As progressive as all the other large organised religions, when averaged over time.

huh, i knew they used bing under the hood but for some reason it didn't occur to me that the promotions and ads would bleed through.

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

I'm not promoting DDG, I don't use it either, just saying that they do provide a no ai version (currently at least)

Also note that no LLM doesn't mean no "promoted" listings

It is, but he's still him, just with more mental health issues.

I would say that just because it comes naturally to us doesn't mean it's what's best for us. Just like sugar tastes good doesn't mean it's good for you.

Thats not a great example because sugar is a necessary part of nutrition.

It is, however a great example of throwing the baby out with the bathwater because if you hear "sugar bad" and then stop all sugar it's going to cause problems.

Excess sugar is bad, sure, sugar in general, not so much.

Names for groups of people who think a certain thing

You mean like, vegans? Animal rights activists? Conscientious objectors?

Even your example "people who think a certain thing" is a grouping.

We are one people on this earth, even if we have small differences in our needs and circumstances. And we have very common, global problems right now.

Thats still a grouping, it's just a large one. That can also be a dangerously naive way to go about problem solving.

"They are all the same so the solution for all the people in that group must be the same" gets people killed.

In this particular case, is was not necessary to introduce the fact that a person could be referred to as a "Luddite". It made no difference and only served to polarize and segregate

Necessary, probably not? , useful, possibly.

That you hear Luddite and think of it as automatically bad might say more about you than the person using the term.

Also segregation is literally the point of grouping and categorisation, again if you think segregation = automatically bad, that might say more about you than you think.

I'd go as far as to say if you see groupings as only a way to be hateful, you might want to consider if your way of thinking is the problem.

What I'm saying is that you can talk about a problem without introducing a term to describe the people participating in the discussion. That's a different thing to what you're describing.

And as I said. using a group term as a slur (or using one that is known to usually be a slur) is arsehole behaviour.

Using group terms in general is not.

But either way, if you really need labels in your discourse, you want to put the labels and categories on (a group of) ideas, not the people having them. Can we agree on that part?

I don't think so.

Using a term for a person as a way to easily attribute a set of parameters from a grouping is basic communication.

Not all of those attributes/parameters are ideas.

Using it to be hateful is a problem of usage not of categorisation in general.

I'm not arguing that there aren't truly shitty usages out there, im saying it's not the tool its the usage.

Categorisation is almost a core part of language, nations, clubs teams, ethnicities, ideologies, age ranges, genders, sexualities.

I know how MV3 works, thanks.

That's my bad, i genuinely didn't consider that someone who knew what happened would frame it as ublock dragging their heels and not mention the context at all.

The point remains that from the moment it was announced people have been claiming, usually with much hyperbole, that Chrome was trying to kill adblockers,

Along with a lot of people who rightly pointed out that a largely ad based company being in charge of the specification of a system that can limit the ability for their ads to be blocked is a massive conflict of interest.

Luckily for all of us, google is known for it's history of forgoing ad revenue and corporate interests in favour of end-user happiness...so we shouldn't worry about it.

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I actually find it interesting that they managed to achieve the stated goal of preventing a certain class of malware extensions while letting adblockers still work (though I know it’s not a widely shared sentiment).

It's not a widely shared sentiment for a reason.

Mind you, I still preferred living in an MV2 world, and I still encourage people to switch to Firefox.

fair enough.

It’s better for everyone if the ecosystem is more diverse.

Agreed as a general principle, especially in the mid to long term.

But if the diversity aspect introduced to 70% of a population is actively hostile (with historical indications that future aspects will also be hostile) then dismissing concerns about it as hyperbole is face-eating leopard territory.

TL;DR;

The rules might be considered a list of "immoral things" but in my experience it was treated more as a list of "distracting things", YMMV.

Then why is it on the list of horrible things?

You mean the list specifically titled "precepts" ?

It does indicate that it's a list based on what is considered "moral conduct" so i suppose it could be considered a list of "Immoral" things.

I personally read it as "Rules and Guidelines to prevent distraction during the process".

While i don't personally prescribe to that kind of moral absolutism i was willing to adhere to the guidelines for a short period to experience the process in it's intended form.

Attendance isn't mandatory so people will have to make that call for themselves if they are considering going.

The list doesn’t mention communication, and in fact specifically prohibits lying. That suggests that speacking truly is permitted,

The section titled "Noble Silence" 4 paragraphs down, specifically goes in to the details of the non-communication i was referencing.

and this is a list of bad things

Not sure what you mean here, but hopefully i've covered it above.

That’s a list someone makes when they don’t approve of sex (or intoxicants, but that’s another conversation).

Very possibly and i'd guess it comes from the Buddhist origins.

I will state that my experience is that it wasn't preachy at all, the video recordings do reference some Buddhist stories/teachings but only really to use them as examples for teaching the meditation process.

Given that you aren't supposed to be communicating in general there is very little leeway in which preaching could occur.

I genuinely have no idea if it's an option for you or if it'd even help but for 10/11 days of relative isolation you could try vipassana

Not sure what the northern US wait times are like, but you generally need to book ahead.

It's free, it works on a volunteer basis, no idea how if it works for people with no fixed abode but proof of residence was not required where i am.

Do check if it's suitable for you though, there are rules (albeit not many), they seem reasonable to me but might not be for you.

Isolation wise, there is no communication between attendees, but there are group meditation sessions (though they are also non-talking).

The three aspects that weren't silent :

• the meditation instruction, it was a one hour-ish video playback per day explaining the process.
• the final day, discussion is allowed.
• optional question time with an instructor.

Same, they are currently still working through the 2019 backlog.

There is the option of going through "Right To Choose" system, which is ostensibly quicker but i think you have to pay for things yourself.

GP or doctor can give you proper advice about that though.

There are officially recognised tests that potentially lead to officially recognised diagnoses. For ADHD specifically that can lead to access to medication you wouldn't have without the official diagnosis.