So over the course of 100ish years and translation through multiple languages, what version is the original one? Like, where is this Bible physically located? Stored in a museum somewhere? Available for study so that translations into modern languages can be checked against it?

Lose your job/salary in 5 years, or maybe lose it in 10+. Easy call for me.

Not striking leaves no question.

Also attractive: math skillzzzzz 😉

Victoria’s Secret is for men, IMO.

So what’s out there for the purposes of women ogling at attractive men? Uuuh, Thunder Down Under and other odd male strip shows? There’s just nothing equivalent in reach and scale for women.

Passion/interest in something non-toxic and lack of shame over their passion.

A personality blend that I can only describe as 27% cleverness, 34% healthy level of confidence, 39% self-aware sense of humility.

And it takes one night of partying to decide not to wait for brother to die.

AI isn’t mature enough to replace all creatives. If they push back now while they still have leverage, they can block AI from getting to the point where it can fully replace them.

Once it’s an industry and cultural norm, there’s no going back. They try now or it’s over forever.

Smoker.

Poor hygiene.

General negativity or insecurity.

Late to time commitments.

Drinks/imbibes beyond group vibes.

By “original Bible” do you mean the Masoretic text, which is in the Hebrew language and finalized in about the year 1100 A.D.? Or the Septuagint text, the Greek translation of the Torah dating around 300 B.C.? Or some other “Bible” from some point across that 1,400 year stretch?

You don’t know. Or you say “faith” and put the contradictions out of your mind.

This sent me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole. It alleges swinging took off in the US during World War II because the mortality rate of Air Force Pilots was so high.

a close bond arose between pilot families that implied that pilot husbands would care for all the wives as their own – emotionally and sexually – if the husbands were lost.

And then evolved from there, spread through the military and out to the civilian public.

Haha, I used to live in Colorado near the Air Force academy and it makes me giggle to think the most white christian of the military branches is the one that brought us swinging. Am I surprised by this? No

Lol, like I said, meet some queer people. This isn’t “pie in the sky” for a lot of them, it’s a reality.

Same with people disowned for any of a million reasons. Or people whose families have died out.

I have in the past but don’t currently. Salary from my regular job got good enough that the extra money from a side job wasn’t worth the loss of personal time for me.

I look at queer people who have been completely rejected by their families and treated as second-class by their governments and communities. Despite those challenges, they still find accepting communities to belong to and thrive within.

“Chosen Family” is a term I hear very frequently from them. People’s nuclear families can be shit for a lot of reasons. We can take a lesson from the queer community and build meaningful connections beyond blood ties. It’s a lot of work, yes, but at least non-queer people don’t have the extra disadvantage of laws trying to erase their existence.

Attribution, great term to search. Thank you.

Websearching “attribution + AI” brings up a lot of hits on copyright concerns. Which opens up even more questions. If we get to the point where AI attributes it’s sources with some sort of scoring, then it’s near certainly going to be using copyrighted materials at times. And depending on the copyright and what profits the AI company is gaining from their use and probably a bunch more detailed copyright stuff beyond my civilian acknowledge, there’s probably financial and legal reasons for AI searches to not publicly attribute sources. Which loops me back to, I want to see conflicting materials and make a judgement call on final summary myself in many cases.

I’m sure there are many people much smarter than me with nothing but pure, ethical intentions figuring all this out. Who knows, maybe this will be the tipping point for better copyright and intellectual property protections in the US and elsewhere.

Cool, thank you. You seem to know quite a bit about this stuff.

If we do end up at a point without search engines, where AI does the search and summarizes an answer, what do you think their level of ability to tie back to source material will be?

I’m thinking in cases of asking about a technical detail for a hobby, “how do I get x to work”. I don’t necessarily want a response like “connect blue wire to red”. What I really want is the forum posts discussing the troubleshooting and solutions from various people. If an AI search can’t get me to those forums, it’s of little value to me and when I do figure out an answer acceptable to my application, I’m not tied into that forum to share my findings (and generate new content for the AI to index).

Related to that, I’m thinking about these stories of lawyers relying on AI to write their briefs, and the AI cites non-existent cases as if they were real. It seems to me, not at all a programmer, that getting an AI to the point where it knows what’s real and what’s a hallucination would be a challenge. And until we get to that point, it’s hard to put full trust into an AI search.

I disagree. I don’t want a community full of vitriol. I come on Lemmy as entertainment, and reading through a bunch of angry people’s rants is not fun to me.

I like that there are communities moderated in a way that creates an environment I enjoy. And I’m pleased that there are communities out there for you to discover that are full of vitriol.

You and I are never going to have every single community meet our preferences and that’s ok.

I wonder what kind of contract they went with.

I can’t imagine this being a great long-term deal for Google. There’s minimal good new content being created on Reddit. Searching for useful information mostly brings up old posts, while new posts are heavily spam generated or designed to support AI learning.

I imagine buying access to historic reddit content from creation to ~2020 would be valuable. While paying for ongoing access to new content is going to be far less valuable and turn into AI devolution as we get to where AI is learning from other AI and spiraling into progressively worse outputs.

IDK, I think most are like good HOAs.

• The rules are openly posted for you to see before you join a community / buy property under an HOA.

• decent Mods/HOA people are going to manage things in accordance with the posted rules and goals of the community/HOA, even when it doesn’t align with their personal feelings

• one could certainly argue for effective mechanisms to remove mods/HOA people if they are not representing the goals of the community. One person complaining should not be enough to remove a Mod/HOA person or there cease to be any sort of moderation.

• Some people want a heavily curated community/HOA. Some people absolutely do not want their neighbor letting their lawn go wild with multiple cars up on blocks leaking oil and confederate flags, and they specifically want an HOA to prevent those things from happening. There should be a mix of communities/HOAs with different intensities or moderation so that people can search out and find what fits them. Or go solo to create their own community / buy into a property with no HOA.

• you are obviously savvy enough to find a community’s rules and skim the mod log to see how the rules are followed. Don’t buy into an HOA that doesn’t align with what you want / don’t join a community whose moderation philosophy isn’t want you’re looking for.

• moving into a decently managed HOA where neighbors get along and agree with the HOA for the most part, then hollering about how all HOAs are terrible power-hungry assholes is a great way to not make any friends with neighbors. Contrast that with reviewing HOA rules, meeting a few neighbors to gage how the HOA actually operates before buying, then declining to buy if the HOA doesn’t match your needs is the much more reasonable and civic-minded approach that leaves everyone happier in the end.

It couldn’t be limited to “citizens”. There are lots of people here legally who are not citizens. There are lots of people here not illegally that this would put on the streets and exacerbate other problems.

Also, you are correct on the corporate entities point. US Supreme Court has already made rulings that corporations have personhood. See Citizens United v. FEC. There is little reason to believe a rule limiting owners of residential property to individuals wouldn’t be twisted by the supreme court to allow the continuation of current state. (Going with the america-centric assumption here, obvs).

And finally, there is a place for corporate-owned residential property that is then rented to individuals. Some people want to rent a house instead of buy. It’s just not nearly the number that the current market is set to accommodate. Just like there are some legitimate applications for heavy-duty, gasoline trucks; but that everyone who has one doesn’t necessarily need one.

I would rather see it controlled via zoning and taxes. E.g., short-term rentals require a certain type of zoning and the quantity of units zoned in that matter has a low cap. And like a progressive tax structure, the more units a person owns to rent, the higher the taxes they have to pay as a disincentive for using other people’s need for shelter as an investment and wealth-generation opportunity.

Nah. It’s like pollution. I’m not ruining the world by driving a gasoline car when I can potentially afford a brand new EV or even better, walk 5 miles to work every day and 3 to a grocery store. It’s the companies pumping crap into the air and water at a rate per second that I can’t match in 100 lifetimes.

Cities that allow so many properties to be turned into short-term rentals are the problem. Huge companies buying up all the properties they can in an area so that they can rent them out at increased prices are the problem.