Lemmy’s “block” is essentially a “mute” function, too. It makes it so that you don’t see any more content from a user, but they can still make comments on your stuff.

You’re 100% on the mark. Unfortunately the next automation revolution will come whether society wants it to or not. Just as soon as it’s cheaper and as effective to have machines do the work of humans, corporations will choose to go that route. We’ve seen a few instances where corporations are going against this in the short term, but it never works out for us humans in the long run. We know that corporate culture only has eyes for next quarter’s profit, humanity’s future be damned.

I’m going to drop this here, you may have already seen it & know of CGP Grey on YouTube, but using this vid as a frame of reference: Humans Need Not Apply

That video was made in 2014. We’ve known that an automation revolution is going to come along and make a good portion of the workforce obsolete (again) for a number of years (CGP Grey wasn’t the first to put forth the idea by any means), and we’re doing nothing to prepare for it. If we don’t figure out how to institute some form of UBI… well, it won’t be good.

True enough, but I’d counter that the person who uses ‘yellow’ as the answer to the square root of 100 is a moron, and the person who accepts it doubly so.

A better example IMO would be using ChatGPT to write code via pseudocode. Sure it’ll spit out something for you, but you’ll still need to verify those results using your own knowledge, and test it before putting it into production.

Another, different, example would be using it to write up proposals, project plans, etc. - if it was so easy that an AI could do it, maybe we need to take a good hard look at whether it needed doing in the first place, or examine how we’re going about it.

It is a tool, albeit a smarter one than we’ve previously had. Like any tool, it can be used for good, evil, or moronic results.

I would say that if a thing can be destroyed by ChatGPT then it probably needed to be destroyed, or at least reworked to meet the times. It’s not a lot different than people saying that calculators would destroy kids’ ability to do math, or that Wikipedia would ruin people’s ability to do research. It’s a tool, with its strengths and limitations, and should be used as such.

I’d say the sun beat them to it some billions of years ago. /s

While in the community, click on the Edit icon (little pencil and paper icon) in the top-right box where the name of the community is located. There are all your settings for the community that were available when you created it, including the icon and banner. You can click the X in the top-right of the either to remove them, or just upload a new one.

For me I think it has to do with the fact that by the time I got to a thread on reddit, everything that could possibly be said about the topic usually had been said already. How many times would you visit a thread only to find that exactly what you were going to say is already the top comment?

The US is an imperial warmonger and they created the conditions for a proxy war, which Russia engaged with.

So the U.S. made Putin’s army roll its miles long line of cold-war era military equipment into Ukraine in November of '21?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

It’s hard to lie about things that the whole world was watching.

Just figured it out myself - in the top-left menu, click your username and then +Add Account, then you can enter the URL of the Lemmy server you want to connect to along with your credentials. You can then switch back and forth between your logins on the different servers.

(edit) - Or do what @sexy_peach@feddit.de said below. I don’t know what I’m doing. :P

Of note - while logged into any one instance, you can also pick from the various filtering options:

• Subscribed - List posts only from communities you’re subscribed to
• Local - List posts only from communities in this Lemmy instance/server
• All - List posts from all (federated) Lemmy instances/servers

So, selecting “All” at any given time will show you posts from all servers that are federated (share creds) with Lemmy.ml.

“Over” with Putin having gotten what he wants after killing millions of Ukrainians and still occupying their land. So no, fuck Putin and fuck anyone who supports his insane bloody quest for glory.

If you’re talking about the equivalent of a subreddit here on lemmy.ml, that’s just called a “community”. Click the “Create Community” link up at the top of the site. If you want to create your own whole Lemmy site with its own communities you can do that too, but you’d have to read the documentation on that.

Why is it Chrono Trigger? Because it’s Final Fantasy VI. :P