Complain about it on [email protected]

You can only complain about mods that instance owner disagrees with…

There’s entire instances that you can’t complain about any of the mod activity.

The only thing weirder than people still using reddit, is when they think other people give a shit about reddit…

promise to keep this account so I can just block you and move on with my life.

Can you do the same?

Because you’re more annoying at this point then they are, and apparently just made your seventh account to do this shit.

Like, I know you’re just thinking of it as “giving them their own medicine” but that’s because neither of you are thinking about anyone else.

They post a couple random articles, you derail any comment chains

His arguments are „we don’t know how brains work, we don’t know how conscience works, but we also don’t know how quantum mechanics could enable conscience, so it’s definitely the thing”.

You could have just said “I didn’t understand what he said” it would have been faster and there’s no shame in it, although it brings into question why even leave a comment…

Penrose is like 90+, but he never stopped doing speeches and lectures, there’s a shit ton on YouTube now because he’s (rightfully) been doing a crazy long victory lap the last couple years.

This is a pretty good one that also has Sabine Hossenfelder (leading physicist) and Slavoj Žižek (Eastern European philosopher who’s a little crazy) as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdzXbIW9kxY

But it’s from Institute of Art and Ideas, and they routinely post amazing lectures about relatively broad topics.

It’s always about insanely complicated topics, but the speakers are usually good at breaking it down, even tho the people in attendance are all specialists in whatever field they happen to be talking about.

For decades Roger Penrose (the “brains” in the duo with Hawking who finished up Einstein’s work) had been saying there has to be a quantum component to consciousness.

Dudes probably the smartest living human, and has devoted like 30 years to understanding consciousness.

No one believed him, because quantum anything is hard to maintain in nature, specifically in the brain where it’s “warm and wet”.

About 2.5 years ago tho, a different researcher using recent tech breakthroughs was able to prove microtubules form basically these little fiberoptic cables in our brain, and inside of those little cables, quantum superposition is able to be maintained. Which is like wishing you could afford a hard boiled egg in these trying times, then winning the powerball.

Just far and above what anyone dreamed of finding.

Because of that, we don’t have to try and come up with a convoluted way for neurons to be able to produce consciousness. Which is why prior theory on neuron mapping tried to force the assumption that they had to follow the most efficient paths.

No, it’s because if someone makes an account for just one post, they’re most likely trolling, banned from the community on their main account, or just have such consistently terrible takes that they always get heavily down oted and they care too much what people on social media think.

If you stick to the same account and keep posting, people will block you, which gradually increases the amount of people who see your post and agree with it.

If you keep making new accounts to complain about shit, the same people are going to keep down oting you, because they can’t block you.

It’s really not complicated, but a very very small amount of people just can never understand it.

Albert-László Barabási says that “it’s very costly to build wiring.” Scientists long thought that neurons would maximize their efficiency by minimizing the length of their connections, but observational data contradicted this hypothesis.

Because prevailing theory is still catching up to the reality that neurons aren’t the main part…

We kept trying to make a neuron system be fast enough to account for consciousness, which just isn’t possible. But because that’s not what the neurons are doing, they don’t need to be hyper optimized for shit they’ll never be tasked with.

It’s wild people think:

1. Our nukes matter to aliens

2. Aliens would just ignore an actual threat

3. Aliens would ignore a planet that will eventually be a threat but isn’t one yet

4. The few centuries we’ve been noticable is enough time to feel confident no one is out there.

And still think they know more than anyone else and need to comment on it…

Planning to only sleep 4 hours max every night for four years is a terrible fucking idea, especially since you seem to wanting to do it “productively” for college…

You’re forgetting shit because you’re chronically sleep deprived, and whatever you think is so important that you’re not sleeping is doing more harm than good.

Like, why the fuck would someone do this, realize it’s bad, read empirical evidence it’s bad, then ask random social media for ancedotal evidence to feel better about ignoring research?

Like, what are you even going to school for, what program accepted you? I feel like there’s a very high chance you’re being taken advantage of someway

He is deeply and intimately familiar with the technical and social structures of the modern internet, his analysis of various phenomena and trends is usually on-point and has some predictive power

If you think he predicts anything, you’re streets behind

Most importantly he offers solutions to the issues facing us

He repeats what anyone could find in a five minute Google search from articles written by others.

I’ve never seen an original thought, he’s the Carlos Mencia of tech.

The point the fediverse is at right now would be refered to as the “golden age” if the fediverse ever takes off.

That doesn’t mean it will take off, and that doesn’t mean it would be better or worse if it takes off later.

Enjoy it for what it is, but if you want to recruit people to it…

Your time would be best doing that, and this is the worst place to do it.

is there any way if knowing if we have bots on lemmy or not? Is it just vibes based?

Man…

In a weird way, yeah, but only because the process of critical thinking is now being described as “vibes”…

Like, even when people can tell at a glance, it’s still critical thinking, it’s just been done so much that your brain autopilots it for you.

Im of course referring to undercover bots pushing agendas

That costs a non zero amount of money, and there isn’t a big enough audience here to justify it.

What I have seen, is people who will copy/paste a chatbot, but because they’re having to use actual credits, if you keep them going a couple comments the actual human will reply.

But those are very few, and doing personal agendas. Not a shadowy organization spinning a narrative. The ones doing it here, have just been banned from every where else for doing it already

What’s your opinion on this matter?

That the one study that you think says social media isn’t bad is the one study that didn’t just look at social media…

So the logical result is that social media is still bad, but that other technology can offset it. If nothing else because it’s time not spent on social media.

I mean, it’s all laid out in the study…

Our study also did not differentiate between various types of games or social media; this is important because certain games are more strongly associated with problematic gaming.54 Online gaming is often included within the broader definition of social media,55 and platforms like Discord or Twitch are integral to the gaming community. The lack of differentiation between these platforms may obscure important findings and could partly explain why more frequent gaming among girls predicted decreases in later social media use. In addition, there are contextual factors that likely moderate the psychological effects of video gaming—such as social context (e.g. solo vs. multiplayer), player motivation (e.g. escapism, competition), and timing of play,56 which were not captured in the current study. Similarly, different social media platforms vary in features and user engagement patterns, which may influence their impact on mental health in distinct ways. Additionally, the reliance on time-based measures for social media and gaming overlooks other important dimensions, such as the purpose of use, emotional responses, or the specific nature of interactions. Similarly, while some evidence suggests that the distinction between ‘active’ and ‘passive’ social media use may offer more nuanced insights than total time spent,24 it remains narrow in scope.46 Finally, while the large and diverse sample enhances generalizability, it is still limited to the UK context, and findings may not fully apply to other cultural settings.

There is value in this being documented, otherwise the person without “common sense” may be influenced by someone with an agenda who does document their thoughts.

Oh yeah, because no one has “documented” that AI is bullshit yet…

Only the brave Cory Doctrow could gather and disseminate this to the masses!

/s

Saying common sense stuff before others

Yeah bro…

No one else has pointed out AI will fail before 1/18/26…

Only the great Cory Doctrow could identify something that no other human has ever even contemplated.

I heard next, he’s going to release a blog post that Nazis might not be nice people

This man has really built a career and following off saying common sense things…

I don’t know why people keep eating it up or acting like he’s a genius, but at least this time he isn’t coining a new term to “explain” something that leads to everyone using it but not understanding what’s actually happening.

First and foremost, before the usual argument happens, I know that more is not necessarily better.

Having said that, it would be better if lemmy’s userbase were much bigger

Ok Rick James…

With how easy it is for banned accounts to just make a new one somewhere, there really needs to be some kind of account age limiter. As far as I know it’s not an option on any instance.

So, what to do?

See things you don’t care about and ignore them.

The vast majority of humans are capable of this, and can even do it relatively subconsciously