I don’t remember any such reverence for Obama either.

Which to be fair so is reddit. Redditors have always been mercurial but it does feel like in recent years they’ve been much more combative.

Which TNG episode are y’all watching tonight? I was kind of thinking The Inner Light.

Yeah unless you’re here with a younger sibling if you’re not dressed up you’re getting a quick scoop of the candy nobody else seems to be taking. Like enjoy your Swedish fish, why are you here if the magic is gone?

Anyone who comes to my door gets candy but you don’t get to both want to trick-or-treat and be too cool for trick-or-treating.

I’m not a big fan of Ethan but he’s the only one who knows how key aspects of our network architecture works and he does get back to his desk faster if you salt him.

I think we’d just view it as a matter of perspective. To me, I’m me and they’re them. To them, they’re me and I’m them. We’d each identify ourselves as me.

But we would probably also enjoy being considered a swarm, I know I would.

I’d be cool with it as long as they’re all autonomous. From my sense of continuity I continue to exist and there are other copies who share my experiences as meatman up to the point in time where we received our respective robot bodies. It’d be like gaining siblings. From their point of view they continue to exist and there are other copies like myself out there as well.

I’m also okay if I woke up in my robot body and found out I’m not the first copy. Knowing myself it would be more of a “fun fact” that someone is the original rather than something that carries any sort of weight.

Yeah but since there’s like maybe 100 comments on any given post, and if I want more posts I have to hit “next” then it actually does a pretty good job of preventing me from truly doomscrolling.

That “next” button is like asking my brain if I want more doom, and I often don’t actually so I end up doing something else.

I imagine it varies. I don’t ask about AI usage in interviews but if I did I would prefer a balanced answer.

Skepticism tells me you’re not going to try to vibe code something important or try to install unapproved models. Not being completely anti-AI in the interview tells me you’re not going to insult a manager when they’re being stupid.

And the person behind the counter very much seems like someone who knows a lot about cannabis.

I don’t think they read the charts or anything, but in my experience having a few family members with long hospital stays, usually housekeeping gets an idea of who someone is and their general condition pretty quickly.

Yeah but speaking as meatman I’m okay with meatman dying. Robot me will be the real me, meat me is ephemeral.

I don’t believe in souls. I view my existence as like a wave, I am briefly in this cohesive form and will inevitably break upon the shore and both cease to be a wave yet forever be the ocean. Continuously moved and reshaped and never the same wave I was.

A body that allows my perception of existence to continue would prevent that, I would be able to continue to “exist” as I perceive it for much longer.

So yeah for me at least you can skip the gradual stuff. Just ctrl + c, ctrl + v and recycle the original.

I’d need to completely own it. I don’t want my extended memory storage to now also include product placement in my childhood memories or the cops can make my bionic legs stop working or whatever.

However, in the hypothetical situation where I completely own my augmentations, 100% I’m getting enhancements. In fact I would question the efficiency of giving me implants, it might just be easier to copy my brain into a completely robotic body.

Oh god yeah this and bullet points

you don’t talk about green texts

Is the crux of this question that you’re trying to increase your attention span?

Others have given good recommendations of long-form content to try, I’d also go as far as encouraging you to see how long you can go without a specific form of short-form content.

For example if you’re a daily TikTok user, are you able to go one week without both using TikTok or replacing it with another, similar form of media?

This is a practice I apply to most things I enjoy. Periodically I’ll take a break for a designated amount of time and evaluate whether my relationship with this thing is healthy.

I used to like the punch of “It’s not just ___, it’s ___” but I’ve pretty much removed that from my vocabulary.

Yeah this thread has been… enlightening. Lemmy might be more prejudiced than I would have initially thought.

It seems good for people. Most people I’ve known who did it seem glad they did.

It’s one of those things where I wish the governing body was more separate from the concept, and I feel for people who dedicated a great deal of time to a positive force in their life yet have to grapple with what the institution itself is.

It’ll develop. Whether it should or not eventually Lemmy will develop its own distinct online culture which carries across instances, topics and communities.

I know people will think it won’t have its own particular culture because it’s decentralized etc etc but I remember people saying the same thing about Reddit in like 2011. The smaller community identities either got absorbed into the larger idea of what a “redditor” is or the subs just died.

It’s a little early to say, but Lemmy culture so far has a lot of carryover of Reddit. Which makes sense considering most people here probably used Reddit first. In my experience Lemmy yo-yos between reddit but grumpier and reddit but more conversational. It reminds me a lot of early reddit in that people put more effort into their comments than other places, but also has an air of confident pseudo-intellectualism. There’s no real hivemind yet but there are generally popularized norms.