Rhaedas
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- Comment on If the USA ever rewrites their constitution it will likely have embedded ads. 18 hours ago:
And starts with "Writing a constitution for your new country is an exciting task! A constitution serves as the foundation of a nation's government, outlining its structure, powers, and limitations, as well as the rights and freedoms of its citizens. Here's a general outline to help you get started:"
(actual local LLM model reply)
- Comment on Red, gold and green. 18 hours ago:
That's karma for you.
- Comment on AI chatbots that butter you up make you worse at conflict, study finds 1 day ago:
How is this surprising? We know that part of LLM training is being rewarded for finding an answer that satisfies the human. It doesn't have to be a correct answer, it just has to be received well. This doesn't make it better, but it makes it more marketable, and that's all that has mattered since it took off.
- Comment on The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees 4 days ago:
I never could get into poems much, but this is genius.
- Comment on Giving good Hedera 5 days ago:
Is this more, "this isn't going to end well, better spread some seeds"?
- Comment on JFC, who did this?! 1 week ago:
He left the ending ambiguous for the reader to imagine what happens. He missed out on twisting the knife.
- Comment on On Jeopardy, does getting the Who/What/Where/When/Why part of the response necessary? 1 week ago:
Which is technically correct, since you are answering "What is [the answer]?"
- Comment on JFC, who did this?! 1 week ago:
That seems to happen to a lot of adaptations of his work. I think he may have even admitted that he's not great at ending what he starts.
- Comment on JFC, who did this?! 1 week ago:
Vague to avoid spoilers. Must be Mandela effect. I remember it being passed around to each person. Which honestly made it more horrible.
- Comment on YSK When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation 1 week ago:
Looks like Wikipedia decided to let the users battle it out since they have both listed. Both the right and the wrong way.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 week ago:
Just to clarify - so you don't believe in any of the supernatural stuff and are just about the better teachings of Jesus? Aka a Jefferson bible take?
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 week ago:
A nitpick, none of the gospel writers were eyewitnesses, the documents were written long after Jesus was gone. They are interpretations of stories passed down, and all four gospels have different takes on events. So the phrase "gospel truth" is very ironic in its definition.
- Comment on What would happen to the Earth if it got booped by a giant asteroid going super slowly? 1 week ago:
The thought experiment goes past everyone's point on gravity eventually creating a velocity that is devastating. What would such a mass (between 100 and 180 km in diameter based on map of Corsica) do if it just magically settled gently onto a land mass and then gravity came into play? It wouldn't be extinction level, but there are lots of regional effects to consider. Weather patterns would be a huge one. Continental plate deflection, which would affect ground stability and water flow. Certainly earthquakes if anywhere near even smaller fault lines. A change in Earth rotational speed and wobble.
- Comment on Not rule 1 week ago:
Or Main Character Syndrome, which is the other side of things. The default is somewhere in the middle, varying with the individual. It's probably harder to not see yourself as central most of the time (but not necessarily Main Character), simply because of being trapped in that viewpoint.
- Comment on Not rule 1 week ago:
Sonder - the profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.
- Comment on Jeebuz Rode A Velocirapture 1 week ago:
Little birds are so cute, until you watch them hunting for prey and imagine yourself at that scale.
- Comment on The Rapture could have happened, but nobody would know because everyone got left behind 1 week ago:
"You're not going to heaven
Why the fuck would you think I'd ever kick it with you?
None of you are going to heaven
There's a trillion aliens cooler than you""From God's Perspective" - Bo Burnham
- Comment on Can someone find a redeeming factor about this game? Like anything good about it. 1 week ago:
My memory was that it was a fun game. Thanks to the C-64 SID chip, the "Ghostbusters!" voice and music was decent (even though I suppose it got repetitive after a long play). Gameplay was good once you figured out what you were trying to do and prevent, and initially it was slow enough to allow mistakes. I do remember at the end it got basically impossible to keep up, so you would always have an endgame, and I guess I didn't get to that much since I don't remember exactly how that goes without finding a video of it (but of course know how it should go, since I know the movie well).
- Comment on I get texting and driving being a danger. But back in my day you could eat drink change radio stations etc. Why weren't laws implemented back then? 1 week ago:
Which is why the case for having tactile buttons instead of a screen is so strong. You can use feel to use these controls while still watching the road.
- Comment on Trump ties autism risk to Tylenol as scientists urge caution 2 weeks ago:
Trump said "I would say, wait until the baby is 12 years old and formed."
What?
- Comment on Autism has been announced! 2 weeks ago:
Even those autism outdates Tylenol. So Tylenol makers are time travelers.
- Comment on Autism has been announced! 2 weeks ago:
So that's the Microsoft connection.
- Comment on Experts disagree 2 weeks ago:
So then he's a capitalist, all about consumption.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
If the lines were rotated some 22 degrees you'd have more of a realistic regional division of foods types for most places. As it is G and D has so much diversity that it's not much of a loss either way.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 2 weeks ago:
I'd say extremely complex autocomplete, not glorified, but the point still stands that using probability to find accuracy is always going to deviate eventually. The tactic now isn't to try other approaches, they've come too far and have too much invested. Instead they keep stacking more and more techniques to try and steer and reign in this deviation. Difficult when in the end there isn't anything "thinking" at any point.
- Comment on Know your place 3 weeks ago:
Perhaps. At least I'm nice to people.
- Comment on Know your place 3 weeks ago:
Another great example of both scale and speed. Even the near stars are far.
- Comment on Know your place 3 weeks ago:
The problem is that the human mind can't easily grasp the whole thing at one time, or some parts of the scale aren't relatable enough. Like in your example, we know the Earth-Moon distance is huge abstractly but can't hold it in our mind like we can the marble and building, or even a mile distance, as those we can see. Or in The Epic Spaceman one, all we can understand is that the US is a very large expanse of land and yet our system is small even at that scale. But we can't put the two together easily.
When one gets that brief moment of awareness, it's both awesome and frightening. The last time it happened to me out of the blue was as a kid, looking up at a dark sky with a meteor shower. For a second I had the sense not of looking up at the sky with meteors falling, but of the reality of being on the surface of a rock that was flying around running into a debris cloud. And if I'm in a dark sky area and look long enough at the dense star field I can almost feel the sense of insignificance.
- Comment on Know your place 3 weeks ago:
Epic Spaceman on Youtube had a great scale realization method. If out galaxy was the size of the United States, our solar system would be somewhere around the city of Denver. The neighborhood stars we can individually see with our eyes would be the area of the Denver city lights. The Sun would be the size of a red blood cell, and the solar system's expanse would be the size of a fingerprint.
- Comment on Know your place 3 weeks ago:
So it's a message from the future specifically for Elon Musk.