I’m trying to give constructive advice on communication skills, but anyways, the concept of clustering as an alternative to or in addition to voting is an interesting concept that i’ll explore. Thank you for sharing

Every accusation is a confession

That’s even worse. Like drug markets, producers are the problem.

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Lucky for me that flagrant porn addicts are not on my priority list to impress

it’s not simply because I lack knowledge but rather the annoyance of having to query you over and over for this concept that lies in your head. I don’t have access to the patterns in your head, so it’d be more effecient if you laid it out instead of reeling me in with bits at a time.

That’s like the least charitable intepretation possible. Clearly motivated reasoning and intellectually bad faith. I had the impression that you were going to play nicely

Focusing on the last example, a lust for studying would be those academia animes where it is the fetishistic appearance of studying. My conception for a lust for studying would be like school outfits or the words or ideas associated with studying. It may even be the smell of paper books, or the sensual things around the act of studying.

This is different from enjoying studying because that is more like love. I don’t think love and lust are the same thing, which explains that people are attracted and regret it afterward. The enjoyment of studying is more like passion.

I could also be using the wrong words. I don’t know what word to descrbe this odd but common “lookist” phenomena where people are just so infaturated with the mere appearnce of “studying” rather than the actual studying.

They used hidden cameras. Generalizing that outward, that’s terrifying. Candid camera is also an unethical porn genre

I respect that you’re learned and an expert on this topic. I am getting frustrated how the comments are getting cut off prematurely each time. It keeps begging the question. I’m at a point like “ok great so just program the thing” because anything short of that feels like a waste of time

I understand that it seems silly on the surface to compare coffee to sex, but the motivation for sex and food are the same pathways in the brain. There are also idioms that compare sex to food and food to sex. People say that a hot woman makes their mouth drop and salivate. Why? Are you going to eat the woman? Oh yeah actually that relates to “eating out” like oral sex … or maybe “eating out” could mean going to a restaurant. Do you see how these are not that arbitrary to connect? An intense sexual desire is very generalizable outside of sex. This is what a fetish is too. A fetish is a sexual desire for non-sexual objects. However, I use lust has it is a bit more generalizable than a fetish which as clinical or medical connotations. Fetish has a more overt sexual connotation than lust … in my mind anyways.

I agree that I could try using the primary or first entry of the definition of words. I never thought they were categorized by popularity like that. I wonder if that’s true. if so, thanks for bringing that to my attention

there are better measures

Like what? I assume you mean in social sciences and which is applicable to filtering/ranking content online

The short answers are a bit infuriating for me. I am tempted to ask more questions, but this is becoming an unfun game for me. I guess one could see the votes, but the categorizing the types of topics per user and/or cluster of users sounds like a difficult, combinatorically complex job.

ah yes thank you. I didn’t actually know how to do that. I really respect your effort here. This is an S-tier comment

Made me laugh, upvote, I’m a simple creature.

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Not quite what I’m saying. I’m saying that LLMs have created new conditions for credibility with the public. If people distrust LLMs, and LLMs sound bookish, then anyone who reads books is going to sound like an LLM, whereas the illiterate assholes are going to sound human in the same way that LLMs aren’t going to piss and poop their pants like a human is capable of doing

To answer your question, yes and no. I disagree it’s hyper-reductionist. I see it as just textbook definition. Yes in that I am beginning to realize that people are irked when I use dictionary definitions, but i have yet to learn which words are sensitive or buzzwords. Apparently, I’ve had one person describe my whole style of writing as problematic, so it may go beyond mere buzzwords. I’ll put “lust” in a spreadsheet and label it as a buzzword, or politically incorrect, or undiplomatic, or another synonym of the same thing.

This was very educational and i enjoyed very much when you described them as counts and lords in their online fierfdoms. Much respect to you and this comment

that’s true. I’ve always found that way of speaking to be pseudo-intellectual

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