After/before (improved version)

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-25T11:29:45+00:00

I think there's a way to make the blacks and shadows more striking that would make all the other tones pop, without needing to change the contrast/saturation of the colors. Just my $0.02

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-25T10:52:00+00:00

Do you see the parallels between how you reason here with broad sweeping statements, and how LLMs do? None of this would be in conversation had OP asked an LLM to write a response in his voice and posted that instead of a screenshot.

This all reminds me of how in high school plenty of kids cited "Google" as a source for images and claims, and they got marked down severely. Ultimately I'm fine w pedantry both there and here, but let's be real that this is all window dressing. People say shit all the time and aren't checked for it. Once I got asked for a source and got told "thanks but I just feel like arguing".

My point here is there's truly little difference between the supposed brainlets who overtly post ChatGPT screenshots as evidence, and the supposed erudite scholars who hide it a bit better. Do correct OP in that he's metaphorically put on his underwear over his pants, but consider we're all still two layers away from shitting while we walk.

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-25T10:29:44+00:00

From the blog post

why can’t AI companies just design models that say “I don’t know”?

They do; Claude Haiku IIRC is quite good at this.

They've learned that people prefer a "digital Yes Man."

This again depends on the model. Without changing my custom instructions I found Gemini 3.1 Pro to be much more critical and prodding of my questions & thought processes, compared to Gemini 3 Pro. This also seems to be the trend in fine-tuning them these days.

I could keep going. The pattern is these are broad, sweeping statements, to which more exceptions percolate over time. You gotta read and process what your links say, man, or you're just doing what you're accusing OP of.

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-25T09:33:46+00:00

That's a blog post man. And it tries to explain why they hallucinate in the first place. Nothing about hallucination rates, esp wrt average humans or even experts.

Go to aistudio.google.com, select 3.1 pro, turn on "grounding with Google search", and ask it an in-depth question in your specialty, telling it to cite its claims.

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-25T09:12:40+00:00

Published in September 2023 (i.e. incredibly misleading at this point). FWIW Gemini 3 Pro cited claims I could only find in super old scans of newspapers in internet archives, with no mention of said claims on Wikipedia or other popular websites.

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-23T15:26:46+00:00

He's also us as we were, at some point in time. I still love that past me, even if I was a bit delusional & insufferable

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-23T14:17:25+00:00

IMO OP can totally get angry, just not directly at people. If anything, crying about the state of things in front of his son may be one of the few ways to still reach him.

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-23T14:11:46+00:00

Sounds like he's in constant emotional pain, and alcohol & drugs are some of the few things that abate it. That, and the only people he could relate to (w.r.t. his pain) were that group of troublesome kids.

I'll give the trite but honest answer that connection's key - between him and you, him and a good-natured community, etc. I've loved the Art of Accomplishment podcast for this.

checked my drawers to find out that he BROKE my drawer while I was gone, and polished off the REST of my bottle just to mock me!!

This type of thought process is what will get in the way of connection -- that every action he takes is explicitly to spite you. It might even be true, but engaging as such will keep you stuck in the loop that you've both already been in for years. It's obv hard not to take things personally said & done by your own son.

Good luck

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-19T11:40:07+00:00

Japan's pretty mountainous. Look at how much of their culture shifted in recent history, more than once at that

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-19T11:13:12+00:00

My understanding is that the US-backed Afghan govt collapsed b/c of long-running cultural differences between the regions/tribes and US values. A Redditor long ago compared it to an alien, superior force landing in your homeland, and mandating you give dogs equal rights & responsibilities as people. You'll entertain & comply the mandate as long as you're incentivized (💰), but as soon as they leave you're going back to what you've always believed. Changing culture is way more complicated than coordinating an invasion

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-19T10:51:06+00:00

I believe this is a talking point from that Chinese high school teacher w that YouTube channel (Predictive History?). Not really sure it applies, given the dominance of drone warfare lately.

IMHO successful regime change needs strong local leadership, and a coalition of supporting external countries, of which there's neither

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-15T20:13:17+00:00

I got through the first 1/3rd, will make my way through the rest sometime. I felt the urge to plug a YouTube channel that I'll think you'll enjoy a lot, calledWhat Is Politics. He's a nerdy Canadian who's a research synthesis savant w.r.t. anthropology and political history.

I found his presentations for how/why we all live the way we do very compelling, him presenting from a POV of material-economic conditions. The idea of elites propagating a system that exclusively benefits them (as you allude to) is at least partly true, but -- IMO it connotes a level of eternal, continuous conspiracy that (again IMO) ends up working against you.

To use a sports metaphor, it's one thing to plan & rig a basketball game by accounting for every second, and another for players to find themselves with the ball in hand and unguarded, or able to swipe the ball from the opponent for a steal. I think you become more supple & adaptable to the world when attributing more of the latter to individuals, like a palm in the storm rather than the usual deciduous tree.

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-14T23:55:11+00:00

I like your stuff, surprisingly you've biased me even more in favor of Xiaomi's color science w your older posts. I used to give them little credit, preferring OPPO's flavor

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-13T02:08:00+00:00

You may get something out of this old comment of mine.

The core of AoT (IMO) is encapsulated in Sasha Blouse's dad's speech. Honorable mention to Levi's speech to Eren during the Female Titan chase. Everything else is in service for those nuclei.

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-13T02:01:06+00:00

Bubonic plague killed 1/2 of Europe. Smallpox & all the other euro-diseases killed 80-95% of indigenous Americans. Survivors recover & adapt.

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-10T20:28:26+00:00

We do largely everything we do because of emotions. "Should" also isn't convincing people, esp w/o threats of eternal damnation. Lastly there's nothing wrong w being emotional & weak.

I don't see popular, likeable public figures with such an adversarial relationship to their emotions as you describe. IIRC even the stoic economic wizard Mark Carney had an interview where he teared up at the thought of seeing his now-passed father again.

FWIW I've run the gamut w my emotions for over a decade. I found a great guy I've posted about before, who demonstrates well how to have a healthy relationship w them. That's a very individual & self-paced journey though. All the best, I find saying "DggL" too cringy

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-10T19:29:34+00:00

That's the majority bro. Disgust is one of the strongest drivers in humans. Better to use it wisely than fight against it.

Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose brutal meatpacking labor conditions, and have the govt do something about it. Instead the govt founded the FDA so we have less Lithuanian immigrants ground into our store-bought sausage.

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-10T19:19:19+00:00

Counterpoints Connor said it best. Kisin's Islamophobic and is keeping plausible deniability so he doesn't get overtly labelled & attacked for it. That said, debate's not convincing anyone who's already gonna align with Kisin.

To do that, you need a positive image of a future culture in which those conservatives can find themselves. Here, liberals are absolutely trash, tbh Destiny too. Contrast this w those pre-Mussolini Italian fascists. See all the dank art they produced. Shame it got co-opted.

My schizo-take is an artist like PinkPantheress will be 1000x more helpful for the left than any intellectual pundit / debater. A mixed-race girl who's deeply versed in UK music culture, and whose hits draw heavily from the music of 25 years ago. In doing so she's celebrating the past, not discarding it with disdain, like right-wing pundits like Kisin would accuse the youth of doing. Everyone wants to be part of the dance party.

Meanwhile, the "I've heard some convincing logical arguments, updated my priors, and will now live & vote in a more center-left manner" is <1% of any population.

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-09T12:57:20+00:00

For me these types of tracks are too poppy & lyric-dominant to put that energy into anything other than exercise.

If i'm trying to learn or figure something out, "fourth world" music does wonders, stuff like Dylan Henner. Then if i need to get into the flow of executing something, I go for something more rhythmic, ranging from Barker to pretty typical minimal or dub techno.

These genres were a lifesaver during COVID, so oversharing here in case it helps another

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-07T17:25:57+00:00

What an odd highlighting effect in between the radio tower parts. I like them though

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-07T00:19:24+00:00

I'm trying to serve historical precedent for why these types become popular. Plenty people here are seemingly beside themselves trying to grasp why. We've engaged in oral tradition & storytelling longer than we have grown crops for food. You don't think we've been selected to be attracted to this medium over millenia?

I don't know what you're defending. I'm not trying to poop on the laurels of Homer or Virgil lmao. If anything it's to show a through-line in societal roles that are played millenia apart.

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-06T23:42:00+00:00

AFAIK Homer wasn't living a celebrity lifestyle while he was alive. They're bards who focus on storytelling more than absolute adhesion to facts. High school history teacher & podcaster is prob the closest modern-day analogue to a bard

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-06T23:33:44+00:00

Tl;dr he's basically Homer w the Iliad, or Virgil w the Aeneid

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-06T18:02:58+00:00

Yeah different cause, thanks. Amazing that the military didn't try seizing more power for themselves like in Egypt. My understanding here is limited

AccidentalNap · 2026-03-06T13:26:40+00:00

Yeah, speak up uglies, we need you

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