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  • OpenStars@piefed.socialtoScience Memes@mander.xyz•A delicate balanceEnglish
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    13 days ago

    That is not a great quote to use fyi (I mean this one here by Martin Luther - whereas the one from Carl Sagan is fantastic imho:-).

    I have heard an analogy in that it is like saying that the Mind is one’s greatest adversary to a child learning how to swim - true, but when quoted out of the surrounding context (in this case iirc it was Reason alone, unaided by Faith - or something to that effect but I could be misremembering so don’t take this part as… well… gospel, pun intended:-) really comes off super poorly. Similarly with wanting to exercise - “Mind” here does not mean merely “mind” as in mental faculties, just as “Reason” != “reason”.

    Also the quote is disputed as even coming from Martin Luther himself rather than one of his students.

    More at https://randalrauser.com/2011/10/quote-others-the-way-you-would-have-them-quote-you/ in case it helps.

    Now a quote of my own (by me, from right this second): if we want to rise above the teeming unwashed masses and truly use Reason, then we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard (than those we accuse of not doing such). It’s just a thought: do as you will with it.

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.ml•How can the Fediverse protect against AI slop?English
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    1 month ago

    Well, I am not saying that the scenario is a perfect match, just that it reminded me of that:-).

    Though to answer your question, if Reddit were all AI slop whereas we were not, then they would be foolish to not exploit (for moar profitz) the source of legitimately true info that could be useful to answer people’s questions, e.g. on topics such as whether and how to use Arch Linux btw. :-P

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.ml•Your explanation of federation that it "works like email" will be misunderstoodEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I find it the height of irony that you have submitted this duplicate post to both of these “c/Fediverse” communities:-). This is the very type of thing that is going to confuse people. Like “why is there a @CyberTailor@beehaw.org, a @CyberTailor@Lemmy.World, a @CyberTailor@lemmynsfw.com and others, but they might be the same person - and yet they might not - and then some of them post to !Fediverse@lemmy.world, while others may post to !Fediverse@lemmy.ml - so like users then, are those also the same person? or community or whatever? Or are they always different ones, and if communities are always different, then why aren’t the users always different too?”

    Face it, the experience on Lemmy.World is close to that of the centralized Reddit, but everywhere else it is not even close. e.g. my post here has 193 upvotes (and 2 downvotes), while the original says 186, but here it only has 98, and here it has none, nor any comments either.

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    We are a loose federation of instances - we are virtually nothing like any email system that I have ever used, where various portions of the same message show up - or not - depending on which email system you try to access the same message from (afaik, that’s not even a thing - you have the sender and the recipient and that’s it?). The reason people struggle to understand the email analogy, imho, is bc it doesn’t work, and we should go back to the loose federation of instances idea bc that’s what we truly are.