Actually encryption is a loophole as well so better take a second third fourth look at that while we’re at it.

Money, accessibility, shame, no results from past experiences with a professional, curiosity, control …

moral panic

That sums it up nicely. I’ve got nothing to add.

This “it changes the brain” framing is somewhat misleading and sets a very low bar. Neuroplasticity is constant. Your brain is changing its structure and connections all the time in response to literally everything you do.

One of my favourite weird things to do in public is talk to birds as if they could understand me. Usually in my native language but I’m fluent in Dove and Crow as well.

Darkness is an absence, not a substance. In order for that to work you’d need to be projecting some kind of darkness particles or negative energy and that breaks the laws of physics.

Isn’t darkness just lack of light the way cold is lack of heat or a hole is a lack of material surrounding it? These are terms that don’t describe a thing but a lack of a thing.

Europeans are leaving WhatsApp by the dozens!

The meme is already calling men simple, but you absolutely still have to perform the required mental gymnastics to find a sexist angle to criticize here?

We don’t even have a good definition for what “understanding” actually means. It’s like the word “intelligence” - there are dozens of dictionary definitions.

I find it pretty ridiculous to dismiss a long, well-thought-out piece of writing in its entirety just because one word was used in a way you don’t like. Even if you disagree with how they used the term, you most likely still understand what they meant by it. LLMs aren’t generally intelligent, but they’re also not as dumb as people make them out to be. There’s clearly real information processing happening in the background that produces accurate answers way more often than pure chance would allow.

Oh, it grips!

That might be the original pot… …and soil. Maybe I should repot it.

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I have a theory that in the future wars are fought with robots only and when the other side runs out of robots they give up because no human wants to fight against them.

“We don’t have free will but we have the experience of freedom” - Brian Greene

We do things for two reasons: either we have to, or we want to. There’s obviously no freedom in having to do something but we’re not free to choose our wants either. It obviously feels like freedom when you have a desire to do something and then you do it, but what else could you have done?

Also, free will implies there’s someone making a decision. What is that “someone” and where is it?

My personal view is that it’s not so much that we should live as if free will exists, but simply that the concept of no free will is incomprehensible - or even destabilizing - to some people. Being acutely aware of it may not be useful for everyone.

If it’s your yard you should be allowed to have an overgrown jungle if you so wish.

What’s the point of even having a yard if it looks like the ones in the picture? Why not just go live in an apartment then. To me, owning a piece of land to enjoy was kind of the key reason I wanted to own a house in the first place.

It’s my emotional comfort buffer. Leave it alone.

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