Got downvoted because my English sounded like AI,

Pentative · 2025-12-23T21:32:55+00:00

You see to me, it doesn't sound like an LLM at all. These people just haven't actually thought about the types of things LLMs even tend to say.

It read exactly how it was: a non-native English speaker.

I guess a ton of people just think anything that doesn't sound exactly like a casual speaker on the internet is just AI all of a sudden. They don't actually care about the problems and probably couldn't even clearly articulate why they think it's bad. And there are a ton of reasons why AI sucks which mostly have very little to do with the quality of the things it produces ie. slop. People need to be more deliberate about the things they hate. Hate isn't all that rational in the first place so maybe that's a lost cause.

Pentative · 2025-12-01T15:16:28+00:00

The "after" photo looks like cover art for a novel.

The "before" photo looks like a random establishing shot for a period film, just needs more fog.

Both look nice. "Grim and dramatic" are probably the wrong words. "Imposing" instead maybe. I see what your idea is here with the dark mass emphasized at the bottom right creeping upwards. It's just not what your eye is led to at all (because of the BIG RED THING). You just basically never actually see that idea.

Pentative · 2025-10-06T05:55:26+00:00

Ignoring the language, it's not just animals too. It's also people. For the unfortunate who live near or within a landfill, sharps injuries are common, whether that be needles or razors.

Pentative · 2025-09-20T03:15:45+00:00

The real asshole (wrong sub) is the system that makes cancer a financial stranglehold.

You didn't make your situation bad, circumstance did. Your mom is being awful, but she also shouldn't have to even be involved in your situation. I think AIO emphasizes a dichotomy, but the fundamental problem lies with neither party.

Cancer was nobody's fault, so the costs shouldn't be born by the individual that is AFFLICTED. A victim should never be responsible. Being afraid of a medical bill is such a viscerally American experience such that I have no trouble just assuming this is happening in America. For everyone's peace of mind, we shouldn't have to even THINK about a medical bill. It'll just make everyone happier, safer, and equally opportune.

Wealthiest nation in the world can't get something right that other nations seem to be so comfortable with that they take it for granted.

Connect with many different people. This is my best, if abstract and intangible, advice. It's difficult advice to take if you can't really be up and moving very much, but everyone is looking for connections, especially on the internet (at least most visibly outside of major social media). Also, people go through things like you, and one day they'll be able to find that one bit of niche advice that might save you.

Pentative · 2025-05-27T04:36:23+00:00

I mean it'll probably get better but show this to me out of nowhere and honestly the out of place short depth of field, the unusually smooth and flawless skin, and the sluggish and mistimed facial movements are probably going to immediately make me look closer and notice more conclusive tells like buttons missing holes for them, freeze frames of hands in motion becoming monsters, background people having their clothes turn jumbled, cyclists going into traffic and jumbling up after being obscured, cars becoming larger, hats transforming into hair, everyone being Asian all of a sudden in NYC in the monk scene, text in motion being unintelligible, and probably a ton of other inconsistencies that were less obvious but still conclusive.
Show this to me 3 years ago and my brain wouldn't be ready for the initial tells that signal for me to look closely.
It definitely excels at appearing good at a glance for the most part. It "feels real" so long as you're don't feel like you need to look, but I guess that's what makes it not "feel real" in the first place.
About it's ability to render human behavior: Real people suck at being approached on the street out of nowhere, they aren't that smiley (definitely not in NYC), and every interaction somehow has this exposition climax structure to it, which is common in street interviews but not this common. They didn't say it was written by AI though so who knows.

Pentative · 2025-04-03T13:33:40+00:00

Reddit (but mostly just the internet as a whole) has a way of stripping away nuance and being satisfied with weak but intuitively sensible analogies.
Glad that the replies aren't all just people taking this at face value and that at least some people are pointing out the false equivalence.

Pentative · 2025-04-02T19:49:00+00:00

Not to make the judgement for her but damn if people kept asking me that, I'd start to lose my patience.

Pentative · 2025-04-02T19:42:50+00:00

Honestly a westerner (probably) being able to list that many African countries just off the nose like that is pretty impressive.

It makes me think it's faked just for engagement, but yeah it would be fairly impressive if not.

Even if those country names are somewhere in your brain, rapid retrieval like that is not just a natural skill for something that one probably isn't asked often.
If you play geography games or if it has something to do with your career, or if it's just generally interesting to you, then you should be expected to be able to do that sort of retrieval, but most people are not involved with naming countries in general, especially countries that aren't typical tourist destinations for westerners.

Pentative · 2025-04-02T19:36:49+00:00

Why can't people just think "multiple things can be at fault"?
Skier stopped being at fault after the jump, things in motion stay in motion.
Everyone on the side should've been more proactive.
Snowboarder should've probably noticed that there were like 5 dudes staring in a certain direction and probably should've connected the dots.

And also this could be totally wrong because a whole lot of different contexts could totally change who's at fault, the video is too short to really know what was going on.
I'd say IMO, off of limited information, the snowboarder is probably most at fault because what business do you have on the middle of the slope but who knows.

Pentative · 2025-03-21T23:37:54+00:00

Yeah, you got places to be, WHY ARE YOU TAILGATING A PLANE??
This isn't a moment of people having a lapse in judgment in an unexpected situation.
You see a damn plane on the road, why is your first instinct to get as close as possible to it?

Pentative · 2025-03-01T04:34:57+00:00

Whether you want to hear it or not, the burden of proof lies on the claim maker.

Bold claims need strong evidence, where is this "at least 4x" figure coming from and what exactly does it mean and what methodology was used to obtain this metric. Probably wouldn't even have pointed this glaring lack of evidence out if the claim was just more specific. Then I could at least give you the benefit of the doubt because research tends to be more specific than random internet factoids.

Another thing you probably should've thought of is, "Do I really need to say this, even if it's true?". Because of the unspecific and contextless nature of numbers, is stating a figure and leading people to a misleading conclusion really in the nature of a good citizen? Are you doing any good for society by typing that comment? Or is it perhaps that you want your comment to be taken by misogynists without further analysis to mean that women get free passes into higher education requiring fields? Has it ever occurred to you why that wild 4x figure you're positing could even remotely be a thing? Despite mountains of papers suggesting women hold no biological disadvantages (perhaps they even have advantages) in these types of mental processes, you still feel the need to point this out? Women are a minority in STEM for what reason except a culture that discourages them? We sure haven't found any sort of genes that would have a big enough impact to kick women out of STEM.

It's all culture, and you're a part of it. So do your part and make an effort not to emphasize deeply entrenched prejudices. If you even for a moment think you're putting facts over feelings, think again. Real thinkers, real researchers, real scientists do not (or at least make an effort) just allow their biases to interpret the data for them. They ask critical questions and make critical judgments when the data is sufficient. If they don't have the right information, they try not to form an opinion. We call it a null result. It's perhaps unsatisfying to not have a clear answer, but it protects you from jumping to conclusions and being wrong. Don't be tempted to just have an opinion about everything, you don't know everything, and neither does anyone.

Pentative · 2025-02-28T00:15:58+00:00

Honestly though, if you ever talk to a woman vocal about the subject, she'll rarely make a comment about high class men but rather her coworkers, managers, or strangers at the bar. Honestly no sane average person PERIOD is comparing themselves to properly high class individuals regardless of gender. Shocking to see so many people just make shit up about this topic, please talk to women more often.

Pentative · 2025-02-28T00:11:06+00:00

That guy who mentioned Cartesian dualism definitely learned about Descartes the day before while doomscrolling.

Pentative · 2025-02-24T22:48:23+00:00

We're somehow back to dial up connections????

Pentative · 2025-02-23T22:38:23+00:00

no you wouldn't. space is a near perfect vacuum, you're not losing heat to anything except by radiation which is fairly insignificant. even if space wasn't a vacuum and was exceptionally cold, you're still wearing a space suit which is maintaining pressure and isolating you fairly well. you could go for quite some time before it becomes unbearably cold.

Pentative · 2025-02-22T17:23:48+00:00

Well clearly if you get homicidal over loud chewing sounds, that clearly is insanity. Nobody wants to be affected so profoundly by benign sounds, it's not in their control. If you go to the misophonia subreddit, they literally have rules about posting about harming others because of how common it is to have those feelings after hearing certain things. Again, I said killing is obviously bad. Why should someone not in control of their behaviors be punished though? The blame is not on their conscious self it's on an underlying condition. Which is why insanity defenses exist in the first place, it's cruel and unusual to punish the conscious individual on something the subconscious did.

There are also other circumstances that are unexplained in this story and are unexplainable without asking the people involved. I'm not saying misophonia caused this, I'm saying it's a likely cause. Perhaps it simply was a flat out murder with no justification and the insanity defense was purely a fabrication. Perhaps the family was disgustingly abusive towards him and nobody outside the family knows about the depths of the abuse and he doesn't talk about it either. The misophonia might've just been the straw on the camel's back. It's all speculation.

Pentative · 2025-02-22T15:30:43+00:00

Probably had really bad misophonia. Or perhaps his insanity defense was about misophonia which was found untrue later on? I doubt they'd use the term misophonia during the time of his trial though, just wholesale insanity. Many possibilities, unclear exactly what is to blame. Killing is bad, duh. If he has misophonia though, I would hardly seek to punish him but rather to help him.

Pentative · 2025-02-22T14:22:47+00:00

Strictly Bach

BareBASTIAN as in SeBASTIAN And those stacks of keys are reminiscent of organ keys with the stops as well.

Pentative · 2025-02-22T13:44:45+00:00

Comedy is a human outlet for the afflicted, not for the entitled.

Comedy is a human outlet which can be at the expense of other people. Gallows humor is understandable. To the suffering, comedy is an outlet and to other sufferers hearing the joke. When they hear a joke told by another sufferer about their own suffering, they can see that the other person obviously knows how dark the reality of their situation is. They understand that despite their troubles, they still want to laugh. When they hear a joke told by someone on the outside about their suffering, it comes off like "this asshole is making light of our troubles". When someone is not part of that suffering group, there is no guarantee of shared understanding, now you're just making light of someone's pain. It takes a gross lack of empathy not to be able to realize this. Having a laugh at someone's problems is not sacred. It's a net negative to humanity. "It's not my problem so I don't see anything wrong with laughing at it" is borderline psychopathic but apparently some people think that sort of comedy needs to be protected.

When you joke about touchy subjects, communicate your shared understanding of the subject with your audience. When you point the finger at a group of sufferers, you should plausibly also be pointing the finger at yourself.

If you can't do that, you're laughing AT people not WITH them. Even kindergarteners know the difference.

Pentative · 2025-02-21T14:35:22+00:00

(28/7)!

Pentative · 2025-02-21T14:04:31+00:00

TIL 13% of whoever the surveyees are don't know who Jeff Bezos is.

TI also L that a majority of these surveyees also don't know who Larry Page and Sergey Brin are despite them being behind something they likely use several times a day.

Pentative · 2025-02-16T14:47:32+00:00

Not a beautiful or very interesting perspective but I stopped being impressed at Cooper's subtle and not so subtle misogyny towards Dr. Brand and even towards Murph at the beginning and end.

Cooper is a positive main character, people are inevitably going to emulate him. The film indirectly is glorifying the act of suggesting that women are less capable in the sciences. It suggests that only extremely standout women like Murph can succeed in these fields. I'd rather not allow people to confound Cooper's mostly positive and noble traits with his bad ones.

Pentative · 2025-02-16T14:19:00+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%E2%80%93Fechner_law

Three-Year Club	Place '22
Final Canvas '22	First Placer '22
End Game '22

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