here you go:

Lemmy is like a cafe, not like a stadium.

“Sure, you could meet people the old-fashioned way by going outside, but that feels like a lot of work. So instead you navigate this bleak dystopian hellscape sifting through the dregs of humanity through your smartphone while each day brings you closer to the cold hard hands of death.”

There it is. Their chatbots need more training data and reinforcement feedback.

Fam if you need to use reddit don’t feel bad about it. “The trick is not to ignore the mainstream, but to selectively raid it for things we can use.” -M. Gunderloy

!unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org

There are a couple abilities involved:

• knowing something
• modeling a learner: understanding someone else’s current level of knowledge and the nature of their lack of knowledge such as misconceptions.
• instruction skill: having the ability to remedy the learner’s misconceptions and build upon their existing knowledge to transmit the knowledge/skill

The last two are nontrivial. You ever told someone the answer to something and they just didn’t get it? Even though it was stunningly obvious to you? The last two are why.

Anyway, to your point: a lot of times the best action is just to point someone in the right direction.

ikr sounds like that thing where Socrates’ wisdom was realizing that he was not wise.

Socrates then sought to solve the divine paradox—how an ignorant man also could be the wisest of all men—in effort to illuminate the meaning of the Oracles’ categorical statement that he is the wisest man in the land. After systematically interrogating the politicians, the poets, and the craftsmen, Socrates determined that the politicians were not wise like he was. He says of himself, in reference to a politician: “I am wiser than this man; it is likely that neither of us knows anything worthwhile, but he thinks he knows something when he does not.”(21d).[15] Socrates says that the poets did not understand their poetry; that the prophets and seers did not understand what they said; and that the craftsmen while knowing many things, thought they also had much knowledge on things of which they had none.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apology_(Plato)#Part_one:_The_defence_of_Socrates

best? I don’t think it would turn out how you think it would…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Argentina#Infamous_Decade_(1930–43)

I’m pretty sure he was kidding about the elves. In the article he says:

“I work for three hours, and then I get stumped, and I’m not making progress. So I quit, and I go and work in the tunnel. It takes me an hour or so to dig four inches and put in the 4-by-4s. … Then I go back up and work some more.”

It’s a common technique when dealing with a difficult research/creative problem.

• gain a good understanding of the problem (even if you’re stuck on how to solve it)
• go do something unrelated work (preferrably physical, like gardening or housework or… working on your basement apparently.)

I think it gives your subconscious a chance to work on the problem without your conscious mind interfering.

here are some ways to find communities:

• !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
• !newcommunities@discuss.online
• !newcommunities@lemmy.world
• !communities@ponder.cat
• !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
• !findacommunity@lemmy.ml
• !lemmy411@lemmy.ca

also:

Not sure if this’ll help or hurt, but here’s a video of him playing Lenin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsiU0P-swYE

The discussion of exploding-heads on sh.itjust.works before they defederated is pretty interesting: https://sh.itjust.works/post/564252 If you can’t see that link bc of defederation, look at it anonymously or on a web browser.

When lemmy.world defederated, there were some examples of why, though the discussion isn’t as interesting: https://lemmy.world/post/747912

Aw yeah the dad goes to punk and rock shows. How have we not yet discussed his picture of Lemmy from Motorhead?
https://littler.net/photos/2003/2003-05 (May)/index2.htm

edit:

• Exploited: https://littler.net/photos/2003/2003-10-TheExploited/index.html
• Patti Smith: https://littler.net/photos/2003/2003-01 (Jan)/index2.htm
• IGGY!!! https://littler.net/photos/2001/30November2001/index2.html
• Buzzcocks https://littler.net/photos/2000/Nov-Dec 2000/buzzcocks.htm
• Misfits: https://littler.net/photos/2000/Misfits Oct 2000/Oct2000Misfits.html
• Misfits again: https://littler.net/photos/2002/6Summer2002/index2.htm
• Circle Jerks: https://littler.net/photos/2003/CircleJerks/index.html
• Mission of Burma: https://littler.net/photos/2003/2003-02 (Feb)/index.htm
• The Fall: https://littler.net/photos/2003/TheFall/index.html
• Rockets from The Tomb: https://littler.net/photos/2003/2003-12-RocketTomb/index.html

The individual pages are still there, just not linked to on the main page. You can find the URLs by looking on archive:

• https://littler.net/graeme/index.htm
• https://littler.net/resume/donnaresume.htm
• (the kids never had their own pages)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inclines_in_Pittsburgh

Yeah when I played D&D in college it was just like that lol.

My favorite are the satanic conspiracy ones. Like where there’s literally a satan who is directing their devils and worshippers to lead people to commit sins.

My next favorite are the ones that are just telling people to believe in the christian god and to follow the christian moral code and that they will suffer eternally if they don’t. These are occasionally moving.

The ones I dislike are the rest, which are mostly promoting bigotry against other religions or that have extremist views like you mention.

btw if you haven’t seen it, check out the “Dark Dungeons” short film; it was made by some independent filmmakers who got Chick’s permission to adapt one of the tracts. They play it (mostly) straight with just the right touches of satire, and it comes off beautifully:

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYxu1LqkyT3Ihj7l2n2WSH0KlqOJaEio

(the video says “preview” but the full playlist is the full movie)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_tract
• https://www.chick.com/products/category?type=tracts#Category=All&SortBy=A-Z&PageNumber=1&Language=English&ShowCount=12&Status=Stock
• https://archive.org/details/lost-chick-tracts
• https://archive.org/details/all-chick-tracts/

It’s odd the way these articles talk about dictatorship taking hold in the US

Yeah, there are a lot of valuable lessons to be learned by studying the Roman Republic and Empire. This article does none of that, it just lists a bunch of parallels. It’s in the same genre as “12 reasons why Joe Biden was the antichrist!”

I’m continually disappointed in The Atlantic. At one time it would have published a thoughtful essay on the topic. Instead this article just normalizes the idea that democracy in the US is doomed to fall.