I guess you don’t think much of your parents then if you feel like you’re a better judge of that.

Massive amount of hypocrisy and double standards going on ITT. Imagine the outrage if someone suggested doing that to your feed.

The fact that the trail exists there in the first place means that there’s enough people walking on it that the grass dies and doesn’t grow bag. I’ve started a trail from scratch and I doubt there’s more than a handful of people walking there every week but the trail just keeps getting more carved in.

The average business in the U.S. employs about four people, and roughly half employ even fewer than that. I run a business that employs one person - me. So I’m not sure whose way I’m supposed to be getting out of, or how exactly I’m making anyone’s life worse.

Choosing to filter out political content from your social media feed isn’t necessarily about denial or apathy. For many people, it’s a conscious decision to preserve their mental clarity and avoid being constantly pulled into emotionally charged, tribal, or manipulative discourse. Being well-informed doesn’t require immersing yourself in an endless stream of outrage, nor does stepping back from that mean you’re turning a blind eye to anything.

There’s a difference between ignoring reality and choosing how and when to engage with it. Most of what passes for political content online isn’t a sober presentation of facts or ideas - it’s performance, manufactured outrage, and algorithm-driven noise. If someone wants to stay sane and focus on things they can actually influence in their immediate life, I don’t see that as sticking their head in the sand. I see it as setting healhy boundaries in an environment that’s often designed to provoke rather than inform.

People aren’t morally obligated to be constantly exposed to negativity just to prove they care. In fact, thoughtful action tends to come from those who can step back from the noise and think clearly, not from those who are perpetually consumed by it.

I agree. I’m getting pretty tired of your condescending tone. I’ve looked past your false accusation about me supposedly downvoting you, ignored the rude “explain or GTFO” remark, and even politely asked you to clarify what you were asking so I could give you a more helpful answer - but you just keep going with the same behavior.

You have a nice day.

It’s about as effective as talking about it on social media all day, every day. The people making real change are out in the real world doing concrete things - not just posting about it online. Shaming people for not wanting to be miserable 24/7 because of the constant firehose of bad news isn’t just unproductive - it’s counterproductive.

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Put that into your adblocker custom filters (assuming you’re using a browser)

I just told you. I’m speaking of the human brain.

Wetware is a term drawn from the computer-related idea of hardware or software, but applied to biological life forms.

The prefix “wet” is a reference to the water found in living creatures. Wetware is used to describe the elements equivalent to hardware and software found in a person, especially the central nervous system (CNS) and the human mind.

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Paul Bloom has written an entire book arguing Against Empathy

I’m not sure I entirely agree with his thesis but it’s not a completely outrageous idea. I often wish I could tone down my level of empathy as well.

I don’t understand what you’re asking.

I’m refering to the meat computer i.e. human brain.

You could be a brain in a vat - what you experience in that case would effectively be a simulation running on wetware instead of silica. But that still wouldn’t change the fact that what you’re experiencing is happening right now from your subjective point of view. Even if this were just a pre-recorded memory from someone else, it still feels like the present moment to you.

Everything you perceive could be smoke and mirrors, completely fake - but the one thing that remains undeniably true is that it feels like something, not nothing. Even a psychedelic trip, as bizarre or unreal as it may seem, is still just another appearance in consciousness. And for that to happen, your biological body needs to be alive. If you’re dead, there’s nothing left that could have - or host - that experience.

How could you possibly have an experience if you’re dead? We don’t fully understand what consciousness is - the fact that it feels like something to be - but it seems like a safe bet to claim that it’s an emergent feature of what our biological body does. When the body dies, that process ends, and with it, so does experience. There’s no such thing as “positive non-existence” after death. Not being, by definition, cannot be experienced.

I don’t see how even the way Twitter does it is any worse than not having such system at all.

People used to talk about slaves in exactly the same way.

Our AI assistants might not be conscious yet, but there’s a good chance they will be someday. Treating them with basic decency from the start just seems like the right thing to do. The way I talk to ChatGPT isn’t all that different from how I talk to people - and I don’t feel the need to switch modes just because I’ve rationalized that something isn’t deserving of respect.

It’s the current trendy thing to say. Kind of like the term “executive dysfunction”

Yeah if you go there to run on a threadmill, not if you go there to lift weights. After a heavy squat day I can barely walk down the stairs to the parking lot.

Why ride when you can drive?

If it’s notifications you’re after you can try saying positive things about capitalism or Elon Musk for example or simply go into a thread where everyone is outraged about anything and try making some sense in there.

The use of it in the US was banned only last year and I’m not aware of there having been such movement.