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The current world state. (files.mastodon.social)
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[-] Hegar@fedia.io 98 points 1 month ago

Every time I see something like this I'm reminded of Plato recording Socrates' whinging that books are destroying society and no one can remember anything anymore.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

Damn smartphones, ruining society!

Damn internet, ruining society!

Damn computers, ruining society!

Damn VIDYA GAMES, ruining society!

Damn TV, ruining society!

Damn radio, ruining society!

Damn Newspapers, ruining society!

Damn 2 piece swimsuits, ruining society!

Damn books, ruining society!

Damn clay tablets, ruining society!

Damn language, ruining society!

Damn alphabet, ruining society!

Damn humans, ruining society!

Damn society, ruining society!

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish hours! Confound him too, who in this place set up a sundial to cut and hack my days so wretchedly into small portions!

Plautus, 250 BC

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i dont think this is commentary about phones, specifically. more like we work, machines play.

wrong choice of imagery by the artist perhaps

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 64 points 1 month ago
[-] 8000gnat@reddthat.com 15 points 1 month ago

I literally cannot believe how much this says about society

[-] fjordbasa@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

We live in a society!

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

This one really makes ya think

[-] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago
[-] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago
[-] Lightor@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago

Ahhh yes, the old "reading on paper is big brain individual, reading on phone is mindless."

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Same with "communicating over the internet isn't real communication."

I'm not saying that there aren't problems with how much we're communicating over the internet and how little we're communicating in real life, but the vast majority of humans in history would have considered the ability to send text messages to someone on the other side of the world in less than a second to be reserved for the gods above.

[-] Lightor@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For real! This is like saying "telegrams are destroying our youth" back in the day.

Sure, real human interaction has value, but the ability to text someone on the other side of the planet instantly and have it translated is a huge leap forward not brain rot.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Those cuneiform clay tablets are dragging our youths from proper honest upbringing" - old people, c.a. 3400 BCE

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

You saw a collection of trees, but not the forest, eh?

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 month ago

AI has the free time to study and be artistic. Not us. We must pay to exist.

What rent does the AI pay? Nothing.

No internet bill, no transportation bill, no phone bill, no food bill, no Healthcare/insurance bill.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

AI also isn't studying or being artistic. It has no real awareness of the concepts it's seemingly learning, at least not yet. AI as of right now is basically just statistical analysis of human-made information and art and predictive modelling of how a human might respond to a given prompt.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

AI as of right now

AI for the forseeable future

No need to mince words. Far too much of this terrible hype surrounding it is built on pure speculation of a future that we have no hard evidence is approaching. Just bold claims by people financially invested in selling the hype.

[-] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Someday, if it can sustain itself, it would need to pay for a living.

Right now, someone wants to have an AI. The person pays for it like a pet. But its too expensive, so it needs to give something in return.

We will see if it really benefited the energy costs and internet costs for those Companies who use intense amount of resources for AI.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

you cant exploit ai. you cant whip a gpu into performing better, and you cant pressure algorithms into being smarter for the same amount of money invested to develop and run it.

the (capitalist) system works by exploiting us. machines will throw a monkey wrench in it if it can truly replace our labour.

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[-] SnotFlickerman 35 points 1 month ago

im[$USER_AGE]andthisisdeep

[-] ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago

Phone bad!!!!

[-] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago

everyone keep focussing on the using phone part and missed the part where the humans are still doing menial labor while the robots are doing what people would do to enjoy themselves.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

while the robots are doing what people would do to enjoy themselves.

and for the specific purpose of increasing profit margins of media companies who no longer have to pay artists and writers

If generative AI was merely a computer science endeavour, the 1% wouldn't be investing this heavily in it.

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

It's not like the machines understand what they are reading.

[-] hate2bme@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

But you can read on your phone

[-] xav@programming.dev 11 points 1 month ago

You could. But instead you're doomscrolling on the fediverse.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

sounds to me like they're actually hopeposting, which is the opposite of doomscrolling

[-] hate2bme@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

In my, and I'd say most of our defense, I do learn a lot on here. And I'm not on here anywhere near as much as I was on Reddit.

[-] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago
[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

whos the artist?

EDIT: Thanks for adding the source to the body! To everyone else: https://mastodon.social/@sohel9320/113312549620891784

sohel9320@mastodon.social

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago
[-] SnotFlickerman 5 points 1 month ago
[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

ai has stolen the artists' job, now we must do what it can't do: good art.

[-] RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol 3 points 1 month ago

We are training AI so they can "draw" Wow!!!!

[-] mayo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

This doesn't need to be picked part to be appreciated

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Young man was walking down our road the other night, absorbed in his phone and meandering away from the side. I went by at 5mph over the speed limit, with plenty of clearance, and he threw his arms in the universal statement, "What the fuck?!"

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Well being the driver You are the one responsible for not hitting the pedestrian. So speeding next to a pedestrian at night makes you an asshole.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago

it drives me insane when people argue that unprotected trafficants (translated from the swedish term because lazy) doing something wrong absolves drivers of all guilt, motherfucker the law very clearly states that it's illegal to hurt people, context does not matter and if there is something you could have reasonably done to prevent or lessen the damage you are legally obliged to do it.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

No one, least of all me, is arguing the pedestrian doing something stupid absolves the driver. Ever heard of the Darwin Awards? When you're dead, it doesn't really matter who was right or wrong.

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[-] superkret@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Physics Quiz:
Annoying Anne is driving through a residential area at exactly the limit of 20 mph.
A child jumps into the street.
Anne reacts as fast as humanly possible and manages to stop the car right before she'd hit the child.

Normal Norman is driving through the same residential area at 25 mph, just 5mph over the limit.
A child jumps into the street at the exact same distance as before.
Norman reacts exactly as fast as Anne, and has the same car, tires and brakes.
How fast will Norman's car be when he hits the child?

Answer25mph

ExplanationTotal stopping distance consists of reaction distance (how far your car travels while you react) and braking distance (how far your car travels while you're standing on the brakes until it's stopped).
The total stopping distance at 20 mph is shorter than the reaction distance at 25 mph.

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Human reaction time is ~0.25 seconds.
At 20 mph, you're going ~29 ft per second, so you go ~7.3 ft before you can react.
At 25 mph, that's ~37 ft per second, so ~9.2 ft before you can react.

The internet says a good car can break at about 15 f/s^2.
At 29 f/s, that comes out to a stopping distance of ~28 ft.
At 37 f/s, that's ~46 ft.

So Anne, who's annoying for some reason, needs a total of ~35 ft to stop just before hitting the child.
Norman needs ~9 ft to start decelerating, so by the time he reaches the 35 ft mark (after ~26 ft of hitting the brakes,) it's been a total of ~0.98 seconds, and he is going ~26 f/s, which is ~18 miles per hour.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Fuck, i'm a robot?

[-] max 2 points 1 month ago

i read books on my phone, i'm silly 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 month ago
[-] leonokarin@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Can't stop the developing, but i miss old time sometimes

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