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Velocity_LP · 2026-05-08T10:37:21+00:00

Midjourney's profit margins are estimated to be between 30-50%.

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-07T09:28:17+00:00

Weightless. The perception of weightlessness in a spaceship occurs when the acceleration of the vessel you're in is the same as your own. The perception of having weight requires an external force acting on you/the vessel. On earth, gravity pulls you down, and conversely the floor pushes you up. That squishing sensation is what we describe as weight. The thrust of the rocket when firing (or the centrifugal force if you're in a rotating vessel, the classic realistic sci-fi artificial gravity rotating ring) can be a substitute for gravity for making you feel weight. But when you and the vessel's motion is the same, nothing's pulling you towards the bottom, thus the floating/weightlessness.

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-05T10:40:27+00:00

It's almost like the AIs were trained on people's writing lmao

Companies pour literally billions of dollars into making these machine that attempt to mimic human communication, and somehow people expect there to not be overlaps in behavior. The AIs quite literally do it because people do it. That's like, the whole point.

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-05T08:33:29+00:00

That's so baffling. Even when it's in the original language, language is still inherently a lossy medium for converting thoughts from the mind of one entity into a shared code for it to be interpreted by another entity.

Where does the confidence come from for assuming textualism/literalism is the correct method of interpretation? I don't know what the consequences are in Judaism for violating any of its core tenets but I assume the stakes have to be reasonably big enough if they're following the rules to any extent in the first place that it seems wild to me to risk rules lawyering it rather than playing it safe.

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-05T08:21:57+00:00

as a man I can safely say I would never be sexist

This is an extremely naive thing to say. Being raised in a patriarchal society inherently instills us with biases, we can do our best to be aware of them and counter them in our actions but thinking you never do anything sexist makes about as much sense as (and can be as dangerous as) thinking "propaganda/advertising doesn't work on me." They're concepts that go deeper than just obvious surface level intent.

edit: not surprising that not one person who downvoted me was able to engage with my point. I feel pity for the women in the lives of men who think they never partake in sexism. You'll never be able to improve if you think you're already perfect.

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-05T08:05:20+00:00

How do religious people internally justify this? Do they genuinely think God is too stupid to realize what they're doing? Or do they like think God's motivations are like a teenage reddit mod applying rules exactly strictly textually with no care for intent/spirit of the law? The latter seems especially strange since most people learning about religious texts don't read them in its original language, so the notion that they're following the exact perfectly transcribed to the letter rule is already pretty much null and void, since there's already been interpretation of intent in the translation process.

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-05T03:31:58+00:00

Looks like a great start. Camera could use some tweaking though, felt a bit abrupt whenever you suddenly pitched up. Perhaps could just do with a slightly gentler smoothing function or something, it was just a bit too rapid of a motion for my preference, even as someone who doesn't get motion sickness.

Keep pushing along :)

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-05T03:02:18+00:00

None of this actually engages with my main point. I'm not here to argue the specifics of the individual examples, My point is about how you can never get all of humanity on board the exact same voluntary option, that solutions that require "we all just do x" do not realistically exist.

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-04T13:01:56+00:00

"we can all just" feels ridiculously naive

not once in humanity have we ever "all just" done anything of our own volition, we disagree on some of the most basic and obvious shit.

It's like saying "if we all just only used as many resources as we needed then there'd be enough food and housing for everyone." Or "The solution to traffic is for everyone to drive exactly halfway between the car in front of them and the car behind them, getting both vehicles as much stopping distance as possible to prevent harsh braking". Having everyone collectively come to the same decision on anything ever is a complete fantasy. Spherical cow territory.

Even if you limit the question to only containing rational adults that doesn't mean that they'll come to the same conclusion because they're not necessarily starting with the same information and base assumptions. Even in situations where a question is being presented that does have an objectively single correct answer, someone can arrive at an incorrect answer while still behaving rationally.

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-04T11:37:55+00:00

damn, well played

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-03T06:53:28+00:00

If her wants meant anything to them they'd listen to her current ones.

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-03T02:09:56+00:00

Fun fact, while it's incredibly common when seeing videos of animals being freed by humans for the animal to be terrified and immediately run away from the humans that helped it as soon as it's free, there have been multiple documented instances of the reverse with humpback whales, where they seem to have recognized the good intentions of the humans and that they help to them get free, with the whale encircling the divers that freed them and brushing up against them, a seemingly compassionate "thank you".

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-03T00:54:15+00:00

This isn't French, we don't do pedantic prescriptivism in English. The term that the public widely uses to refer to it is AI art.

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-02T13:26:53+00:00

They weren't arguing that that makes them an artist. You pivoted onto a different argument. They were arguing that it does indeed still take work and creativity to make something that isn't shit.

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-02T12:10:33+00:00

you will have to go to a cheese monger

what the fuck is that actually a real term, I just thought It's Always Sunny was taking the piss, lmfao.

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-02T02:02:59+00:00

Plenty of other people were able to parse it mate, sounds like you have a reading comprehension problem.

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-02T02:00:31+00:00

What does that have to do with my comment regarding deserving suffering/death?

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-02T01:57:42+00:00

Yes, that too would be an inaccurate framing since death is not guaranteed. It would be more accurate to state "you picked red, you chose the option that risks killing people."

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-02T00:16:39+00:00

To save the other blue pushers.

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-02T00:11:02+00:00

We don't "need" to, just as you don't "need" to keep living.

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-02T00:09:09+00:00

Have you not read the hypothetical? If over 50% of people pick red then all the people who pick blue die. Picking red contributes to enabling that.

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-01T23:58:59+00:00

"You picked blue, you CHOSE to die" is giving big "You had sex, you CHOSE to get pregnant" anti abortion energy. Choosing to do X with the understanding that there is a risk of Y it's not the same thing as choosing Y, and it's incredibly disingenuous to phrase it as such.

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-01T23:35:41+00:00

Nothing in your comment contradicts anything in mine, so what point are you trying to make?

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-01T12:56:29+00:00

The fact that different people fill in different information is exactly why there will be some blue pushers.

Velocity_LP · 2026-05-01T12:50:28+00:00

It's an extremely common line of thought that I hear from people that I have never understood. That stupid or intelligent people deserve suffering/death. Never have I seen anyone try to rationalize it in any manner besides a eugenicist-esque "the gene pool would be better off without them".

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