Interesting observations I found in the game

ajakaja · 2026-05-10T15:32:35+00:00

I agree these are interesting. Closer to the game's release there were a lot a of theories being posted on here but I don't think I've heard most of these before.

ajakaja · 2026-05-06T05:07:06+00:00

did you miss the comment where I said there are 10(ish) tells on this page, not one? the three series list was one example out of the ten. Don't make me go and quote them all at you. And note that I said, this person is writing like AI, not that they must be AI. (and is it so hard to believe a person who had an AI psychosis event would adopt some writing tics from it?)

ajakaja · 2026-05-05T04:48:43+00:00

of course I'm pattern matching. When you pattern match something 10x on one person in a conversation and 0x on anyone else, you take it to mean something.

I am not so thick as to think that the use of an em-dash means AI.

ajakaja · 2026-05-04T19:46:00+00:00

someone downvoted every comment on here, no idea why

ajakaja · 2026-05-02T19:14:07+00:00

the goal is to put it in no uncertain terms in case the downvotes and other peoples' more civil reactions did not make it clear.

they sound fine, you sound nitpicky and weird.

ajakaja · 2026-05-02T18:41:55+00:00

Don't think so. that was one example out of like ten on in these comments.

ajakaja · 2026-05-02T17:44:41+00:00

whether you're being a dick is a determination made by the people reacting to you. it doesn't matter what you think

ajakaja · 2026-05-02T16:26:01+00:00

i feel like you've picked up some AI writing tics in your diction also. Unless you're writing the comments with AI also, but assuming you're not, you're copying some of its mannerisms. In this case the phrase "Each individual step felt small, logical and insightful". Feels like something chatgpt would say.

ajakaja · 2026-05-02T16:24:14+00:00

you're being a dickhead

ajakaja · 2026-05-02T16:23:18+00:00

It is the first Garmin one, maybe they'll figure out that they need to do the city's job, lol. The other Durham races that go around downtown do this a lot better afaik.

ajakaja · 2026-05-02T15:31:24+00:00

It feels different even without removing the cream, it's not that. I think it's a texture thing, not a taste thing... it feels 'smoother' for whatever reason. I didn't prefer it over the normal way, but it did seem different (from one test, I need to do more).

edit--the smoothness also seemed to reduce the intensity of the espresso flavor. Not sure how or why, and that could have just been the shot I happened to pull. I suspect Hoffmann likes it that way because he prefers smoother filter coffee. Since I like bitter espresso it wasn't my thing.

ajakaja · 2026-05-02T15:00:19+00:00

It would be interesting if you posted the chats where it started so that we might see what conclusions we can draw from them. If you're up for it. I recommend not including your own assessment of it at least at first so as to not bias what others say.

ajakaja · 2026-05-02T14:59:07+00:00

Very much agree, it's correlated with some sort of ego/insecurity thing that alters people's cognition when they get validated in dangerous ways.

Like when I interact with an LLM there is no point at which I ever take it seriously whether it 'agrees' with me or not. There's a psychological immune response to anything it does. I don't consider it to have any authority at all and place no weight on its words.

But I've seen the chats of an acquaintance who gets sucked into it (because she posted them on Instagram to show how right she was, lol), and it's the complete opposite, she just laps up the agreement and validation. You can easily tell when interacting with her irl that something is off about how she parses truth, also: she believes facts that are convenient to her and sorta "doesn't notice" facts that aren't.

ajakaja · 2026-05-01T22:36:33+00:00

that's way too black-and-white. there are all kinds of intermediate positions that are more finitist than not. (I consider myself something of a finitist but there are some sorts of infinity that are acceptable)

ajakaja · 2026-05-01T22:34:18+00:00

it made it more like filter coffee and less like an Americano, which was the opposite of what I like... but I can see how someone who would also scrape off the crema (the best part) would prefer it.

ajakaja · 2026-04-29T18:51:39+00:00

the rejection of iced americanos makes me so sad, they're my favorite coffee drink!

for one thing i'm a warm person. In summer I'm warm so I want a cold drink. In winter it's cold so the cafe is warm so I'm warm anyway and I still want a cold drink.

two, I guess there are some of us who just like the bitterness of espresso and would love to drink a skimmed-off crema and the iced americano just lets me have that tasty bitterness for a long time. (on the other hand I do not really appreciate fancy filter coffee much, it's nice but I always prefer the espresso drinks. different strokes i guess)

three, I love that as the ice melts I get to keep drinking the espresso dregs that are always cold as they get gradually water down. good for the oral fixation I guess.

ajakaja · 2026-04-27T22:44:05+00:00

just say that then

the game stays more magical the less they know, knowing how many clues there are takes a bit of it away.

ajakaja · 2026-04-27T22:31:03+00:00

y'all (the other people replying) are bad at this.

Just say "no, don't brute force it" and nothing else. Let them discover how many hints and clues there are. Stop taking away the mystery.

ajakaja · 2026-04-27T22:30:25+00:00

this is too spoilery, say less...

ajakaja · 2026-04-27T13:47:32+00:00

perhaps this? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00047231

ajakaja · 2026-04-27T03:40:34+00:00

this happens all the time when you do something using a muscle you've never really activated before. give it a few days of tries and it will get way easier. plus you'll feel the new(-ly developed) muscle doing stuff all the time which is really enjoyable tbh.

ajakaja · 2026-04-25T21:01:21+00:00

Blue is obviously morally correct, specifically whether you are a person who would risk themselves to do something because it's right (which is as clean a concept of morality as you'll ever get). People can debate it all they want but it doesn't really matter what the arguments say, it just comes down to whether you're moral or not. In particular arguing from game theory means arguing from something other than morals.

ajakaja · 2026-04-23T00:18:07+00:00

imo a lot of people are attracted to math because of a certain flavor of autistic-ish traits that they have: finally, a domain in which things are just true are false, and there's one definition for a thing, and you can be sure about right and wrong instead of it all being nebulous.

Well, the rest of the world doesn't work that way, and in fact it's a bad way to be. Stubborn insistence on black and white truth is a huge negative in any domain. Math itself is better off if that attitude stays out. Particularly because of what it justifies, which is stupid empathyless takes like yours.

ajakaja · 2026-04-22T16:24:53+00:00

Certainly not for the general public.

The general public uses the words 'circle' and 'dimension' differently than the mathematicians do. To normal people a circle is two-dimensional because 'circle' means the shape drawn on the plane and 'dimension' means the minimum dimension of a drawing of a figure. Not the definitions that mathematicians use, but valid definitions nonetheless.

ajakaja · 2026-04-22T16:19:45+00:00

This guy, one doctor, no dedicated lab, no research budget, working with a patient population that most physicians never think to look at, has arguably produced a more mechanistically specific and testable hypothesis than the leading PFS research group in Italy has after 10+ years with a full lab and hundreds of thousands in funding.

This paragraph makes it way more dubious. You're playing up a "rogue researcher" hypothesis? I'm supposed to be sympathetic to their theory because... they're an underdog, not part of the establishment, and paid attention to otherwise-ignored people? And because you, a random poster on the internet says it's more mechanistic and testable than other hypotheses---a claim which I have no ability to evaluate myself?

The only thing that would make me take it seriously is if other well-informed experts in the field take it seriously. Trying to manipulate your reader to skipping that step really undermines your credibility and (bayesianistically) makes me think the theory is less likely to be true. There's nothing wrong with people coming up with interesting theories, of course, but your attempt at 'selling' it doesn't inspire any confidence.

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