I mean it's less bad than charging interest but much more than that is necessary and beneficial.
I think you are spot on about the convenience.
One of the most effective ways to build social relationships is to be a regular somewhere. Could be a bar, cafe, park, library, front yard, walking route, gym, or a more organized hobby group. Just be a familiar face and appear at least once a week (more is better). Something local to you is going to make the barrier to getting off the couch and being at your regular spot all the lower, to make sure you're sticking with it.
If there isn't something near you that feels like the "right fit" for you to spend your time, it's a worthy goal to put in the work to make it that way.
I've found in adulthood that having many one on one connections is exhausting. It's just a matter of efficiency to have a "friend group" or at least get your friends to be acquaintances with each other.
It's also that when you are in a group you are usually gonna carry like 20-30% of the conversational load rather than 50% (plus or minus).
Yeah that's kinda where I'm at
This then also makes me wonder how these models are going to be trained in the future. What happens when for example half of the training data is the output from previous models? How do you possibly steer/align future models and prevent compounding errors and bias? Strange times ahead.
Between this and the "deep fake" tech I'm kinda hoping for a light Butlerian jihad that gets everyone to log tf off and exist in the real world, but that's kind of a hot take
My understanding was that they're very unreliable in their current state, but I'm definitely not up to speed.
I think what sites have been running into is that it's difficult to tell what is and is not AI-generated, so enforcement of a ban is difficult. Some would say that it's better to have an AI-generated response out there in the open, which can then be verified and prioritized appropriately from user feedback. If there's a human generated response that's higher.quality, then that should win anyway, right? (Idk tbh)
The whole point is that it's federated too. The devs haven't really been ardent about much to do with the software except "we're not getting rid of the hard coded slur filter cause we really don't want to see the open fascists who would care about that using it". I don't fully agree or disagree with that, but they don't really have much else to say about the community at large. Des has repeatedly stated that he wants to have a healthy amount of "mainstream"/"liberal" instances that he has nothing to do with the content of.
You can be the one to spin something up, but like others point out, it's a major responsibility to moderate that sort of thing.
It's not "leftist" necessarily, but all leftists should inform themselves about the Russian Revolution IMO, which is covered by season 10 (the final and currently ongoing season) of the Revolutions|^Spotify^ podcast.
Mike Duncan isn't explicitly leftist or anything, but he really does his homework and portrays things in a really neutral way. Whether or not you are a big stan of the USSR and what came after, the Russian Revolution was the most successful attempt at overthrowing capitalism (to an extent), and any future movement should learn from and analyze all aspects of what happened in those years.
Citations Needed|^Spotify^ is my other favorite with their in-depth media criticism (if you like Chomsky's stuff, you'll probably like what they have to say).
Actually, yes, the original FOSS movement had more right-libertarian roots than anything to the left, although nowadays some might see it as "common ground".