awillowingmind

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by awillowingmind 3mo ago
Can you give an example of what people may transition to?
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by awillowingmind 8mo ago
This completely ignores that a lot of products distill expertise into something manageable for the end user. And that the actual act of these 3rd parties offering said products maintains not only the software, but the knowledge required to
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by awillowingmind 8mo ago
We're going to collapse society with this style of thinking, particularly since it can now escape out into the realm of non-technical folks. Death of true understanding because everyone feels entitled to paying the lowest perceived mon
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by awillowingmind 9mo ago
Twitch & Kick are likely included because they can breed parasocial relationships between streamer & viewer.
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by awillowingmind 9mo ago
What you’re implicitly saying here is that we should wait until there is empirical evidence. That could take multiple decades, and even then will be tenuous at best because you’re dealing with a soft science. At that point the damage will h
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by awillowingmind 9mo ago
We very clearly are making progress on these century long issues, unless you somehow think kids now are growing up in more hostile physical environments than they were 100 years ago. This ban does not prevent kids from using IM platforms li
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by awillowingmind 9mo ago
You are framing this as if you had no in person social connections due to your circumstances. By your OWN admission elsewhere in this thread, this is untrue: > Kids are in these spaces because there is no place for them to be. People cal
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by awillowingmind 9mo ago
I despise ads. I take any chance I can to pay for my content rather than support ad-based revenue. But you can’t solve that issue with policy. It’s a cultural issue. People are not willing to pay for the content they consume (with money). N
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by awillowingmind 9mo ago
Ah yes brilliant. Instead of trying to address these issues at their source let’s just let kids form immaterial connections online and guarantee they never learn how to form any sort of in person communication skills!
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by awillowingmind 9mo ago
They change color to communicate AND to regulate body temperature AND as camouflage. It is not a ‘myth’ that one of the use cases for their color changing is camouflage, I’m not sure what they are on about.
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by awillowingmind 9mo ago
Your argument seems overly reliant on the definition of an adult. What is an adult? Is it a measure of responsibility, mental maturity? Because I would wager the level of responsibility and mental maturity of the average 18 year old has bee
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by awillowingmind 9mo ago
Assuming that they are able to fully replace the workforce, and that technocracy is fully realized, the majority stakeholders of these corporations will rely on corporations akin to palantir & anduril for private security.
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by awillowingmind 10mo ago
I’m not sure how you lived through the last decade and came to the conclusion that people aged 17-25 make rational decisions with novel technologies that have short term gain and long term (essentially hidden) negative side effects.