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Hieronymus
17m ago
This may be a personal aesthetic thing. I don't like the dash to connect to the strokes of the adjacent letters. Depending on the individual letter shape, that may require a touch of kerning.
aldomilyar
17m ago
Part of what confuses me about this is that if I'm going to a private island escortfest I don't think most people have a practical way of distinguishing between a 16 year old escort and a 18 year old escort in that context.
Terracotta
19m ago
I did have a ‘duty’ frame in mind, but what I was really trying to get at in my post was- different people have different duties.
Part of the problem is that underneath those surface differences, those varied daily duties were (and were explicitly claimed to be) the exact same set of primary duties: work as hard as you can, deny yourself, give up your life for those weaker than you, obey those set by God in authority over you. People forget that this cosmic hierarchy used to entail quite a lot of frictional social-class-based and age-based role rigidity, as well, so everybody had the daily experience of both authority and submission. In European trad systems, for example, the working man needs to obey both his lady and his lord and doff his cap to his betters of both sexes, everybody needs to obey the priest, who in turn needs to obey the bishop who needs to obey the Pope, etc. Sons and daughters need to obey both their mothers and their fathers, even as they reach uppity young adulthood. Of course, few humans are good at either authority or submission, so there are endless quarrels about boundaries for all this. But it's really clear how all of the role systems are upheld by the same explicitly analogical thinking and grounded in presumptions of not just difference but also similarity across stations.
The interesting corollary to this is that the dismantling of various family roles flows directly from the (economically-driven) political movement to dismantle class, legal and religious hierarchies, and is driven by exactly the same appeals to natural self-ownership, liberty of conscience and inborn equality before God. Although the US does pass through a couple of decades where class/political/religious hierarchy is gone but some limited gender hierarchy still holds, I don't think it's a stable equilibrium. For the middling sort, the system inevitably gets torn apart by the inherent contradictions in believing strongly in class mobility and spiritual self-determination but not in gender mobility or family self-determination.
Once you're committed to a class ethos of "you are not born to any fixed (economic) station, you can be anything you want to be! You should use your talents to try to rise in the world, in accord with your individual desires," then it's pretty hard to maintain the exact opposite line as regards genitalia. Even for yourself, I wonder if you'd get behind a system where a wife's natural duty to [whatever] implied that you also had a natural duty to obey your parents and go to college as they wished?
muzzle-cleaned-porg-42
31m ago
And Russell Crowe is fat
This is just additional realism in casting. In the book series Maturin comments how captain Aubrey is overweight. Royal Navy food was not delectable (biscuits infested with weevils) but it was calorie rich, and unlike the seamen, captain had not many obligations to engage in strenuous physical activity.
2rafa
42m ago
He was personal friends with Bill Clinton and close to a number of top Bush donors.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1hr ago
Your girlfriend still beats the average. I've seen a lot of clearly LLM generated text in circulation on Reddit, and the majority of the time nobody seems able or willing to call it out. Given the average IQ on Reddit, that might even be an improvement.
I find it quite helpful to submit my drafts to the better class of model, they're very good at catching errors, raising questions and so on. I do this for fun, so it's not like I have any plans to pay for a human editor.
When writing non-fiction on my blog, models like o3 are immensely helpful for checking citations and considering angles I've missed. There's nobody I know who could do better, and certainly not for free and on a whim.
You'll find that a lot of artists go out of their way to head off accusations of AI. In some circles, it's standard to submit PSD files or record a video showing you drawing things. Writers and readers don't seem quite as obsessed about it, but I'm sure someone has probably tried.
Terracotta
1hr ago
Nobody cares if the groom is not a virgin, least of all the bride.
But as @Clementine points out, in older systems the duty wasn't grounded in the preferences of the relationship partner. If you start with "your bodies doesn't belong to you as fun toys to fuck around with, and your lives doesn't belong to you as a fun game to score as much worldly status as you can; both of you are given this for a higher purpose," then you get rather easily to all the natural-law thinking about the high status of sexual continence and faithful marriage and self-sacrifice and family formation, for both men and women.
I don't think you can get there from quid-pro-quo negotiations between two rational actors with no common commitment to a higher moral purpose, because prisoner's-dilemma thinking kicks in immediately, as in fact you can see in responses below. Yeah, but what if s/he defects and I get exploited? Sure, I'll [maybe]cooperate eventually, but s/he needs to go first.
FtttG
1hr ago
Still on The Secret of Our Success, after getting no reading done over the weekend. It's still fascinating, but I miss reading fiction. Going to read an Agatha Christie next just to cleanse my palate.
TowardsPanna
1hr ago
Haven't heard of the Dragon Temple before now.
I've barely gotten started in that port city in the south-west. Can't remember its name. It's where your little fairy girlfriend sneaks into Louis' gauntlet runner.
It wasn't tedium that made me put the game down. Happened sorta by happenstance, and I always have a hard time getting back into a long game after a break from them.
FtttG
1hr ago
My girlfriend has noticed ChatGPT's predilection for em-dashes, and now she can't unsee it. Whenever she sees a passage of text which uses them, she assumes ChatGPT was involved in the text's creation, up to and including Teams messages sent by her colleagues (which is honestly not an unreasonable assumption, in my view).
But my concern is the same as yours: I do use em-dashes a fair amount (mostly in fiction rather than non-fiction or blogging), and with exactly one exception I've never used ChatGPT as a writing aid. I'd hate to be accused of doing so without cause.
Occasionally you'll encounter albums where the liner notes include a notice specifying that no pitch correction (e.g. AutoTune) was used on the album, or no synthesizers (more common in the seventies and eighties, less common nowadays). I wonder how soon it'll be before the first novel is published which includes a notice in the front matter to the effect of "No generative AI was used in the creation of this novel".
4bpp
Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
2hr ago
· Edited 1hr ago
Well, to shift the frame a bit, does it matter? Of the people who read an article titled "Will an Egg a Day Keep the Doctor Away, or Will It Simply Raise Your Cholesterol?", how many do care about whether its contents are factual and well-sourced*, and how many just want the qualia of reading an article about something to while away their time on the mortal coil? Depending on what the product of human writers that the market actually demands is, yours might just be yet another case of writing off cars for being inadequate horses.
*and does it even make a difference if the source chain just bottoms out in some garbage p-hacked nutrition paper that will be forgotten in five years when some slop research lab decides to p-hack up a new paper on the topic? What fraction of writing anywhere is about something more than the qualia of writing and reading something like the thing it pretends to be? Perhaps straight up making up citations is just cutting out some layers of indirection in the con.
tl;dr: Rather than being more bullish on AI, I think you ought to be more bearish on humanity.
I've been reading Ar'Kendrithyst on the recommendation of a few people here / another friend.
Book One started off really slow but I was enjoying the system exploration and the worldbuilding up to Book Four.
I'm in Book Five now though and I'm starting to drop off the novel.
This is fundamentally a categorization boundary difference. This is the sort of thing where we may simply have different categorization hierarchies/boundaries.
What you quoted is / was intended to be a reminder against the fallacy of composition without calling it such, since overtly calling on a fallacy can come off as an attack / belittlement. Which was not the intent, but lost some clarity, particularly on the categorization hierarchy.
The fallacy of composition is the error in which what true for a part of a whole is assumed to be true for the whole. It is a common categorization error when sub-sets are conflated with broader overarching categories. What is true for a subset (all dogs are mammals, A = B) does not necessarily apply to the over set (all mammals are not dogs, B =/= A). (Part of the error is that it's not actual the same category in both sets, as 'mammals' and 'all mammals' are not the exact same group- that is, they are not both 'B'.)
Reciprocal relationships are a category of relationships, distinct from other, non-reciprocal relationships. It itself is a subcategory of [relationships]. Reciprocal relationships as a (sub-)category can in turn be broken down into further sub-categories.
Obligation-based and transactional relationships are subcategories of reciprocal relationships. There are additional subcategories as well, types of reciprocity that are also not obligatory or transactional. Mutual love and mutual hatred are both reciprocated relationships that have no intrinsic obligatory or transactional element. More can be found.
The fallacy of composition limits the application of any of them to characterizing the others- what is true for a part (a specific subcategory) is not true for the whole (other subcategories / the broader category). What is true for one subcategory (god's relationship with man is not a specific type of reciprocal relationship, i.e. not a transactional relationship) does not disprove another subcategory, or the overarching category.
hooser
2hr ago
That's musicians at work. Their work involves play, must involve play, because they are trying to tap into emotions through novel sound and poetry. The particular riff happened by chance, and Guns N' Roses maximized the situations where such a chance can occur, and trained to recognize such chances.
It's like Dorothea Lange's famous "Migrant Mother" photo. Lange finding that particular woman with such an expressive and sympathetic face while surrounded by young children is pure chance. But it's not like it could've happened to anyone. Lange maximized her ability to recognize the opportunity for such a photo, take it, and get it published.
DradisPing
3hr ago
It is 100% true that Mozart wrote a song entitled "Lick me in the arse" (Leck mich im Arsch).
I like to bring that up in discussions of high culture. I no longer get invited to classy parties.
DradisPing
3hr ago
People online also say that Bohemian Rhapsody is about AIDS. There are just a lot of people really into analysis of lyrics who don't do a lot of research.
Dave Grohl had a great quote about people overanalyzing Nirvana lyrics that went something like "Sometimes Kurt just made up lyrics on the spot to fit the music. I watched him do it."
There's so much nonsense in analyzing fiction / lyrics / poetry, but people are having fun. It just gets annoying when they start lecturing you about media literacy.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
3hr ago
Well gpt zero gives my AI output 38% AI, 62% human or 'uncertain but thinks it's human'. I wouldn't say any AI detector actually works reliably.
Here's my faux Lexicanum article. Now technically it's a hallucination since none of this happened in lore (I decided to make it invent a battle that fits in a real 40K campaign). However it seems internally consistent and wholly believable to me. The tau do field fusion blasters, the Imperium did withdraw from Dal'yth prime, the Longshanks exist, the Protector-class cruisers exist, the Scions of Dorn aren't real but there are plenty of unknown chapters and their heritage is pretty obvious. The tactics make sense, Terminators using teleporter deep strikes only to be countered by the Tau equivalent of melta-weapons. The post-war status quo of cautious diplomatic co-existance while dealing with other threats fits...
I think the story is interesting enough, there's a certain level of non-obviousness with the petrification elements. And GPTzero gives this 100% human, it's totally confident! It looks like it does better when my amateurish 'make this look human' instructions aren't even there. The prompting was quite simple, though I had it do a second pass for logic and consistency, I find that it's not quite a one-shot at this kind of task.
BATTLE OF KAL’SHARA’S GRAVE, 996.M41 Engagement Code: DGC-17-KSG-π
OVERVIEW
The Battle of Kal’Shara’s Grave (Imperial dating 996.741.M41) was an unplanned but fiercely-fought seven-day void–surface operation that erupted when the Crusade fleet of Battle Group Scion intercepted a T’au Kor’vattra expeditionary flotilla attempting to evacuate the abandoned Sept World of Ka’shas’erra. Although not listed in the original Operation Righteous Fury order of battle, both sides subsequently treated the engagement as an independent sub-campaign whose outcome materially affected the final dispositions in the Damocles Gulf.
STRATEGIC CONTEXT
Following the Imperial withdrawal from Dal’yth Prime (see Damocles Crusade, Phase II), the T’au High Command activated “Protocol Shas’kaara”: the systematic stripping of every frontier Sept of personnel, matériel and cultural assets. Ka’shas’erra—renamed Kal’Shara by the Imperium after its first human settlers—had been deemed indefensible once the Crusade broke the T’au outer picket line. The evacuation flotilla, designated Kor’vattra Mission 9-Alpha, consisted of nine merchant-menials and two Protector-class cruisers escorted by the experimental drone-carrier Or’es El’leath “Silent Moon”. Its mission was to extract the remaining 14,200 Fire Caste garrison, eight entire Ethereal caste relic vaults and the prototype Earth-caste “terraforming engine” known as the Worldseed.
Unbeknownst to the T’au, Battle Group Scion—comprising the Dictator-class cruiser Righteous Fury, two Lunar-class cruisers, six Sword frigates and the Astra Militarum 19th Brontian “Longknives”—had been ordered to conduct a final punitive sweep of the Ka’shas’erra system before retiring to Imperial space. The two forces translated within 0.7 AU of one another on 741.996.M41.
ORDER OF BATTLE
Imperium
Task-Force Scion, Battlefleet Ultima 19th Brontian Longknives (3 infantry, 1 mechanised, 1 artillery regiment) Adeptus Astartes, 3rd Company, Scions of Dorn (detached) Skitarii Maniple 117-Δ “Ironveins” (Tech-priest Dominus Varik Hax)
T’au Empire
Kor’vattra Mission 9-Alpha – Merchant-menial vessels × 9 – Protector-class cruisers Fire’s Wisdom, Hope’s Horizon – Experimental drone-carrier Or’es El’leath “Silent Moon” Fire Contingent Shas’Kaara (elements Sa’cea 7th Hunter Cadre + local Sept auxiliaries) Kroot Warsphere “Pale Moon” and allied Kindred packs Vespid Strain “Cloud-Nine” Flight
PHASE I: VOID CLASH (Day 1–2)
Admiral Katerina Voss ordered an immediate torpedo bombardment. The Protector-class cruiser Fire’s Wisdom executed a textbook Kauyon feint; Hope’s Horizon provided overlapping drone-mine cover. The Silent Moon launched fighter drones to screen the merchant line. By the end of the second day, Silent Moon’s port grav-sail was ruptured by Righteous Fury’s lance volley; the carrier began uncontrolled atmospheric entry.
PHASE II: PLANETSIDE ENGAGEMENT (Day 3–6)
The Silent Moon crashed 44 km north-east of the abandoned capital, Proteus Hive. Surviving Earth-caste teams barricaded the wreck and activated the Worldseed; its terraforming pulse instantly crystallised a 3 km radius of topsoil into diamond-hard “plasmacrete”. This unplanned fortification became the T’au centre of gravity.
Imperial landings began at dawn on Day 3. Brontian drop-troops seized the derelict starport but were stalled by overlapping Fire Warrior fire lanes that exploited the newly-formed plasmacrete ridges. Scions of Dorn Terminators teleported directly into the Silent Moon’s engineering decks but were repelled by Crisis-bodyguard teams led by Shas’O Ka’ra Mont’ka. Dornite Captain Thale Rho lost three veterans to fusion-blaster point fire and withdrew to orbit after planting locator beacons.
Meanwhile, Skitarii Maniple 117-Δ attempted to penetrate the Worldseed site through subsurface maintenance shafts. Tech-priest Hax reported contact with “an adaptive geologic AI” before vox traffic ceased. Subsequent orbital augury shows the entire Maniple entombed in rapidly expanding quartzite strata—casualties listed as “unknown; presumed integrated”.
PHASE III: FINAL EXFILTRATION (Day 7)
Recognising that prolonged defence risked total loss, Ethereal Aun’Shi authorized “Shas’Kaara Last-Light”: a staged evacuation using remaining Mantas and the Kroot Warsphere as improvised dropships. The Imperium, exhausted and under orders to disengage, contented itself with saturation bombardment of the Worldseed site. Orbital pict-capture shows a single Manta—call-sign “Silent Blade”—escaping into low orbit carrying Shas’O Ka’ra and the last intact relic vault.
AFTERMATH
Imperial records claim strategic victory; all organised T’au forces were ejected from Ka’shas’erra and the planet was declared Perdita Grade II. However, T’au sources record Mission 9-Alpha as 81 % successful: 11,300 Fire Caste personnel, seven relic vaults and the Worldseed AI core were recovered. The Worldseed itself was presumed destroyed, but long-range Mechanicus auspex has since detected anomalous tectonic remodelling on Kal’Shara consistent with phased terraforming pulses.
Of note: the crystalline battlefield, now known as the Grave of Kal’Shara, remains a pilgrimage site for both Brontian veterans and T’au remembrance acolytes. Occasional quartzine “statues” bearing Skitarii heraldry have been reported by both Imperial surveyors and T’au water caste observers, though neither side has yet mounted a recovery mission.
SEE ALSO
Damocles Crusade, Phase II Logistics Ka’shas’erra (Planetary File) Or’es El’leath-class Drone Carriers Worldseed Terraforming Engine (Speculative Entry)
aldomilyar
3hr ago
Yeah acting like a false flag is going to aim to clip Trump on the ear instead of either 'deliberately missing' or 'intending to actually kill him' is pretty galaxy brain.
DradisPing
4hr ago
I'm looking to read:
"America's Peacemakers: The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights Hardcover – Nov. 23 2020 by Bertram Levine (Author), Grande Lum (Author)"
The DOJ CRS was created by the civil rights act back in the 60s and by statute is immune to most FOIA requests. This is one of the first insights into the organization.
I'd also be interested if anyone has a detailed review or analysis, because I don't think I'll have the time to read it properly.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
4hr ago
The idea of “authentic art isn’t made for money” comes from the early days of art when the artist had patrons. If you made art for money, you either didn’t appeal to elites enough to have a patron, or worse, were a dirty poor person. Only aristocrats and people they hired could afford to not think about money, ergo, thinking about money was a mark of poverty and poor quality.
Jiro
4hr ago
If he loses, it's rigged against him. If he wins, it's rigged against him
If you're considering the possibility of rigged elections at all, therer's nothing inherently goofy about this. "Rigged" doesn't mean "they can fake absolutely any outcopme they want"--if they could fake X opercent of votes and he wins by more than X percent, it might be rigged against him and he could win anyway.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
4hr ago
I feel like this is a far too strict definition of "authentic". Most popular art is commercial to some degree or another, artists gotta eat, even if they accrue other less tangible benefits like street cred or pussy.
What does that leave? Mostly amateur art. I don't see how why it's not possible for something to simultaneously be both a work of passion and yet selected to make at least some money.
That isn't to say that the concept of authenticity is an entirely useless concept! I think Nickelback is far less authentic than say, Tame Impala or the Arctic Monkeys. The latter, even after finding a hit formula, ended up making multiple albums that are better suited to jazz lounges and only really loved by the most diehard fans.
And then you have people who make mixtapes and distribute them for free, play in a garage band or upload to SoundCloud. Maximally authentic, most of it trash. Authenticity isn't a reliable proxy for quality, and probably anti-correlates once you account for confounders.
I don't get your point about "the establishment" in this particular context. Why does it matter if they have power (real or perceived) in regards to whether it's a specific or general group.
It doesn't, I was just saying what a defining characteristic of a group called "the establishment" is. Who identifies as, and who doesn't, who exactly that group includes, etc., doesn't really matter, the point is that anti-establishmentarians don't get to come here, pick the most ridiculous thing said or done by the powers that be, and demand that posters roughly identifying as centrists or "anti populists" defend it as though they have a personal stake in it.
And I'm not defending his post wholesale -- I agree the last bit is presumptuous
I also have some reservations with how it seems like a final warning from stuff like his previous post which didn't deserve a mod action at all.
If you think that's the main problem with that specific post is presumptuousness, or if you think the final warning is result of his previous post only, you're not approaching this in an objective manner. The issue is his constant antagonism.
Under the other post you claim you don't want moderation to aggregate transgressions by ideology, and adjust for that, but rather that you want the same enforcement no matter who the transgression is coming from. I believe this is mostly (adjusted for the mods being only human) what you're getting. You're not going to find another poster exhibiting the same pattern of constant antagonism, which I think you were aware of when you pushed back against my request for examples.
Also, if you think Turok is no worse than the average posters here, and is only getting modded because of rightwing bias, why do you think he got banned from ACX and DSL?
I think personal attacks are far worse for productive conversations, which happen regularly and don't get punished (or even become AAQCs!)
Specifically, which AAQC had a personal attack? Gattsuru's? Can you quote the part that contains the personal attack?
I have several pots of basil growing right now, so I'm not clueless on the matter.
I'm not nitpicking excessively, the explanation for the soil is plain and straight up wrong. After autistically going down a soil rabbit hole for days oncr in my life, I can say this with confidence.
Regarding the grow lights, I could be convinced that ot's mot provably false, but of your plants aren't getting enough light, the absolute cheapest shittiest chinesium grow light off of amazon is not going to solve your problem.
It prefers nutrient-rich and well-drained soils. Before planting, amend the soil with compost and fertilizer and plant after the last frost.
Relevant for in ground growing not pots or containers.
I put in the eggs article from that guy, the first one I saw, and it gave me '57% GPT': https://www.greenmatters.com/p/eat-boiled-eggs-every-day
Zerogpt is dogshit. Barely better than a coinflip. Use gpt zero or some other detector that actually works.
I should've had it write a wiki article about 40K lore or something, then I could confidently assess whether it fits.
LOL I had a phase of watching hours of 40k lore videos, so it would be fun to see this.
Fair enough, for whatever reason the .ph link flat-out wasn't working for me.
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