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				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Dude, just fuck off. For good.


Who are you to gatekeep what other people are allowed to enjoy? Who made you the thought police who gets to decide what someone else can do on their computer?


I've never even hinted at publishing or posting the results anywhere. All I want is to do some AI assisted writing experiments in a way that suits my brain. Something which apparently you are allowed to do but others like me are not, for some vague reason.


Your input is not appreciated in the slightest and you should feel bad for being one of the worst gatekeepers I've ever come across here. Go beat up small kids or something like that if you're so desperate to cause misery because you certainly aren't contributing anything positive here.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Have you tried doing that a couple times manually to see if it returns what you want, and can work with?




Yes, the method actually does seem to work reasonably well for my purposes based on initial tests. The UIs that I know of are just very poorly suited to it, making it more laborous than it should be. It's unlikely to win any awards but that's not the purpose and it's doubtful I'll even post such stories anywhere in the end.


It's similar to the highly succesful method we used on a bunch of group projects in my university days where I paired up with a friend. I would dictate the outline and throw out a whole bunch of ideas, points and individual sentences. My friend would write the draft based on those and we'd edit it together. It was a very fast way of working, easier than the normal way for both of us and we reliably got top grades doing it.


Another analogy would be that I'm taking the part of a script writer, director and film editor while the LLM handles the acting and camera work. Which is in fact what a bunch of people on /r/StableDiffusion/ are doing with the new Minimax H3 video model (second part). Only, I want to do that with story text instead of video.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


it sucks as an editor. It's ideas suck, it's criticisms are better, but very hit or miss, and in the event it's a hit, the proposed fix sucks




Good thing I'm not looking to use it for any of these.




write the thing yourself, no matter how cringe.




This is not an option and that's not negotiable.


I'm explicitly not looking for AI to edit or polish my writing. I'm looking for AI to do the bulk writing (multiple variants of it) based on my detailed notes. I have the ideas, pacing and plot points and I also intend to do the editing myself (I have no problems handling either of those parts). All I need is something to help with the bulk writing process (which is where I've always had major problems - the only way I was able to get my masters thesis text written was with the help of prescription amphetamines and dedicating a month to literally nothing else than writing the remaining 25 pages of loosely spaced text based on work and theory that had long been finished).




It's capable of coming up with decent lines, but I wouldn't trust it with anything bigger than that.




This is pretty much all I'm asking it to do. "Here's the contents of a paragraph or two. Turn them into a draft that I will edit and rewrite into final text."
Consider it the text writing equivalent of telling LLM to write a function that does exactly X and then cleaning it up by hand.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


This seems to equate Europe with Greater Germany.




This is a very common failure mode on The Motte. Many people think that all of Europe is like the worst aspects of UK and Germany combined. You can see this in any thread that even mentions censorship in Europe and threads that talk about energy politics.




Oil is funny. Europe just needs to stop burning it.




A similar situation applies to LNG. Reduction of cheap LNG supply is a local problem specific to certain countries. Most uses of it for energy production can be replaced with just plain electricity produced by other methods. LNG isn't even particularly important as transportation fuel the way oil is.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I want to experiment with LLM assisted story writing and given how many folks here are LLM advocates, maybe someone can help me there. My main problem is that I absolutely suck at writing, so I need something that takes character, setting and (detailed) plot point descriptions for a scene and can expand that to text using my chosen LLM model (via any OpenAI api compatible provider).


More specifically, I want a free local app (preferably native Windows but a local webui will do in a pinch) that lets me write the overall style guide, character / setting notes, "previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the last chapter" condensed history notes and then the notes for the scene (and the beginning of the next scene to help flow). The scene notes would be a combination of "A does X, B mentions Y" and occasional inserted sentences like "The silence was interrupted by a doorbell ring" (that are more ideas for the LLM and don't need to be preserved as-is). It should let me generate multiple variations, manually edit the previous prompts and generated results for continuation and crucially never delete unused generations so I can later steal sentences and ideas from them (but I don't need explicit branching from every response).


Does something that does all this exist as a local app? And one that has a usable UI without ridiculously small text and non-existent contrast?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I assumed perhaps overly optimistically that most of the remaining 10% would use AI for something other than generating text for humans to read.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Replace local firm with LLM provider and Caterpillar Inc with Nvidia. All you're telling is the local firm which rock to move where / the LLM provider what sort of text to generate.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Huh. That'd suck.


FWIW, the free tier ChatGPT translated your comment to Finnish while keeping the structure reasonably close to the original (keeping in mind that Finnish grammar is completely different from English).


Doing the same to the OG comment results in stilted sounding text that nobody would write and some obvious translated grammar issues, but still no obvious LLMisms that I notice. Perhaps those depend on the used language?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


There's plenty of European countries with very early bans




[Citation needed]


There's Poland and then a handful of microstates. Elsewhere it is legal (in most countries) or de facto legal if the woman has enough sense to play up the distress and social consequences of unwanted pregnancy.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


for every autistic 25 year old attention seeking woman who has talked herself into depression




Why are we even supposed to care about them anyway? If they are so hell bent on removing themselves from the gene pool, good riddance.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Do the common LLMs even produce the most obvious tells if you tell them to just translate a piece of text from language A to language B?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


because in practice it will only affect the absolute laziest of AI users




So roughly 90% of them?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 14, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That's just a regular BnB.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I can't say I've noticed that either. If anything, I'd say people with such background move in less odd ways because they have a better sense of aesthetics and what looks good when it comes to posture and movement.


Perhaps it's different on that side of the atlantic.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I've already decided to take that route for a long list of possible future diagnosis, as have many of my family members.




I don't think I know a single person who would choose losing their memories and identity and becoming a drooling vegetable instead of a dignified death should they start to suffer from significant dementia etc.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I assure you that women with dance training DO do it though.




Where?


I know more than a few women with professional and amateur dance background and I haven’t seen a single one ever done anything whatsoever like MQ does in thay video. Probably because they’re intelligent enough to realize it makes them look retarded instead of attractive.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


My two cents is that while Walken is actually goofy but still somehow dignified




Walken was a guy nearly in his 60s pulling off dance moves middle aged men are definitely not supposed to be able to, all the while being dressed as for an actually serious film. It’s impressive looking and the juxtaposition between ”serious older guy” and somewhat goofy but quite well done dance moves by a ”he’s not supposed to be able to do that” aged guy is what makes it all work.


In contrast Margaret Qualley looks like she’s literally having a seizure.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


People like to talk about how shoplifting from big chain stores isn't really theft because insurance covers all that and they make millions in profit, but such big chains make those profits by ruthless pricing and enforcing economies of scale and using their clout to pressure suppliers for discounts.




Isn't the profit margin of grocery chain stores quite low in reality? At least a common complaint over here in Finland is that the local pseudo-duopoly makes them ridiculously more profitable than is the norm in other countries because they typically don't face any real price competition.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


you should worry about "what if my niche crypto implementation is not as secure as anticipated?"




Or in this case, "What if the person writing it is a blind idiot monkey?"


Getting true random noise is trivially easy in microcontrollers and only a complete idiot would use something like micropython in such security critical application.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


the audit started back in January has resulted in the revocation of 28,000 commercial divers licences




TIL commercial diving is so lucrative for immigrants...


(You have a typo there)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Industrial alcohol contains something to render it undrinkable, but this is normally gasoline rather than methanol.




I find that rather hard to believe considering in how many situations gasoline would be a problem, such as resulting in unwanted reactions, affecting rubber seals and all sorts of other issues that regular denaturants (or even methanol) avoid.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I have a hard time seeing that they really have a patent to infringe upon




They can't on account of them not having patented it in the first place.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I note that imitating American thirst traps is not exactly new.




What gets me is some women in their late 30s or even 40s imititating American thirst traps. Like WTF woman, why would you think that's in any way a good look on you in public channels?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
How much of that was because you were "woman who was sheltered, probably on the spectrum and very lacking in social skills" and how much because you were "18 year old" hanging out with people older than you?


To me it seems that the problems complained about are specific to the individual and have next to nothing to do with being 18 in a group of older people.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


In contrast, rural people, churchgoers, and those with thick multi-generational communities are pretty used to enjoying the company of people of all ages.




You don't even need to live in any sort of "conservative" environment. Just have some interests that aren't strictly age segregated or a part time job and you'll end up meeting and socially interacting with a bunch of people of different ages. Back in the 90s I attended a couple of BBS meetups when I was 16 and had no problem whatsoever having discussions with people ranging from my age to those in their 40s (all of who I only knew from online). By the age of 18 I had a summer and then part time job and ended up getting drunk with people ranging from 20s to their 40s. It really isn't awkward if you have enough social intelligence to find some commonality with people who aren't exactly like you.


Sure, teens don't usually want to hang out much with adults but that's because they think adults are "boring" or "out of touch", not because people are being weird about it.