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  • I always imagined travelling back in time 100 years and trying to explain our tech.

    -“We have personal communicators available at all times, that we can use to instantly communicate with anyone on Earth.”

    -“Wow! But I guess language barriers make it impossible?”

    -'No, actually. A surprising amount of people in the world understand English. Also, we have instant translators in our communicators. I could contact someone in China right now and have a conversation about anything."

    -“Incredible!! What sort of topics do you talk to them about?”

    -“…I don’t. It’s kinda impolite to just start talking to strangers. I mostly talk to old friends from school. And my family.”












  • Deestan@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Cooked
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    2 years ago

    That is a valid question in isolation, but bringing it up in discussions on where to vote is not leading to discussions or actionable improvements. It only functions to push voter disenfrachisement.

    Not saying it’s your intention, but it is your effect.

    Voting least bad is important. Don’t discourage it.

    Working for better voting options is also important. Do push for that too, but find a constructive setting for it.




  • On this topic, I am optimistic on how generative AI has made us collectively more negative to shallow content. Be it lazy copypaste journalism with some phrases swapped or school testing schemes based on regurgitating facts rather than understanding, none of which have value and both of which displace work with value, we have basically tolerated it.

    But now that a rock with some current run through it can pass those tests and do that journalism, we are demanding better.

    Fingers crossed it causes some positive in the mess.