place they can’t control talking about it. Advocate for people blocking them, and they don’t want anyone signed up to their instance seeing your comments

OP, can you just keep using this account at least?

I feel like I seen these same posts a couple days in a row, and always from brand new accounts

I keep blocking them, but you seem to be deleting and making new ones.

If you keep the same account, even tho you get downvoted, you’ll eventually get less down votes as people block you

If you keep creating new accounts, the people who clearly don’t want to see it are gonna keep down voting, but also blocking.

Everyone wins

There’s a huge rabbit hole with HDMI certification…

Like, display port is better in everyway, but people make a shit ton of money off putting “HDMI certified” on products, so that’s still the default.

If it bursts the world wide economy collapses, because most “wealth” is loans against stock, which are then invested in stocks driving the price up.

I think we’re past a trillion sunk into the ponzi scheme just in AI stock, but if it goes down banks call in their loans triggering automatic sales of whatever collateral they used.

Billions and billions being sold automatically regardless of price would cause cascading crashes…

But if it works…

Corps can fire the majority of their employees and starving desperate people turn to Mad Max after a few consecutive missed meals.

The US is doing a pretty good job of replicating one era of Roman history…

https://youtu.be/dpn5Rff4gUk

You know the only thing more ridiculous than buying a toilet with a built in camera?

In October Kohler launched Dekota, a $600 (plus monthly subscription) device that attaches to the rim of your toilet and collects images and data from inside

Buying a camera to attach to an existing toilet, that has a monthly device fee that costs more than a fucking toilet does.