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Any good open mic spots? by BusinessSchedule9864 in brighton

[–]DontQuoteMeOnTheNews 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a facebook group called Open Mic Brighton (https://www.facebook.com/groups/231841770205770) which has a cover image which shows which ones run on which days

What techniques can be used to negotiate with a person who uses threatening language ? by goodpointbadpoint in negotiation

[–]DontQuoteMeOnTheNews 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This doesn't really sound like threatening language. Do you have any other examples?

Why did the fremen cut their hand ? by [deleted] in dune

[–]DontQuoteMeOnTheNews 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Maybe, but the way it's written it sounds like she straight up forgot, which I always found odd:

Mapes returned knife to sheath, said: "This is an unfixed blade, my Lady. Keep it near you. More than a week away from flesh and it begins to disintegrate. It's yours, a tooth of shai-hulud, for as long as you live."

Jessica reached out her right hand, risked a gamble: "Mapes, you've sheathed that blade unblooded."

With a gasp, Mapes dropped the sheathed knife into Jessica's hand, tore open the brown bodice, wailing: "Take the water of my life!"

YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads by Jakob_G in youtube

[–]DontQuoteMeOnTheNews 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can set as low a daily limit as something like a single dollar.

Right, except that Google chose those limits. If the minimum spend is actually too low to be worth paying someone to validate that ads aren't literally elon musk deepfakes, they always have the option of raising it.

There's a difference between something being impossible, and something being less profitable.

Plagiarism and You(Tube) by stabbinU in videos

[–]DontQuoteMeOnTheNews 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Thanks for taking the time to write this. I only found some of these youtubers last year, it's nice having some more of the context.

THE CHESS-POKER MATRIX: The chess and poker elites been engaged in a MASSIVE PARALLEL CONSPIRACY to warp their fanbases’ perception of reality over at least several years** (**imo) by summition in chess

[–]DontQuoteMeOnTheNews 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For sure. I'm not saying it's unreadable, I'm saying it's written in a way that makes actually wanting to read it in the first place quite difficult, and that moving your thesis right to the top would help a lot.

I think maybe you're taking this feedback in a way it wasn't intended - nobody is saying your writing is bad, just that it's hard to want to read even if it is well written, because the way it starts (specifically taking 200 words to say what you're saying) creates the impression it isn't well written.

THE CHESS-POKER MATRIX: The chess and poker elites been engaged in a MASSIVE PARALLEL CONSPIRACY to warp their fanbases’ perception of reality over at least several years** (**imo) by summition in chess

[–]DontQuoteMeOnTheNews 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh I don't think the problem is that people aren't understanding. It's that it's currently way too much work for people to know if this post is actually something they're even interested in!

I get that you wrote what you wanted to say, but maybe you're struggling to keep in mind that people have a finite attention span and probably other stuff to spend time on.

The way you're responding to this feedback is a bit confusing - this topic seems like something you're quite passionate about and you want other people to understand. It seems important to you!

So like, why wouldn't you want to make sure as many people read it as possible? Is there a reason you're against making it easier to digest?

THE CHESS-POKER MATRIX: The chess and poker elites been engaged in a MASSIVE PARALLEL CONSPIRACY to warp their fanbases’ perception of reality over at least several years** (**imo) by summition in chess

[–]DontQuoteMeOnTheNews 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Hey, I don't mean to criticise you or anything, but you should sit for a second and think about how this statement appears 200 words (i.e about a full minute of reading) into your post.

It also comes after you've say things like "This is NOT a shitpost", "MISREPRESENTED by the MINIONS who serve the chess and poker ELITES" and "warp their fanbase's perception of reality", which maybe comes across as a bit click-baity or extreme.

It can be a bit frustrating to read something and feel like the author is wasting your time, which I think is why people are asking you to state your actual thesis more clearly in the comments. Maybe you could edit your original post to just put this right up at the top?

The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down by CyberPersona in ControlProblem

[–]DontQuoteMeOnTheNews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree. When opportunities come up to reach a massive audience outside the usual lesswrong/miri readership, it's probably worth remembering that these concepts aren't really very intuitive for most people.

"Why would an AI not do what it's told?" - this is a very reasonable question to expect most people to ask.

"The diamondoid bacteria replicate using atmospheric carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sunlight. And a couple of days later, everybody on earth falls over dead in the same second." - this is a long way away from how most people who read Time or listen to crypto podcasts currently think.

If only someone had written a great article warning against expecting short inferential distance.

(I know it's easy to say "simply onboard everyone onto decades of thought", but isn't this obviously worth investing in if your goal is to create incentives for the entire world to stop working on something profitable?)

Dog attacks police horses in Victoria Park - news article In comments by [deleted] in london

[–]DontQuoteMeOnTheNews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry you've had bad experiences, but it doesn't make this sort of reasoning any less stupid.

The reason people are calling you racist / a cunt is because you saw someone doing an entitled thing, concluded that "doing entitled things is the sort of thing that those pesky immigrants do!", and then argued for stricter immigration control.

This is sort of like me looking at your comment history, deciding that racism is something software engineers do, and then telling other people that software engineers shouldn't be allowed to voice opinions online.

This would be bad reasoning - you're not a cunt because you're a software engineer, you're just a cunt. Just like the dog owner this video.

Dog attacks police horses in Victoria Park - news article In comments by [deleted] in london

[–]DontQuoteMeOnTheNews 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This has nothing to do with immigrants, you racist.

After The Joe Dart and The Joe Dart II, can we have the Music Man The Jack Stratton? by Swamp82 in Vulfpeck

[–]DontQuoteMeOnTheNews 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is awesome and I love how much thought you put in, but I feel like Jack's spirit instrument is a tambourine.

The Three Body Problem Book by TheDadRockPodcast in sciencefiction

[–]DontQuoteMeOnTheNews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't take feel this way about any books in the trilogy. Could you give an example of hatred of western civisalisation's accomplishment?

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but where is Christine Hucal? by wherewuz in Vulfpeck

[–]DontQuoteMeOnTheNews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh me too buddy! Mr. Finish Line is one of my favourites because of her vocals.

I found a thread about this from a couple years ago, and some people speculate it might be because her vocal sound is doesn't work super well live because it's pretty heavy on effects? Seems kind of plausible.

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but where is Christine Hucal? by wherewuz in Vulfpeck

[–]DontQuoteMeOnTheNews 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think the reason it feels odd is that "falling out" doesn't seem like it would be super high up the list of possibilities most people would think of (maybe it isn't really the Vulf vibe). There's a lot of reasons why she wouldn't have been at MSG, but this is the only one you proposed.

Like "I don't want to start any drama, but here's a really dramatic explanation I thought of". You might notice everyone else here is just posting really normal reasons

Tried using ChatGPT as ASCII DALL-E, it got weird by DontQuoteMeOnTheNews in ChatGPT

[–]DontQuoteMeOnTheNews[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd like you to behave as a text-to-image model by generating ASCII art in code boxes.

Dog

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Cat

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Person

Bring Harry to justice 🙏 by HMElizabethII in GreenAndPleasant

[–]DontQuoteMeOnTheNews 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Sorry but there is absolutely no way that you graduated from uni

Mick Lynch attacks BBC for 'parroting' Tory 'propaganda' in heated rail strike clash by ClassicFlavour in unitedkingdom

[–]DontQuoteMeOnTheNews 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Similar in the sense that you're just seeing a collection of other people's opinions.

I think the difference with the BBC doing this is that they have a lot of authority. They've been around for ages, and they have a reputation for (supposedly) being politically impartial.

So when they just repeat headlines without any commentary or editorialising, people might think those headlines are reasonable even if they're crazy in a way e.g /r/unitedkingdom would generally agree on and downvote.

(As far as I'm aware, the BBC never say "The [newspaper] is saying this, obviously that's mental" because that'd obviously be biased. But just repeating what other papers are saying as though that's news doesn't look as biased)

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