sun_the_second
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sun_the_second
17hr ago
Always funny how the jews are simultaneously way too pragmatic and "insane", apparently.
sun_the_second
22hr ago
Generally people stop being praised for curiosity by their teen years.
You say that like it's a prescriptive standard and therefore anyone praised for curiosity is being treated like a child. I happen to think curiosity remains valuable beyond teen years, and more than than, since in many people it remains in short supply it should be encouraged.
sun_the_second
1d ago
I'm afraid to reach such a level of fear, he'd have to be cruel and arbitrary to at least one white citizen who looks illegal.
sun_the_second
1d ago
I agree re: food. Not so with art. The entire purpose of it as I see it is for me to not be tired and bored, not to let me consume 1000 pictures of adequately technical, adequately colorful, adequately proportional and completely fungible content.
sun_the_second
1d ago
Would you have liked all those indie hits if the artwork and text copy were noticeably AI generated?
sun_the_second
1d ago
One to two.
sun_the_second
2d ago
I think I'm getting decent at spotting translated Chinese idioms, and I'm pretty sure most of what I'm talking about are not that.
sun_the_second
2d ago
Chapter 642: "...four to five light barriers covered his body"
Chapter 310: "In the blink of an eye, three to four days passed."
Chapter 242: "They had already bought [this and that] from three to four <...> clansmen."
I tried to only count instances where something discrete is being counted in a specific occasion. It's fine to say that a Gu refinement or something usually takes "three to four days", but there's no way "three to four" days passed between one specific event and another specific event. It might not be terribly important how many, but pick one number, damn it! You can't buy supplies from 3.5 traders, and there can't be 2.76 spectators at a specific arena fight!
sun_the_second
2d ago
Since I have an opportunity to ask: what is with RI's author's numeracy? Do the Chinese have no precise numbers?
I can understand why the narration says "thirty to forty of jade dragons flew forward" because an average person wouldn't count them precisely at a glance. But when there are such unnecessary hedges as "four to five", hell, they might even go as low as "two to three" although I obviously can't quote the specific page numbers... well, my eyebrows rise.
sun_the_second
2d ago
I don't know about the ratio of technical quality. But as it stands right now, AI art is largely samey and even the best specimen (that I could identify, obviously) have the trademark sameyness and do not exceed the best human artwork.
Suppose you searched for a particular topic on a picture website, before AI boom it'd be a normal distribution from, say, 30% human ability to 99% (with the bottom tail cut off because the people who can only draw stickmen with a pencil usually don't publish them). After, we get a massive injection of 60%, and it's all in the same style.
In my experience so far, for every one AI-generated artpiece that was a genuine improvement over the alternative of "nothing" or "imagining it by reading a text meme", there are 10 thousand pieces of absolute slop that should have never been published with less effort than it took me to scroll past. I'm willing to take the tradeoff: a few true intellects publish a few less gems, in exchange for no more slop. We were not in danger of not having Enough Shit To See On The Internet as it was.
If I was AI regulation czar I'd consider the middle ground: you can generate all you want for personal use but you can't clog other people's eyeballs with it.
sun_the_second
2d ago
Impressive if true, you'd have to have been running this con a few months before I actually asked you about RI.
sun_the_second
2d ago
- mute servers unless every single message on there is important
- mute channels you don't need so they don't light up
- mute categories
- set notification settings on the server to "only @mentions" or none
- don't join silly servers
This should be enough that you only see the big red (1) if someone addressed you directly or has the privilege to ping everyone.
I've been using discord mostly for keeping tabs on specific games' updates as well as a few thematic communities, as well as a personal friends' group. I have no recollection of any server being that silly besides, ironically, the motte/rdrama BotC server. If I don't need to watch a server, I don't even quit it, I just mute it completely and move it down the list.
sun_the_second
3d ago
There seems to be a relatively heavy emphasis on the "elder spiritual instructor" archetype in Orthodoxy, so I assume a beard is a status symbol.
sun_the_second
3d ago
Did he age, or is it just the beard?
sun_the_second
3d ago
The point of the objection about having it be 15 year old is that it's not yet an open and shut total domination of the bottom male percentiles over the top female percentiles (which is required for making kids grok the sex difference), not that she'll be roughly as good.
sun_the_second
3d ago
My assumption is that the difference between a median 15yo boy and one who seriously does sports is more than "somewhat more athletic". On top of the training, they're going to be selected for natural testosterone levels, perhaps even artificial testosterone levels, higher chance of being on the later end of 15 year old if not outright age fraud, etc.
sun_the_second
4d ago
They aren't a replacement for a junior dev, as the Dev will get better, whilst llms at best will be iteratively better if they keep getting billions to burn.
You seem to be ignoring that while junior devs have to get better separately and each new generation of devs has to gain experience anew (until we have direct knowledge brain-grafts), LLMs just stay better once they got better.
sun_the_second
4d ago
who hasn't heard of "show, don't tell".
Fang Yuan let out a breath of turbid air. He was an old fox, the aspect of how [a particular aspect of cultivation that isn't even relevant much to the current narration], it was extremely clear to him. As for so-called conciseness and elegance, he did not give a damn. Beauty, ugly, did that really matter to Fang Yuan? He he he... The only thing that mattered was eternal life!
(I will not let this go)
sun_the_second
5d ago
If the only thing you do with whales is hunt, then understanding hunting them is understanding them in general.
sun_the_second
8d ago
That sounds like shit. I only wish that if I'm ever unfortunate enough for such a situation I'd weaponise my autism enough to wall the redhead out and out-annoy the security guy until they either make me leave or fuck off.
sun_the_second
8d ago
"Life being worth living" suggests that there is a person who would appreciate that life. Debate is out on whether the nascent brain activity of a fetus counts as a person.
sun_the_second
8d ago
Men go to war knowing that many will die, but fewer would if the purpose was to die for sure. I assume it's likewise with sports - there are none I know of where you must stand there and take the nut shot with no protection or dodging allowed.
sun_the_second
8d ago
It's still begging the question.
Yes, this is one of the largest pieces of evidence in favor of their pragmatism.
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