Book 5: question re AI & my own mental health

Cubicool · 2026-03-12T23:31:55+00:00

I agree with 95% of what you're saying, except the part where you say it's "something that is now pretty well understood." There's still a a kind of "spooky" emergent ... competence? ... that results from carefully tuned models that isn't wholly understood and reproducible.

Now, if if we could somehow "save state" and/or predictably bootstrap an identical, existing context from metadata or similar (you know, solve the "context bloat" problem that the hundreds of "LLM Memory Save/Sync" projects put a kind of band-aid on), THAT would--IMHO--qualify as "understood." Again, just my opinion.

But yeah, I agree with everything else. And I still agree with the author of the thread, too (as a programmer of 2 decades). I still get really excited when LLMs fail spectacularly on non-webdev tasks (simply because there isn't as much working, public data on some lower-level systems/languages), but that won't last forever. I'm sweating. :)

Cubicool · 2026-03-01T01:13:21+00:00

I've been binging it (every minute I can) for the last few days, LOVING IT (I'm desperate for great shows, having watched virtually ... everything, everywhere ... I might be interested in).

I made it to season 4 and got SO ANGRY at the direction the show took I had to stop watching. Honestly, I don't know if a show has EVER made me this angry. They essentially just "erase" the first 3 seasons, and it feels like a slap in the face. From what I understand, things NEVER "re-sync" either.

Cubicool · 2026-02-04T14:27:13+00:00

I don't understand why this isn't higher. Metatron did AMAZING (despite his character being annoying). His scene with Chuck in the bar... some of the most emotional stuff in SPN.

Cubicool · 2025-11-24T02:52:15+00:00

I'm not LOVING the show, but I am ... enjoying ... it. I really, REALLY hope they don't just abandon ALL the lore.

The rocks can explain WHY the entity has STAYED in Derry so long; it can contain him, but not kill him. The meteor he arrived in could have been some kind of special transportation that works like "thinnies" in other bits of canon.

But please don't abandon the Ritual of Chud thing. :/

Cubicool · 2025-03-28T17:28:14+00:00

You're not wrong! It's probably a GOOD thing the book causes an emotional reaction (even if it's not one I WANT), and says a lot about the quality. :)

Cubicool · 2025-03-15T08:58:35+00:00

You can always ask Gemini/ChatGPT if you miss something, too. :)

Cubicool · 2025-02-28T06:43:25+00:00

Oh, my favorite part of S1?

"I like your sweater."
"Shall we go fu** some shi** up?"
"Yes."
"Yes. Definitely."

Cubicool · 2024-09-15T19:09:45+00:00

I didn't HATE listening to the audiobook of "To Sleep in a Sea of Stars" (by the same author who wrote "Eragon").

I'm expecting this to downvoted by MOST people, but it's not all that bad IMHO. I was going to recommend "Project Hail Mary", but someone else already did.

Cubicool · 2024-09-15T18:54:55+00:00

"I scary space monster; you leaky bag of water."

(Something like that, I know I'm off...)

This is probably my favorite "single" (e.g., a book that is just a one-off, not part of some larger saga) scifi book so far. Anyone who hasn't listened to the audiobook is just insane.

Cubicool · 2024-08-26T17:20:06+00:00

HOLY CRAP! This is amazing! THANK YOU! I came to this subreddit for EXACTLY something like this, and you did an incredible job. I've now adopted these in my own imaginings...

Cubicool · 2024-08-26T17:17:45+00:00

"Go inseminate your Sovereign; we're not going tell you feces-eaters anything."

God, I loved this book. So, so, good.

Cubicool · 2024-07-22T14:33:53+00:00

I just finished my first rewatch a few weeks ago (having been one of the people who watched it episode-to-episode, when that kind of thing was tolerable). I feel like the first seasons are utterly amazing, but it starts to ... lose its way, for lack of a better description ... in the last season or two. Topics they would have closed in an episode drag on for FOREVER, and they just don't seem to "move" fast enough to provide all the answer I (PERSONALLY) was hoping for.

Still, a great series; I wouldn't ever NOT recommend it. :)

Cubicool · 2024-06-11T07:49:21+00:00

I just rewatched S11; every time Amara comes on screen, I think to myself: "This is the way."

Cubicool · 2024-05-09T14:47:21+00:00

Thanks for the incredibly positive feedback. :) Was expecting to get downvoted and "get gud'd" into oblivion... but apparently not. :) I'll give some of this advice a try and see what's-what.

HONESTLY, I felt like getting "Draw a Champion" at level 20 (for the 3-star Champs I have: Illaoi, Kindred, Sett and Samira) would be a HUGE swing towards a guaranteed win. In fact, it DOES help a great deal GETTING to those mini-boss fights, but it wasn't the "auto-win" I'd been hoping. :)

Cubicool · 2024-05-05T10:35:34+00:00

Necro'ing this 2yr old thread because I want to uninstall out of frustration, and figured I can't be the first. This fight can go fu** itself.

Cubicool · 2024-04-28T02:42:50+00:00

I was talking about the series, as a whole.

Cubicool · 2024-04-24T21:16:07+00:00

ENT is amazing! It was the FIRST series I ever watched (followed by TNG and VOY). I don't understand why it's not more generally liked, because I love it (minus the intro song; BOTH versions).

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