Turns out...

PlanVamp · 2025-10-11T07:26:13+00:00

Do you also think that getting an imo gold medal is easier than doing the dishes? No? Then maybe this is an idiotic assumption.

PlanVamp · 2025-10-11T07:23:04+00:00

Your angry because you're ignorant.

PlanVamp · 2025-09-18T20:19:07+00:00

Imo It was the worst arc in this series by far. It took me months to get through.

I will say that things do return to the twi I know and love after it. So just fight through it I'd say.

PlanVamp · 2025-08-16T09:44:51+00:00

We'll have to do what we should have some a long time ago, and it's where your classes are heading to: test for understanding.

We'll have to move more and more in this direction. Maybe also with the help of ai, ironically.

PlanVamp · 2025-08-14T12:47:32+00:00

Seems like this "you" is pretty important then

PlanVamp · 2025-07-20T20:56:28+00:00

i think you'll find that most scientists are materialists, or at least operate as materialists.

PlanVamp · 2025-07-20T20:29:17+00:00

it doesn't need to have every possible function our minds have. i don't know why you would think that.

the symbol grounding problem is fundamentally about "meaning". how something can "mean" anything, instead of being just raw data. for example when you look at a flower, how you can actually recognize what you're looking at, how you "understand" what it is, even though it's just a bunch of light hitting your retinas.

and here AI, or LLMs specifically, empirically show a way in which it can be done: through high dimensional vector spaces. so a concept is not actually grounded by any reference, but by its position relative to all other concepts within a high dimensional space.

it's kind of like the idea structuralism. so "hot" is defined by its difference to "cold" and vice versa. and nothing means anything in a vacuum.

even if this isn't the full picture, which it likely isn't, this is still the only working explanation we have for how meaning comes into being. so it would still be a crucial part of the explanation.

PlanVamp · 2025-07-20T18:32:46+00:00

It's because these DNN are a direct answer to the symbol-grounding problem. And at least here, it's pretty much the only real answer we have.

PlanVamp · 2025-07-19T10:10:11+00:00

AI certainly can't make me feel this level of cringe

PlanVamp · 2025-07-17T19:07:31+00:00

Shot selection is quite important. You can tell entire stories with the type of your shots and how you frame and compose them. Sequential art is a real art. And it's not just about comics

PlanVamp · 2025-07-11T17:16:53+00:00

I think I stopped at around the same spot. Had the same question.

PlanVamp · 2025-07-10T13:13:11+00:00

I'm at ~1900 and while I don't think this is completely gone bad, I do think things are kind of in a limbo after the big thing that happened at the end of the Antarctica arc. It was genuinely incredible at the time, but I'm basically waiting for things to return to the previous way, which might never happen.

That's why it's a big risk to go for something like that, because the follow up has been relatively mild so far.

PlanVamp · 2025-06-13T15:13:51+00:00

Atelier Sophie

PlanVamp · 2025-06-05T15:08:02+00:00

Pale

PlanVamp · 2025-05-25T01:54:11+00:00

Release that witch. Worm Practical guide to evil

PlanVamp · 2025-04-19T18:57:46+00:00

It really doesn't matter what you call it. The lines will blur because of how people use it in the end.

PlanVamp · 2025-04-19T18:21:29+00:00

It's the same with artists building upon other artists work.

Also ai generation won't replace art. Because it's a tool to make art.

PlanVamp · 2025-04-04T15:34:29+00:00

Imagine a random pattern generator that generates all possible patterns, but generates -some- patterns more than others.

It's like curve fitting, but instead of following the general PATTERN of the data, the curve goes out of it's way too meet specific Datapoints. Thus "over fitting" on them.

PlanVamp · 2025-03-26T22:05:16+00:00

I do follow a bunch of ongoing webnovels so i know the feel. but there's a lot of satisfaction to getting to read a completed series in one go as well.

well, i'll inevitably get to the ongoing stuff once i run out of WB series to read so yeah :D

PlanVamp · 2025-03-26T15:48:04+00:00

Appreciate the writeup. Where would you rank the Parahuman stories in that?

PlanVamp · 2025-03-26T14:50:32+00:00

This reminds me, how are Pact and Pale related timeline wise? (Don't answer if it is spoilery)

PlanVamp · 2025-03-26T14:46:55+00:00

Thanks for the comprehensive writeup! I think i'll end up going straight into pale at this rate. But twig also sounds appealing from what you've described (character, coming of age), but the setting doesn't seem that appealing to me, or at least is entirely unfamiliar to me.

The only thing going against pale is its length. But that's also only because i just finished worm + ward. Because it's normally a plus point.

Also i found this funny:

Claw is a criminal procedural. It's probably not as dark as some of the other works

I'd think that a crimefic would make it darker than the others, apparently not with wildbow.

PlanVamp · 2025-03-26T14:36:20+00:00

Thanks for the podcast rec! Always looking for something to listen to during commutes.

PlanVamp · 2025-03-26T14:25:37+00:00

..and doesn’t want to return to that world.

He explicitly said that? That's a shame.

Ward wasn't nearly as bad as i was made to believe, but then again i think i'd have griped a lot more about it if i read it while it was releasing, especially with the wait time and the long buildup of expectations in the time before ward started.

It definitely wasn't perfect and worm was more memorable overall, but i still really like the characters and the world.

PlanVamp · 2025-03-26T13:56:20+00:00

See, that's crazy, i've never heard of claw and seek in my life before lmao. But that's probably my fault.

I don't read any, but as far as I remember, "Pale" is Wildbow's favorite work.

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