I suppose the times are reading times. Not understanding times. And especially not ‘pondering about how this will fuck me in the ass one day’ times.

That should be illegal.

CDU is a center-right party. In recent times even more right.

Strawberries are not berries (but aggregate accessory fruits). Cucumber, watermelon and pumpkin belong to the same family of plants. Tomatoes are fruit. Well botanically, vegetables do not exist anyway. Vegetables are a social construct. Also, wheat is a kind of grass. Isn’t our world beautiful?

No it’s a new food trend, haven’t you heard? It’s called “deconstructed food”, where they just throw the raw ingredients at you and leave it up to you to do the actual work. At the same time they sell it at a premium price brainwashing you into believing this is a new high end dining experience. /j

Yes and no. Unfortunately, they are not entirely incompetent in the crimes they are commiting, which is why they still inflict a tremendous amount of damage and suffering.

Verblüffend, wie das nicht mehr Schlagzeilen gemacht hat, bevor es eingeführt wurde.

Sei Teil der Veränderung und trage Inhalte bei. Lemmy will, dass DU deine Michmichs pfostierst. Egal wie gut oder schlecht.

No you won’t have empathy towards your enemies when you don’t have the luxury to do so.

I don’t see how ‘luxury to do so’ should disprove my point.

Regarding the rest:
While I agree with the underlying sentiment, I wouldn’t go so far as to generalize entire population groups and claim they do not feel empathy, even if they kill others. Also: This is drifting a bit beyond what I wanted to point out, therefore I won’t go into more detail.

I suppose karma and reincarnation fit the criteria of using fears. Which is why Buddhism is not an exception imo.

Alles gut, ich hatte nur Spaß daran die Worte zu vertauschen. Nimm meinen Kommentar nicht ernst. ;)

It’s not just about factual knowledge and its correctness, but especially about critical thinking abilities. As soon as we started printing books, looking up knowledge was never an issue. LLMs don’t change that (even with limited reliability). But was has been an issue is using this knowledge, reflecting on it, evaluating it, analyzing it, etc. make something meaningful out of it in order to grow and advance.

If we leave the critical thinking part to machines, we are even more prone to being manipulated, misguided or become the victims of consequences that are based on intentional or accidental errors. We stop functioning as independent humans and become even more gullible as we already are.

This is also what the research points to.

So my bottom line is: use technology to enhance and extend your thinking abilities, not replace them. That’s why care is required when using these tools. It’s easy to just delegate everything to the machine. But that leaves you… empty.

(Sry for the dramatic writing style, I was just in the middle of a text adventure. :'D )

You can’t have food, and in result act egocentrically, disadvantaging others and still feel bad about it. Having empathy does not necessitate acting on it.

Most religions play with fears to get people aligned with the respective religious agenda. I can’t name a religion that does not do this in some form. Got an exmple?

There are religious groups that are simply good sources of community

Which is an important factor for social animals like us humans. This also underlines that there is a lack of alternatives for people who seek community, social support, etc… Thereby inviting more people to become indoctrinated.

Extend and assist. Not externalize.

It’s fine to use as assistive tool. But outsourcing thinking is problematic. Unfortunately, this outcome was likely.

Thinking is hard.

Depends.

Which makes careless use of big babble machines even more problematic.

That looks so smooth. I want to pet it.

Und was ist mit dem Wiener Schnitzel nach Schweine Art?