I mean, fair enough, but also, we really shouldn’t be making it even entertaining new definitions for words based on online ragebait.

Not at all. Incels are almost overwhelmingly misogynistic and into a lot of weird pseudo scientific shit. Incels are those claiming they deserve women but at the same time don’t deserve them because they’re too beta and all the rich alphas are getting 10 chicks a second, so they excuse their lack of success with dating in a lot of made up bullshit to delude themselves into never improving as people.

Incels are not just virgins, they’re basically a cult, and thinking people use it just as ‘virgin’ is either deliberately obtuse or ignorant

Huh, that’s so simple and yet so clever. I’m going to give it a try.

Not to mention there are nice beaches on every continent, so they’re much less of an incentive for any non-European tourists. Of course, I doubt non-Europeans are the majority, but still very significant.

In the Americas you have the Caribbean, in Asia you have Bali and Thailand, and even within Europe you have Mallorca, Ibiza and other options.

Meanwhile, only in Italy do you have the Colosseum and all of that famous stuff

Gurgling

Interestingly enough, I love fictional movies, TV shows and comics/graphic novels/manga. It’s just with books where I get bored extremely easily if I don’t feel like there’s a tangible connection with the real world.

I guess I approach books with a “time to learn” mindset, and not necessarily as sources of entertainment. Even though I very much enjoy learning about history, and find it entertaining.

I read a lot, too, just not much fiction. If you look at my Kindle library, I have bought like 50 books since I got it, around 10 are fiction, and all are about 30-40% through, none are finished. The remaining 40 are either history books or textbooks for my other hobbies. I have only dropped 2 of them.

I have a handful of fictional books that I have finished and thoroughly enjoyed: Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez, Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa, the Harry Potter Series (when I was younger), the Feast of the Goat by Vargas Llosa and the Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe.

That has been me in the past. Not to my wife, but as a younger person, I only read history books and stuff (still do) and felt superior because I did that (I don’t do that anymore of course), so I would sneer at my friends’ fiction and stuff because it was “worthless” compared to “real history” where you “actually learned stuff”.

It’s a dumb mindset, and I definitely don’t feel like that anymore. I still don’t read fiction or enjoy it, but it’s just a hobby like any other, or like my thing with history.

That is me. I have a poor sense of color and have needed to be restrained in the past.

Jokes on my wife though because her sense of pitch is shaky, while I sure can sing.

Then again, she’s an artist and I’m a musician. She has taught me how to avoid the really bad combinations and some theory of color while I have taught her to stay on pitch when there’s a background voice doing something else.

The funniest part is that based on what people are saying or GPT5, the ending where AIs get super bored of humans’ stupidity and dump them seems so likely

I think they’re in a tight spot. With South Park plots, usually there’s a neat bow to tie it all up. And when they do social commentary or political criticism (except for that one bad season), they can just mock whoever it is and go back to normal life at the end. But since the current state of the US is pretty exceptional, and it seems to be in free fall, there is no real way to end political episodes. The people they’re mocking can’t be portrayed to change, grow, die or become irrelevant, so there’s only so much they can do.

Truly the wackiest of birbs. They’re so cute.

Damn, imagine the levels of segregation, speciesm and genocide we would see if other human species had thrived and grown like us.

It may also be correlated with the population, though. Specifically the working age population.

I imagine that, as populations decrease and you have fewer people available to actually do any research, technological advancement also stagnates and slows down. If populations ever start increasing again in the future, then I imagine technological development will grow as well

Honestly, with adequate governance, companies would be required to submit reports on how much labor they’re doing using AI, and pay those wages to either their employees or to a sort of “Universal Income” fund to prop up families in poverty. It should be called the AI tax.

The problem is that, with the current state of affairs, asking for regulation from anyone is impossible, and also even if the law were enacted, getting the money from the companies to people who need it instead of the ultra-rich is a major hurdle.

But at the very least, I don’t think we should allow companies to simply cut down on human labor without also contributing economically to the employees they cut off.

I don’t think anyone is dying to fill in Excel spreadsheets or to write corporate emails. No one is complaining about AI doing those jobs, but about people who lost their livelihoods because of it.

But I don’t think that’s necessarily a problem that can’t be solved. LLM and so on are ultimately simply statistical analysis, and if you refine it and train it enough, it can absolutely summarise at least one paper at the moment. Google’s Notebook LM is already capable of it, I just don’t think it can quite pull off many of them yet. But the current state of LLMs is not that far off.

I agree with AIs being way over hyped and also just having a general dislike for them due to the way they’re being used, the people who gush over them, and the surrounding culture. But I don’t think that means we should simply ignore reality altogether. The LLMs from 2 or even 1 year ago are not even comparable to the ones today, and that trend will probably keep going that way for a while. The main issue lies with the ethics of training, copyright, and of course, the replacement of labor in exchange of what amounts to simply a cool tool.

The problem is that you do need to keep training models for this to make sense.

And you always need at least some human editorialization of models, otherwise the model will just say whatever, learn from itself and degrade over time. This cannot be done by other AIs, so for now you still need humans to make sure the AI models are actually getting useful information.

The problem with this, which many have already pointed out, is that it makes AIs just as unreliable as any traditional media. But if you don’t oversee their datasets at all and just allow them to learn from everything then they’re even more useless, basically just replicating social media bullshit, which nowadays is like at least 60% AI generated anyway.

So yeah, the current model is, not surprisingly, completely unsustainable.

The technology itself is great though. Imagine having an AI that you can easily train at home on 100s of different academic papers, and then run specific analyses or find patterns that would be too big for humans to see at first. Also imagine the impact to the medical field with early cancer detection or virus spreading patterns, or even DNA analysis for certain diseases.

It’s also super good if used for creative purposes (not for just generating pictures or music). So for example, AI makes it possible for you to sing a song, then sing the melody for every member of a choir, and fine tune all voices to make them unique. You can be your own choir, making a lot of cool production techniques more accessible.

I believe once the initial hype dies down, we stop seeing AI used as a cheap marketing tactic, and the bubble bursts, the real benefits of AI will become apparent, and hopefully we will learn to live with it without destroying each other lol.

It’s quite poetic innit

Isn’t it better to have specific stations where you can leave them and pick them back up?

I’ve seen that model in Bogota, Buenos Aires and Tokyo, and people still absolutely use them all the time and they don’t make as much of a mess. It’s pretty good.

Actually, I think it makes sense. Japanese definitely has a specific learning community, while communities about Japanese culture or even communities in Japanese exist elsewhere.

Reddit’s r/Spanish community is completely different from !esp here, and I think this community aims to be that eventually instead of what any of the chachara communities are, which I feel are closer to just forums for Spanish speakers to post whatever.

Ultimately, among English speakers, Spanish and Japanese are the two most popular languages to learn, and if you look at r/Spanish, again, it’s one of the largest language-focused communities on Reddit. Think about this more as a sub for language learning than a sub just for posts in Spanish.

And hey, if no one ever posts here, I mean, that’s totally fine as well, right? I don’t see the problem with trying to make an active community for language learners.

English obviously will never have a dedicated community, because speaking English is de facto an entry barrier to communities like the Fediverse, even if we like to pretend it isn’t. A Spanish speaker with no English knowledge is extremely unlikely to simply stumble upon any Fediverse content.

Isnt Jupiter mostly gas/liquid with only a solid core?