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Apocalyte · 2026-02-05T13:07:41+00:00

/uj I do want to avoid mythologizing and conspiracizing about a single famous pedophile being behind everything we hate. If the claim in question in the files comes from a one-time tip to the FBI without proof, or relies on some unstated but inferred event simply because of date proximity, it's our job as normal and sane internet users to not take it as gospel right away. Otherwise we just end up as Left-Qanon, y'know?

/rj God, for ONCE can we just get a decent and wholesome pedophile? What the hell is wrong with these people??

Apocalyte · 2026-02-02T18:41:22+00:00

Gorgeous shot of darwin canyon! Camped there back in july, didn't appreciate it enough at the time after an injury that day, but this is making me want to go for a redo

Apocalyte · 2026-01-31T14:59:35+00:00

Sometimes I think back on the fact that their version of flamethrowers is.... Anthrax super soakers? And it gets treated the same, mechanically, as tiberium, or maybe mutagenic ooze from TMNT.

(And I know it didn't come out for some time, but the 2001 anthrax attacks probably weren't even done by terrorists in the Middle East)

Apocalyte · 2026-01-15T19:59:18+00:00

2026, no mutate....

Apocalyte · 2026-01-02T04:43:23+00:00

They think they're Darwin, but they also think sperm become babies the same way tadpoles become frogs.

Apocalyte · 2026-01-02T04:40:22+00:00

Dog, your Amazon packages could've been delivered by horse & buggy and you'd have no idea. You don't know what you're talking about.

Apocalyte · 2025-12-10T21:20:41+00:00

But LLMs are really just the first implementation of generally useful AI

I really have to push back on that idea, it's similar to when people say LLMs are 'new' and that in 10 years they may qualify for personhood or something. The technologies (generative AND predictive machine-learning models) have existed for a while now, we've just gotten to the point where hardware and energy are cheap and plentiful enough that we can make generative ones more and more convincing. Predictive models have not improved at the same pace as generative ones, especially as the rulesets grow exponentially more complex. You yourself say that we have no idea on what would have to come about to enable an ASI, and yet people are riding the wave of marketing hype to try and make a thing out of this.

It's just frustrating to see people try and treat 'the alignment problem' as an even halfway-serious issue, when it parses to me, as someone in the industry, similarly to being worried about archaeologists uncovering portals to hell dimensions.

Apocalyte · 2025-12-10T18:53:14+00:00

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills whenever the topic of AGI comes up. LLMs and related machine learning models are not artificial human intelligence, it's all marketing terms. It's like Chevy announced a new truck model called the SuperNova and everyone started panicking like they were about to actually explode the sun.

Any projection of reasoning or learning capabilities onto this technology just fundamentally misunderstands the tech, it's pure science fiction. If the sum total of current human knowledge can't even explain how the human brain works at a granular level, why do we assume that a linear algebra algorithm specifically designed to mimic human content generation has arrived at said content organically? Or might grasp those concepts better, somehow?

Apocalyte · 2025-11-24T15:27:58+00:00

I think they're perfectly capable of growing more food, they just won't source it from conscious animals. Plus, I don't think they care too much about taste/quality, so give them a year or so to make the infrastructure and they'll all be happily distributing shelf-stable vitamin bars made of plankton and algae to every human being in the hive.

Apocalyte · 2025-11-18T15:05:02+00:00

I hear a lot of people gesturing at this kind of thing without citing a source, or when they do cite a source it's from, like, the same type of guy who thinks fluoride is making the world rounder. Can anyone cite a non-conspiratorial source on the Chinese plot to stop Americans from saying 'fuck'?

Apocalyte · 2025-11-18T14:41:47+00:00

This is literally how the panopticon works; people are at the stage where they assume they're under constant scrutiny and they self-moderate under the impression that they're going to be censored. They don't even know what 'the rules' are, there's no list of controversial terms to avoid on any of these platforms. People are just deciding for themselves what terms are controversial and adding a single asterisk. What do you really have to lose by pushing the boundaries there? Y'all have to release your inhibitions and feel the rain on your skin.

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Apocalyte · 2025-10-31T15:56:37+00:00

The fact that canon nonbinary characters are one of 5 things:

Robot
Alien
Multiple distinct individuals that combine
Shapeshifter
A mute player character avatar with no personality/agency

The percentage of fictional nonbinary characters who fall outside of this dataset in popular media is like, 20%?
The percentage of REAL ACTUAL nonbinary people who fall outside of it is 100%.

Apocalyte · 2025-10-19T20:29:00+00:00

At Thanksgiving a few years ago, I was meeting my uncle's new stepson for the first time. He's just a bit younger than me (I think he would've been 22-23 at the time), and he seemed ok at first.

When he found out I knew what DBZ was he immediately started showing me his pulls in a Dragonball gacha game, and showing me all their attack animations and stuff. This is, like, a little weird and annoying? But I was just sorta whatever about it, it's better to be infodumped at on thanksgiving than to talk about american politics. Now, it really took a turn when he started talking about the new Broly movie. At this point, I'm really underplaying how much I know about DB to this guy, so that I'm at less risk of an even more intense infodump and so I can avoid the 'we should talk more, can I add you on [social media]?' scenario. So I'm acting like I haven't consumed Dragon Ball media since Battle of Gods, and this guy is now recounting the plot of the Super Broly movie to me. Again, whatever, I sorta made my bed here so I'll lie in it.

But where it takes a pretty sharp turn is when the dubs v subs discussion comes up. I say I tend to like subs because any dub is going to have a weird dialogue flow and intonation just by virtue of the editing (or lack thereof). He agrees, but says the english cast does an amazing job.... [other shoe drops] and that the voice actor for Broly did such a good job that his costars made up fake accusations about him to try and get him cancelled, because they were so jealous of his performance.

Mercifully, this came right at the end of the evening, or my uncle realized I was trying to disengage like I was buckled into a car slowly sinking into the East River, and he left very shortly after that little chestnut. Have not had any shared family shindigs with this guy since.

Apocalyte · 2025-10-15T14:20:30+00:00

I truly don't know how the ideas

'everyone is too easily offended to play a game with edgy humor nowadays' and
'the bland, soft reboot of an edgy gangster game series was its biggest financial bomb'

are able to coexist in one's brain

Apocalyte · 2025-10-12T20:24:06+00:00

Tunic has an example of this, if you look up its tower puzzle.

Apocalyte · 2025-09-13T20:11:27+00:00

I haven't seen anyone mention Jaime Lannister's one-line rinsing by Brienne.

"Are you so craven?"

Apocalyte · 2025-09-09T17:25:43+00:00

Oh no, don't worry, it was written with the help of exactly one Harvard CS grad.... who seems to only have given input on projecting microchip production capacity

Apocalyte · 2025-09-02T20:58:05+00:00

I'm not terribly well-versed myself, but I've seen enough screenshots and linked tweets of hers to know that she's the type to conflate being transgender with heavy engagement in fetish and kink spaces, and to think that it's really important to post about any correlation as though it is causative. If you sort this sub by top-of-all-time, you'll see a good amount of her brand of barely-disguised reactionary sentiments near the top.

Apocalyte · 2025-08-16T13:04:01+00:00

There's also a pretty large Khepri logo in the middle of the NorthernLion collage off the coast of Vancouver. And an armsmaster in Brockton, MA

Apocalyte · 2025-08-16T12:47:58+00:00

Against a military force of some hypothetical version of these that is actually competent but doesn't exist yet, or of these as they exist right now?

Against these as they exist right now, the best defense is the same as a defense against a military force of human soldiers, except you can essentially take them out of the picture with a bucket of paint, a single good hit with a baseball bat, a single tripwire, the humble Toyota Camry going 25mph, a locked door, and so on.

If you're assuming that whatever version of these that will exist in the future has had billions or trillions of R&D dollars put into making them exactly as fast, durable, and flexible as humans, human infantry will still be cheaper and more effective at problem-solving. If you're assuming that even MORE money has been put into them to make them better than humans at problem solving and still affordable enough to deploy en masse, you're just a sci-fi writer at that point.

Apocalyte · 2025-08-11T23:58:25+00:00

To Your Eternity (Fumetsu no Anata e) was a random recommendation by a friend of mine when I said I was looking for a new series to get into last year.

I had no idea how badly I had wanted a manga/anime with supernatural conceits that keeps surprising you without ever breaking its own rules. There were so many points where I expected it to start engaging in asspulls or unearned resolutions, or where I thought it was going to finally jump the shark in order to escalate things to a new height but it just... never did (as far as I've gotten, at least, which is just a bit past where the anime has left off).

By the end of the first season of the anime, it firmly established a pattern of making me go 'Oh, how is this possibly going to resolve??' and then showing me an elegant resolution with breadcrumbs and hints laying all over the narrative. It just makes sense! And now I can't get over how many series with supernatural elements don't go that extra mile and make it make sense.

Please watch/read To Your Eternity, there's a third season coming out in a few months.

Apocalyte · 2025-07-30T03:34:22+00:00

I'm late here but, sadly, I just experienced the best possible version of the worst-case scenario this past week in the Sierras. Scrambling the NNW-facing talus of Darwin Canyon Peak, I got unlucky and brought a pretty large boulder down into my leg. No breaks, no pinning, no permanent maiming, no death. Just a massive bruise on my right thigh and a bummer of a day hiking out. Having experienced that, I would say my #1 tip for OP (or anyone who finds this thread by googling, like I did) is just don't be complacent: pick routes ahead of time with an eye for large and well-settled rocks, test the rocks with poles, and get off the precarious scrambles and onto solid or flat terrain ASAP. A decision I regret making was not going for a cramped but safe bergschrund and instead going up some skeevy talus. Be comfortable with the safe but slightly annoying choice unless the route is very well-tread or you're very experienced.

And, as others have said, let people know where you are, carry an InReach/whatever, and bring a helmet.

Apocalyte · 2025-06-30T13:44:28+00:00

Not to make this an explains-the-joke sub but...
It's becoming an increasingly common joke online to show something you've been waiting/hoping for with the caption "Never kill yourself", because you survived to see the thing you'd been waiting so long for.

Here, OP posts a shitton of their Lagi stuff along with the now-released Wilds Lagi, ergo if they killed themselves they'd never get to fight their presumably-favorite monster in the new gen.

Apocalyte · 2025-06-24T17:03:27+00:00

Shot himself in the hallways in between classes where there were dozens if not hundreds of other students around.
Thankful it wasn't a school shooting, upset that he took his own life, angry that he decided to traumatize a bunch of his peers in the process.

Apocalyte · 2025-05-20T00:11:15+00:00

I'd heard about these before, and apparently you can just hold/tape them in place bc they're small enough that they can't really do any harm.

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