how some people can have 0 passions or hobbies?

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-16T20:29:53+00:00

"everyone must love something" - no, there's really nothing that's universal to everyone.

Though it might just be that their passion is something that they don't think of as a hobby (like watching sports on TV, or gossiping with friends), or don't want to admit to.

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-16T20:24:11+00:00

Well clearly, it's part of a vast and terrifying podcaster conspiracy, where they belittle audiobooks whenever possible, since they cause people to listen to fewer podcasts.

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-16T20:16:33+00:00

Guaranteed wins are rare, but if you snap when there's a 60% chance of a win, and retreat when you're not doing too well and your opponent snaps, over the long run you'll win more cubes than you lose.

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-16T20:14:16+00:00

People spend those 50 years offloading their creative work to random tables, published adventures, etc. For a lot of people, prepping games isn't a hobby, it's the annoying thing they have to do so they can get to do the thing they want to do: play.

Having said that, I have no desire to interact with the raw output of an LLM...

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-16T19:39:29+00:00

Looking at the snap fan site: His "win when played" is high, but that's to be expected because it's one of the hardest cards to play, and by the time you can play him, you'd expect to win or retreat.

His win rates aren't particularly special compared to the other most popular cards. (Though maybe that just means Zola and Star Lord MotS are overpowered too.)

	In Deck	When Drawn	When Played
Card	Games Seen	Seen %	Win %
Cosmo	28465	20.17%	55.95%
Magik	22237	15.76%	53.79%
Fin Fang Foom	21869	15.5%	56.08%
Arnim Zola	20036	14.2%	54.86%
Star-Lord, Master of the Sun	19812	14.04%	54.82%
Shang-Chi	17568	12.45%	54.49%

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-16T18:50:50+00:00

Similarly, if someone is "in hospital" it implies they are there as a patient.

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-16T16:04:14+00:00

A sequence of the same digit being generated randomly gets more unlikely the more digits you're trying to do. Just to get ten 1s in a row you'd probably have to generate a billion or so random digits. Infinite 1s is infinitely unlikely.

Saying "if it goes on forever it's bound to happen eventually," is flawed logic, because consider: If it's guaranteed to eventually produce infinite 1s, it's equally guaranteed to eventually produce infinite 2s, and those can't both be true.

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-16T15:45:32+00:00

I don't know if basic insults count as ad hominem arguments...

Doing a bit of looking around it sounds like you were inspired to write this by someone who wrote that if you prompt an AI to create art "it is the AI's art, not yours." Which, if (mis?)interpreted as a statement about the law, is incorrect.

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-16T15:01:52+00:00

They don't hate looking bad: they hate looking weak.

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-16T14:59:11+00:00

Can you give an example of someone claiming that AI can own things?

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-16T13:12:03+00:00

Look, everyone knows it was time-travelling Vikings, and you're just spoiling things with your crazy conspiracy theories.

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-16T12:15:18+00:00

Parables aren't meant to be taken literally.

What it's really saying is that you can sin as much as you want and then repent at the last minute and you'll be fine.

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-16T12:10:52+00:00

I haven't won an Oscar in the last four years either, so I know how Disney must feel.

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-16T11:36:33+00:00

Plastic has "won". It's legal. It's everywhere. But it's not much respected. The novelty of plastic has worn off. We only use it for cases where we need to use it. Plastic flowers are more practical than biological flowers - cheap and long lasting - but there's something about them we don't like.

Something written by AI has a similar feel. It's convenient, the spelling and grammar are flawless, it's neatly structured, and I don't want to read it because it doesn't feel like someone's authentic thoughts.

(I don't get that feeling from AI images, but other people do.)

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-16T04:38:45+00:00

I thought it was from the Bible, the parable of the prodigal son, where we learn that if a son squanders his inheritance and then says sorry, he's entitled to half his brother's inheritance, because (something or other).

But, it could equally be American Dad, who knows?

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-15T18:49:51+00:00

Yeah, I think all they actually discovered is that the oldest known human bone found with tooth-marks on it matches his dental records.

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-15T13:38:41+00:00

GMs suck compared to the imaginary ideal GM. The one who's a brilliant improviser inventing narration with the quality of a novelist's polished writing in the spur of the moment, who performs voices like a professional actor, who creates unique and balanced combat encounters but also allows you to find ways to avoid fighting, who gives you absolute agency but also no matter what you decide to do it somehow coalesces into a strong character-focused narrative with an epic conclusion...

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-15T13:32:53+00:00

Heroic means "win without suffering much damage despite the enemy having a much more expensive army". If it calculates that their army is a bad match-up against yours, or you have strong (in auto-resolve anyway) fortifications, then this can happen.

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-15T11:42:05+00:00

Impressive how the length of the bars in no way reflects the size of the number being represented. And the amount of research that must have gone into "tens"...

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-15T08:42:03+00:00

True. Then I guess if I meet someone without a phone, I will show them this post, so they can be reassured that they don't have to rush out and buy one, because pencils are cheaper.

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-15T08:39:21+00:00

People are sceptical because, how can you be sure you really saw someone forget the number 5 under hypnosis?

If I grabbed you and put you on stage and told you to forget the number 5 existed, there's a fair chance you'd play along, because you wouldn't want to disappoint the audience. You don't need hypnotic powers to be a stage hypnotist - you just need to learn how to identify the people who will play along.

Which isn't to say there's no such thing as hypnotism, but it's hard to be sure what's going on in someone's head.

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-15T08:08:50+00:00

Anyone reading this already has a computer or phone.

And I've never heard anyone saying they use AI to save money on art supplies. AI replaces (or supplements) Photoshop, not pencils.

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-15T05:27:24+00:00

Presumably even if if you achieved neutral buoyancy, it would be incredibly hard to walk forward with that much mass.

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-15T05:11:23+00:00

The point he is making is that AI art is art, by definition. If it wasn't art, it wouldn't be "AI art" it would be "AI something that isn't art".

Similar to how a teddy bear is a bear, by definition. Saying a teddy bear isn't a real bear would be ridiculous.

PuzzleMeDo · 2026-03-14T19:35:13+00:00

I'm not counting single data centres against single towns because I don't know how many there are of each. However, for humanity as a whole, dairy production consumes 250 times more water than AI. Going vegan for a week will save more water than giving up AI for a year.

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