right!? this is trash and totally misleading

for example, understanding an enemy is important to combating them - being able to understand and anticipate their psychology helps approach them in a better and more informed way

e.g. I learned that religious fundamentalists cast a stark, black-and-white picture of a war or battle between insiders and outsiders, so by not playing into that dynamic I can sort of undermine their worldview, which then opens the room for humanizing outsiders and helping insiders escape their cult

for me the ones that come to mind: able to walk (and run), not stuck under strict bed rest for days, not in excruciating pain, able to sleep at night, not so fatigued I don’t want to get out of bed, not wanting to die, not having PTSD nightmares

there are many others - while it really seems like a stupid exercise, when I was really suffering mentally, I found contemplating times when I was in much worse pain or stress and focusing in what ways I was not currently in pain or stressed really did help me feel a kind of happiness and gratitude that improved my overall mood.

usually I just ignore the way I feel when I’m not in pain, but if I actually sit and think about what it feels like to be content and have ease with my body in contrast with how my body feels when I’m sick or injured, I can actually connect with a pleasurable feeling of contentedness that I can then better recognize and enjoy more frequently.

I would do this for like 30 minutes once a day, usually in the morning before I got out of bed - just trying to really pay attention to the comfort, bodily ease, happiness, etc. that I felt in that moment, or remembering moments when I felt those ways, and then once I sort of connected with those feelings enough that I was really feeling them in a sustained way, then I would re-iterate my intention to cultivate those feelings in my life in the future, and that I desire this kind of stuff for everyone - everyone deserves to be healthy, happy, content, etc. Sometimes I had to imagine myself as a stranger to do this - I find it easier to feel good-will towards strangers than myself, but a future me is admittedly a stranger to me - and just as deserving of happiness.

All this said, I don’t want to imply happiness is always a choice, but I have been surprised at how well “thinking” as a tool has worked at providing some relief (even if it’s ultimately a bandaid until you can get through the hard times and hopefully find ourself in better circumstances).

yeah, but at least you can breathe through your nose!

the real question: where is the liberal equivalent of @Cowbee@lemmy.ml

yes, that’s admittedly valuable, this is why I’ve spent so much time studying Christianity and talking to Christians about their beliefs; but the OP put me in the mindset of thinking about diversity of viewpoints to ensure an accurate or correct viewpoint, which is a separate goal or concern - so I thought it was being implied that reading /r/conservative views is a valuable exercise because it helps us develop more accurate or better views (which I don’t think is likely)

is there an online service that eliminates capitalism?

omgeeeee, this game was the best!!

there are absolutely conservative lemmy instances, but again I’m not sure what the value is of this - conservative ideology is broadly reality denying (even by their own admission), and it’s just poor reasoning that different opinions are always valuable to be acquainted with and take seriously.

For example, I do not think that medical students should be taking classes in astrology, alchemy, homeopathy, and chiropractic as well as their classes on biology, chemistry, anatomy & physiology, etc.

We can evaluate different viewpoints on the merits of how well they are based on reason or evidence, and dismiss poorly reasoned or poorly evidenced views (or better, views that are proven wrong through reasoning or evidence).

you should probably feel some amount of discomfort with your own views and be willing to adjust them as your exposure to better reasoning and evidence supports a different view

but I also don’t think we should have obligatory “both-sides” on everything either, sometimes it’s OK to have a consensus, like the Holocaust was wrong - I’m OK that most people on Lemmy agree with that view

right, but that doesn’t convince anyone that consensus itself is wrong - you can also have informed consensus, it’s not guaranteed to be ill-informed

but when it is a girl, we make her our queen

I’m also clueless and don’t understand what the OP is talking about - who is having a mental breakdown and why? And aren’t the millennials who are the only tech and internet literate generation exactly the people having a mental breakdown over the way the internet is going? I’m so confused, I need more context.

I use duckduckgo and sometimes it gives me better answers, but I do feel like SEO optimization has led to a kind of useless noise of search results that is improved by using an LLM to search for the needle of valuable information in that haystack of noise.

It’s not always true, so I still use search engines when I can, but unfortunately I have become increasingly reliant on LLMs as a kind of “efficient search engine” which could probably be solved with better industry practices and regulations to prevent the kind of SEO competition that leads to such useless websites vying for clicks.

wasn’t there a recent investigation and initial confirmation by the Pentagon and NYT that the US was responsible?

of course the motivation and will is there for Iran to stage a “false flag” operation to damage the reputation of the US and present themselves as victims to the rest of the world, but the specifics of this case quickly dispel that notion, such as the school being adjacent to an Iranian navy base, and the school house having been previously used by the navy and only later converted to a school, as well as analysis of footage that confirmed the missile that struck the school was a missile the US has access to but Iran does not … so it is far more likely the US just didn’t update their intel and had old target data.

yes, the US is much more insulated from the consequences of its government’s actions than other nations, and citizens here have absolutely no awareness of what life is like outside the US (though tbh, I don’t think most Americans are aware of what life is like for their fellow citizens - there is a profound capacity to rationalize their own suffering and to victim-blame others for the needless suffering they experience).

the first author on the paper is Samuele Cortese, he’s a tenured full professor who studies sleep disorders, ADHD, and neurodevelopmental disorders - literally nothing about his job is contingent on over-diagnosis of ADHD …

If we don’t program it to do something, it won’t.

yes, the only caveat would be that people could hook AI up to things that they shouldn’t and not provide sufficient oversight to ensure it is acting reasonably … but the same could be said of cruise control in a car, for example

I do wonder what scary things a text-prediction program will be capable of that has everyone so worried … it’s as simple as just not using it further. LLMs have no agency or independent intelligence.

The harms and concerns are many, but not related to concerns about its intelligence.

there probably would be peace, after the nukes hit 🤔