Grant_us_eyes
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Grant_us_eyes
20hr ago
Sure, I'll risk LLMs building a profile of me and share a few weirder channels from my subsription list.
A boat in the woods Guy taking the ardurous journey to rebuild a sailboat in the woods of Nova Scotia. I love stuff like this.
AlfieAesthetics Weird british guy who does survival stuff in the woods. Lots of fun videos, but not alot of content, despite the age of the channel.
Andrew Camarata Guy built a castle out of storage containers. Nuff said.
Brainjackt Ambient Stalker shorts. As in, the video game. Swip-swaps between Stalker, Stalker GAMMA, and Stalker 2. Very comfy.
Effective Purpose Basically what I would call a married, Christian HoeMath. Lots of essays on the state of men, dating, marriage, the Christian faith and how they all relate, alongside historical documentation of how we got here. Interesting stuff.
EpicNate So many goddamn bethesda icebergs. Recently started getting into actual historical mysteries with some odd artifacts that definately made me raise a few eyebrows. Most videos are a minimum of an hour long, so if you really want to waste some time...
Gentlemansgazette Indulge in your inner dandy.
Isaac Arthur I like my futurtism optimistic.
Lost Battlefields w Tino Struckmann Guy goes DEEP into some of the more obscure aspects of WW1 and WW2 via actually traveling out to these locations to examine and reseach them. Buckle up, cause you're going to be seeing some wild stuff.
Martijn Doolaard Guy renovating two shepard chaplets in the Italian Alps and doing an increadiable job of it. I am mad, mad jelly of this guy.
Midwest Angelica For when you want Analouge Horror Neon Genesis Evangelion at home.
Nagualero Guy did alot of bushcraft and painting and painting while bushcrafting. A sad channel, as he passed away several years ago unexpectedly.
Sabine Hossenfelder I like interesting science math lady.
Staladus Do you want science fiction with ancient aliens, hard science, and one insanely kickass intro? Boy, do I have the channel for you!
Teravibe Crazy ambient lady. This is one of my favorites, where she blends her typical stuff with some careful IRL filming to make an intro that looks something out of a video game.
The Archive In Between Do you like LLM-derived videos? 1970s retro sci-fi aesthetics? Whacky sci-fi/fantasy world-hopping empires? Boy, do I have the channel for you!
TheNorthwoodsman Old guy in an old cabin in the woods doing cabin things.
Venik Hue Posthuman uploads in magi-tech sci-fi robots amid an apocalyptic earth indulging in whacky shenanigans in-between fridge moments of posthuman horror. You can, indeed, parry a fucking nuke.
And that's all you get. Have fun.
Grant_us_eyes
1d ago
I wouldn't think that is the case, no. Fanservice has been a constant element of games, often used as a point of criticism against them. After all, this is an actual advertisement for a western game from over two decades ago.
...you probably don't want to open that link if you're at work, just fyi.
Grant_us_eyes
2d ago
What I found surprising was the backlash against "cosplayers" trying to capitalize on the trend. The same kind of people that slurped up lazy 2B cosplays (white wig, blindfold, tits, ass) are now calling half-naked women trying to entice them with blond wigs and green fingernails "slutbloods" and encouraging each other to block them.
This is just a simmer moving to a boil in real time. There’s been a slow yet consistent push against the onlyfansification of cosplay, especially amoung the old guard who remember before it got ‘popular’, and thus, something to exploit.
Grant_us_eyes
4d ago
The saddest moment in any serious, intelligent Libertarian's life is realizing they do not live in a world with zeppelins and talking monkies.
Grant_us_eyes
4d ago
"I totally support this thing that has happened before, is likely happening now, and some people want to increase to a horrendous degree. I also support this thing that has never happened before and the last time someone tried it got struck down by a judge despite being passed with nearly 60% of the votes."
You'll excuse me if I no longer give people like Caplan the benefit of the doubt.
Grant_us_eyes
5d ago
It was origionally in relationship to clothing purchases in the modern age, but the core idea is, sadly, something that can be applied broadly to... well, anything. The phrase 'huge cognitive costs' encapsulates something not many consider as a negative, and a factor that I feel has increased in the modern days as we all drown under a rising tide of grey sludge of information.
Or, to shamelessly borrow from one of the replies, 'Huge cognitive costs is the through line of our times, which is kinda surprising, since we were promised the exact opposite'.
Grant_us_eyes
5d ago
This turn-around became so famous it they actually coined a term for it.
Grant_us_eyes
6d ago
A wonderful example of a quote I've become rather fond of.
"With omnipresent sloppification you need to become an expert yourself before [...] anything. Huge cognitive costs."
Grant_us_eyes
7d ago
For context, this is the first I've heard about it. As in, literally today.
Then again, I don't normally dip my toes into the Linux side of things, so that might explain it.
...still looks cool, though.
Grant_us_eyes
7d ago
Omarchy Linux
Oh for fuck's sake. What in the absolute fuck. I casually read through this post, then go on a refreshing update/research on local-hosting LLMs a few hours later, only to stumble across the guy who did an old video I was double-checking having done a 'you need to switch to Linux RIGHT NOW' that was all about Omarchy Linux.
This is either a prime example of observation bias in action, or that we're all in a simulation.
(I will say that Omarchy Linux looks pretty cool, imho.)
Grant_us_eyes
9d ago
Less a straight arranged marriage and more weighting the dice as much as possible.
Also, if necessary, a brutal heart-to-heart talk along the lines of 'Bruh. You seriously think you're going to manage better? Get the fuck over yourself and marry that woman.'
I know of atleast one guy who got that from his dad. ... In the dad's defense, the lady in question was quite possibly the literal IRL example of a 10/10, angel descended from heaven, and the guy was... not. Knowing them both, the woman in question is an absolute sweetheart and the guy is insanely lucky. And, yes, they both have multiple kids by this point.
Grant_us_eyes
10d ago
I feel there is a non-zero group of very vocal women who's core argument against stuff like this basically boils down to that they hate the idea of men having to 'learn' to be 'chads'.
They don't want to find out that the man who managed to get with them used to be a socially messed up and worked hard to be charismatically smooth. They want a natural. The guy who just 'gets it'. Like, how the hell do they expect regular and/or awkward guys to learn this stuff? Yeah, I know socially extroverted people who make connections as easily as fucking breathing, but the rest of us have to put in the effort at it to atleast pretend to be normal, or atleast not an asocial retard.
Grant_us_eyes
10d ago
going abroad
This is hiding alot of assumptions; for one, you need to either be rich enough or have the right sort of job to be popular abroad. Not exactly an option for regular joe schmoes that are hurting in the dating market, so guys able to take advantage of this are still in the upper percentile range.
Second... Look, I'm not going to belabour passport bros thier options, but the idea that there exist places where I'd absolutely slay just because I'm white and American sounds absolutely ludicrious. I don't fucking beleive it. I suppose the only way to test this out would be to go over there, but, see point one.
Third, as faceh points out, it just exports the problem to that country.
Fourth, I'm a horrible racist and want my kids to look like me, so that nixes most Asian countries. I suppose, in theory, that means I should be going to the region of Eastern Europe, but, well... see points one and two.
Grant_us_eyes
11d ago
In my years of reading, the best way I can break it down is that male writing is more mechanistic, whereas female writing tends to be more intimate.
I’ve always struggled trying to find the best way to phrase it, and that’s what I keep coming back to.
Grant_us_eyes
12d ago
She's given the nickname 'Useless Goddess' for a reason.
Ie, sometimes character design isn't enough to save a character. They have to actually be likeable. Unless that's the point, like we get with Aqua.
Grant_us_eyes
14d ago
I remember being told not to touch any of them because they were dangerous
Back whenever I was in grade school, I remember an afternoon where, bored to utter tears and waiting for my mother to finish up her work, was rummaging through all the various random items in her car.
As one does.
I then stumbled across a random package, and upon opening it via zipper, discovered what appeared to be a loaded pistol.
Keep in mind, I had never been exposed to guns, never had 'the talk', had never actually shot a pistol/rifle as of yet.
Despite all of this, my initial reaction was 'Oh, that's a gun, that's dangerous', promptly put it away, and never touched the damn thing again.
I don't think I fall on the far end of the bell curve when it comes to intelligence, certainly not as a child, but maybe we need to start thinking that they aren't complete imbeciles when it comes to certain things, either.
Or maybe I'm just a weird duck, I dunno.
Grant_us_eyes
15d ago
Speaking from personal experience(no, I’m not law enforcement, just to be clear here), it’s very difficult not to fall into this mode of thinking when you have access to sensitive information that the public can only be partially aware of and giving info out could get you and your organization in severe trouble.
I know I’ve slipped into calling some groups ‘civilian’ before mentally slapping myself and looking to find another term.
Grant_us_eyes
16d ago
Time to return to the honored tradition of using a fake pen name and persona to write your novels, I suppose.
Grant_us_eyes
18d ago
Not just the PR space; People have been pointing out as of late that with the shift in NFA registration/tax stamp, the most recent wins in the courts, and the ATF more or less stating outright they're not going to argue the point, people are now capable of doing things free and clear that would have had the Federal Government gleefully murdering your wife and kids and celebrating about it afterwards.
Granted, that line of logic leads to places alot of people don't want to go. Conversely, given how the Days of Rage worked out for the left, well...
Grant_us_eyes
19d ago
Xcancel stopped working a few days ago due to them being sued by X, but I’ll try the alternate instances later. Or just give up and install the nitter extension. Thanks for the links.
Grant_us_eyes
19d ago
Fair disclaimer; the links and exerts were from an effortpost I put together(but never posted), and when I went back later to double-check some information, found that the article was now behind a paywall. Of cource. I hate this fucking timeline.
So if you don't believe any of said exerts and call me a filthy fucking liar, the most I can do is shrug, cause I don't really blame you.
Solving cancer via LLMs and mRNA vaccines is already done and established science.
Kinda.
With 17 years of experience in machine learning and data analysis, Mr Conyngham is an AI pioneer – an electrical and computing engineer who co-founded Core Intelligence Technologies, and was a director for the Data Science and AI Association of Australia. Once UNSW handed him the genomic sequencing, for which he paid $3000, he got cracking to decipher the data.
The genomics team reached out to Pall Thordarson, director of the prestigious UNSW RNA Institute. A pioneer in nanomedicine, the Icelandic professor used Mr Conyngham’s data, crunched down to a half-page formula, to create a bespoke mRNA vaccine for Rosie. [...] What Professor Thordarson finds most remarkable is that a data engineer with no background in biology managed to generate the mRNA recipe.
Now, we all know about mRNA vaccines(cough cough Covid cough cough), and while their efficacy is... I'm sure, debatable and contentious. But in this specific instance, it at least had results;
“It’s definitely working,’’ Professor Allavena said. “When it happens that first time, it’s magical. Rosie’s cancer was really, really advanced but one tumour has shrunk quite a lot – probably halved. Even though it hasn’t completely disappeared, she’s so much more comfortable because the tumour was so big, and now the cancer’s shrunk away. Even the glossiness of her coat, she just looks a lot happier and healthier." [...] Rosie’s recovery has been a howling success, with most of her tumours appear to melt away in a matter of weeks. [...] Rosie’s devoted dog-dad is now working on a second vaccine targeted to attack one large tumour that did not respond to the initial treatment. The UNSW scientists started work on the genetic sequencing this week.
Again, not a magic cure-all or panacea, but sometimes you have to appreciate that the pig can dance at all.
However, turns out you don't need LLMs at all;
Sorry to be the downer because this is an impressive story in some senses. But it is ~trivially easy to make a single mRNA vaccine. It's not hard. I cure mice of various cancers with various therapeutics all the time. I've made mice lose more weight in a month than tirzepatide does in a year. What is hard and expensive is proving its BOTH safe AND effective in a randomized and controlled study in humans while ALSO manufacturing it at clinical scale and grade. I am happy for this man and his dog. It is impressive. But y'all are overhyping it.
(Emphasis both removed and added from the original.)
And, even better;
I literally have an ongoing cancer experiment where 100% of the untreated and control animals have had to be euthanized while 100% of the treatment animals are seemingly unaffected. But we're still extremely far away from "proving that it works." Science is hard.
(Emphasis added.)
Note: I am unable to check the twitter links for the above, as my account for twitter has been locked out barring cell phone verification, so I cannot confirm they work or link to what they say anymore.
I hate this fucking timeline.
So, mRNA cancer solutions are already a thing, but we can't have them, for reasons, I guess.
So the real question we should be asking isn't 'Can we do this', cause we already do. The question should be 'Do we trust Anthropic not to fuck things up' and I think I know what my answer is.
Grant_us_eyes
20d ago
I typically abhor any kind of seltzer water, but I've found I have a very specific taste for Topo Chico's Lime and Mint. Very refreshing, no sugar/sweetener, zero calories.
Grant_us_eyes
21d ago
Ah, skimmed over the review-bombing portion. A fair opinion.
I confess to being just a tad thin-skinned about the topic, as I've found people who bring up the entire 'GFL2 Chinese gatcha players' tend to run either toward casual bigotry and/or the kind of people whom would be making fun of nerds back in high school, with a strong whiff of grifting/tourism 'how do you do fellow gatcha players'.
Still, like I said. Understandable, coming from your PoV. Admittedly, I haven't played Reverse Collapse, mostly due to my first exposure being GFL and knowing how, uh... look, I know how these guys go in their writing. It's good stuff, don't get me wrong, but there's only so much existential depression I can take.
Grant_us_eyes
22d ago
Another fact, apparently Chinese gacha players got angry that in GFL2 a female character has close relations with a male NPC character that they felt they were being NTRed because only the player should have any sort of relationship with their gacha waifus so they review bombed Reverse Collapse instead. Chinese gacha players seem to be a different breed entirely.
It's a bit more involved that this; the character in question was from GFL1 and represented the QBZ-14 rifle - which, for those not in the know, is the national rifle of the Chinese army, so there's a bit of national pride involved there. Second, when the company that owns GFL took a look at the matter, resulted in an official statement involving potential corporate sabotage, atleast one fired(female) writer, and a flood of original writers coming back from working on thier side-project Project Neural Cloud and noting a marked increase in writing quality from the early game in GFL2 to the current.
So there's a bit more teeth there than just 'blooh blooh chinese weebs are weird fucks'.
It's been a while since I cracked open Valheim, but the one aspect(amoung many) that I absolutely adored about it was the base attack mechanic.
It's one of the few, if not only, survival sandbox that did it right - the perfect blend of being just threatening enough you can't turtle and ignore it, but not something that'll turn into a complete base whip and make you rage-quit in frustration.
I could make the perfect sandbox building game if I could somehow put Conan Exiles companions and Valheim's base attack mechanic in the same game. (Conan Exiles has a base attack mechanic. It's been a while since I played that, but when I last did, it was horrible.)
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