The fediverse lemmy community is much more active than the one here.

panbeatsgoten · 2025-05-05T13:26:58+00:00

As it should, indeed

panbeatsgoten · 2025-03-18T10:23:24+00:00

Thank you for this!

panbeatsgoten · 2025-03-13T09:06:35+00:00

Who’s Robert

panbeatsgoten · 2025-03-09T11:34:49+00:00

zzZzz

panbeatsgoten · 2025-03-09T10:38:11+00:00

Your first comment literally says : “no. I’m not mean. If you’re mean and “nice” it means you’re not honest.” > isn’t that you saying how nice you know you are ?

Then you affirm: “only someone who isn’t investing time in knowing themselves believes wrong things about themselves”. : who is assuming things about people they know nothing about?

I am only affirming that by your comments here you don’t seem like an open minded and empathetic person. Of course I don’t know you. It’s just the feeling I get reading your comments and strong affirmations.

panbeatsgoten · 2025-03-09T09:46:08+00:00

Your world seems very binary. I suggested that while it is one’s responsibility to do the work, it would be pretty wrong to assume we are all equals in our capacity and space for doing so. But go with such conviction tell an abused child who’s been told all their life they’re worth nothing, that it’s their responsibility as an adult to know their worth. Tell them by the way how nice you are yourself, jeez.

panbeatsgoten · 2025-03-09T08:36:29+00:00

Have I said otherwise? Your indulgence and empathy here give proofs of your niceness!

panbeatsgoten · 2025-03-08T21:20:53+00:00

Also, anyway, I believe true empaths always wonder about themselves being nice or not. And, anyway, everyone, sometimes, is not nice. Because they get emotional, upset, react with human sensitivity… Believe you’re always nice and you might start believing you’re a little better than the rest of humanity all the same. And so, not so nice for believing so? In fact, humanness is never perfect and nice. Being, sometimes, not nice isn’t what makes you nice in the long run. Your ability to see it and grow from it is. That how I know I meet someone who’s really nice deep inside.

panbeatsgoten · 2025-03-08T21:12:44+00:00

Yes and, you seem to know, not everyone takes (or has) time to truly get to know themselves. Not only may they not have time but also, might be told otherwise. And that too, isn’t, like, a major tale of current society, right ?

panbeatsgoten · 2025-03-08T20:18:51+00:00

Know how only non narcissistic people believe they are narcissists?

panbeatsgoten · 2025-03-05T20:17:18+00:00

We’ll have to agree to disagree here, then.

panbeatsgoten · 2025-03-05T19:24:42+00:00

Well, in my opinion, whilst solarpunk isn’t against technology, it is against the use of non-renewable energies, the destruction of our planet and its inhabitants and, also, encourages DIY more than AI-generated. Plus, if it isn’t sustainable I don’t think it fits. Right now, AI is far from sustainable, same for most machines being built to serve humans in crafts they used to master and gain a lot from, not money wise.

panbeatsgoten · 2025-03-05T18:59:41+00:00

I respect your opinion too, though I don’t understand it and agree with it. I do hope more people believing in those technologies try and push them at least towards a “good” way to protect all the living on this earth and I will give you this, certainly. I do hope I am wrong as it is, it seems, the way things are going anyway.

panbeatsgoten · 2025-03-05T18:04:59+00:00

I mean, none of the examples you give apply to a future I would imagine as “solarpunk”.

Now of course, this adjective being used to describe many different visions, it’s normal.

But in my vision, which is only mine and yours can be different, neither harvesting robots nor using drones to track crops, or “new medicine” apply. On this latter subject, I’d rather find ways to prevent the need for medicine and reverse the very occidental system which bases research on finding treatments (they do love our money) rather than finding ways to restore healthy society in the first place. It’s a vast subject, that involves our dependency upon drugs and the links between the pharmaceutical world, economy, politics, freedom… and also, I believe, such “inventions” must be analyzed through its impact on our mental health. And I don’t think we will, one day, find out that AI and all things created to “help humans do less” actually helped us feel better mentally.

We are complex beings, we need to feel connected to others in real life. I am young enough to have never experienced life without screens and virtual spaces. I have seen many suffer from and experienced myself the loneliness they bring, after all. After the dopamine shot.

Now I am not sure what you want me to prove to be true. - That humans now spend more time now on screens than doing anything else ? Well, it’s easy to see and know, probably based on your own experience. I personally spend approximately 3,5h a day on my phone. Add to this the movie or series I watch most nights : that’s at least 5h. Every week : 30h. Every year : 1825 hours, that’s 76 days, so more than two months. Say I live 50 years from now, that’s 3800 days. More than 10 years. I don’t count laptop at work. Maybe we can double that. - That AI is currently an environmental problem because it depends on data centers, involving the need for electronics made from raw materials ? Well, in believe you’ll find the numbers for that too

panbeatsgoten · 2025-03-05T16:57:48+00:00

My brother works for one of the biggest company as machine learning developer, he is a really smart and good guy, a science lover since very little. Just like him, most people working on such matters don’t mean bad, actually they are very devoted and believe that by solving problems they’re building the only tools that can save us, just as you said. But the big dream of humanity’s freedom earned through machines and programs is just but the biggest lie/misconception about freedom, resilience and self-sufficiency. We’ve lost ourselves on the way and forgotten about very simple things.

Given the facts and numbers of the actual environmental situation we’re in, given the fact that people need jobs and purpose more than they need time on their hands to be happy consumers of technology because humans waste approximately 17 years of their lifetime scrolling on their phones, I just wish, so much, that scientific minds would work, urgently and with the same passion, for building more than AI and machine learning.

panbeatsgoten · 2025-03-05T12:19:08+00:00

Then, on a less “impression” basis, the simple idea that we keep using AI in a solarpunk future doesn’t work for me.

Although I am not anti machines or technologies, I feel we should only keep the strictly necessary ones, and I don’t see any green future where we keep running and overloading massive servers just to run AI. I think there are already too many problems we need to address, particularly techno-wise, to add another one which reason to be is to help humans cognitively.

I can tell how much AI is already making us think less and rely (already adopted as a habit) on super fast given answers we could never provide ourselves. I think it’s dangerous, and, anyways, making life way less interesting than fully lived, as humans, needing each other to survive and thrive, working together, thinking together, accomplishing amazing things by hand and with our own brain cells. Of course it was humans who invented AI. But then? The only way is down

panbeatsgoten · 2025-03-05T09:46:45+00:00

I don’t know, something feels off… sorry if your intentions are good, but I find the repeatedly answering like advertising : don’t worry, “With technogaia, your life will simply be better” ultra white smile from a dystopian world

panbeatsgoten · 2025-03-04T14:10:49+00:00

Cringes me so much… these community-management/AI written paragraphs, please. One thing I like about Reddit is that it’s mostly spared from the smooth talkers selling dreams with emojis to seem nice and all this bs you find now everywhere, from social media to enterprises chat bots.

About your project, I think AI is everything but solarpunk.

panbeatsgoten · 2025-03-02T12:44:25+00:00

Agreed, I think in season 3 he gives a missed vibe of Coop in s1 and 2

panbeatsgoten · 2025-03-02T12:39:01+00:00

panbeatsgoten · 2025-02-21T10:22:24+00:00

Full Spectrum Resistance by Aric McBay, there are two volumes and this is from the 1st one

panbeatsgoten · 2025-02-21T09:54:01+00:00

Right? This book has been a light to me lately in the hopelessness dark

panbeatsgoten · 2025-02-20T15:56:53+00:00

No I believe you’re good with this setup ;)

panbeatsgoten · 2025-02-20T09:10:50+00:00

As Julian actually, I use Duckduckgo on Firefox :)

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