Depends entirely on how complicated your income/expenditure is. This year was the first time in 10 years or more that I needed to add to my pre-filled tax notice (major reno, deductions worth it). I may have missed out on a few hundred € of deductions in that time, but my simple life has always been listed immediately correct: Income from work done in the country, benefits, voluntary retirement insurance, stocks&funds wins, losses, dividends. Finland.
I’m not defending AI consciousness/sentience (however we define them), but IMHO your arguments aren’t particularly relevant/convincing. Why couldn’t consciousness exist in brief flashes? Isn’t the “would it even be the same consciousness” same as any sci-fi “clone with identical memories” thought experiment: if a LLM were conscious then each conversation history would be a “self”. And yes, it would be in some vague state of death/hibernation/non-existance when not propmpted.
Necessary background: When we started dating, both the husband and me were homebodies. As the years have gone by, I’ve developed a taste for going out and experiencing stuff, especially music stuff, that doesn’t even match his taste. Nonetheless I tend to ask him to come along, and he categorigally says no.
He gave me the gift of coming with me to one event of my choosing, per month, for a year. ❤ It was wonderful.
I’m still acquaintances with someone I now know killed one of their parents. Was told by someone else and confirmed on my own, he hasn’t mentioned it.
I hope I haven’t let it impact our relationship. I don’t wholly know the context and he served his time, should be allowed a fresh start without it being dug up again and again.
Fair. Different cultures, expectations, personal communication styles, degrees of bluntness.
“What are you looking for in a relationship/partner” and “how do you feel about having children” are, like, the top two questions people (should) want to know on a first date. Framing them as “tests” rather than “basic stuff the people need to naturally agree on for a relationship to work” is rather gross.
I’d add general lifestyle/attitude towards money and saving, and political engagement in the “may get arrested for civil disobedience for a cause” sense.
Fish is the nutritional super-meat due to long-chain omega-3:s and vitamin D.
I like being free to cheap out on transportation and then be able to splurge elsewhere (in my case, fancy tea and opera).
Someone else of my income would prefer the convenience and cost of their own car, and then skip the other luxuries.
Either way, having the option = more freedom.
Is it only Graphene? I vaguely recall having had it on DivestOS (RIP), which was a Lineage fork.
Edit: Any app, duh, yes, silly me. Don’t remember if it was possible for all of them.
IMHO if you only care about Google sucking your data and not other privacy/security, the most important question isn’t between OSes as much as it’s between:
No Google apps (GAPPS); honestly good ol’ LineageOS is just fine. If you don’t install Google spyware you don’t have Google spyware, just the connectivity check and dns. Which you can probably change. Major con, many applications installed from Play store (through Aurora store, apk, whatever) and practically all notifications you’d receive from them stop working.
MicroG; open source GAPPS replacement that tries to send as little data as possible to Google, while keeping Play store apps & push notifications working. /e/, iodé, Lineage for MicroG, Lineage but add microG manually during installation, formerly CalyxOS…
Add GAPPS but try to handicap it somehow (incl. GrapheneOS work profile isolation); I don’t remember if it’s eg. possible to block them from accessing the Internet on non-GrapheneOS phones, by app permissions or eg. NetGuard?
If we’re taking into account other privacy and security, then GrapheneOS by a mile.
I’ve got an ankle tattoo matching my husband’s shoulder one, got them on our honeymoon, they’re about a shared established fandom with no visible romantic connotations.
I’ve been planning to get a full sleeve celebrating my favourite operas for my 50th, so a couple more years still to deliberate. If any of you know a tattoo artist doing blackwork and who would be interested in the challenge of weaving together Bluebeard, Einstein, Trovatore, and Rossini chaos (with nods to other things if it doesn’t get too messy), preferably in Europe, let me know. 😁
And if someone recognized me based on that rather specific plan, hi!
It mulled in the background for about 30 years to process, and then I came to the conscious conclusion that out of all the possible equally pointless reasons to hang around, for me satisfying my curiosities and improving the world for my fellow experience-capable-beings are the ones I want to do. Of course I still slip into mind-numbing distractions a lot, that’s just being human in the world we live in.
That, and that practically, what are the options anyway? No point in ending it early, or wasting your finite life on something you don’t actually want.
My choice of philosophy is absurdism, honestly because I think it sounds more fun than “optimistic nihilism” or “existentialism”. IMHO there’s a whole host of philosophies that basically suggest the same guide to living well, with different emphasis (for example):
buttmonkey → b8y
I’d read b8y as “baby”, so absolutely ❤ this. Was this intended, am I an idiot for not reading the others as anything?
But then it’s not the real paper behind the intended link, just a copy, and the paper on Sage will still be sad.
And then it doesn’t offer a free full paper.
Ameglian Major Cow
While this is often true, I think it’s also important to say that peoples’ mental health struggles are equally real even if they have financial security and everything apparently well in their lives.
Agreed in principle, however in practice great wealth/income inequalities tend to compound.
Wealth and political spending bleeds into decision-making, leading to policies that benefit the wealthy at the expense of the less so.
“Excess wealth” tend to disappear from ‘Main Street’ and the kind of normal circulation that directly generates +life_quality, into Wall Street circlejerks.
“Excess wealth” also tends to seek safe harbor in concrete assets. Every investor tilts eg. the supply and demand of housing a bit more into the demand side, which leads to rising costs for people wanting to buy a house to own, since the supply of good lots can’t increase as much.