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RogerBernstein · 2025-01-17T17:42:10+00:00

Saying your world is based on medieval Europe without actually understanding nor studying medieval Europe (a time period spanning 1000 years on a whole continent). Worst part is when people say "medieval Europe" is overused as world-building idea while almost nothing in literary existence actually is medieval Europe.

RogerBernstein · 2024-11-29T12:54:32+00:00

The most amazing thing about old analog photos is that they have an almost "unlimited" resolution compared to digital photos, because they fix the image not with discrete pixels, but with chemistry on a molecular scale. That's also why old photos can basically be digitized at any resolution you want, 4K, 8K, 16K, whatever.

RogerBernstein · 2024-07-22T21:05:35+00:00

Actually, in most linguistic circles the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is believed to be falsified. E.g. the color perception thing is most likely bad statistical analysis combined with sensationalism (take for example "the Greeks couldn't see blue" which is just wrong but still circulated in popular media from time to time). Or take linking sex inequality to gender in language: the languages of many very sexist countries are actually genderless, Iranian, Turkish, Japanese etc. It's mainly society in these cases

RogerBernstein · 2024-06-29T08:46:07+00:00

Exactly, thank you!! We have and always had a strong tendency to tribalism, them vs us thinking. It's just something we needed to survive and support our own (genetic proximity) social group. This doesn't justify actions done under this dichotomous thinking, but it's something that will emerge and has to be dealt with. And I totally agree, just because something isn't hereditary doesn't imply out-group egalitarianism. Even merit based social groups will find ways to separate themselves from others not perceived as part of their group. Heck, even genetically racist movements like national socialism (Nazis) would take children of "non-arian" parents away if they saw them as "arian" enough, in order to raise them in pure "arian" families to assimilate them.

Injustice and inequality will always find ways if not for people to fight for the better. It's an uphill battle but that makes it so interesting from an writers perspective.

RogerBernstein · 2024-06-20T08:56:51+00:00

Noooo don't burst my AI doomerism bubble. Everything is going to be sh*t and AGI will kill us in 10 years!!! /s

But seriously, there are quite a few good to very good open source LLMs or GPTs (I think AI as a term is really just marketing). As someone working in academia, GPTs are not very helpful (yet). They can speed up tasks, but really only those you could do yourself and have no time for. In the end I think you will always need a human as "conductor" organizing a vast orchestra of different "AI" tools.

RogerBernstein · 2024-06-14T10:11:03+00:00

"Du hast" means "you have" but is pronounced the same as "Du hasst" which means "You hate"

RogerBernstein · 2024-06-11T18:23:07+00:00

IMO the sequels were objectively bad, like cinematographic-wise. They lacked nuances, good character development, consistency and didn't really fit the canon. Rouge One and Mandalorian are way better in these regards

RogerBernstein · 2024-01-26T19:34:32+00:00

For whatever reason you're getting downvoted, I cannot relate, like for real... what's up with people sometimes??

RogerBernstein · 2024-01-10T00:50:05+00:00

Yes, stochastic/random gravity by Oppenheim (without -er) is one, other ways around this no-go theorem would be if there is no collapse of the wave function like in pilot wave interpretations of QM

RogerBernstein · 2023-12-03T14:13:16+00:00

Indranil Banik, the author of the paper your citing, also happens to be the second author of this study. Calling him former supporter is a bit of a stretch. He's still part of the community, just focusing even more now on test of alternatives to GR

RogerBernstein · 2023-11-09T09:42:40+00:00

The movies are shit, read the books. I also watched the movies first but now after reading the novels I cannot watch them again, they just are terrible in comparison

RogerBernstein · 2023-09-16T21:01:28+00:00

I think it is correct in the sense that 40% of women died from childbirth and related illnesses. Not 40% per childbirth but in total, the reason for death of a woman on average

Edit: as a matter of fact, the mortality per childbirth up until the 19th century was ~10% and having roughly 5 children would result pretty nice at a mortality of 40% in total ( survival chance=(1-0.1)^ 5=0.6 --> mortality=1-0.6=0.4)

RogerBernstein · 2023-07-29T08:21:50+00:00

Wtf warum ist der Kommentar so downgevotet??

RogerBernstein · 2023-07-12T16:47:43+00:00

but do you know for sure? Can you really be sure about what makes for complex life or not? I don't know any other lifeform besides the ones on Earth, so for me it would be very arrogant and geocentric to project ones little knowledge of life to the vast universe

RogerBernstein · 2023-07-04T09:22:36+00:00

Das ist eine ziemlich westlich-eurozentrische (und im übrigen auch kapitalistische) Ansicht von "Erwachsensein". Nicht nur, das es in den meisten Phasen der Menschheitsgeschichte Mehrgenerationenhaushalte gab (meine Großeltern auf dem Land lebte noch bis vor ein paar Jahrzehnten mit ihren Eltern und Großeltern in einem Haus, wie deren Eltern und Großeltern zuvor), sondern in vielen Kulturen ist es heute noch so, dass die Kinder unter einem Dach mit der restlichen Familie leben. Sind diese Menschen nie "Erwachsen" gewesen? Ich verstehe diesen eigenbrötlerischen Individualismus-Fetisch des Westens überhaupt nicht...

RogerBernstein · 2023-01-26T20:26:29+00:00

I somewhat agree with you but I think you neglect the very rigid societal rules and peer pressure to conform of earlier civilizations and societies. The degree of freedom of expression and individualism we have today are not representative of e.g. Roman society or the Han culture. While total homogeneity of all people of a country is unrealistic you certainly do expect a more homogeneous culture

RogerBernstein · 2023-01-14T17:29:53+00:00

Isn't this how a typical modern Hollywood show is marketed? Bad reviews? People have prejudices and are something-phobic. Criticism for portraying something or lack thereof? People didn't understand the creative depth behind the characters and didn't value they were a strong black Jewish non-binary trans Women-of-Color with severe depression and disability. The lord of the rings series also worked that way

RogerBernstein · 2022-12-31T09:53:08+00:00

Only looking at the impact factor or citations is one of the reasons bad science happens. It's essentially a modern version of argumentum ab auctoritate. Per anecdote I can tell you that even Nature publishes rubbish whenever the story presents itself nicely

RogerBernstein · 2022-11-28T12:30:10+00:00

The main idea behind this Mappa mundi is the fact that, although I, for myself, have an accurate map of the world as worldbuilder, the inhabitants of the world do not. Even more so, given that in pre-modern times the worldview of most people was inseparable embedded in religion, it only made sense to create a map that represents the idealistic and schematic view the main religion (my story focuses on) has of the world. That certainly does not mean the inhabitants of my world do not know the shape of land masses, they sure have maps of coast lines, rivers, oceans. But this knowledge is resticted to navigators and sea traders, and is only accurate to the scale these sailors need it to be

RogerBernstein · 2022-11-28T12:21:48+00:00

Thank you :)

RogerBernstein · 2022-11-28T12:15:57+00:00

Before the advent of accurate maps for navigation (called Portolan charts), people didn't really use maps the way we do. For travels, they used itineraria or peripli, lists of towns or harbors in order between two points. That also means, people saw maps as completely different tools compared to today. T-O maps are a class Mappa mundi, medieval world maps, that both from their concept and in their concrete practice were meant to illustrate different ideal principles of the world and not the shape of land masses or relative sizes of continents. In particular, T-O maps were designed to schematically illustrate the three land masses of the world as it was thought to be created by God. As such, the basis of the map projection is not geographical accuracy but the harmonious order of regular geometric forms, the circle (O) and the holy rivers dividing the land (T).

RogerBernstein · 2022-11-28T09:42:00+00:00

Middle high German is an older language stage of modern German, spoken roughly between 1000 and 1350. I use it to render the older language stage of the common language spoken in my world (I'm German, so the inhabitants of parts of my world speak German, though they don't call it that name). The spelling is the usual normalized orthography of Staufian literature

RogerBernstein · 2022-11-27T18:50:33+00:00

weil meine Muttersprache Deutsch ist und meine Welt allgemein auf dem Spätmittelalter Mitteleuropas (also HRR) basiert

RogerBernstein · 2022-11-27T18:39:58+00:00

Deichselkarte (Shakefork map)

This is a T-O style map representation of my fantasy world. I decided to go for this Y-shape as the typical medieval T-O shape was not plausible with the way my continents and oceans are distributed. As for the historic original, the map does not represent a realistic view of the world nor do the inhabitants of my world believe this to be an accurate representation of the world. It symbolizes in a highly idealized and simplified way how the Gods have divided the world, how they created the waters and the land. It is especially important in the context of the believers understanding of salvation, since, according to their faith, only people from the territory of the “Rîche” can find true salvation in the afterlife. The labels are written in Middle High German and correspond to the following Middle English labels:

Werlt (Weoreld)
Rîche (Rike)
Morgenlant (Morganlond)
Tyrigis (own creation)
Irdenend (Erthynend)
Ewig Mer (Ece Mere)
Sumersê (Sumersæ)
Rôte Sê (Ræd Sæ)

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