Well those tobacco companies still have advertisements don’t they?

How do you know that we are not bound by strict logic?

You are not alone in that confusion. Ai is whatever a machine can’t do at the moment. That is a famous paradox.

For example for years some philosophers claimed a computer could never beat the human masters of chess. They argued that you need a kind of intelligence for that, which machines cannot develop.

Turns out chess programs are relatively easy. Some time after that the unbeatable goal was Go. So many possibilities in Go. No machine can conquer that! Turns out they can.

Another unbeatable goal was natural language which we kinda solved now or are in the process of.

It’s strange in the actual field of computer science we call all of the above AI while a lot of the public wants to call none that. My guess is it’s just humans being conceited and arrogant. No machine (and no other animal mind you) is like us or can be like us (literally something you can read in peer reviewed philosophy texts).

Lemmy really is a bubble… Comments like this are really alienating me sometimes. Growing up not in abject poverty but also not financially secure does change my outlook on many things.

The multiple comments of beeing surprised that someone can find moderately expensive chocolate (which in itself is mostly a luxury good) luxurious really feels to me like people making fun of socioeconomically worse of others. It is probably not meant that way tho.

In my experience even really rich people don’t think of themselves as rich. There is always someone with more wealth in their circle. What really separates the haves from the have nots is the things they take for granted. This can create friction with the people that either can afford these things but don’t take them for granted or even worse the people that cannot afford it in the first place.

I do not have a solution for this but it affects almost everyone as there almost surely is someone less well of then them. Who’ll think of one as rich.

It isn’t? Yes there is way more expensive chocolate but Lind isn’t cheap.

I hear a lot of Americans use that word. Online but also in real life. But what does freedom in the sense of a “free” country even mean?

It sounds like a propaganda term that does not have a clear definition.

Once asked some stranger at a burger place in San Francisco if it would be likely if the police would stop me walking around with a cup of coke (to check if I have alcohol in there). I really did not want a confrontation with the police. They said better not risk it. Talked to them a bit. Very friendly people but they also said that a lot of problems in the US are because they have too much “freedom” but asked what that even means they couldn’t answer me.

At the same time the only reason I even talked to them was because I did not have the freedom to walk around with an open alcohol container… Which I would be free to do in many places in Europe.

I think this word is just a way to evoke emotions and knee-jerk reactions and should probably be avoided…