sun_the_second
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sun_the_second
4hr ago
I had learned later that "Gu" apparently represents various forbidden and reprehensible techniques in many xianxia novels. Given that, it makes sense that the author of RI basically wrote "Murderfuck Setting". It's as if a Western fantasy book had its main magic system be referred to as "Satanism" by everyone in-universe.
sun_the_second
5hr ago
Unfortunately, this is one of the use cases where I can't check the LLM's work without having read the whole novel in the first place. If it mixes things up or forgets something crucial, I'm out of luck.
sun_the_second
6hr ago
He had seen souls dissipate to seemingly nothing, with no indication that they were passing to any better world, or indeed that the world in question would be better. Why stake everything on another rebirth when you can grasp the life that you know?
sun_the_second
9hr ago
If you know how to hack the real world, why would you write novels?
sun_the_second
10hr ago
I've not heard of Israel killing every Palestinian child who says "when I grow up, I will kill you", or anything to that effect.
Of course, it's "their child soldiers weaponized and brainwashed by propaganda - our lads providing assistance to our guerillas". It's hard to have read the accounts (even if fictional) of Soviet children helping resist the German occupation during WW2 and not have some respect for the child soldier. But the respect comes with tacit understanding that once you pick up the pistol or carry intelligence for the military, the German can kill you and be no more in the wrong than killing your soldiers in general.
sun_the_second
11hr ago
I have to appreciate just how well-handcrafted the brutal math of the setting is. Particularly the shift from Gu Masters to Gu Immortals. I'll spoiler it because the mechanics are not revealed immediately in the story.
Amazing Cultivation Simulator but for Reverend Insanity setting cannot come fast enough.
sun_the_second
1d ago
Are we still talking about Palestine?
sun_the_second
1d ago
Whatever you call that option, having it compared to not having it is freedom.
sun_the_second
3d ago
Yes, this is one of the largest pieces of evidence in favor of their pragmatism.
sun_the_second
3d ago
Always funny how the jews are simultaneously way too pragmatic and "insane", apparently.
sun_the_second
3d 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
3d 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
4d 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
4d ago
Would you have liked all those indie hits if the artwork and text copy were noticeably AI generated?
sun_the_second
4d ago
One to two.
sun_the_second
4d 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
4d 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
4d 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
4d 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
5d 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
5d 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
6d 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
6d ago
Did he age, or is it just the beard?
The Rings are singular artifact though. I meant more like a hypothetical setting where everyone does Satanism for a living.
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