Deep fry it in beef tallow to undo the vegetarian health benefits

Looks like you’ve been chosen to lead the next Nobilis game!

(It’s a TTRPG, the game moderator role is called the Hollyhock God, because Hollyhock means “pride” in the language of flowers.)

Tangerdarin’

People are ragging on the AI art, but the message is also bland pseudo-mystic instagram-motivational word spew. Many religions and philosophies teach things like this, but even real quotes are reduced to pithy candy aphorisms when taken out of context like this.

Like it definitely is trying to riff on the genre of Zen Pencils.

And funny enough, that Thoreau quote is more in line with global views on happiness: the pursuit of it is in some ways the root of it’s nonexistence. When we focus on making a better and simpler world for all, happiness often follows.

If you were trying to show another species that you were intelligent, sending basic shapes isn’t a terrible way to demonstrate understanding of some abstract ideas. Fascinating to consider what they’re “saying” with these.

The metaphor is comparing the idea of loyalty, a concept vitally important to the ideology of fascism, with the LLM trait of consistency. An LLM is highly consistent, so much so that common patterns in its output can be used to spot generated artifacts. However it is not “loyal” because loyalty is about being inconsistent in one’s “beliefs” (expressed statements of knowledge) but consistent to a moment-to-moment truth defined by an authority figure.

You got insulted because you’re debating in a way that seems catered towards “winning” an internet argument instead of trying to understand what WoodScientist was saying: that a fascist LLM would be difficult because it would require constant retraining to keep up with the ever-shifting fascist narrative. You’ve never even addressed this point, just repeatedly doubled down that because he said “loyalty” instead of “responding in line with the currert beliefs of the ruling party which change on a daily basis” that the entire argument is invalid and therefore it’s “easy to train a reactionary LLM.” You also keep confusing reactionary and fascist.

And I neither did a “drive by insult” nor did I “run away into the night.” Though i will now rather than continue wasting my time on this. just came back to correct you yet again, and offer an actual ad hominem for you to compare against.

Fuck off, moron.

Gotta be careful of that heat! Make sure to wear a big shady hat and have plenty of water when doing weed for lunch, the hottest part of the day!

OK but unless one if the 17 benefits is “drugs you to wakefulness with caffeine” then it isn’t exactly a coffee substitute is it?

The metaphor was the part you were being a pedant about.

the LLMs actually stand by their principles much better than fascists

If the audience knows how LLMs work internally, then they know they don’t have “loyalty,” just stochastic processes. If the audience didn’t know that, your pithy “aktually that’s incorrect” wouldn’t teach them anything correct, but would cause confusion because it sounds like you’re denying the metaphor.

Also, it’s not an ad hominem to say that you are acting like an LLM: with poor reading comprehension and an overly-literal interpretation. That’s an observation of your unproductive behavior. An ad hominem would be insulting you or name-calling with unrelated info, such as calling you “stupid like an LLM.”

It isn’t a logical fallacy to be called out on your bullshit, even if it hurts your feelings.

Imagine creating one of the best, most important pieces of media of your generation. Being a rock star of a new medium, defining genres, shaping history and the world.

Then imagine struggling to keep a job, find work, and create more works in your medium. And now imagine that you were barely in your 20s when you broke out, so that the rest of your life is always in the shadow of your first masterpieces.

Romero seems like way too nice a person, too good of a being, to be treated with such indignity. In a lot of ways Bill Gates and his company have been fucking over Romero for like 30 years now.

This is far from the first Devil’s Panties comic posted here and many of the others mention her ADHD. You’re missing the deep lore.

My impressions from this comic are that I would hate the creator if I ever met them.

I think the joke is a typical take on ADHDers having “eyes bigger than their stomachs” for large tasks. Swimming in a lake is very fun, and can help one feel connected to nature. Swimming across a lake is a huge task, possibly requiring training, could take a long time, and is dangerous.

Why they decided to sit on the beach instead of swimming at all, I have no idea. Maybe it’s a “lakes are deep and scary because lake monsters” thing?

Is this another Disco Elysium situation? I really like Unknown World’s and their games. This is a real letdown; guess Natural Selection 3 or any new titles won’t be announced any time soon.

I’d never noticed that in this order, it’s almost π!

Off by 0.001 and some change; that coincidence is going to haunt me.

🧐: 0 is the origin of time, the big bang (if you believe in that kind if thing)

The problem then is figuring out when earth (and then human) time starts, but we can just add some arbitrary offsets that feel right and everyone agrees on.

Xenu makes a dollar

Don’t trust the birds or limes

Thats why I shit

In liminal spaces and times

It isn’t just about intuition as randomly judged by how you or anyone else feels about it. Humans do a lot of things on 0 to 100 and 0 to 10 scales. Literally the basis of the metric system. But all measurements are arbitrary comparisons to some target object: “the meter”.

So a temperature scale that closely aligns the 0 to 100 scale to the minimum and maximum commonly experienced surface temperature of the planet we live on is going to feel more natural to use than one which aligns to the boiling point of water, something we don’t usually encounter in nature.

Now we do encounter boiling liquids, and hotter, in labs and in kitchens, which is why C probably feels natural to scientists and people who cook a lot.

But the resolution of it isn’t particularly intuitive. What does 1\100th of the aggregate temperature of boiling water have to do with anything? Why a linear scale? It takes more energy to add 1°C of heat to an ice cube than to the equivalent amount of 20°C (“room temperature”) water.

Measurements are about both precision and repeatability, but also about conveying information in an easily understandable way. Sometimes those goals conflict, particularly when a scale of measurement is used in both informal and formal settings.

“Includes” was the wrong word, its like the opposite of hyperbole here. The range humans can survive in is roughly 0 to 100 in F, the full range of the scale. The range in Centigrade is roughly -17 to 30. It isnt that it “includes” it, the entire useful portion of the meter is dedicated to it.

100F was originally set to roughly human body temperature. 0 was the freezing point of a brine mixture (water, salt, and ammonium) meant to be similar to sea water. It was used because the temperature would self-stabilize at a particular temperature, which was defined as 0 degrees.

That’s why its “humanistic,” the scale roughly includes the temperature range we can survive in, and provides decent granularity within that range. Metric based everything on pure water, which is pretty arbitrary also, as evidenced by both scales being redefined as more precise and repeatable means of defining measured units have become available.