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That’s a fair way to look at it.

For me it’s just that not answering (because the question is vague) OR asking for clarification are also valid responses.

For example, your rewritten question - between an unspecified man or unspecified bear, which would you choose? - is already more clarifying than the original.

You are specifying that it’s a gamble, so the gamble is part of the question. The original question doesn’t say that, so assuming it’s a gamble is yet another assumption that we would need to make to answer it

There’s this one youtube video that talks about a question like this one (but it’s about a math problem) that I’m going to see if I can find it and paste it here later.

But the conclusion is basically: the question itself is wrong.

The question is straightforward at first glance, but if you think about it, it’s actually vague.

1. What kind of bear are we talking about? What species? Is it a killing machine like a polar bear or an innocent one like a panda?
2. What kind of man are we talking about? Who? A friend? A total stranger? A criminal?
3. Which forest? How big is the forest?
4. Do I get to bring anything with me?
5. etc etc

But the question doesn’t provide these details, so we will by default assume these blank spaces by ourselves.

Which means, each person with their own story and background will assume completely different things. A woman that had bad experiences with men will obviously assume that the man will be the worst kind. A man that never had bad experiences with other men will not assume the same.

So all the arguments about this question are between people that are not starting from the same page in the first place. They are screaming at each other because they are arguing their points from different assumptions.

I’ll try to find the video because the guy explains this much better than me, even though the video is about a completely different question.

edit: found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBJVyCYuu78

Yeah, this is one of those cases where we can't let perfection be the enemy of action. I myself I'm in the middle of degoogling as well, and it's a process that is taking a few months now (and will take some more).

But even if you use a googled android and still use some of their services, simply not defaulting to them for everything goes a long way. Use other browsers, use other search engines, use other email providers, etc.

But the point I was making was more about the privacy side of things. I don't believe that leaving those AI features on or off makes that much difference at the end of the day. Google will still spy on your content, and if they want to, they will use it for AI training regardless.

I know that their policies and whatnot might say differently, but I don't trust that they respect them.

Ooooorrrrrr...... You knowww........... Delete or stop using your google account and their services?

Because if what actually bothers you is the idea that Google is spying on your things with Gemini....

First: lol. lmao even.

Second: Sorry for the laugh, but that's because I believe that they don't need gemini to do that, they do it anyway regardless of your settings.

Case in point, last year google was sentenced to pay a fine because they were collecting data from their users, even though those users had tracking turned off in their settings. And I believe it wasn't the first time, but I can't be arsed to search for older examples.

An ad company that has trackers almost everywhere on the web and tracks you even if you're not using their services, that understanding and studying your behaviour is a central part of their business model; and you believe that they won't spy and track you because you asked them not to? C'mon

CDPR is extremely lax with modders. Reading the article, looks like the culprit is the fact that it’s paywalled

I’m not against modders earning something for their work, but it should be through donations imo

Not gonna lie, lowkey excited for this one. But, I know Peter Molyneux and his antics, so gonna grab my expectations and rein them in.

Also, Lionhead DNA is written all over this trailer. I was hit by a wave of nostalgia lol (and I laughed more than I should at the chicken joke)

EOS provides some more QoL features, it’s not just the installation itself (a button to update mirrors, auto keyring update, some nice pre-installed things like yay, etc)

If you need an Arch installation ready to go out of the box, EOS is a solid choice.

Edit: not trying to convince you to jump to EOS, just providing a bit more context about the distro

American men*

Dear god…

You don’t have to imagine, you can see a scene like this in Better Call Saul

It’s still used a lot. ComfyUI is the software of choice for the people you’re thinking about, and there’s some pretty advanced workflows that blow my mind how anyone even came up with that stuff. The end results are worth it though.

AI slop that we are used to seeing are people just throwing prompts at chatGPT or Gemini, maybe ask it to change a detail or another if they are feeling less lazy than usual, and then share it on the web

I saw a trans woman walking on the street the other day and it traumatized me. I have nightmares to this day and my psychiatrist says no drugs will ever help me get over it.

Wokism ruined my life