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[JoshuaFH]

Hopefully when the computers take over they abolish capitalism, make everyone equal under the law, and optimize the economy so nobody is ever left wanting for what they need or want.

[scriver]

If we're lucky this means we go back to writing by hand instead of keyboard.

[martinuzz]

Due to our police having been very succesful this year, mostly through breaking encryption on certain phones popular in the underworld, drug labs have become more dangerous.

Because the police managed to arrest and imprison a lot of expert cooks, chemists and engineers, the drug labs are now built by unskilled thugs.

This year saw 14 exploding drug labs with lethal consequences.

Last year, only 1 person got killed in a drug lab explosion.

[Frumple]

If we're lucky this means we go back to writing by hand instead of keyboard.

Better the world end in fire than for everyone to have everyone else's handwriting regularly inflicted upon them once again. The world may have spun before typing existed, but it spun as a hell worse than the modern day.

[Kagus]

Why do A,B,C,D,E in 20 minutes when you can do A,F,G,B,H,I,L,E, in 40 minutes?

From A to D, skipping B and C!

i love this grappling hook

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DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?

[MaxTheFox]

I use ChatGPT for writing ideas. I don't have it write my novel but it's superb at naming things. Which I suck at. Overall it's a net gain to society imo.

[King Zultan]

I still think using AI for writing is cheating, also aren't there books filled with names you could look at?

[MaxTheFox]

I still think using AI for writing is cheating, also aren't there books filled with names you could look at?

It's cheating if you pass off a work created solely or mostly via AI as something you wrote yourself, neither of which am I doing. And why would I spend money on a book when I can just ask the AI for free?

I am a lazy writer.

[Frumple]

I still think using AI for writing is cheating, also aren't there books filled with names you could look at?

If using AI for writing is cheating, so is using an editor or asking for feedback from other people. Lotta' writing cheaters out there

[scriver]

If we're lucky this means we go back to writing by hand instead of keyboard.

Better the world end in fire than for everyone to have everyone else's handwriting regularly inflicted upon them once again. The world may have spun before typing existed, but it spun as a hell worse than the modern day.

You only think that because you have grown fat and lazy on decadent typewriting. It is only right that my strong and battle-honed handwriting warriors tear your empire down and replace it!

[Eric Blank]

My handwriting looks like shit and I don't need a nun beating my wrists with a ruler over it

[JoshuaFH]

It is, in fact, possible to have good handwriting without someone smacking your hand over every mistake.


I was lying in bed this morning and thought up the perfect metaphor to describe my childhood and 20's: Imagine a child confined from birth and forced to live in a small box. The box is big enough for a child, but inadequate as he grows. He's not allowed out of the box however, and so as he grows his limbs and spine grow gnarled and crooked. When he reaches adulthood, he is allowed out of the box, but his body is deformed and useless, and he can't do anything but envy the healthy people around him. To have any chance whatsoever of living a normal life, he has to un-deform himself, snapping his own bones and resetting them in an arduous and painful process. Nobody can help him with this process, because nobody else knows about the box and cannot relate. Over the course of more than a decade, the bone breaking and resetting process feels almost complete, but the child can never be sure if his achievements are ever anything more than superficial imitation, as he doesn't naturally know what his skeleton SHOULD look like, and instead was forced to imitate the size and shape of the people around him. Because the child cannot see inside himself, or see inside of others, the comparison is always guesswork, so it is impossible to know for sure if he has succeeded in rehabilitating himself, or if he's just created a twisted imitation of a natural human shape using his own body. It may be impossible to know for sure.

[nenjin]

Should not the child realize that, if they cannot see inside themselves, and they cannot see inside others, then there is no basis of comparison and therefore comparisons are irrelevant, and it's only belief that truly matters?

Seems related to the cave allegory.

[Frumple]

It is, in fact, possible to have good handwriting without someone smacking your hand over every mistake.

For some people, anyway

It's pretty apt to the thread when you spend over a decade investing several hours a week trying to improve your handwriting and it just doesn't, though. Typing is a hell of an equalizer when it comes to non-vocal communication. Not a perfect one, but it's better than anything involving motor control as fine as handwriting requires.

[JoshuaFH]

It is, in fact, possible to have good handwriting without someone smacking your hand over every mistake.

For some people, anyway

It's pretty apt to the thread when you spend over a decade investing several hours a week trying to improve your handwriting and it just doesn't, though. Typing is a hell of an equalizer when it comes to non-vocal communication. Not a perfect one, but it's better than anything involving motor control as fine as handwriting requires.

Actually, the example I was thinking of was me and my sister. I grew up in the era of learning cursive, and I have AWFUL handwriting. My sister grew up in the era of zoomers who text everything, and she has very good handwriting somehow.

Should not the child realize that, if they cannot see inside themselves, and they cannot see inside others, then there is no basis of comparison and therefore comparisons are irrelevant, and it's only belief that truly matters?

Seems related to the cave allegory.

Being unable to see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Even if you cannot see the exact process, you can see the objective and tangible results they produce. I'll agree that comparing oneself to others will always lead to misery, but if one is sick and has always been sick, it's pretty enviable to see the vitality and colour of others compared to your own feebleness and pallor.

This isn't to say that interpretation and belief cannot will changes into existence. Social movements are made entirely of beliefs and they can change the very nature of the world. Ultimately however, facts trump beliefs, and if it is a fact that one is sick, then no amount of believing otherwise will change it.

To continue on the deformed child metaphor, perhaps the ultimate lesson learned from the repeated bone breaking and resetting process, was that the exact shape and size of his body is modular in nature, and after learning more about the world can decide to continuously break and reset his bones (changing himself) to always better fit and succeed in his environment, rather than simply trying to emulate his peers.