Recent comments in /f/singularity

Unlucky-Prize t1_jegh4q8 wrote

Software that gives you rapid positive feedback to ideate negative and anxious behavior is going to reinforce the behavior. And being in a state of continual anxiety and pessimism is mental illness.

When you treat mental illness with therapy you do the exact opposite - positive reinforce avoiding negative ideation, and positively reinforce positive ideation.

Have seen people fiddle with depression meds and fail to reach resolution… but what worked was uninstalling Twitter, Insta and Tik Tok. One of my colleagues was borderline suicidal and got off of those repeated negative stimuli and is now very happy and on very limited meds.

The problem is the stuff that is paranoid about social issues and constant doom and gloom as well as social comparisons that make you feel bad. You’d avoid people like that IRL and yet people compulsively seek it online.

As a parent I’m never letting minor kids on those platforms, and I’ll tell any adult I know well to get off.

Digital fentanyl is absurd. But it’s really bad for you, especially if you are lower self esteem or are still maturing as a person (particularly 10-15, but under 30 in general)

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agorathird t1_jeggpm6 wrote

>You may need to review your definitions. And I expect downvotes given this sub’s anti-capitalist stance. Shame

*Shits self* "I expect everyone to say that I stink. Shame"

Make a better argument before you claim unfairness prematurely.

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Freedom_Alive t1_jeggdja wrote

They're too find behind the curve. The horse has bolten and taken a rocket ship to mars.

Imagine the gov trying to develop electric cars today.

The public sector will be 10x the cost to achieve 10% of the results.

And recently there was a good meme of UK Gov paying cyber security experts £50k so imagine who wants to go work for instead of building a million dollar company with this tech.

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throwaway12131214121 OP t1_jeggbb3 wrote

First of all, the profits of oil companies(for example) are absolutely at the expense of everybody else(arguably, they are at the expense of everybody period). Not everything is about money.

Secondly, lots of exchanges happen where not both parties profit. Exchanges happen where neither party profits. Because the profit of an exchange is not always predictable, and there are also other factors that might influence decision making. I don’t profit from working in a sweatshop because the time and energy I spend doing it is worth much more than what I am paid. I still do it though, because the system is such that if I don’t do it, I die.

Profit for a business is simply the difference between cost of business and revenue.

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SpinRed t1_jegg085 wrote

Settle down skippy.

I asked ChatGPT for a simple line graph (or even a link to one) showing demand for NFT's over the last 2 years...couldn't do it. I had to do a Google search. I'm guessing you can start going over the moon with excitement around version 6 or 7....maybe.

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OkFish383 t1_jegf2jw wrote

A super intelligence will be more intelligent not hurting living beings as humans were intelligent hurting living beings, because it's super intelligent an knows better. This is my thought to this.

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