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A great gift giving philosophy, because it also requires thought and intention.

So you admit I did hit a nerve? And this is about how you feel about your own gift giving habits? Because I’m not feeling superior, but you seem to think less of yourself now if you’re putting me up there.

Everyone gets defensive when they feel criticized though.

And how much time do you actually spend sitting down and brain storming and trying to think through each gift? Or does the obligation just come up in passing and you immediately go, ‘huh don’t know what they want, I’ll just ask them’, and stop trying?

You might think you know what they want and be totally wrong.

I’d rather see someone put in thought and effort and be wrong, then ask me to put in thought and effort and be right.

Asking never hurts. They can give you a list of options or say “whatever”, but you don’t have to be a baby about it.

You’re literally putting all the gift giving work on them by asking them to think of a gift that they might like, that someone else isn’t likely to get them, and that would be in an appropriate price range for you.

If it’s a one-off like ‘hey, I’m really racking my brain this year and struggling coming up with a gift for you, got any ideas I can use as a jumping off point?’ then it’s one thing, if you’re doing it for everyone, every year, then you’re just throwing money at relationships, trying to give gifts without actually putting in the thought or effort that counts.

Telling people what you want for your birthday feels weird though.

It feels like either we should be close enough that you can think about my hobbies, interests, and life and come up with something that fits, or we’re not close and you get me something fun and generic and it’s nice because I didn’t expect anything from you.

But the middle ground of being like 'its your birthday and I’m willing to spend an amount of money that I won’t really notice on you, but put in no mental effort whatsoever and in fact ask you to put in the mental effort of thinking of an appropriate gift" feels less like gift giving and more like making someone else do all the work so you can check a box.

People over use blocking like crazy.

I constantly see people blocking others just for making a point they disagree with. Rather than actually think through the logic and reasoning of what the other person is saying they go ‘oh I have no counter point to that, that must mean that you’re arguing in bad faith, blocked’.

The internet is already an inherent filter bubble, you don’t need to accelerate that. Most people would benefit from spending more time deeply considering that they might be wrong in ways they can’t fully comprehend, then they would blocking people who fervently disagree with them.

Leftist movements are literally known for infighting and falling apart, it’s the subject of countless memes.

Imho the gifted program is where you send smart kids to lose their social skills.

Absolutely and utterly false. They try and promote fighting, anger, and distrust of government to everyone.

They target leftists with things that will upset them, make them angry at the right and the government and other leftists and sow further discord and polarization.

There isn’t a way to talk with AI zelots in a positive way.

So in your mind there is no middle ground people who feel somewhere between “AI boosting zealot” and “fuck AI it’s terrible in literally every single way”?

If you honestly believe that then you’ve already spent too much time with simple minded communities that only deal in absolutes.

AI may not be a totally useless tool, but any implementation so far has been detrimental to human societies in every measurable way.

Sweeping broad statements like this are almost always incredibly easy to disprove. If you’re talking about AI technology in general, of which LLMs are just one facet, then you can look at the protein structure work of Deep Mind which has literally revolutionized biomedical engineering by predicting the protein structures for hundreds of thousands of proteins, whereas previously predicting the structure of a single one would take a full research PhD.

Even if you’re just talking LLMs there are a myriad of benefits from them being integrated into assistive technology, note taking for medical professionals, improved translation and transcription engines etc.

You can look for a community of ostriches who yell ‘nah nah nah’ while burying their heads in the sand, but you’re not making a difference, you’re just a bunch of birds ineffectively yelling at each other while blinding themselves to reality.

You’re not thinking critically when you start from a conclusion. That’s the opposite of critical thinking. That’s literally just continuing to believe and not question something.

If you don’t want honest advice then ask an AI for an answer, they’re programmed to butter you up and reinforce your bubble.

Your quest is flawed from the outset.

You should be looking for a community to honestly and openly discuss AI, not one with a prescribed viewpoint from the outset.

The fuckai and fuckcars and fuckwhateverelse communities can be satisfying but they are fundamentally biased, and tend to reinforce self righteous viewpoints that are emotionally satisfying in the short term, but reductively mischaracterize the situation and motives involved to the point that it leaves people with an angry, hollow, and unsatisfying perspective.

You realize that when you speak up just to ask other people to use your specific definition of a word, you’re the one getting lost in pedantic semantics, and that can also be addressed by you not doing that, right?

Because once it has a name, it makes it easier to describe and reference in research literature, and thus makes it easier to draw conclusions on.

Everything has some super specific name that professionals in some field use for it because they regularly need to distinguish it from other similar thing that the broader public does not care about.

I pay attention to the fact that it has one that will let it survive a drop into water.

They didn’t care about this system. It just got caught up in their news sources.

This isn’t funny, it’s just a thing that happened.

So it’s funny because the fediverse is so niche that no one designing automated copyright systems care about its odd and unique addressing system?

This is honestly a dumb post. It doesn’t say anything about “Microsoft” understanding or not understanding anything.

It just shows them using an automated system to try and take down an account that they think is infringing on their trademark. There are legal protections for parody accounts, but they are not absolute and it’s possible that Microsoft could get a court order compelling the owner to cease control of the account.