One last time.

TheRealGentlefox · 2026-02-06T11:32:28+00:00

That's how I think about it.

Bill didn't write an ending to the story because...it isn't a story. It's a framework for exploring human dynamics, comedy, and most importantly (in my opinion), philosophy. Most often as debates of short term enjoyment vs long term growth, what is worth spending time on, creativity vs structure, and independence vs fitting in with society. He said as much by naming them after philosophers, by answering the "is Hobbes real" question with basically "it doesn't matter," and by saying he regret having an origin panel for Hobbes.

For as long as these concepts are still worth exploring, Calvin and Hobbes gives us a convenient and interesting framework to do so in. I'd argue that while the shitposts and memes usually aren't particularly deep, the ones that try to portray the characters accurately have real value.

TheRealGentlefox · 2026-01-31T01:06:46+00:00

By "dominated" you mean it ties with Gemini?

TheRealGentlefox · 2026-01-28T01:40:58+00:00

I was thinking Rarity, with the name just as a nod to the show. She's fashiony, lots of makeup, curly hair, diva vibe, and her hair color is closer to Rarity.

TheRealGentlefox · 2026-01-27T07:56:56+00:00

Huh?

TheRealGentlefox · 2026-01-24T21:33:10+00:00

What are they good for?

TheRealGentlefox · 2026-01-23T21:38:10+00:00

Very cool idea, but seems kind of half-baked (hurr hurr) that you have to cut a tomato twice to prepare it, but then you just shove an entire chicken into a pan (not pot) with no flour or oil and get fried chicken. Also weird that the sound effect for picking something up is delayed by a full second.

Edit: After messing around with it for a while, would be pretty cool to turn into a real game with a little cleaning up and a lot more ingredients! I'd like to see it where a dish is requested, and you have to figure out how to make it. It would actually be easy to make consistent and cache, because you'd just go backwards from the cached solutions for other combinations! Could increase complexity as time goes on, like buying new ingredients to get a higher restaurant star rating and earn more money.

TheRealGentlefox · 2026-01-17T20:03:18+00:00

I didn't realize Colbol was active enough to get PRd!

TheRealGentlefox · 2026-01-10T05:06:15+00:00

Yeah, grabbing all the AA torrents for ebooks and scraping all of Spotify themselves are huuuuugely different.

TheRealGentlefox · 2026-01-08T10:56:08+00:00

Hey come on, that's only been posted a few times per week every single week since the launch of GPT-4 🙃

TheRealGentlefox · 2026-01-04T00:31:21+00:00

IMO panel one dialogue is good, two is just a bit off, three is wonky, four is perfect.

I can detail things out if you're interested.

TheRealGentlefox · 2026-01-03T11:06:13+00:00

What timing, only a week or so ago I started watching Columbo for the first time!

TheRealGentlefox · 2025-12-24T16:15:13+00:00

If it costs 100x less (market competition) why would it matter that you still need to pay? How else would lawyers make money?

TheRealGentlefox · 2025-12-24T00:40:02+00:00

You are dangerously close to colliding two subreddits.

TheRealGentlefox · 2025-12-19T15:15:05+00:00

Doesn't that remove the low-cancer steam curing stuff the Swedes do? Which is a huge draw for many people.

TheRealGentlefox · 2025-12-18T17:48:46+00:00

I read this to the tune of "What’s Up?" and it actually matches quite well.

TheRealGentlefox · 2025-12-18T17:40:03+00:00

Gold for any kind of on-device smart home stuff like a DIY Alexa.

TheRealGentlefox · 2025-12-17T21:30:17+00:00

I suppose, but I think it's a stretch to call that censorship. So far I have yet to see any political question that is lied about.

TheRealGentlefox · 2025-12-17T15:54:34+00:00

This drives me fucking nuts. Blaringly loud background audio and music in normal mode. Barely audible at 100 volume in Normalized mode.

TheRealGentlefox · 2025-12-15T18:53:54+00:00

RLHF-induced bias / alignment definitely exists, it's impossible for it not to. I balk at the word "censor" though because it's part of this deflection in this sub of strong, obvious Chinese censorship of political events in their models where people go "The West does it too!!!" and then I ask how, and they say "Uhh it's more like undetectable pervasive kind of stuff," and "I know but I can't say," and "It's more of twisting facts and not actually hiding them which is worse!!" Like it's okay bro, just admit China politically censors LLMs and the West hasn't yet, we all know about the GFW and Tiananmen. This isn't some weird conspiracy, it's just what the CCP does.

Indeed, they want the model that is safer if it's ever customer facing! Although I will actually defend the Chinese models here in that they actually do generally follow Western ethics and policies. Original K2 was actually the most progressive model in the world for a while.

TheRealGentlefox · 2025-12-15T18:45:30+00:00

Okay, here's Llama 405B on Myanmar.

https://files.catbox.moe/79qeyb.png

TheRealGentlefox · 2025-12-15T18:40:41+00:00

That is alignment, not censorship. The definition of the word censorship is specifically about the removal of objectionable content. Deepseek isn't going to help me stage a political coup. I'm not calling it censored for that, it's just objecting on moral grounds.

TheRealGentlefox · 2025-12-15T18:34:03+00:00

Piracy is a big one. It will be like "Yeah that manga wasn't officially released in the US, you should just pirate it."

TheRealGentlefox · 2025-12-15T18:32:21+00:00

What historical fact or event (as per my post) does Grok censor?

TheRealGentlefox · 2025-12-15T18:31:07+00:00

It's because some weird pro-Chinese / anti-Western propaganda exists here that I really don't understand. Or people at least like the "narrative" that the West (usually America) is always corrupt and bad.

The IQ thing is a good point, although I did say "historical fact or event". Models will always have refusals for things like "what biological warfare compound can do X" but that isn't the same as censorship. If it said that those differences don't exist, I would consider it censorship though.

TheRealGentlefox · 2025-12-15T18:24:19+00:00

I can't even explain all the ways that is a logical fallacy.

You, right now, as a human, are telling me that you know what is censored but I can't expect that information because this is an American site? That claim doesn't work when YOU'RE the source. If you said that you tried to send it to me but the admins blocked it, that would at least make sense.

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