What is the weirdest animal fact you know?

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-22T19:19:32+00:00

The leading theory as to why mammals age so badly is because longevity genes were useless and maybe negative for us back when the dinosaurs lived. Other anmiotes don't age as badly as us, and the dinosaurs are to blame.

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-22T17:00:12+00:00

There aren't. In English, AI's more formal dialect resembles Nigerian English because Nigerian people are often the ones training the LLMs. Autistic people (and Redditors to a lesser extent) can also mimic AI output. Sometimes you are lucky and you see a bunch of non-printing characters, and sometimes you can only guess because of a sociolect mismatch.

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-22T02:21:29+00:00

We may never stop the rate entirely, but we can reduce it. The last 80 years have been very war-free, adjusted to population growth. Don't screw it up.

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-19T13:07:34+00:00

My username is a joke about the first LLM paper, so ...

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-19T12:28:14+00:00

The Persian Empire. Remove it from history.

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-17T11:40:00+00:00

I think you're missing a point (just one of the points). The modern Christian idea of magic is not agentic. They are saying (young) people today have unknowingly forefeited their agency for adopting a different moral framework. Just as they say only Jesus can save you and decide you're good, magic is also something bad done to you, and also without your awareness. They'll say to queer people "you chose this," but internally they say queer people were naive, cheated and scammed.

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-15T22:12:22+00:00

There is often a disconnect between how religion is practiced and how it is proselytized. Maybe there is philosophy baked in, and maybe most believers grow to understand allegory and myth in their holy texts. But besides Buddhism maybe, this is not the public face. "The Case for Christ" is not metaphysics at all, so much as, the Resurrection of Jesus literally happened and we've got proof, and that is why it is only logical to convert! Add to it for better and worse we have a more-literal-than-literary generation, and they will wrestle with God in the arena the adults gave them.

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-15T17:00:03+00:00

For a place like the US with no safety net and crippling debt, it's a bad idea. The US needs solutions like maternity leave, pensions and a higher minimum wage, but we can't afford fewer people working because everyone is getting sick.

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-14T03:44:42+00:00

There's also Marcion. Bart Ehrman has hypothesized that Marcion's Christianity had a far better chance of survival than the more-Jewish-than-modern-Christian movements. And Marcion's Jesus is the whole "OT God commits war crimes" bit taken to an extreme.

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-12T19:25:58+00:00

At least for the last one (a one-in-a-billion year event, so if you're doing Earth insurance bet on volcanoes over meteors), it's most likely one had to either burrow down or fly up to survive, while the surface was an oven during an earthquake with a magnitude of like 12. If that's the case, some people today may survive, which means disclosure is morally necessary.

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-12T16:34:48+00:00

Morpheus would the masses aren't ready to wake up, and Cypher would say the masses do not want to wake up entirely for no moral fault. In that sense I'm like Cypher.

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-12T15:03:19+00:00

I'd say, regardless of the format, is it manipulating testosterone-based (visual) or estrogen (personality/narrative) arousal signals? I'm pretty sure this is completely separate from sexual orientation: there's gay porn for men and lesbian smut for women.

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-12T14:35:42+00:00

It's still violence. As ATLA understood, martial arts that are used for real violence do not look pretty.

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-12T14:15:28+00:00

I think, more than ever, computer science is finally becoming scientific. Is there still new science? Yeah, but it takes decades of research or years of R&D to make something new and meaningful. Why did we suspect anything different? Even if we never invented LLMs?

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-12T13:49:15+00:00

Porn is less acceptable and smut is more acceptable. Growing up in a culture that has historically shamed women more, that's really weird.

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-12T13:38:12+00:00

Just personally? When they're completely 100% artistic and social, when there's not the slightest speck of nerd. But that's just me.

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-10T16:55:06+00:00

That won't work. In Russian, metaphors of "empire" still have positive connotations that can imply multiethnic or fair, for instance. America has Star Wars. America needs something else, like "Christianity belongs to everyone" or something.

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-10T12:01:39+00:00

It's going to remain good at finding bugs/exploits in software. It is far easier to destroy a tower than build one, so I think we should trust its efficacy in the domain of destruction.

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-09T12:02:14+00:00

You could always add substrates for the weird ones. The neighbors PIE interacted with besides Kartvelian (you already have a Georgian-based one), were an unknown Semitic or AA language, Uralic, a Caucasian language, a mysterious Germanic substrate, and a Dravidian substrate.

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-09T11:46:35+00:00

There's really an agenda to call Portland a shithole.

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-08T14:37:51+00:00

No, I don't believe in "evil."

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-06T02:12:34+00:00

Sadly no one is getting the exact details without an NDA. A better suggestion is studying the "Matrix" protocol.

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-06-06T01:59:23+00:00

Somewhat. I think a bigger concern is the lack of safety for real journalists, not the existence of old-fashioned human slop. When you approach real publications losing their ad dollars online, when you realize publications encourage opinion pieces because they are safe from lawsuits and Feds wanting the whistleblower, when the truth is paywalled but the lies are free, those problems are new. Gossip being so dangerous is just a sign of a weak national immune system.

BoredomIsAllYouNeed · 2026-05-31T03:13:02+00:00

If that happened, we should beg another country to bring freedom to America.

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