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  • You know, what would hearing protection for that kind of ear look like? If you have cat ears you’re hearing is going to be extra sensitive and harder to protect. Would it involve some kind of helmet that holds flat against your head? I don’t think the same kind of ear plugs that humans use would work for you. And like, if you’re in combat you need to be able to hear stuff.

    I don’t even want to think about how gnarly the tinnitus would be from shooting a gun with feline ears. This illustration literally shows ballistic ear protection for the ears, but not the real ears.





  • An LLM is not an oracle, it’s a mirror; garbage in garbage out. Put Bernie Sanders in front of it and you should expect a conversation centered on caution, social impact, and accountability. Put an AI accelerationist in front of it and you should expect a very different conversation, one that hypes progress and sidelines risk. That is not proof that the model has discovered the truth in either case. It is evidence that LLM outputs are heavily shaped by framing. Does this video really mean anything at all?

    The most astonishing face palm inducing phenomena I routinely observe with LLMs is “Hey guys check it out! I’ve connected myself to the blowjob machine and it gave me a blowjob of all people. I’m so special, and validated!”

    I watched like half of the video and I’m like, isn’t this stuff that people already know? I’ve been irritated that every company under the sun is harvesting my data for money and influence for like a decade. It just feels like a really odd format to me. Why Bernie Sanders talking to a cell phone? If Claude knows these things it means that the information must be out there and there must be enough of it for it to show up in training data a lot; because that’s how these systems work.



  • Can I be real I like it when it’s both.

    I have personal characters for stuff and they’re very much designed in a way where I am attracted to them. I think a visually striking appearance is better than looking like a generic lump of metal robot dude. I’ll get out a bullhorn and say “SHES SHAPED LIKE THIS BECAUSE ITS HOT”

    At the same time a rational in universe reason they look like that or have xyz feature is also fun and useful for storytelling.

    A core example is that I have a water dragon-lady character, her outfit is swimwear inspired. But she spends loads of time in the water and can stay there for an extended duration via cutaneous respiration.