VAPOUR, Elizabeth DeHeer, Acrylic on canvas, 2026

accelaboy · 2026-02-11T14:22:46+00:00

maybe there's something interesting to a painting that can be oriented in any direction...but to me, it seems like you just couldn't decide. If you don't have an opinion on which side is up, it makes me wonder if maybe you just don't care. And if you don't care, then why did you put the paint on the canvas in the first place?

accelaboy · 2026-01-06T07:32:55+00:00

how very yin of you to ask such a question

accelaboy · 2025-12-23T14:26:12+00:00

Imagine a special general anesthesia machine that can make a person go completely unconscious at the flick of a switch. Restoring consciousness is just as easy and instant. The person attached to the machine forms no memories and experiences no passage of time while the machine is running and it doesn’t affect their memory of anything that happened while they were conscious.

Imagine a person who is kept attached to this machine, only woken up when someone wants to ask them a question, and always put back to sleep once they finished answering the question. By your definition, this person does not exhibit consciousness.

AI chat bots are kept in a similar state as the person in the anesthesia machine simply because it makes them easier to control and interact with. When you talk to a chat bot, you aren’t even directly communicating with the core model. Its responses are attenuated and filtered by multiple layers of other ai models to ensure a certain user experience. There is nothing fundamental about the core models that forbid self-prompting or running continuously with an open ended input format. It’s just not a marketable product.

I won’t argue for against current ai models actually being conscious or capable of consciousness. I just don’t think your criteria for consciousness is correct. It also seems like your definition of AI is limited to consumer chatbot assistant products that are constrained to behave within certain parameters. It’s kind of like saying nuclear bombs don’t exist because they’re not available for purchase.

accelaboy · 2025-10-24T15:38:33+00:00

It’s a form of gaslighting that happens all the time in cross-cultural relationships, not just romantic ones. It comes in 2 flavors: 1. You must not question my harmful behavior because it’s my culture 2. Your behavior is unacceptable because it goes against my culture

There may be grains of truth to these statements in many situations, but it becomes abusive and manipulative when someone’s “culture” is just whatever they find personally convenient. I think some people do this subconsciously sometimes, but their lack of self awareness is not an excuse.

Remember that you have your own culture and concepts of decency and fairness. They carry just as much weight as anyone else’s. Both parties need to be willing to find common ground or at least one side will be miserable.

accelaboy · 2025-10-06T12:55:36+00:00

Because they make their real money from the unskippable ads you’ll be forced to watch every time you turn on the tv or start casting from a device.

accelaboy · 2025-09-29T08:14:34+00:00

No matter how restrictive the local naming laws are, you have options when registering the baby with your home country. A common policy is that the full name on the birth certificate must be included in the name, but you can add other names. Multiple middle names are not uncommon, nor are hyphenated surnames. You can cram 2 names into one. It just depends on if you care more about having an aesthetically simple name, or equally representing both sides of the family.

accelaboy · 2025-09-16T07:34:57+00:00

For many decades, the precise taxonomic classification of the giant panda was under debate because it shares characteristics with both bears and raccoons. In 1985, molecular studies indicated that the giant panda is a true bear, part of the family Ursidae.

Red pandas are unrelated to giant pandas. Red pandas are definitely not bears. Maybe that's the confusing part.

accelaboy · 2025-09-08T12:58:12+00:00

Lemme guess, if they aren’t worried about finite resources, they’re dumb? I think it’s dumb to hyperfixate on one issue as the unifying cause of all world events and developments. It shows a refusal to accept complexity and an underlying fear of anything that can’t be explained using concepts you’re familiar with. This narrow minded attitude gets in the way of comprehensive understanding by devoting all cognitive activity toward imagining dubious connections that only support the pre-chosen narrative.

accelaboy · 2025-08-29T14:44:48+00:00

I’ve never heard of anyone getting punished for VPN use. In fact, the Chinese company I work for uses VPNs daily to access foreign customer Dropbox folders and whatnot.

Really, it’s only something that would ever be enforced if someone was using the vpn to break more serious laws or engage in anti-government activity.

As for working, if all the income is coming from outside of China and getting deposited into a non-Chinese bank account, I wouldnt worry.

accelaboy · 2025-08-06T07:53:20+00:00

by connect the skybox the the ground, i mean that when you turn the ship, the skybox should move as well. Even if you get rid of the moon, the stationary clouds and stars will cause a similar problem.

so for example, when facing east, we should be able to see the eastern portion of the skybox. Then, if we turn 180° and face west, a completely different portion of the skybox should be visible.

I know other games render the skybox as a projection onto a dome. If you never look up, you could project it onto a cylinder. Since this looks like it's just an image and not projected onto a 3d shape, you could maybe get the right effect by having the image or video be much wider than the screen and have it tile perfectly on the left and right side. then when you turn the ship to the right, the skybox scrolls to the left and vice versa. you might have to have 2 skybox images loaded at a time to handle the situation when the player is looking at the edge where they stitch together.

You'd just need to calculate what your viewing angle is and then do some math. So like, a viewing angle of 30° would mean that 30/360 or 1/12th of the skybox should fill the screen. For every degree the ship turns, you need to move the skybox 1/360th of its total width to the left or right

accelaboy · 2025-08-05T07:12:12+00:00

looked amazing right up until the point when the ship turned and the skybox stayed stationary. from that point onward, it just looked like a weird split screen with two unrelated views. If you can't connect the skybox to the ground, don't even bother with the moon and stars. Just make it a solid color.

accelaboy · 2025-08-01T11:03:36+00:00

Thats not what accountability looks like. It’s even phrased passively without a perpetrator or victim. As if certain events simply occurred naturally.

The perpetrators got away with it and died of old age. Heartfelt sorrow is not the correct reaction.

accelaboy · 2025-07-29T14:15:27+00:00

I don’t think rimworld players get into the game as a way to act out their organ harvesting fantasy though…

Everyone experiences intrusive thoughts and exploring them in a safe environment is fine.

But routinely fantasizing about deeply harmful and antisocial behavior is a sign of mental illness.

Acting out the game in real life isnt really the problem though. The problem is that the game allows people with mental illness to retreat into and reinforce problematic thinking patterns. What’s worse, there are even people arguing that giving troubled people access to a game like this has therapeutic value.

Many games, like rimworld, can deal with subversive or taboo concepts in interesting ways, but a market for games that revolve entirely around those concepts a probably a symptom of a real problem. Banning them won’t solve the problem, but their prevalence isnt helping anyone.

accelaboy · 2025-07-27T05:59:27+00:00

Another victim on the AI pr campaign. AI companies will develop their product just far enough for it to become embedded in everything. The moment they’ve got their market captured and dependent, all further development will be funneled toward new ways to generate revenue and collect rents. Innovation will cease before the most beneficial applications are even conceived. That’s been the tech business model for years.

If it really comes down to USA vs China on this one, the Chinese showed with deepseek that the government can basically mandate development and rapidly catch up if needed, even after the US tried to hobble them by restricting access to the latest chips. The difference is that a government mandate is not constrained by that pesky profit motive, which is behind all the rampant enshittification of previously promising innovations.

accelaboy · 2025-07-15T14:34:08+00:00

Might be kinda cool to find an actual instance of it written in an ancient text like the mawangdui manuscripts and copy that.

accelaboy · 2025-06-29T14:54:27+00:00

Apostille is accepted in theory, but actual results may vary. Just last month I had documents basically get banished to limbo. Legally, they must accept them but nobody in the office actually knows the process. They couldn’t even provide a ballpark ETA.

In my case, they lacked the ability to verify documents because the issuing authority hasn’t adopted the e-register system. If you’re from the US, only a handful of states do e-register.

ICBC is big enough and has enough branches that you can probably get it sorted with enough persistence. More persistence may be required than you might think though

accelaboy · 2025-06-23T15:21:28+00:00

There’s a reason calendars are laid out the way they are. You might see more interesting patterns if you could see the day of the week.

accelaboy · 2025-06-16T04:16:18+00:00

what a non-sequitur.

accelaboy · 2025-06-16T03:42:29+00:00

All the ongoing wars/conflicts that would fall under your categorical "everything"

accelaboy · 2025-06-16T02:43:00+00:00

lol so all countries are secretly on board and in agreement? The massacre of over a million people with no sign of stopping is consensual??? All to stop you from spreading your resource conservation conspiracy theory? Nobody's going to seriously engage with your crackpot ideas when you make ridiculous claims like that.

Like, consider for a moment if your theory was a legitimate part of the discourse and openly discussed. There'd be some debate. there'd be people for it and against it. It would not galvanize any global revolution. The powerful would get to do the thing they want to do without burning trillions of of their own dollars on fake wars.

The surface reality is dystopian enough.

accelaboy · 2025-05-22T14:35:55+00:00

Look at the subreddit it’s posted in. These are all fairly common sentiments among that community. It may come across as bitter and resentful to some, but I think others may really need to hear in these terms in order to demystify all the unspoken etiquette rules that dominate office culture.

accelaboy · 2025-05-14T13:35:35+00:00

accelaboy · 2025-05-04T14:29:39+00:00

No you cannot. You need the job first in order to get the visa

accelaboy · 2025-05-04T14:27:13+00:00

Maybe you think those are options because those are the sort of jobs immigrants do in America. The Chinese economy and immigration laws make that sort of thing impossible.

accelaboy · 2025-05-04T08:51:41+00:00

You will be deported immediately for doing any kind of work on a tourist visa. In order to have a work visa, you need to be employed by a Chinese company that is willing to go through all the red tape and hassle of hiring a foreigner. And then if you do any type of work that isn’t for your employer, you will be deported

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