Being focused isn’t the point - noticing that you got distracted is. I’ve been meditating for quite a while, and I still get just as distracted by thoughts as I did when I started. That’s okay. The practice is in noticing the distraction and gently beginning again.

Criticizing yourself for getting distracted is just more thinking without realizing you’re thinking. You can even meditate on that, or on sounds, sensations, and so on. There’s nothing inherently special about the breath - it’s just a neutral, ever-present thing to focus on that we all share.

How about someone who isn’t 300 years old?

It’s not because of the wealthy that someone else is poor - it’s the system and regulations that allow people to accumulate that level of wealth. Once you reach a certain point, making more money becomes easier and easier. Going from 1 million to 100 million is often much easier than going from zero to 1 million. If the game is rigged, it’s not the fault of the player for playing it well.

Me and my SO have a shared Google Keep note with our wishlists we update thorough the year. It’s still kind of a surprise as there are many items on that list and I can’t know what I’m getting.

Who are they?

While not exactly a holiday destination per-se, having seen pictures of people literally waiting in line to get to the trash pile at the peak of Mt. Everest is such a turn-off that I’d skip it even if I was a true mountaineer.

I’ve noticed the same thing about chatGPT - it compliments me way too much. It’s quite meaningless coming from an unconsciouss AI assistant to begin with but when everything I say is supposedly super intelligent and grounded it almost start to feel sarcastic.

Nazis were and are a political group. Opposing them is political.

I have quite extensive content filter list that hides every post containing popular terms related to US politics. Often that means hiding two thirds of my front page. However, what remains is still all politics.

Why is it like this? I have no idea. Maybe they’re trying to keep this place as unattractive for new users as possible.

Well, you can benefit from the instability if you’ve got the means to buy the dip. In my case, though, whatever’s going on in the world doesn’t really affect my investment strategy - I just keep buying the same amount every single month no matter what.

The way I see it, if you’re prepared for a zombie apocalypse, you’re pretty much prepared for anything. It’s really just another way of saying “worst-case scenario.” The people who enjoy thinking about this kind of stuff are basically preppers or survivalists who just find it more engaging to plan for a zombie outbreak than something more “mundane” like an EMP, pandemic, or natural disaster.

I’m not rich as shit and I didn’t know it was coming but it’s still good news for me too because I’m invested into the stock market as are hundreds of millions of other middle class people.

!zombiesurvival@sopuli.xyz

I don’t think it would’ve cost anything. They charge only for very few specific things.

The term artificial intelligence is broader than many people realize. It doesn’t refer to a single technology or a specific capability, but rather to a category of systems designed to perform tasks that would normally require human intelligence. That includes everything from pattern recognition, language understanding, and problem-solving to more specific applications like recommendation engines or image generation.

When people say something “isn’t real AI,” they’re often working from a very narrow or futuristic definition - usually something like human-level general intelligence or conscious reasoning. But that’s not how the term has been used in computer science or industry. A chess-playing algorithm, a spam filter, and a large language model can all fall under the AI umbrella. The boundaries of AI shift over time: what once seemed like cutting-edge intelligence often becomes mundane as we get used to it.

So rather than being a misleading or purely marketing term, AI is just a broad label we’ve used for decades to describe machines that do things we associate with intelligent behavior. The key is to be specific about which kind of AI we’re talking about - like “machine learning,” “neural networks,” or “generative models” - rather than assuming there’s one single thing that AI is or isn’t.

Honesty, fairness, integrity.

I don’t lie - ever. Not even white lies. I might not always say what I think, but I never say something I know to be untrue.

I treat others the way I’d want to be treated myself. Even when it comes to decisions where no one else is directly involved, I ask myself: Would the world be better or worse if everyone acted like this? If the answer is worse, I don’t do it.

Don’t be a hypocrite. I won’t criticize others for something I’m guilty of myself - which is probably why you rarely hear me criticizing anyone at all.

Also, I don’t believe in free will - as in the ability to have done otherwise. That’s the other reason I don’t blame people for their actions. This is something that just overall plays a huge factor in how I approach life. There are many things I see completely differently than most other people - including myself.

A related quote: “It’s not a principle if it’s not costing you anything.”

That’s a great answer

Who ever can control time. I’d argue that’s objectively the most powerful superpower perhaps only rivaled by invincibility.

It almost certainly already has replaced several.

Also, AI is not synonymous with LLM.

Cis women don’t care about a trans man going into the women’s restroom because they’re stupid?

I’m not sure what you’re getting at, but I’d argue the opposite - many cis women would care about a trans man entering their restroom, just like they’d care about a cis man doing the same. From their perspective, it’s often about perceived male presence, regardless of the person’s gender identity.