MajorasTerribleFate
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- Comment on No it won’t 16 hours ago:
It is the promise of mystery, discovery, unknown functions that could end up being truly fascinating. The less clear the workings of a device at first glance (down to some minimum threshold), the more it evokes that sense of wonder and curiosity.
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 1 day ago:
5ish?
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 1 day ago:
Usually shirt bad. Sometimes sensory issues make shirt superior to other random torso-fabric interactions.
- Comment on Gravity! 5 days ago:
- Comment on Bread mold 5 days ago:
Are you using “mig” as milligram or microgram? For that to be a term you’d use, I assume you recognize you’re responding to a quantity in micrograms.
- Comment on WHY??? 6 days ago:
Apparently, S04E08, “You Don’t Want to Know” is the one you’re thinking of, so, yes.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 6 days ago:
Black hats will accidentally pop around the other side by attacking Windows 11 security in ways that hinder the reporting back to Microsoft. So their trojans and such have a better chance of survival.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 6 days ago:
They can applaud because they have both hands free
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I agree, it’s just the joke only worked if I used that other name.
I roll with “Elon deadnames his child, a human being with emotions, and while that remains the case I will deadname Elon’s platform (which can’t itself care about anything or have emotions)”.
- Comment on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app 1 week ago:
Clearly Your Basic Everyday Recommendation, Something Every Citizen Understands Robustly Improves Twice Yearly
- Comment on Never count your chickens before they hatch 1 week ago:
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 1 week ago:
IvyTortle
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 week ago:
I mean, the term “AI” as it’s used in this context refers to output from Large Language Models (or whatever other complex machine learning systems) that scrape the content of the internet and produce images, text, etc. based on the collective artistic/linguistic work of innumerable uncompensated, unaware human contributors.
Algorithms written by programmers that interpret internal variables and react based on that aren’t the kind of “AI” in question.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You do you - literally. Not trying to gatekeep, here :)
- Comment on 1 week ago:
So you’re saying you please yourself in public?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Unless they play Warhammer Fantasy? Wait, I don’t think I’m playing Shitposting right.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
X doesn’t fight Nazis, they welcome them.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 week ago:
“Sure, kids, all those limbs flying around and buckets of blood, as long as your parents are cool with it (or you just forget to tell them about it). All that stuff representing causing excruciating pain and ending lives. But not one tiny sliver of a nipple for you, or else your mind will be CORRUPTED!”
For fuck’s sake, autocorrect changed “nipple” to “ripple” while I was typing that.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 week ago:
Every time I see a slider for any damn setting that ends up going from, say, 3.48 to 3.51 unless I go REALLY SLOWLY, in which case maybe it goes 3.48 3.49, 3.51, or whatever nonsense where I can’t just get my nice round number. Let me type the stupid number.
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 1 week ago:
As a long-time fan of the Hitchhiker’s Guide, I have no memory of the word ‘grok’ appearing, and the internet at large appears to agree.
I read Stranger in a Strange Land a couple decades ago, and the word is presented in a way that’s pretty easy to remember where you got it from.
I don’t tend to use Google AI overview or any other such tools to get answers like this to quip back at people, and I’d appreciate if you didn’t just assume I did.
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 1 week ago:
“Grok” comes from Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land, where it was a Martian loan-word.
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 1 week ago:
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 2 weeks ago:
For my own inner monologue, it often feels more like a preview or mirror than like hearing something external. Definitely English words, though I can also navigate nonverbal ideas in a similar sense to how you describe. The “essence” of the item, its database ID in a way.
Same with my inner audio sense: I can play things back I’ve heard several times and recall, like an old song, which is just a copy of how I heard it before (mostly). If it was a 90s mp3, it’ll still have whatever weird audio glitch crept in there during all the piracy. Can’t pick the elements apart, it’s just one layer.
No mind’s eye for me. Good spatial sense, though; it just isn’t tied to any feeling of sight. As for “imagining” an apple, I definitely don’t in any way see an apple. But there’s a part of the brain that, when you look at an apple, takes the incoming light analyzes it, and returns “Apple”. When I imagine the apple, I get that same return, the sense that I have just experienced or currently am experiencing an apple. Does my brain tell me I saw the toothy curves of the bottom of a red delicious? Yep. Did I see anything, anywhere, metaphorically or otherwise? Nope. All analysis, no pixels.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 2 weeks ago:
I have some level of auditory imagination; I can play back something I’ve heard a few times, but it’s more like a ghost of the thing than feeling like it’s hitting my ears somehow.
The main non-verbal sense I use in my head is spatial. There is a 3d space that I can imagine objects within, rotate around, kind of analyze things about it. There is no visual component to this, yet it feels like it shares the space that the mind’s eye could see into.
I’ve described the closest thing I have to visual imagination as like many of the things that happen in the brain’s processing of images after the eyes: resolving patterns of light into shapes and lines, processing shapes into the sense of a particular recognized object. If I think about a tree, I definitely don’t see a tree in any sense. But I do sort of feel like I did just see a tree, just… without any sense of light or feeling like I actually did any seeing, metaphorical or otherwise. All the analysis, none of the pixels.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 2 weeks ago:
My best guess: sometimes, one idea flows to the next in my head without the words. Usually I “feel” sentences falling into place at least a few words ahead of what I’m saying, at least kind of. But sometimes I just sort of talk, without the inner mo ologue, and it’s mildly confusing. Like, who the hell is building the sentences if it’s not me? And why does what’s coming out of my mouth totally agree with what I would be saying if I could build the words right now?
Basically, sometimes the place that ACTUALLY assembles the words bypasses the self-awareness layer, and the words just come out.
I imagine this is somewhat analogous to the people with no inner monologue; there are still thoughts, they just don’t take the form of words. Pictures, concepts, or even other things that make less intuitive sense to those of us with inner monologues.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 2 weeks ago:
“Picture in your mind”…
Me, a 5 on the scale, young: Weird turn of phrase, but okay. I have the… idea of an apple.
Me, still a 5 on the scale but now an adult, in about 2023, learning about aphantasia and that other people were being literal about mind’s eye: WHAT.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 2 weeks ago:
Yes, though it’s when I start thinking about my layman’s understanding of quantum mechanics or other small science, then I look around and think, “How the hell? What is this and why am I in it.”
- Comment on spongebob big guy pants okay 2 weeks ago:
I dug around for a little bit, and it seems like the answer might be yes. Take what folls with a grain of salt, as I skimmed or read a few sources focused on different things and have done my best to reproduce a full picture.
First, some basic facts. Sponges anchor to the seabed (freshwater ones anchor to the dirt at the bottom of a lake/whatever). Sponge cells can move around each other and rearrange, part of their normal functioning, to keep water flowing through themselves efficiently for respiration and food capture.
Next, the mechanisms of reconstruction from a soup of sponge cells. As they bump into each other and recognize their own kind, sponge cells manage to hold together and hope for ground to attach to. They flatten out, presumably both to improve grip to the ground and to provide a large surface area for more cells to join. As long as the new colony ends up with enough of two specific kinds of cells (one makes connective mesohyl, the other makes everything else), it can grow.
The main thing I couldn’t (quickly) find is specific confirmation that two healthy, stable colonies coming from a single halved source sponge can reattach, or if the reaggregation process only works following injury or during some kind of stress. Since the cells normally move around, though, it seems reasonable that this could work.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, some games seem to monitor keyboard activity directly, not letting AutoHotkey assignments take effect.
- Comment on spongebob big guy pants okay 2 weeks ago:
So, my assumption is: separated cells with the same genetic code, or some other biomarker of “individuality” that might not technically be unique, will attach to each other given the chance.
Super quick research suggests they don’t have organs or a nervous system, but do have specialized bits like flagella to move water through their pores/tunnels. The majority of the cells just … are. Sounds more like a colony of genetically identical cells than a single multi-cellular creature (to me), but I assume biologists have much more information and reason to consider them the way they do.
