shneancy

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  tbf, how do you know what to say and when? or what 2+2 is?

  you learnt it? well so did AI

  i’m not an AI nut or anything, but we can barely comprehend our own internal processes, it’d be concerning if a thing humanity created was better at it than us lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Embrace this Truth and enjoy life⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  evolution is blind because all of it is an accident. life forms that survive long enough to make more life forms get their genes to live on. any life form that doesn’t, well, doesn’t. better survivability because of an error in copying genes? more offspring. worse survivability? less offspring

  there is no intention to evolution, it’s simply a consequence of the fact that some primitive life forms at some point felt a desire to copy their genes and the process of doing so is imperfect. That desire, probably a product of random copying itself, is what made all living things today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  it doesn’t actually click on stuff. it “clicks” so that the advertisers’ and your digital footprint’s statistics get messed up, but you never see the results of the clicking, nothing pops up, nothing gets downloaded

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the community for stuff like this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  oh that’s what you meant!

  maybe typing it like “it will happen regardless, if you have the genetics” would avoid the confusion, because i thought the comman you get people (me) reading it wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the community for stuff like this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  regardless

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the community for stuff like this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  have you never met an old man with hair?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He is very determined and must be thwarted at all costs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  curly hair is its own entity at the top of my head. it craves moisture and oils, the only thing that can temporarily force it to behave is hair modelling clay. if i dare to blow hot air at it (yes even with the weird blower attachment) it is going to revolt against me and not curl. there’s a whole ritual i have to perform each wash, and if i don’t it threatens to make me look like i just woke up from a 12h sleep after 48h of partying

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terraria Hive Base⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  try out circles! there’re neat tools that help with drafting pixel art circles. a bit of a pain to build (you’ll definitely need the ruler) but it’s fun to see some spheres and domes in your world :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOREX is not for the faint hearted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  it does yes, but currency exchange places near airports/train stations are notorious for pretty much stealing from you. Seriously, never buy a different currency near any place considered vaguely international, it can get as bad as getting half of what you’d get in a reasonable place, nowhere near as bad as withdrawing from an ATM in a foreign country

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please dont feed the creatures 🪱⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  i’m happy to see more people having a proper think about this, and getting rid of the learnt reaction to just say “kill all pedos”. Years ago i came to the same conclusion - that ostricising and shaming people who struggle with pedophilic desires is simply not a good idea, it pushes those individuals into isolation, and could result in them bottling up their urges so desperately that one day they become too strong.

  there’s nuance in everything, and compassion is important. i’d rather have a friend who felt safe telling me about his pedophilic desires, so i could support them in therapy. than a friend too afraid to tell anyone, and fighting the unwanted desires alone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  i also enjoy being able to do some shading if i wanted to draw something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why am I like this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i swear white clothing is a magnet for tomato foods

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why am I like this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  honestly by now my brain filters it out. i had to go back to the original post to play spot the difference for a second

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Idioms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  huh! słyszałem tylko drugie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Idioms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  huh? what are the original idioms? i only ever heard the boar one (but the wolf version)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They know I'm not cool, I know I'm not cool. Cool.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  logically you shouldn’t obviously

  but there’s something in a lot of our brains that wants to be the cool adult, chill with the kids and all that. often i half knowingly make sure my hair is looking good when there’s some teenagers in a bus. it’s not logical but idk, teens are brutally honest so if they approve of your vibe (by not making fun of you) - that means you’re cool, i think?? no idea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Americans can't coo-"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i don’t like mushrooms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Americans can't coo-"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  how to substitute the cum glazing in the recepie? i don’t have any

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  kinky play & aftercare. both amazing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  what a brave new world we live in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  humble bundle at one point sold a bundle with the works of U K Le Guin, and since i’ve been meaning to read those, i bought it

  all were under amazon DRM

  i’m a big fan of being able to do whatever the hell i want with the things i buy so naturally, i got mad and looked for a way to un-DRM them, and i’m happy to say there’s a calibre plugin for that. i’m currently enjoying Wizard of Earthsea on my reMarkable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  absolutely! the One Ring is much better developed than horcruxes, i was being reductive on purpose there. The Ring is presented as integral to the story from the very beginning and acts like it, serving as a driving force for both the plot and character development for everyone involved. Horcruxes mimic similar characteristics as a literary device but fail to reach the same level of development

  anyway this seems like a natural end to the topic, so let me just say thank you for the conversation :) i always appreciate a nice nerd out and analysis of media. hope you have a nice day!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  hm i feel like the distinction comes down to vibes here. if i were to be reductive i could describe the One Ring in a similar way “it corrupts gollum, gives Frodo a quest, makes Boromir crave power and turn on his companions in a moment of weakness, and (from Sauron’s POV) hobbits destroying it is a deus ex machina”. imo horcruxes as an idea were not that bad but,

  to me, the main difference here is how they’re used in the story. The One Ring is the driving force from the beginning, it’s already well established in the lore of the world, and the only surprise to the universe’s scholars is how it suddenly found itself in a hobbit’s hands. Where horcruxes appear suddenly in the second to last book (obviously not counting the diary because it’s clearly been deemed a horcrux when JKR came up with them and thought the diary fit the vibe well enough). First 4 Harry Potter books are bascially episodic, an overaching plot only emerges by the end of book 4. And LOTR is one cohesive story with a clear goal from the beginning, which allows it to unravel in a satisfying and effective way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  not to compre whole books to whatever JK Rowling is doing on her tweeter this week (probably transphobia but who knows) but would it be any better if she twote one day “all magic in Harry Potter comes from the divine tree, at the beginning the tree blessed few people with its world bending power of imagination, this is how wizardry began, the tree spoke latin btw.”

  Besides, the story is more or less a POV of Harry’s, a pre-teen to young adult boy who is way more excited to play sports than attend his lessons. Which to me is a good enough reason why we end up knowing fuck all about the magic of his world. If the POV was Hermione’s, i’d expect there to be an indepth 3-chapter long research project about her work on a “Origins of Magic” essay for her History of Magic class. But because of the characterisation of Harry and also the tension in the story by the end, it makes sense to me why Harry doesn’t really care about how things work, but how effective they can be. The question wasn’t “wow a horcrux? incredibly rare black magic, i must study it to understand how and why it works to one day maybe be able to undo it”, the question was “horcrux huh? and it makes voldie immortal-ish? alright lads, let’s find a way to smash it”

  and to answer your question - horcruxes of all things are pretty well elaborated on. Voldemort splits his soul and attaches it to objects/people. The price? A part of his soul and another person’s life. The purpose? Ability to be recreated from each of those pieces, achieving immortality-ish, as long as he has someone living to do the ritual, and his father’s skeleton still has some bones left ig. The limitation seems to be that he looks evil after being reborn? and i think there was some implication that the process is incredibly painful on the spiritual level

  i think a better example would be the sorting hat because wtf is that. is that a person turned into a hat? is it an enchanted object? it can talk in your mind, can read your soul to then sort you into a house, a sword can come out of it when it feels you’re in need and worthy of it? No explanation, no described limitations, a power to read one’s mind in later books is attributed mostly to voldemort & looking at how Harry handles it it’s incredibly emotionally exhausting. how can that hat be more powerful than the most powerful evil wizard?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i wasn’t really thinking of star wars, moreso LOTR if anything, the magic there is the textbook definition of “a wizard did it” and yet despite that it’s a beloved series and very few call for Gandalf’s powers to have an understandable magical system behind them. but that’s a gourmet meal of a book & the trilogy movie series, harry potter is junk food, enjoyable as long as you don’t think too hard about what the ingredients are

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am at a loss on words⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ur whalecum <3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am at a loss on words⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  <3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah that’s fair. don’t get me wrong i wasn’t trying to convince you to like Harry Potter’s magic system, but you quoted “lack of rules” as a something you disliked about it so i gave a short explanation as to why that specific thing isn’t what makes HP’s magic feel shallow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am at a loss on words⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  look again loss but it’s an optical illusion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Harry Potter has a soft magic system - a system where pretty much everything can be explained by “a wizard did it”, they’re mystic and lawless (see also Lord of the Rings)

  it seems you enjoy more hard magic systems like you described above, where the rules are explained, and you can more or less understand why things work the way they do (see also Earthsea by U.K. Le Guin or ATLA)

  the hard/soft scale is not perfect, but it gives you a rough gist of what to expect

  writers aren’t limited to just one either! Percy Jackson has a soft magic system, a lot of “a wizard god did it!”, where Kane Chronicles has a strict magic system bound by understandable rules (with only gods and divine interventions going above the rules)