It’s incredible. I went to a consultation forum regarding intruding 20mph speed limits and all these conspiracy nuts just came out of the crowd like some zombie apocalypse.

It’s conspiracies all the way down.

If you’re out there, need to be in a car and for whatever reason find it hard to keep the car at 20mph - do what I do and use the speed limiter function (if you have one). Works a charm.

With or without the tech aid though, there’s no excuse.

TIL; “Out of Place Artefact”

No idea.

Hawking threw a party once to see if any time travellers would turn up.

Aneurysms are not related to neurones. They’re bulges in the walls of blood vessels related to structural weakness. They can affect vessels that supply the brain and if they burst it can be catastrophic and rapidly fatal - is this what you were thinking of?

Wikipedia link for proper definitions and examples here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurysm

Agree. Ideas, however heinous, never quite die out. But we can educate people so that they can recognise abhorrent ideology for what it is and avoid being radicalised.

Sadly the terrible ideas that lead to Nazi Germany and the horrors that came with it still abound.

Wikipedia link to NeoNazism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism

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>Reddit admins chose to strengthen censorship and guidelines against anything that could be considered lewd.

I am not sure that this is quite correct; I got the impression that the NSFW content management / content restriction aspect was chosen to be the palatable or defensible thin end of the wedge on the road to creating increasing disparity between what was available via the official app and what could be accessed by third parties via API - my guess is that we would start to see gatekeeping of things like sport content and maybe some sponsored subreddits etc.

>Reddit admins chose the path of strict regulation and higher prices, and then made the pricing for API access exorbitant.

Exactly; the impression I got was that they wanted third-party apps to be financially non-viable.

>Ultimately, Reddit was trying to force traffic (and revenue) through ONLY their app

Absolutely. And by the time they killed off Apollo, I was already browsing Lemmy.

What if I tasked an LLM with replying to your comment? Say I instruct it to provide something with an agreeable tone and I pick one out of two or three drafts.

Is it still me?

I suppose that by that point it’s not much different than having a speech writer…

I think the key difference is that the words put out via printing press were still arranged the way they were by human hand.

The painting and the photograph are framed by human eyes.

The output of an “AI” seems different because it seems that there is less (of potentially no) human input. I say “seems” because that may or may not be true. If a human guides the AI with instructions, is that enough?

In my line of work, AI is coming. I see it as a friend in silico

Let’s explore this further. When we look at the work of a human we can often see their influences (and they can often acknowledge them or even cite specific works). In a way, they are able to credit those they were inspired by.

Would an “AI” be able to do the same? I’m guessing it probably can, but more as a statistical similarity to other works. I don’t know if it can cite its sources.

A discussion around the extent to which painters were replaced by photographers (and professional photographers replaced by laypersons with smartphone cameras) isn’t going to quite be the same as a discussion about human illustrators being potentially replaced by “AI”.

I suspect the words “soul” and “character” (and derivatives thereof) to turn up more.

The problem in the picture isn’t the bikes, it’s the inconsiderate way in which they’ve been parked; as you say the problem can be rectified quite easily.

I’d be annoyed if I came across this while trying to pass in exactly the same way I’d be annoyed if I came across a car parked across the cycle lane or across the kerb.

As for bicycle “hate”, I have no idea how to fix that. I recently came across a whole host of whacky conspiracy theories from people who think legislation that discourages vehicle use (emissions charges, congestion charges, 15-minute town, pedestrianisation, restricting petrol/diesel, even bus and cycle lanes) is all some elitist (globalist, WEF, insert other group here) plot as part of a war on “freedom”. It’s a rabbit hole I’ve now explored once, briefly, and I’m not going back in there. Too much crazy. But these people cannot see the freedom of bikes and appear to really hate them. Worse - they’re often the people who think bicycles need licensing and registration; there’s a real overlap.

Just search under community: https://lemmy.world/search?q=nostupidquestions&type=Communities

The process you are going through now is how things get “better”.

Right now there a a multitude of communities across multiple instances that all superficially appear to be the same thing; if you must have ready access to all of it in your feed then yes you will need to subscribe to all of them.

The reality is that these places are not all the same. Not everyone is going to want to join all of them and they will be subject to different moderation. There will be different levels of activity and on the whole different vibes.

Over time, some will diverge, some will diminish and some will close and direct you to post elsewhere.

If you’re comparing to Reddit - that is a place where a lot of this has already happened; for mainstream subjects one sub became dominant but it’s worth bearing in mind that for some niche subjects there would still be a handful to subscribe to for a fuller picture.

It’ll happen here too; over time things will evolve and settle into a pattern.

As for the caring part - caring comes across in how we choose to interact with each other on here; the way we do that will strongly influence the way these communities grow and change over time.

So. We can influence how things will be. No individual person or entity will ever be in complete control. So it goes.

Edit: Also, the communities search tool on Lemmy.World reveals more communities with the same name: https://lemmy.world/search?q=nostupidquestions&type=Communities

Your last paragraph including something that resonated with me. I do think some have come to view cycling as something that is elitist/hipster, at least as a distinct subculture away from the mainstream - with its own lingo and uniform.

I trigger the record function on my dash cam when I worry that I could have done things better. Watching the footage has helped me find opportunities for learning and development.

I believe that good driving requires empathy. Empathy for other road users - pedestrians, horses, bikes, cars, whatever - makes you a calm, courteous and safe driver.

Empathy requires a lot of brain power - you need to be able to analyse your surroundings and anticipate your needs and the needs of others, in real time and at speed . I reckon most people lack the discipline to free up the head space required to be empathetic. A proportion will lack the head space to do much more than just drive the car, but that might be my cynical misanthropy creeping in.