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GBRK
10hr ago
This is actually extremely easy to do, it's European-descended
That's a retrospective categorization that people living in those historical eras might have accepted as descriptive, but wouldn't have felt was particularly accurate. Imagine if someone from 2060 zapped in and started talking about the importance of being a microsoft windows culture and how the decline of america was due to ios and android destroying traditional microsoft-linux values. Even if their argument convinced you, you still probably wouldn't see your OS affiliation as being central to your identity, and you still wouldn't be convinced to create systems of mutual support and intermarriage within your OS denomination.
But what do I know. Maybe you're an Arch Linux user.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
10hr ago
I must say, most holes that are big and creepy don't leave you bleeding out of your anus. That is at least +5000 creep points, in every sense of the word.
Most of the "unpleasant anime degeneracy" is, in my view, instrumental, not incidental. The juxtaposition of childlike innocence and body horror is the engine of the show's aesthetic effect. It's designed to create maximum cognitive dissonance. It's a story about the absolute, uncompromising brutality of a natural system that has no regard for human values like "fairness" or "pity." The suffering of children is used because it's the most effective means to maximize the audience's sense of injustice against an indifferent system. If you find the mechanism distasteful, that's a valid reaction, but to me it's the core of what makes the show function so effectively. I don't think it would have hit nearly as hard if it was Hitler and Stalin going on a buddy cop adventure into hell.
So much better than everything else on your list I honestly have no idea
Mob Psycho 100 is, by all accounts, a well-executed character piece about self-acceptance and emotional growth. It is narratively and thematically safe. Its central message is "it's okay to be yourself" and "your friends can help you." These are pro-social, therapeutic platitudes. It is, essentially, My First Therapy Session: The Anime. My preference is for stories that are thematically unsafe. Madoka is a brutal examination of utilitarian ethics and the horror of information asymmetry. Made in Abyss is about the collision of human aspiration with a universe of crushing indifference. Attack on Titan is a multi-generational study of the feedback loop between fear, violence, and ideology. One Punch Man (S1) is an exploration of existential ennui in the face of solved problems.
These shows take a high-concept premise and follow its logical implications to uncomfortable, often horrifying, conclusions. They are exercises in systems-thinking applied to narrative. Mob Psycho uses its high-concept premise (god-tier psychic powers) as a vehicle to deliver a fairly standard, low-stakes emotional journey. Mob's internal conflicts are profound to him, but the show's philosophical stakes are puddle-deep compared to the others.
(are all of these reviews based on single seasons or entire series?)
I tried to specifically note where I simply got fed up with a particular show, or got distracted (which is often not the fault of the show itself, particularly for Vinland Saga). I think I finished the first season of MP100 before deciding to venture elsewhere.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
10hr ago
I mean the gamification scheme works mostly by overstimulation of the part of your brain that gets a ping from being successful. You get a dopamine high from achievement which is how your brain evolved to get unpleasant or difficult tasks done. That doesn’t mean you enjoy the game or got anything valuable from it, it means that the game used sounds and visual displays to trigger the dopamine that comes from accomplishing a task, but in a much more stimulating way. I’d put it this way — if games didn’t have those gamification elements in them, would you still enjoy them? I used to like Skyrim and it was always somewhat a thrill when you saw a hidden door open or quest completed or level up messages appeared. But what if none of that happened? How much fun is it really to solve random puzzles without the reward attached? No loot, no completion, no NPCs blowing sunshine up your ass, just turn the statues around to solve the puzzle with nothing to reward you? Just thwack the bandits for no pats on the head, no loot, no hidden rooms to discover? Is that really fun. Or is the fun getting those little bits of dopamine from the feeling of having done those things?
Primaprimaprima
...something all admit only "TRUMP", and the Trump Administration, can do.
10hr ago
I’m definitely the sort of person whose most conscious experience is thinking through things like I’m making a logical argument, pulling in information from the environment to try and enhance that logic, and then dragging my feelings along.
That's really interesting! I didn't have you pegged that way based on some of your other posts, but I suppose it does fit.
The idea that someone could experience "logical argumentation" as their default mode of conscious experience is definitely very interesting to me. I mean I understand intellectually that there's no reason why that couldn't be the case, and I know that there are many people who would report that they think this way. But it's rather foreign to me, because logic to me is a tool, it's not where I live. The urge to typical-mind is so strong, so when people report to me that this is how they are by default, I always have a little urge to ask... really? Do you actually not experience your mind as a buzz of images and sounds by default? It's quiet and "logical" up there? Really?
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
10hr ago
Thank you. But Jesus Christ, I really want to know how this particular state of affairs arose. I feel like I'd get a more canonical answer if I earnestly asked what is current Marxist canon.
PokerPirate
10hr ago
I honestly like rotation schemes like this. There's a reason the military (in basically every developed country) does this. It prevents all sorts of corruption, promotes loyalty to the broader organization over narrow silos within the organization, and develops a generalized competence.
It might be implemented poorly in the UK, but that's not a reason to dislike the organizational system in principle.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
10hr ago
I agree. My point is that I'm (probably) less acerbic than Dase, and usually trying to set a higher standard by virtue of the shame of doing otherwise while being a moderator. The fact that I'm incredibly ticked off is at least some evidence in favor of going easy on Dase. Does he warrant a formal warning? I will begrudgingly say yes. You didn't ban him after all. I just want my dissatisfaction taken into consideration.
FtSoA
10hr ago
So you're a filthy casual?
One of those "mobile" "gamers"?
(I'm kidding. Once again, I think there's more than one model here, and "true" "enjoyment" is neither easily defined nor discerned.)
DaseindustriesLtd
late version of a small language model
10hr ago
A wrapper runs on already subsidised tokens by subsidising them more. Inference costs coming down will not justify the 500 billion plus
Could you pick a lane? Either this is all a terrible money burner or inference costs are coming down. In reality frontier labs have like 80% margins on inference, they're in the red mostly due to training spending. Even DeepSeek is profitable as far as inference is concerned. Anthropic constantly suffers from inability to serve demand. There aren't that many receptionists in the world, no. It is possible that current expenditures will not be recouped, but that will only lead to a freeze in training spending. It's pretty clear that we could run all those GPUs at significant profit for years.
Gundam has a bunch of alternate continuities called "timelines", each of which is canonically independent of the others even though they tend to reuse the same story elements (giant robots, space colonies, a masked antagonist, etc.); think Final Fantasy or Fire Emblem.
The first timeline has the best OVAs (War in the Pocket, Stardust Memory, and The 08th MS Team) but the problem is that the original show which establishes the timeline is a fucking mess. Mobile Suit Gundam has shitty animation, padding, stupid gimmicks designed to sell toys, etc. It's not really worth watching.
I'd recommend starting with Gundam SEED instead, which is basically a modern remake of Mobile Suit Gundam with much better production values, and is a genuinely decent show. Just make sure you watch the original version instead of the HD remaster, and for the love of God avoid the sequel Gundam SEED Destiny.
atelier
Jimmys: unrustled
10hr ago
If someone drew something that wasn't ugly on a piece of paper, what is it that makes it ugly once it's put on the human skin?
For me the human form and even a small part of it is beautiful in a very special way. I have seen many tattoos that were very well crafted or artistically composed or both, but I've never seen a single one that looked nicer than the skin it was drawn onto. Almost any sketch (even a bad one) looks nicer to me than a blank piece of paper. I fully admit that I am probably way out from the median in appreciation of human forms. So it's not that transferring the design makes it ugly (although sometimes it can too) it's more that transferring the design is a massive downgrade from what existed there previously.
Probably the only tattoo I could appreciate would be really well done permanent make up where the goal is really to emphasize or enhance the wearers physical form.
GBRK
10hr ago
He believes society has prevented him from being a warlord, it more likely prevented him from being a slave
TBF if you're a healthy male child early in the line of succession you could likely expect a decent enough life. The probability of being a warlord or prince is miniscule, but relative to the rest of the serfs in your hamlet you'd probably be fairly high status. And, you can't miss video games and flush toilets if they don't exist yet. Probably the hedonic treadmill makes you about as happy singing work songs in the field as it does listening to bohemian rhapsody on your ipod.
The main benefits of modern life are better health and less susceptibility to violence-- both those things objectively influence your hedonic baseline. But if your aversion to violence is outweighed by your urge to commit it, and your relative status is so low you're willing yo sacrifice your health to improve it, the past starts looking a lot more appealing (To young men early in the line of succession.) I personally wouldn't make the trade, but I can see why other people would.
DaseindustriesLtd
late version of a small language model
10hr ago
No. This is, however, exactly what OP is doing, only he goes to more length to obfuscate it, to the point that he fails to sneak in an actual argument. It's just words. I am smart (muh creds), others are dumb (not math creds), they're naive and get fooled because they're dumb and anthropomorphise, here are some musings on animals (I still don't see what specific cognitive achievement an orangutan can boast of, as OP doesn't bother with this), here's something about embeddings, now please pretend I've said anything persuasive about LLM intelligence. That's the worst genre of a post that this forum has to offer, it's narcissistic and time-wasting. We've had the same issue with Hlynka, some people just feel that they're entitled to post gibberish on why LLMs must be unintelligent and they endeavor to support this by citing background in math while failing to state any legible connection between their (ostensible) mathematically informed beliefs and their beliefs re LLMs. I am not sure if they're just cognitively biased in some manner or if it's their ego getting in the way. It is what it is.
Like, what is this? OP smirks as he develops this theme, so presumably he believes it to be load-bearing:
[…] Please keep this concept of "directionality" in mind as it is important to understanding how LLMs behave, and it will come up later.
[…] In addition to difficulty with numbers there is the more fundamental issue that directionality does not encode reality. The directionality of the statement "Donald Trump is the 47th President of the United States", would be identical regardless of whether Donald Trump won or lost the 2024 election. Directionally speaking there is no difference between a "real" court case and a "fictitious" court case with identical details.
The idea that there is a ineffable difference between true statements and false statements, or between hallucination and imagination is wholly human conceit. Simply put, a LLM that doesn't "hallucinate" doesn't generate text or images at all. It's literally just a search engine with extra steps.
No, seriously? How does one address this? What does the vector-based implementation of representations in LLMs have to do with the ineffable difference between truth and falsehood that people dumber than OP allegedly believe in? If the pretraining data is consistent that Trump is the 47th president, then the model would predict as much and treat it as "truth". If we introduce a "falsehood" steering vector, it would predict otherwise. The training data is not baseline reality, but neither is any learned representation including world models in our brains. What does “literally just a search engine with extra steps” add here?
This sort of talk is confused on so many levels at once that the only valid takeaway is that the author is not equipped to reason at all.
I do not obfuscate. I understand that he's trying to insult me and others, and I call him an ignorant slut without any of that cowardly nonsense, plus I make an argument. To engage more productively, I'd have had to completely reinvent his stream of subtle jabs into a coherent text he might not even agree with. I'd rather he does that on his own.
NullHypothesis
10hr ago
If you haven't watched it yet, I suggest give Code Geass a try. Although people often say Code Geass is actually not a real or true Mecha anime. I hate the art style and character design and I still watched the whole thing and don't regret it. It's widely considered to have one of the best endings in anime and I have to agree. Also the OST is great.
oats_son
10hr ago
Of course, for women, tattoos do not show anything of the violent crime kind. It just likely shows more mental instability, more neuroticism, more "easiness", more chance that she's a single mom... More dysfunction. Can I prove that? No, but it's an indicator for me. They understand it too, if they're mocking you for being squares for not having them.
Stellula
10hr ago
That’s not what they’re fantasizing about.
The poets are not fantasizing about being depressed trying to think of poems, failing, being rejected from journals, being told their poetry sucks etc. It’s a fantasy. They’re thinking about being the alpha poet who everybody adores and looks up to.
The warrior-fantasy guys are fantasizing about being Rambo, or whatever. “Against all odds Chad thundercock saved a village of poets by single handedly fighting off a barrage of barbarians all while severely injured and survived only by a thread and by pure determination” etc.
It’s not a perfect symmetrical set of fantasies because the fantasy is coming from a different ideology.
sohois
10hr ago
Made in Abyss
I watched the first season of this after seeing numerous recommendations along this line (are all of these reviews based on single seasons or entire series?), and my ultimate feeling was "meh". Made in Abyss presents a world in which there is a big creepy hole, and ooh, what could be inside the big creepy hole? Turns out it's big and creepy. Wow.
While it is nicely animated and soundtracked as you say, the dull approach to the story and particularly unpleasant anime degeneracy left me with little desire to continue.
Mob Psycho 100
So much better than everything else on your list I honestly have no idea
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
10hr ago
If you need to gamify something to enjoy it, then you don't actually enjoy it.
Counterpoint: Actual games.
No! Do not get me started between the difference between compulsion and fun. If you can play a game and enjoy it without any meta progression or score at all, only then do you enjoy the game. All the rest is just artifice trying to hijack your addiction centers.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
10hr ago
I can’t think of an easier way to give away the position of your troops than having a large drone right on top of their location.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
10hr ago
However you want. Let the voters decide which style is best. (As long as compliance with codes is determinable.)
SkoomaDentist
10hr ago
Pretty sure you meant to write ”does not constitute”.
Vintage dollhouse does one that’s basically no screens and living like it’s 1940. There are a few that did 1990s and 1980s tech. There was a group of reinactors who did a LARP of the 17th century England, and a couple of odd ones (mostly women) doing the regency era which I think is 18th century. But the common denominator of the experience seems to be exactly that they are much more creative and able to get things done once they basically “detox” of Internet, screens and so on.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=f9mZJ9Z-mfM?si=r5aaEso6h8SdXl79
https://youtube.com/watch?v=z_ZGk-tVIUA?si=ayvCEsgMu4rjA0aZ
https://youtube.com/watch?v=J-uRFPbaKEw?si=UkxQBHSy3g2rP5Yd
These two are women living a 1940s lifestyle. The first two are Vintage dollhouse who does a lot of other reenactment work for 1940s stuff.
Rov_Scam
10hr ago
Yes. I'm very pedantic about my music collection and I insist on having exact dates of release. Often, though, the exact release date isn't easily available, so I have to conduct research to determine an estimated release date. If ChatGTP can imitate my research process I'll take back everything negative I ever said about it:
- For major label albums released circa 1991 or later, an official street date should be available. This gets first priority.
- If a release date is provided by a reputable source such as RateYourMusic, Wikipedia, or 45Cat, use that date, giving 45Cat priority.
- If a reputable source only provides a month of release, use that as a guideline for further research, subject to change if the weight of the evidence suggests that this is incorrect.
- For US releases from 1978 to the present, use the date of publication from the US Copyright Office website if available.
- For US releases from 1972 to 1978, use the date of publication from the US Copyright physical indexes, images of which are available on archive.org, if available.
- For releases prior to 1972 or are otherwise unavailable from the above sources, determine the "usual day of release" of the record label, that being the day of the week that the majority of the issues with known release dates were released. Be aware that this can change over time. If no information is available regarding the usual day of release, default to Monday.
- If ARSA chart data for the release is available, assign the release date to the usual day of release immediately prior to the date of the chart. (ARSA is a website that compiles local charts from individual radio stations).
- If ARSA chart data is unavailable, assign the release date to the usual day of release the week prior to the date when the release was reviewed by Billboard, first appeared in a chart, or was advertised in Billboard.
- If ARSA and Billboard data are both available, use the earlier date (ARSA will almost always be earlier unless there was a substantial delay between release and initial charting).
- If neither ARSA nor Billboard data is available, use a similar system with any other trade publication.
- If no trade publication or chart data is available, determine the order of release based on catalog number. Assume that the items are released sequentially and are evenly spaced. Use known release dates (or release months) to calculate a reasonable date of release based on available information, including year of release (if known), month of release (if known) and usual day of release.
- If none of the above can be determined, make a reasonable estimate based on known information.
The following caveats also apply:
*For non-US releases, domestic releases often trailed their foreign counterparts by several months. Any data derived from US sources must take this into account when determining if the proposed estimate is reasonable.
- If the date of recording is known, any estimated release date must take into consideration a reasonable amount of time between recording and release based on what was typical of the era.
- For independent releases, dates of release from Bandcamp may be used provided they don't conflict with known information (i.e. sometimes Bandcamp release dates will use the date of upload, or the date of a CD reissue).
There's a ton more I could put here if I really wanted to get into the weeds, but I don't think ChatGTP can do what I've asked of it thus far.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
10hr ago
I'm not taking sides on you/Dase vs Tequila (I've already registered my opinion) but on the tone of the disagreement.
If you are losing your cool in an argument, back off and cool off. I say that knowing that I am not perfect either and don't always follow that advice, but we both know that's what needs to happen.
No it doesn't, and that's actually kind of the central issue: it conveniently leaves out any redress for another country fighting a war against such a nation. International law, or rather those states who appeal to it, are trying to have their cake and eat it too.
The Hamasi/Palestinians are breaking international law on this matter because it's the only possible way to prosecute this war- that's why they put their command structure in schools and hospitals, too. In a fight that complies with that law, they instantly lose, and they know that.
However, intentionally ignoring the provisions of international law must (in a system whose default state is anarchy) then also come with a withdrawal of the protection other international laws provide (and no other aid should come from the international community that is protected by those laws until they bring themselves into compliance).
Laws against genocide (and other related mistreatment of ostensibly-civilian populations) are meant specifically to protect peoples who follow the laws of war and lose from being completely obliterated in contrast to the otherwise-natural punishment for the crime of waging war and losing. If a people fails to follow those laws, intentionally (regardless of whether or not they have a choice), then the only redress available to the nation that people are at war with is the consensus that the laws that would otherwise protect them no longer apply.
Erasing the Hamasi from the face of the Earth is a legitimate act of war in the state of nature in which the Hamasi have collectively agreed to exist. If a Palestinian faction manifests to fight a civil war against the Hamasi we should aid them, but until that happens, that is all we should do.
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