I have no issue with an online service knowing my age for as long as that’s all they know and will ever know about me.

I’m not one to call people names with the intention of hurting their feelings, and I don’t even believe in free will to begin with. But if I were to call someone an idiot, it wouldn’t come from the assumption that they actively choose to be one or that they could choose otherwise. No, they’re helplessly an idiot - and I’m just making a factual statement about the world.

They were killed in Kuwait.

I personally think the issue comes up when people say things behind each other’s backs that they wouldn’t dare say to their face. In my previous workplace there were a few people who always talked shit about our boss when he wasn’t around, but the second he showed up they’d act like everything was fine and they were best buddies.

The problem isn’t that the criticism was never valid - it’s that they showed me I can’t trust them to be genuine around me. They thought they’re damaging the reputation of my boss but it’s their own reputation that took the biggest hit.

When someone starts to gossip they’re basically just letting you know that they’re the kind of person you shouldn’t share any sensitive personal information with. I never quite figured out how these people can be so oblivious to it though. If someone talks shit of other people to me then I assume they talk shit of me to other people as well.

People. I do find things like group psychology interesting but discussing individuals is mind-numbingly uninteresting. Especially celebrity gossip but political figures are a close second.

Yes, and when you can’t stop on your own it’s generally advisable to try and find help.

People don’t generally try and seek help for behaviour they wish to continue.

It’s not that porn or masturbation is bad. Spending 4+ hours a day, 5+ days a week on it is. If you don’t believe this to be the case, then I’d genuinely like to hear your reasoning.

Porn addiction and compulsive masturbation are real things - something I’ve dealt with most of my life. I never really turned to NoFap because it always felt too ideological for my taste, but that doesn’t change the fact that there are a ton of real people there struggling and desperately trying to get help.

I have no issue criticizing any kind of extremism, but I just felt the need to remind everyone not to throw the baby out with the bathwater or dismiss it as not a real issue. It’s not that porn or masturbation is inherently bad. Some people just take it way too far to the point that it starts actively harming them - same as with any potentially addictive behavior.

They are not willing to let their current models (Claude) be used in fully autonomous weapons right now, because they believe today’s frontier AI is still too unreliable and prone to errors. They explicitly say they “will not knowingly provide a product that puts America’s warfighters and civilians at risk.”

However, they have offered to work directly with the Department of Defense on R&D to improve the reliability of autonomous weapons technology in general (with our two requested safeguards in place) - so that in the future these systems might become safe and trustworthy enough to use.

They’re not ideologically against autonomous weapons systems. They’re against ones that run on our current AI models.

That’s your intrepretation - not a direct quote.

My instance hasn’t removed them, but I’ve personally hidden downvotes for myself since the day I joined Lemmy. I even had them hidden on Reddit too. That way I don’t have to get mildly annoyed every time what I consider a reasonable take gets downvoted right away, yet nobody bothers to write a counter-argument with any genuine intention of changing my mind.

I don’t see any value in someone just shouting “boo” from the audience. If you disagree, then tell me exactly what you disagree with and why, and we’ll talk about it. If that’s too much to ask, then I don’t even need to know about it.

Those damn fascists again.

with our two requested safeguards in place.

Said safeguards being that their technology isn’t being used for mass surveillance or the development of autonomous drones. It’s explicitly mentioned in their statement - the one you’re desperately trying to massage and misquote to make it seem like they’re saying something they’re not - yet anyone can just go and read it themselves

Like any group, it consists of individuals - and the differences among members within the group are usually greater than the differences between that group and others. Also, cults tend to form around a charismatic leader, whereas this is just a self-selected bunch of people.

I’d argue it’s not the scientist’s duty to alter their terminology so the layperson can better understand it - but the layperson’s duty to learn what the terms actually mean.

As long as there’s water inside the heater it’s fine.

Not sure what the answer is.

Keep the system but hide the scores from users.

Israel, losing its support gets buttfucked by Iran

Dreaming of 10 million people, including women and children getting massacred puts you up there with the worst people in the history when it comes to your aspirations.