Maybe you see a plant you have to collect in game or a rock wall that looks different. What items have you caught out of the corner of your eye that you realized was just your brain so focused on looking for things in a game that you saw it IRL and made you double take?
there’s a known psychological phenomenon that people who play lots of tetris sometimes see tetris when they close their eyes and dream about it in their sleep
Exactly that, it’s a question I answered, therefore I can’t ignore the fact that “people” have these stereotypes. I get what you mean with repeating these stereotypes, but it would be weird if that would make an answer more or less incorrect/insufficient. Emphasis on “people”, I myself don’t have any strong feelings about these stereotypes.
Having said that, these are things that will always exist in my eyes, people will try to get an indication of a person as soon as possible, even without the proper information, but that is a whole other psychological discussion.
I don’t think human psychology will allow a united approach to global warming. Too man people are too stupid, to egoistic or just in such a tight spot they can not afford being “climate-friendly”....
For one, the LEDs mess with your sleep. Some wavelength of light make your body think it’s day therefore inhibiting melatonin production (the hormone that makes you sleepy).
Furhermore, a general advice for better sleep is to keep electronics outside if the bedroom, as they are too psychologically engaging (e.g. “I’ll just check one more post on Lemmy”).
Unscientific, but I think I remember reading somewhere that ~8 years was about the amount of time many people were able to deal with a shitty situation before they were psychologically done with it. I would also think after more and more time there is more sense of sunk cost and more to lose or fear of the unknown.
Not surprising about the Seals, or military members in general. The ones I saw that were most successful didn’t get married until they were already in for a while, and usually one of them was a veteran.
If there’s one company you should preemptively block, it’s Facebook. They have a track record of destroying anything and everything they touch and there is zero reason to think it won’t be the same this time. From this post:
They aren’t some new, bright-eyed group with no track record. They’re a borderline Machiavellian megacorporation with a long and continuing history of extremely hostile actions:
Openly and willingly taking part in political manipulation (see Cambridge Analytica)
Actively have campaigned against net neutrality and attempted to make “facebook” most of the internet for members of countries with weaker internet infra - directly contributing to their amplification of genocide (see the genocide link for info)
Using their users as non-consenting subjects to psychological experiments.
Absolutely ludicrous invasions of privacy - even if they aren’t able to do this directly to the Fediverse, it illustrates their attitude.
Even now, they’re on-record of attempting to get instance admins to do backdoor discussions and sign NDAs.
Your description is too reductive. You and I are also auto completes in some sense. See in order to complete a sentence well, you have to have a good model of a vast number of things including physics, psychology, linguistics, logical reasoning, socio economics, irony, sarcasm, arithmetic and many other things.
It is currently unknown how much of these the complexity of the models and training process will allow, but they have been surprising us in every step. You wouldn’t expect a “just auto complete” to figure out rules of arithmetic, but it did. You wouldn’t expect it to answer tricky questions involving theory of mind, but it does. You wouldn’t expect it to solve graduate level questions but it is able to.
So it’s a bit too rash to expect it to not understand rm -rf as humor, if you don’t know which model you will talk to.
The smaller ones, sure, are dumb. But even GPT 3 will not recommend you to rm -rf; definitely not GPT 4.
Knowing companies like Twitter they probably had some Minority Report style psychological profile on you from their intrusive data collection and predicted you were there to troll.
French courts have been imposing disproportionately severe sentences for minor offenses, including 10 months in prison for stealing a can of Red Bull and one year for a homeless boy with schizophrenia caught looting a luxury store. The overwhelmed courts rush cases, provide minimal time for defendants, and prioritize punishment...
Why is 1 year sentence for looting is too much? Or u mean because the personal had psychological condition they should have been admitted to hospital instead ?
Ever since she was a kitten, Sushi has been obsessed with any sort of footwear. Her favorite past time is either sticking her head in a shoe or lounging on top of one.
I’m sorry to hear it. I tore my Achilles a year ago and only now is it almost healed. I was on the boot for about 5 months. I found it psychologically difficult to manage, not just physically difficult. Still is.
I hope you get your answer soon, so you can continue your journey to recovery. Good luck.
They could have said okay here you g… oooops jeez it’s gone. Wow how did that happen. Oh well.
They’re a branch of the government at this point. Call it investing in avoiding the kind of scrutiny they should have been under the moment they started psychological experiments on the public.
They admitted to it but I don’t see Zuck the fuck in jail do you?
I didn’t come to a new service just to see it get taken over by the corporate beasts who ruined the internet in general, and I am sure as hell am not going to use an instance that doesn’t care about its users....
I think people are justified in having strong emotions on this topic. A good amount of us just came from Reddit, only to waltz right into what feels like another corporate power play. You install smoke detectors before you have a house fire, not during it.
Many of us have been burned by Meta and purposefully choose these more obscure communities, like Lemmy, to stay far away from them. Meta, after all, has waged a worldwide assault on democracy. Meta has aided literal genocide in at least one country. Meta has run undisclosed psychological experiments to see if it could alter the mood of its users and make them depressed, without regard for if children were among the swath of people.
A lot of people are old enough to remember similar takeovers of standards and open protocols, which is why XMPP comes up so often in these discussions. All it takes is one big player with God-levels of money in order to usurp a standard. Google’s done it twice now, for instance. First with XMPP and again with RCS.
Meta deserves zero benefit of doubt. They’ve always been a bad actor and parasite. I don’t buy the conspiracy theory that admins are being paid by Meta. That does seem hysterical.
The most likely reason I’ve heard for Threads embracing ActivityPub (eventually) is to circumvent EU regulations. In which case we shouldn’t be fine with being a pawn and should resist aiding an objectively harmful company from avoiding due regulation.
There is chemical addiction and there is psychological addiction. Weed might not be chemically addictive but it can sure be psychologically addictive which is true with most stoners.
Dude, coffee and tea are loaded with this incredible compound called caffeine. It’s like a chemical wizard that messes with your brain in two ways: chemically and mentally. Chemically, caffeine hooks onto these receptors in your brain, blocking this chill neurotransmitter called adenosine. So instead of feeling relaxed and sleepy, you’re all pumped up and alert.
But that’s not all, man. When you consume caffeine regularly, your body becomes physically dependent on it. So, if you suddenly stop guzzling that liquid goodness, you’re gonna feel some withdrawal symptoms like headaches, fatigue, and even crankiness. It’s like your body is saying, “Hey, where’s my daily dose of that buzz?”
And let’s not forget about the mental game. Coffee and tea can be habit-forming, creating this psychological attachment. You know, that warm mug, that familiar taste, it becomes a part of your routine, man. Plus, the stimulating effects of caffeine can make you crave that buzz, that laser-focused state of mind.
So, there you have it, bro. Coffee and tea aren’t just about flavor and ritual; they mess with your brain chemistry and play tricks on your mind. It’s like a wild ride, all packed into a cup.
Marijuana is absolutely physically addictive as much as people want to say it isnt.
I mean it scientifically isn’t though. Physical addictions don’t just give you psychological withdrawals, they are physical. Your body becomes dependent on them to maintain homeostasis.
Cold turkeying drugs like opioids and benzos can kill you.
I need some work done and many recommended Base Analytics so I thought to check their website for pricing and looks like they will only share their pricing if I contact them. I really hate such companies.
Its truly bizarre behaviour. Like some kind of psychological phenomenon where the company don’t want their time wasted by tyre kickers who aren’t serious.
Works both ways though. Put your prices up or I will just assume you aren’t competitive and skip you.
I have at least a nodding acquaintance with that work and while I think it’s worth considering and talking about, I don’t find it to be at all the most convincing explanation for conservatism and am far more persuaded by conservatism as being motivated by a desire for the preservation of hierarchy that manifests itself through said psychological traits, but that is the ultimate prior that informs them. Otherwise we would expect to see liberalism and conservatism more evenly distributed throughout our population, as with other psychological traits, but we don’t, to the contrary, they are very geographically dependent.
So while I don’t think that psychology has nothing to say about the issue, I definitely don’t think that its the most important factor.
IDK about Lemmy devs, but point 2 is so, so common. Making a point about UX or accessibility in 99% of FLOSS project discussion spaces is incredibly stressful; you can have user research, industry best practice, and years of experience on your side, but you’re inevitably met with dismissal and argument. Devs often treat designers as though they’re a bunch of artsy crystal-healing crusties, despite the fact that good UX people base their work on actual research and theory grounded in human behavior and psychology. (Calling use of basic design principles “eye candy” for example) Of course, if a dev makes a decision on technical grounds, it must be treated as scripture as far as any remaining designers on the project are concerned. It’s no wonder so many FLOSS projects have abominable UX.
While we’re off topic, you should also consider grey-scaling your phone most of the time, only turning it back to color when needed. A lot of psychological trickery goes into icon and notification color to catch you eye, and it’s much less interesting in drab grey
In some of the music communities I’m in the content creators are already telling their userbase to go follow them on threads. They’re all talking about some kind of beef between Elon and Mark and the possibility of a boxing match… Mark was right to call the people he’s leaching off of fucking idiots.
I’m saying that since we rely on software every day, there are a few concepts that every person should understand on a basic level.
Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong before anything software-related I’d put knowledge of fundamental statistics in the queue for things people deal with on a daily basis that they should understand at a basic level. It’s one of the most critical skills a person can have in modern life and it’s one that almost nobody (including almost all programmers) has any kind of understanding of. If they did have a better understanding of it, to quote the Great Sage Equalling Heaven:
That knowledge would help them make better decisions and probably the world would be better if most people had it.
😉
And that’s just the beginning of the list. I’d also put basic psychology, basic marketing, basic civics even ahead of any degree of software knowledge. Knowing marketing, for example, wouldn’t cause someone to be fooled to the point of saying something like this:
But they should know what cryptocurrencies and AI are, since those technologies are slowly becoming a part of our lives.
But gentle snark aside:
But I think something went wrong in our society if people don’t understand very important concepts that impact our daily lives and which are mostly decades old.
Try tens of thousands of years old. You make it sound like the problem is technology. The problem is the same as it’s always been: people. A better understanding of people, of their motivations, of the tricks they use to further those motivations, etc. is what makes you better able to manage life and society. Understanding the tricks of marketers and advertisers (even before those were words in human language!) is what makes you understand things like “hype cycles” and “if you haven’t paid, you’re not the customer”. You’re focusing on a single channel of abuse. There are MILLIONS of channels of abuse. Learning why people find said channels and how/why they exploit them is a far more valuable skill.
Oh, and statistics. You need that too. You have NO idea just how bad we are at those and just how important that knowledge is for spotting grifters, liars, and other scum.
Ah, I see. So you are an expert in psychology, marketing and statistics. That is truly amazing. It’s completely irrelevant to the topic of our discussion (which is about privacy and software), but very cool.
Hi, as it’s in my title. I’m looking for narrative driven games with good story, something I can play on my steam deck. Not something open open world but more of a on rails experience....
I'm not quite sure about Steamdeck compatibility, so I apologize if some are not. Horror isn't exactly my genre, but I'll throw some other great story-driven games out there.
The Rusty Lake/Cube Paradox series are absolutely incredible if you like puzzles/escape rooms. The collection is probably 10-15+ hours of entertainment with a single playthrough. Will also throw Gorogoa out there, but that's only about 2-3 hours.
Outlast series
What Remains of Edith Finch
Life is Strange is absolutely fantastic and mostly about time.
I've heard great things about Firewatch and Outer Wilds, but have not played either yet.
Stanley Parable is a bit dated, but it is fun if you enjoy narrated British humor or The Office.
The Bioshock Series is absolutely fantastic and plays best with a controller. I think the first is best, followed by the third.
The Metro series is great, but they are one of the most difficult single-player FPS out there. So are the STALKER games if you like modding, but those are visually a bit dated.
All of Supergiant Games (Bastion, Hades, and Transistor) are fantastic.
Other notable mentions: Stray, Remember Me,
I've heard great things about Days Gone, but it apparently the fun action part takes quite some time to get into.
You might really enjoy the original "Layers of Fear" if you like psychological horror, but it has very little spoken story and is definitely not an A-rated game. A remake also recently came out, but the original still holds up.
How often have games made you do a double take in real life? (i.imgur.com)
Maybe you see a plant you have to collect in game or a rock wall that looks different. What items have you caught out of the corner of your eye that you realized was just your brain so focused on looking for things in a game that you saw it IRL and made you double take?
Why are Japanese cars considered to be more reliable than US or European cars?
What New Game Hype Does To Your Brain - Daryl Talks Games (youtu.be)
Super interesting video on the psychology of hype. I recommend the channel’s other videos too, they’re all very reflective and well written!
Stop global warming using technology?
I don’t think human psychology will allow a united approach to global warming. Too man people are too stupid, to egoistic or just in such a tight spot they can not afford being “climate-friendly”....
Everything has LEDs now and they drive me nuts
Why does every small appliance or useful home electronics item have the BRIGHTEST LEDs in them?...
TIL that the divorce rate of Navy Seals is over 90%/The average length of a marriage is 8 years (www.midlifedivorcerecovery.com)
We have 2-3 months to compile a Threads block list (www.timothychambers.net)
It is expected to be 2-3 months before Threads is ready to federate (see link). There will, inevitably, be five different reactions from instances:...
Ubuntu-Based Linux Lite 6.6 Comes with an AI Helper, Now Available for Testing (9to5linux.com)
Manifesting is just like praying. In both you strongly wish something to happen
And the odds of that happening doesn’t change whether you chose to ‘pray’ for it or ‘manifest’ it.
watching your children die (media.discordapp.net)
So I tried signing up for Twitter to do a little trolling there... (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I thought: Okay I’ll do 15 of these and start spamming twitter....
French Courts Are Giving Protesters INSANE Sentences (www.youtube.com)
French courts have been imposing disproportionately severe sentences for minor offenses, including 10 months in prison for stealing a can of Red Bull and one year for a homeless boy with schizophrenia caught looting a luxury store. The overwhelmed courts rush cases, provide minimal time for defendants, and prioritize punishment...
Sushi: Queen of the Boot (i.imgur.com)
Ever since she was a kitten, Sushi has been obsessed with any sort of footwear. Her favorite past time is either sticking her head in a shoe or lounging on top of one.
Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/1874605...
If Lemmy.world doesn't defederate from Threads, Meta and all things Zuck within 24 hours, I will shut down my subs and leave.
I didn’t come to a new service just to see it get taken over by the corporate beasts who ruined the internet in general, and I am sure as hell am not going to use an instance that doesn’t care about its users....
Stoner (i.imgur.com)
I really don't understand why companies can't post their pricing on their website ? (baseanalytics.com.au)
I need some work done and many recommended Base Analytics so I thought to check their website for pricing and looks like they will only share their pricing if I contact them. I really hate such companies.
Part of the Social Security website (ssa.gov) only works during certain hours (sh.itjust.works)
… its a website run by the US Government. Why does it have such large downtimes in this day and age?
Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds?
The mastodon and lemmy content I’m seeing feels like 90% of it comes from people who are:...
ELI5: Why did LED notification lights silently got removed from phone?
They were a good indicator for notifications that are missed when you were away from phone.
I think the average person just simply doesn't care about their privacy.
In some of the music communities I’m in the content creators are already telling their userbase to go follow them on threads. They’re all talking about some kind of beef between Elon and Mark and the possibility of a boxing match… Mark was right to call the people he’s leaching off of fucking idiots.
Looking for narrative driven games (kbin.social)
Hi, as it’s in my title. I’m looking for narrative driven games with good story, something I can play on my steam deck. Not something open open world but more of a on rails experience....