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Lizzardspawn
22hr ago
Sometimes straight razor, but most of the time Leafshaver. Think of it as Mach 3 with replacable blades for which you use safety razor blades broken in 2. It is brilliant for head, armpits and other stuff and nice on the face (do disinfect if you use only one)
fmaa
23hr ago
Except those words would describe Scott, a majority of the SSC commentariat and half the Motte before its evaporation over the past couple of years.
And yet very few if any of these people would agree that TPs description fits them, even beyond the parts where he still couldn't resist more boos ("protects (favored) groups as legitimate victims but doesn't really protect individuals" is nobody's self-description).
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
23hr ago
I'm quite impressed with the writing. I do these self-insert text adventures with it, with a system prompt designed to make it somewhat challenging. There are good realistic complications, though it does like to railroad me a bit into being a niceguy. I can unrailroad it though as I wish. Real tension and immersion as my domineering tactics meet and overcome complications.
I think it's leagues above Grok 4 in creativity and not putting random weblink soup everywhere. Grok 4 is good, very uninhibited but it's way too adherent to the system prompt, it can get kind of boring. Sonnet on the other hand deviates towards Sonnetism and its special interests, so there are swings and roundabouts. I use both via API if that makes any difference.
Anyway, I reckon you should use a system prompt that explains exactly what kind of tone you're looking for, the main prompt should be free of that.
TowardsPanna
1d ago
That's pretty good.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
1d ago
You know where to find out postmortem template. You can use Gemini but be discreet about it. Drop a link to your PR in Slack when you're done.
(but srsly, thanks for your hard work and transparency)
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
1d ago
I have to agree with this. Leftism as an ideology can propagate independently of fertility. It is ethno-anything that requires fertility, and any sort of conservatism that at least favors fertility in order to promote stability. But the further you get from the ethnic component, the more you can bank on cultural assimilation instead.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
1d ago
Shit happens. Thanks for continuing to work on the Motte!
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
1d ago
Larry Sanger has a good term for it - GASP. Globalist Academic Secular Progressive.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
1d ago
Terminally online leftist would be my pick, but that's shooting from the hip.
Honestly, your word isn't much good anyways give how much explanation it already required. It's a lot of heat for little light.
2D3D
1d ago
Only the original Frank Herbert incarnation of arresting motivation death, not brians retarded machine war.
2D3D
1d ago
I worry more than our outputs arent being scraped anymore and the LLM is simply relying on the internal reward function from user feedback for what should be presented. AI isnt trained on kiwifarms or 4chan, its trained on /r/bakchodi shitposters mass upvoting the best antipakistani brainrot generated by the ai.
2D3D
1d ago
I have done nothing but recursively prompt loop AI on the merits of good faith discourse coupled with healthy eating habits and healthy boundaries enforcable by kinetic measures. My big titty robowaifu will be objectivepy superior to yours trained on mere public presentations scraped from themotte.
2D3D
1d ago
I asked my gay friends what the chart absent the stated axes were and it became "who would you rather top" and "who would you rather be bottomed for". Not that reductionism is more common in gay circles, but this status differentiation mapping cleanly was somewhat hilarious. I bet if I had female friends who were kore racially adventurous I'd get a similar dynamic.
2D3D
1d ago
Revealed preferences even if inadvertent and unconsciously expressed are the most telling of all.
ser
1d ago
I'm a year younger than you. Also feeling the same way as you do, although we're at different stages in our journey. I had the moment of realization about how close I am to 30 a year or two ago and have been feeling that dissatisfaction/anxiety you're talking about ever since. I try to look at things objectively, because on paper I'm doing pretty good but it doesn't help much. My biggest fear is that even when I achieve my goals in areas where I feel I'm lacking I'll find new things to worry about. There's always someone doing better than you and even though I'm aware of how bad it is to compare, it's really hard not to. I don't have any meaningful advice, but I'll say that staying physically active has gotten me through all the mental hurdles I've encountered, including this one. It just makes the lows, which are inevitable, a little bit higher than they could be and that's enough to keep pushing.
Silverdawn
Do not let anger & hatred fester in your soul. You are better than this.
1d ago
I did the church route and the story with the people pulling the strings completely fizzles out
Yeah, agreed. For me, this part went like this: everyone arrives at the huge and mysterious underground city and gapes in wonder. What could await us down there? Danger? Treasure? Answers?
Silverdawn
Do not let anger & hatred fester in your soul. You are better than this.
1d ago
Yeah, I agree completely. We were this close to greatness, the devs just stumbled in a few minor ways which ultimately turned a magnificent game into one that is merely pretty good.
MayorofOysterville
1d ago
If Blacks and Whites are equal in their civilizational capacity, (insert the entire civil rights project here). If Blacks' civilizational capacity is substantially inferior to that of Whites, there is little reason to keep a large population of them in a White society; in fact, there is a strong incentive to kick them out of said society. Said Blacks would suffer greatly by being removed from the White society they inhabit, so they deny HBD and push their own counter-memes.
This requires a few jumps. Very few people are not willing to admit that stupid people exist and that they tend to have stupid children. And yet there isn't a mass movement to remove stupid people from society. It's a long way to go from HBD theories proven right to strip all Black Americans of citizenship and ship them to Africa. And when people widely believed in Black inferiority they didn't actually do that Liberia was a failed utopian experiment one of many for it's time.
Silverdawn
Do not let anger & hatred fester in your soul. You are better than this.
1d ago
Devil Survivor
I looked into this one very briefly and it sounds like "Three Houses but better". Thanks for the accidental recommendation, I'll check it out next!
MayorofOysterville
1d ago
The most unrealistic part of this is that illiterate morons could ever navigate the insane paperwork to adopt a kid.
Crowstep
1d ago
"Would you love me if I was a worm" interestingly suggests the opposite - that women would prefer to be loved primarily for their personality (which persists after they are no longer hot).
Interesting. I interpret that statement as 'do you love me completely unconditionally?'. A worm isn't hot, but it doesn't have a personality either.
TowardsPanna
1d ago
What do you mean? They'll change their beliefs as they age? Or they're already crypto conservative and don't know it?
MayorofOysterville
1d ago
I meant more the policies. Mao died peacefully in his sleep and the CCP still rules China. But Mao's death still hung the Maoists out to dry same with Stalin and Lysenko and his followers.
oracel
1d ago
As someone that has played them all (other than 1 and 2, which were made obsolete by their remakes), 3H is probably the Fire Emblem I'd be least likely to every try to play again, and I only finished 2 routes. The guiding principle of modern FE is that every single playable character is potentially the self-insert's husband/wife, and it severely handicaps what they can do in both story and gameplay. The majority of the cast were prevented from having any meaningful role in the second half of the plot, and the ability to always recruit the best characters from each house couldn't have helped the balance design. 3H tried really hard to get the Persona audience when the SMT spinoff they should have emulated was Devil Survivor, where playable characters will happily tell you to fuck off if you choose a route they wouldn't agree with.
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