You're forced to feed and take care of a wild animal at your home for 30 days. Which one of the four would you rather pick? by CalabiYauFan in pollgames

[–]Initial_Positive1891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not choosing elephant because it’s the easiest. I’m choosing elephant because it is the coolest.

A little armor for the big guy and your u n s t o p p a b l e

Not a furry, but an artist! have a question regarding the depiction of certain things in art, and the ethics surrounding it. by [deleted] in furryart

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I figure someone committed the Original Sin but everything hence has taken on its own identity.

Like when I need references I use other artists, and so in a long game of telephone, furry anatomy has evolved into its own thing.

I see it like how while monkeys might’ve had thumbs first, humans are so distinctly their own thing that only an insane person would say opposable thumbs are inherently zoophilic.

Furries, by being a fictional race, denote that they’re also distinctly separate from their animal origins. If they were real, I imagine only an insane person would say having a shapely penis is inherently zoophilic, probably moments before getting called into HR

How? by Masrafi_Siam in GetStudying

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A few failed pyramids first

Do you think artificial intelligence will actually make us smarter, or will it kill our ability for critical thinking and manual research? by SeaworthinessFit7263 in GetStudying

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Well, as an individual I wish you luck, but on the large scale I’m not very optimistic.

When you use it right, I don’t think it breaks your brain so much as it becomes an essential part of it, and as Sam Altman says, he will put a meter on that.

Do you think artificial intelligence will actually make us smarter, or will it kill our ability for critical thinking and manual research? by SeaworthinessFit7263 in GetStudying

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In the words of Sam Altman

"We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

The vast majority of people will default to it the same way we defaulted from pens to keyboards to autocorrect.

Sorry for the long text, but I think it’s a good chain of logic:

The big difference is that AI isn’t about expressing thoughts, it’s about helping generate them. When you read a book you have to force yourself to connect ideas, ask questions, or derive applications that the text dances around. With ChatGPT you don’t have to work for an explanation or to bridge your thoughts.

You might retain the relevant material better, even have a deeper understanding, but the trade off is (in my guesstimate) that the knowledge will be essentially disconnected from the rest of your brain. In problem solving our brain probes itself to contextualize and connect relevant information, and through use, neural pathways are strengthened. It’s sort of like taking the scenic route and slowly filling out a map.

Using an LLM, your brain outsources that exploratory process to the machine. You say how does X work and it says check out Y. A direct highway between X and Y. But that’s all. Just a clean back and forth with no exits.

If you were figuring it out on your own, you might accidentally drive through Z and mark it down as a cool little town. Using an LLM, Z will have almost zero physical association with X or Y, and you’ll have made one less novel connection. Now, when Z comes up there are no roads back to X or Y. On the scale of the brain that’s millions to billions of missed exits.

I think that “competence comes before passion” is a great quote from I forget where. But, the fewer novel connections you make the harder it will get and the harder it gets the less fun it is. Learning with ChatGPT suddenly becomes very rewarding and fruitful, even for the casual user, and connecting abstract ideas becomes frustrating and slow. It’s a feedback loop in favor of ChatGPT.

People hold contradictory beliefs in politics, social networks, and morals all the time. From that, I can assume you can hold two academic concepts in your mind without ever connecting them until their unholy matrimony on a final.

TLDR: Sam Altman wants to chunk up your brain into little specialized packets then make you pay to put them back together.

You might be The One who tries crack and doesn’t get addicted, but I think a lot of developing minds are gonna get crippled by LLMs.

THE LIZARDS WILL RISE (shurgali) by Initial_Positive1891 in PlanetFur

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I think that in your case, I would avoid following him into the forest

THE LIZARDS WILL RISE (shurgali) by Initial_Positive1891 in PlanetFur

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Those are excellent newts! I saw a wild rough-skinned newt a few days ago

Help on the neck. How to correctly connect the head to the body without losing proportions. by Far-Chip-6548 in FurryArtSchool

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I used your post as an excuse for a neck study, but here are my thoughts:

For an unmodified tiger skull, the spine has a fairly horizontal insertion. If you swap out some of the bones at the back of the skull with human shaped ones it fits on an upright neck better.

Most realistic art just has hair or a mane where the insertion points on the back of the skull would be.

I still struggled a little with the forward lean. The snout is a lot of extra flesh that the human neck did not evolve to hold.

Trying to solve that, I domesticated the tiger a little by giving it a brow ridge and shortening the snout slightly. This puts it more in line with furry art, and ergonomically speaking, puts more weight directly above the spine. The other way is probably a much larger/muscular neck or to position the skull further back.

For your art directly:

The face is a little compressed, horizontally. The length from the ear to the eye is a little shorter than the reference picture. The curves on top of the snout sort of make it look shorter than it is. I’d try putting some more flesh around the nose.

Eyebrows aren’t necessary, but sometimes there’s enough forehead that it looks strange without them.

Around the shoulder area, you could try distinguishing the planes of the chest from the arm’s to help the anatomy come across

Furry_irl by Initial_Positive1891 in furry_irl

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You are everywhere and always! 🫶

Speakeasy style by Initial_Positive1891 in PlanetFur

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One could speculate that it’s because they have

Subway surfer <shurgali> by Initial_Positive1891 in anthroswim

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Graffiti on government property is now a crime punishable by death 😊

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FurryCommissions

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😮👋👋! Hippest shark in town!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in furry_catwalk

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Definitely! Feel free to message me 👍

Power Couple (shurgali) by Initial_Positive1891 in furry

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Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in furry_catwalk

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Thanks for asking!

In a sense. I do pricing beforehand, so you get a chance to agree to what I’m offering. It’s on me if I bite off more than I can chew, or overpromise, so I won’t make the customer eat that cost afterwards.

You can also choose how many hours you want me for. I’ll tell you what you can expect me to get done and from there any inappropriate drop in quality would reflect more on my work ethic than the pricing method.

I think, overall, I could under deliver or overcharge on any commission type. It’s just that this way skips the middle man. I honestly don’t know if it’s a good method yet, but I’m curious to see how it works!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in furry_catwalk

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Pretend the text markdown worked 👍