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jfz9580m's JournalI have not posted in this group much
Although I am generally on the left on most issues, I have some views that are more common on the conservative side.
One of them being a reluctance to honestly discuss mental health related or personal stuff. I don’t care about stigma etc.
I just can’t somehow. Especially since 90% of my issues stem from a fairly dull root issue which is “I am finding it hard to concentrate.” Not very much there anyone can help with except, “well then turn off all distractions and focus”. Thanks Sherlock - that never occurred to me 🙄. I mean that is actually an accurate recommendation, but it’s executing it that is the issue.
I also think that assumption can be inverted. It is true that there are a lot of distracting and annoying technologies that act as parasites on our attention (Ed Zitron was slamming those in a post I read yesterday and agreed with). But if you can disable those as much as possible, then you can proceed. Once you get immersed in work it is easier to tune out distractions than to try to tune out distractions and then work.
There is a misperception in our hyper-connected world that people going radio-silent is a sign of ill-health. At least in me, being radio-silent is the surest sign that I am focused on work and happy. I would normally be inclined to lurk on the few places I read like DU and rarely email even friends, than to actively comment or communicate much at all when I am doing well. YMMV. People are all different.
The other 10% of issues I have faced have been some dust ups with a few creepy male types in my neighbourhood between 2014 and the present. But those are thankfully over too.
It makes it harder to be healthy when you can’t focus since I usually find that immersing myself in work is how I feel healthiest. So I am going to focus on completing a paper I started in 2009 (!).
I meant to finish it by December, but that didn’t happen. I am determined to finish it by mid 2025. Which probably means it would be Sept 2025. But if I shoot for mid 2025 I can hope to at least be done by Sept 2025.
Good luck to everyone here, there and everywhere.
Nose to grindstone time for moi.
Amazon test driving an annoying new delivery system!
Well I am half-kidding which is increasingly my take on most everything these days.
We are all screwed any which way-why worry about it?
Don’t take life so serious..it ain’t noway permanent as I see it!
Except for the broligarchy and Ray Kurzweil who will merge with machines and live forever!
(And believe it or not, i am actually high on life not booze!)
In fairness expectations like those in 2000
Probably got us here.
I was thinking in 2004: I hope we have a less overpopulated, less deforested, less factory farming filled, less impoverished planet at some point..I was also reading the splc etc. And I was actually wishing rather than hoping.
So where we are makes sense…
Idiocracy was prescient about the effects population explosion and corporations marketing garbage would have on society.
Ah good point
That may actually have the effect of making people use YouTube less trustfully and end up being a good thing.
Maybe people are conned by humans more easily than by something they know is saturated with ai.
That would be a net gain.
Well it was never a good idea to use the net uncritically
I also don’t get why people find this so confusing.
I would be alarmed if pubmed or Stack Exchange or Wikipedia (the sort of more reliable standard bearers on the net) started getting filled with ai slop.
But who are these people who turn to YouTube and TikTok etc for information?
If you look in places like those for information obviously you will get rubbish.
If I had a science question, I would ask Stack Exchange or look at university sites or pubmed. If those started getting filled with ai slop, then it is back to textbooks and cross referencing.
But why would you not expect YouTube etc to largely be garbage? Those are entertainment sites not information sites.
I would be alarmed if pubmed went that way.
That would be scary. I am not fast enough to pick up on errors in highly technical work if it is in places you have some baseline level of trust in.
Man I hope pubmed stays free of ai clutter. I would be scared if someone tried to enhance the “critical thinking skills” of the populace by filling pubmed with ai junk to see if people could distinguish between good and bad science. Malignant creativity that..
Way to make the average drudge’s life way harder. And ultimately a moronic method.
Nothing based in deception is ever worthwhile. It’s just a way for pathetic douchebags to feel superior.
I have so much contempt for deception and manipulation based, bad faith methods..besides it wouldn’t even work.
Not even very bright people have expertise in every damn thing.
I am not saying that anyone has come up with ideas that bad to combat disinfo or enhance critical thinking. But sometimes when I look out their cynically and think of all the bad faith actors with no shame, I can come up with ideas that would occur to those who channel malignant creativity.
Agreed-I am not amused by their behavior
But I do find it amusing when it turns out to be something exactly that banal. That would have been my guess. The banality of evil generally fits my worldview..
I would agree that it is irritating and awful for the kinds of reasons as you listed.
It is nice to see it get shut down without further alarm or annoyance to the general public. And actual information about what it even is in each individual case. People have the right to know.
Pea-brained hobbyists sounds about right in this specific case.
I wonder if Amazon or one of those giants is trying to roll some new nuisance out. That was my vague speculation - testing the roll-out of some shit that is lucrative to them and a bloody nuisance to just about anyone else.
They keep ramming technology no one finds particularly useful down our throats.
Zuckerberg has been trying to make that metaverse happen for years now. Same with that crypto rubbish.
It's obscene is what it is
22 Billion in profits while denying care.
A rapacious, extractive greedy logic..
I hear ya
There isn’t really a one-size-fits-all approach.
You have to figure out what works for you. You raise an interesting point about gi health. I certainly think physical health is directly tied to mental health, something I have only in recent years even seen discussed.
The effect of the gut microbiome on mood etc.
The field (anything broadly mental health related) does seem in its infancy to me relative to the progress that medicine has made in physical health.
It often surprises me to the see the two treated as if they are anywhere near the same.
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