I think having your watch history disabled probably makes that worse. If you don’t give YouTube data on what you watch, then it’ll always push the most trendy, popular stuff on you. Before I started using the Unhook extension recently, my YT recommendations never included Asmongold for example. Because YouTube has figured out that I don’t watch that kind of stuff.

In before people let AI write their papers, then copy them by hand.

The most obvious thing I can think of is that it allows people who are unable to connect with people in real life due to disabilities and such to connect with groups of people from all walks of life and have a meaningful social life.

Still, lots of negatives as you said.

Our tool use and application of our intelligence is still quite unique. Special is a loaded term, but humans are very different from all other life forms on this planet - and of course, in many ways, still very much the same.

Really interesting approach, but I must agree with the critics that this needs much better testing. The bureaucracy may be annoying, but we do rigorous testing for a reason. The harm that could be done by unsafe, untested vaccines is not just problematic because of the people that it could harm directly, but because of the already growing number of people who are unwilling to vaccinate themselves and their children out of (unfounded) concerns over safety.

While often true, they still end up making life better for millions of people often enough to be worth it.

Just because we can’t see it doesn’t mean we can’t observe it and characterize it. This line of thinking is so limited because it only considers our senses in how they’re applied directly.

Is reality actually what we experience? Who knows. Does it matter? Not really, I’d argue. There are provable facts underlying the reality we experience which are true regardless of an individual or even a collective’s perception of them. Gamma rays exist without you perceiving them. But they are provably true. Their effects can be measured. They can be observed. If they couldn’t, then we would never know they exist and thus they’d in essence not exist for us. But would that matter?

Well, didn’t know this. I guess I’m uninstalling EGS. I’m not using it much anyway.

I have recently finished my 4th playthrough of FFX and am now playing Final Fantasy IX for the first time. Blind, so far about 25 hours in and I’m liking it a lot. The more light-hearted, cartoony story style isn’t usually my cup of tea, but the game is charming and despite a lot of junky writing, as is typical for Final Fantasy, I am emotioanlly invested in the future of these characters. The combat is also really nice and I like how well balanced and paced it is. I’d say it’s on the harder side as Final Fantasies go. Still not hard, but just spicy enough for casual play. I’m looking forward to finishing it probably sometime this week.

Oh, and fuck tetra master.