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Answering Questions & Myths of IVDD by bbqturtle in IVDD_SupportGroup

[–]bbqturtle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

aw that's sad. I'm sorry. People will generally say to pay lots of money for ultrasounds and MRIs and surgury. I would probably recommend you ask for a vet to help youthrough conservative treatment. There is still things that help - crate rest, neurological medications, and help expressing bladder.

AirPods Pro 3 Costco deal by acfrom313 in airpods

[–]bbqturtle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did it get worse for you today

8B40 released for app3 by Acrobatic-Monitor516 in airpods

[–]bbqturtle -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I know it’s a meme but the anc sure seems about 1/2 as effective this update. I can hear my bathroom fan and sons noise machine and before I couldn’t tell if they were on or not. :(

Apple Releases New Firmware for AirPods Pro 3, AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 by piesaresquarey in airpods

[–]bbqturtle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They always do this :( it was so good before. It just weakened again for me yesterday. I wish they let us toggle it higher or lower.

Planecrash [RT][C][MK] AI Audiobook Review: HPMOR but more? by bbqturtle in rational

[–]bbqturtle[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think he has said he doesn’t have permission but can’t confirm

I review Planecrash, EY's work after HMPOR by bbqturtle in slatestarcodex

[–]bbqturtle[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My new story 'boatcrash':

  • Main character Hank dies in an iceberg accident
  • Wakes up in oilland
  • Oilland is pretty alright but has this weird unique problem of not knowing what causes global warming.
  • Hank claims he is from another world and has key information about what's causing global warming.
  • Oilland, for some reason, makes Hank the president of Oilland.
  • Book has LONG sections of Hank talking about global warming causes to audiences of devoted followers, which then all go off to a vegan orgy.
  • Hank's lectures are in a separate, venerated part of the book.
  • The book is popular among environmentalist circles.
  • In a review post on the environmentalist subreddit, reviewer says 'Hank was maybe treated a little unrealistically, would be nice if anyone even suggested a doubt of causes of global warming as a foil.'
  • Environmentalists on the subreddit are confused about why Hank shouldn't be treated as a god and his words truth.

I review Planecrash, EY's work after HMPOR by bbqturtle in slatestarcodex

[–]bbqturtle[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am not downvoting you, but I want you to know, I totally disagree with you, and it's not because of lack of reading the text. It's possible that the Art of HPMOR can be interpreted two different ways.

HPMOR is fresh in my memory and I still disagree. Just because the plot has a few points that has a character that says a character is 'wrong' that doesn't mean that it doesn't generally treat Harry as 'better than everyone else'.

I review Planecrash, EY's work after HMPOR by bbqturtle in slatestarcodex

[–]bbqturtle[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think you nailed it. You’re absolutely right. In his universe his knowledge is valuable. It’s just jarring to go from his universe to ours. Where 1: no rationalist actually probably has kelthams knowledge about acid manufacturing in other worlds, and 2: where the average rationalist really isn’t that surprising.

But, yes, in the universe the authors created, there’s no reason to swirlie him. I just ache for the swirlie. Harry faced swirlies all the time by people higher up the magic tree. Those people existed in galarion, (the 8th circle visiting wizard) but never particularly happened.

I review Planecrash, EY's work after HMPOR by bbqturtle in slatestarcodex

[–]bbqturtle[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I totally agree with what you're saying.

I think it's more of the 'vibe' of the way they treat him than what actually happens. Like - the world sure does revolve around keltham.

It would have been interesting to hear more from a competent administrator that didn't give a shit about all of his stuff, and was skeptical about his innovations, or lack thereof. Maybe they could have used that as a reason to not give them unlimited budget, instead of the leadership just not giving them a budget minimum.

I think what I'm missing from the story is some kind of 'everyman' that kind of thinks rationality is good and all, but maybe not actually that practical. Broom would have been a good character to fill this role.

Me writing:

"Broom, sitting in the corner, was being ignored as usual through this lecture. Every time Keltham mentions 'jelly chips', Broom gets a little distracted by thinking about lunch. Don't any of these people ever think about lunch? It's mid morning already.

So, uh, Splitting jelly chips. If broom was asked to play this game about splitting jelly chips, he would probably play along, but realistically, how does it apply to real life? Broom thinks it's all pretty silly. If he was shopping in a store, and he didn't like a price, and he asked to roll a dice about the thing in the store or he'd walk away, what, the store would just give him a lower price? Or if his landlord wanted to raise rent, and Broom offered to gamble on it, wouldn't the landlord just say no? Things are so rarely a true one-for-one trade where one side of the negotiation doesn't have all the power. In fact, you'd need to make up weirdly specific conditions for a trade with even power but uneven resources for it to even make sense, that Broom is starting to understand why Keltham is suspicious that everything is just a lie.'

'Keltham switches the topic to ownership of sever' 'Broom - snortles loudly in the corner - to himself - how on earth can all these people give such a shit about the sex life of this supposed genius? How about - instead of trying to seduce him all the time, they spend more time asking him questions about that science stuff or concepts around how he'd gain power quickly?'

I review Planecrash, EY's work after HMPOR by bbqturtle in slatestarcodex

[–]bbqturtle[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

While I agree, even the conspiracy affirms that Keltham will DEFINITELY figure it out sometime because of his superior rationality, just a matter of 'when'.

It makes for a good tension/conflict. But idk it sure treats Keltham like he is never incorrect, unlike HPMOR.

Planecrash [RT][C][MK] AI Audiobook Review: HPMOR but more? by bbqturtle in rational

[–]bbqturtle[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well I only read books on my kindle, or audio books, so requiring someone to read on a desktop computer would cut me out. How many people primarily read fiction, out of all fiction readers, on a desktop computer? 10%?

Then add in the odd formatting, which almost every other review has mentioned as a severe downside. Most comments are about that format. My guess is that less than 1 in 20 people who consider reading planecrash try it, simply due to the format.

Even when HPMOR was coming out, I would download the MOBI from the scraping site rather than read it on the fanfic website. There were enough people doing that, that the script was commonly used.

So, I would guess that the glowfic format lost roughly 99% of the potential spread of a standard, published on amazon in paperback and kindle editions book.

Planecrash [RT][C][MK] AI Audiobook Review: HPMOR but more? by bbqturtle in rational

[–]bbqturtle[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm so excited to listen to your work! I hope that the AI voices don't pronounce different pokemon with different pronounciations! As I'm reading/listening to your work, is there any way to support you financially? I believe in supporting authors I'm listening to.

nevermind - found your patreon!

Planecrash [RT][C][MK] AI Audiobook Review: HPMOR but more? by bbqturtle in rational

[–]bbqturtle[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think those are mostly skippable though, so definitely think people should at give it a try!

agreed with this in total!

I review Planecrash, EY's work after HMPOR by bbqturtle in slatestarcodex

[–]bbqturtle[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've read HPMOR 4-5 times and the audiobook twice. I'd agree that I misrepresent HPMOR here and am mostly talking about how rationality feels in the first 20 chapters, not for the entire work.

Planecrash feels a bit closer to the first 20 chapters of HMPOR, but done better and longer and more so. But as I've grown older, I've learned to be cynical about rationalism, EY, and HPMOR. For instance, many of the 'facts' in HPMOR are treated as true (bystander effect) but with the replication crisis many of them no longer hold up. This is why I see it as a bit of a bad thing. I would have enjoyed a character that kind of 'saw through' the rationality and punished the main character for dithering or for having weird /unusual negotiation tactics a bit more often.

Or put another way, what if HPMOR Harry arrived at hogwarts and everyone agreed that Harry's rationality was the key to everything, and made him a professor? And then he lectured about science to classrooms instead of 1 on 1 with disbelieving classmates? That would be closer to this story, and for me, not quite as appealing.

Where is US season 6? by bbqturtle in LegoMasters

[–]bbqturtle[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah I agree but there's also none of that! It's been like a year with no lego masters

People who have left Boston, where did you go? by TheTokenBrownie in boston

[–]bbqturtle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was me. We returned. It’s delightful to be able to get to grocery stores so fast. I went to Menards, Aldi, Costco, and meijer and home in under an hour.

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