It’s also nice to see the sisters working together. There’s a lot of weird division in women’s circles that undermines attempts to fight for our rights.

TACO is a nice meal anytime.

Perplexity does those weird runtime errors all the time. Just hit refresh. It eventually wakes up.

OP, LLMs don’t “know” shit.

You’ll find me making this exact point, incidentally, right here in this forum. I’m well aware that LLMbeciles know literally nothing. And that the “reasoning” models don’t do anything that even slightly resembles reasoning.

I did one better!

Give me an elevator pitch of the top 10,000 works of literature and philosophy throughout history. Ima speed-run me into a sage this afternoon.

Humanity wrestles with meaning, morality, power, suffering, love, and the search for truth—across every age and culture, we tell stories and ask questions to understand ourselves, each other, and the world, forever torn between hope and despair, freedom and fate, reason and mystery.

I’m now a sage!

Ah. Right. I forgot those were a thing once.

This guy made a joke that reads identically to the kinds of things people have been saying without a hint of humour since the ignoble days of Reader’s Digest Condensed Books up to, yes, people saying almost exactly the same thing as he said here and people took him at face value. This is despite knowing that Poe’s Law is a thing.

How terrible.

Generally if people don’t “get” your joke, there’s one of two things likely happening:

1. Your joke wasn’t funny.
2. This was a Schrodinger’s Joke: serious until someone says something bad about it after which it becomes “Gosh, all y’all just can’t take a joke!”

OK, I’m taking it all back. This really works!

I am now a great knower of literature from all around the world!

Who knew that 石头记 was so simple in the end?! Why did 曹雪芹 spend so much effort writing such a simple observation!?

Expensive pictures?

We are flirting with Poe’s Law, yes. But I have seen people express similar thoughts in dead earnestness dating as far back as Reader’s Digest condensed books, so for decades people have been looking for shortcuts to comprehension of art.

Even AIs know this is bullshit.

Summaries and shortcuts can provide surface-level knowledge, but the true benefits of reading—expanded perspective, personal growth, and the joy of discovery—are only realized through immersive, attentive reading. In a world that values “time efficiency” above all else, the richness and depth of art are flattened, and the very qualities that make us human—our capacity for reflection, connection, and wonder—are diminished.

Why are there so many pro-AI morons posting in a community literally called “Fuck AI” and labelled “A place for all those who loathe AI”?

You’re missing a key point here.

Of course there’s more people travelling to neighbouring countries than non-neighbouring ones. Simple cost explains that.

But there’s no real meaningful increase in costs between flying to Europe and flying to Asia, say. Doing a quick eyeball check, ticket prices from NYC to Seoul, for example, are about $400-500. Flights from NYC to Frankfurt are about $200-300. South Korea, however, is significantly cheaper than Germany for tourism. Depending on whose numbers you go by, SK is anywhere from 33% to 50% cheaper than Germany for tourism, so the extra $200 for the tickets is more than made up for in literally two days of actually being in the country.

Costs scale roughly the same across Europe, and SK is kind of the middle of the pack costs-wise for Asia, so it’s a decent proxy. (Japan is more expensive, China and Vietnam are cheaper.)

Yet far more people fly to Europe, when they bother going beyond North America, than to Asia. Meaning far more people are flying to places that are culturally not that different from their own, comparatively, despite the fact that the latter is cheaper. By far.

(How far? A friend of mine in Canada came to visit me for two months one summer and worked out that they’d turned a profit, despite the then very high air fares, after the first month just in savings on electricity and food costs living at home.)

USAnals are very parochial (40% never having had a passport), and when they do step outside of their parochial bounds, they go to places that are very similar to home anyway, even when places that are actually different cost less.

Yes. Allies who go against specific wishes of those they claim to be allied with are no allies

I still remember screaming in frustration during Obama’s first two years when the Democrats controlled both houses and the court and the presidency … and accomplished only these three things of substance:

• sweet
• fuck
• all

Plastic play money?

…

I JEST! I JEST! PLEASE DON’T KILL ME! IT’S MY MONEY TOO! 🤣

Most USAnals live within 160km (100 miles) of their place of birth. 40% have never had a passport which is an increasingly accurate proxy, since the border tightenings of 2007, for having never left the country. Of those who’ve actually left, an overwhelming majority have only gone as far afield as Canada or Mexico. A significantly smaller fraction have gone as far afield as Europe. A very tiny fraction have gone anywhere truly distant and alien, culturally speaking.

And yet these are the people who think they should rule the world.

The latte does not.

Thanks for playing.

Yes. We should totally just send a strongly worded letter that we pass by legal to ensure that nobody would get slightly offended.

Or, you know, fuck that noise. Sharpen the guillotines instead.

This is a really good way to put it. I’m going to have to remember this way of putting it.

I get along with most of those I interact with, socially or in a work environment. The former because if I don’t get on with them I don’t socialize with them, the latter because it’s my job to.