Using the term “NoFap” in the title is a bit like putting “AI” in there - it pretty much guarantees zero productive conversation in the comments and instead acts as a bug light for certain people to just chime in with their personal views on that one thing.

I don’t even bother writing a response to the actual question because I don’t want to spend the rest of the day defending views I don’t even hold.

It’s almost like they know people aren’t going to read past the headline.

You drive an old car to protect yourself from hackers. I drive an old car because I’m broke. We’re not the same.

If it’s connected to the internet then it can be hacked. Though in the literal meaning of the term virtually anything can be hacked. It just means finding an unconventional way to operate something.

Me as well. Easy choice as no other device came even close to having the features I wanted.

I worry I’m that person to others

Back in the day, Apple had to tweak the shuffle feature on iTunes because truly random wasn’t random enough for people. It seems incomprehensible to some that a random playlist would play the same song twice in a row. People should roll a die more often.

They came up with a system that turns outrage into cash and they’re literally printing money right now.

As long as they weren’t taking part in illegal street racing.

Misunderstanding implies at least some form of understanding. I can’t even misunderstand any of this.

My mom is a hairdresser and their booking app has option for silent service as well.

I rarely do. I don’t understand the point of it. I just ate and now you want me to eat more? If anything - we should’ve started with the dessert.

I don’t. That’s what makes it even more bizzare. I don’t get what they have to gain from trying to stain an anonymous account.

I hope you got squared away ok

Nah, they’re still on it - and considering how much you’ve been discussing AI here too, it’s more than likely you’ve run into them as well.

Being careful with your words helps to some extent, but then there are people like this who don’t really care what you actually say. If they perceive you to be on the wrong side of an issue they care deeply about, they slap this cartoon-villain stereotype on you and treat it as fact. It’s not about what you said - it’s about who they think says those kinds of things. It’s intentional misinterpretation and ad hominems all the way down. No point even trying to engage with their insane troll logic.

That hasn’t really been my experience. Lemmy seems nicer on the surface because most of the userbase is ideologically aligned, so conflict is less likely. But once you make the wrong noises about something, plenty of people show up ready to prove just how mean and horrible they can actually be.

Also, on Reddit I never had anyone follow me around trying to cause reputational damage by spreading false accusations about me.

LLMs not being AI is one of the most common confidently wrong statements I see spread here as fact pretty much every day.

We’ve had AI systems since 1956.

It simply refers to any system designed to perform a cognitive task that would normally require a human. For an LLM that task is generating natural language. For an Atari chess opponent it’s playing chess. They’re both still AI - narrow AI, but AI nonetheless.

People seem to expect general intelligence from these systems, and when they don’t get it, statements like this pop up. But AGI is not synonymous with AI. It’s also an AI system, yes, but just a subcategory of AI - same as GenAI is. No company claims to have a true AGI system.

No. That would imply belief in the kind of free will I don’t think exists.

You can eat all the important bits of the soup with a fork.

I doubt that it was a genuine question. Looking at their post history I’m suspecting that they’re just posting about controversial topics in hopes to start up something.

I turned my attention to the aggression and the aggression went away.

It’s impossible to stay angry at anything for longer than a few seconds unless you keep feeding that anger with the stories you’re telling yourself. You don’t have to keep telling those stories - unless you want to stay angry, of course.

Remember that smart decision you made while angry? Yeah, me neither.