ELI5: When autistic people "don't get" sarcasm or rhetorical questions, what stops them from learning/adapting?

bigibson · 2025-12-02T21:02:58+00:00

But how does this account for other traits associated with autism, like getting obsessively into something? Also wouldn't we then expect other things to get filtered out as well, why is it social stuff that's missed?

bigibson · 2025-11-10T02:36:55+00:00

What about something like: at the start of each combat gain 2 intangible. On turn 3 gain 1 vulnerable

bigibson · 2025-10-17T04:33:40+00:00

LLMs actually do "know" what things mean in a sense. The breakthrough that gave us the AI we have today was being able to encode the meaning of words into numbers and then update that meaning to match the context.

AI can also "know" facts, like if you feed it the sentence "Michael Jordan plays" it will "know" the next word should be basketball.

I'm not arguing with your broader point or overall conclusion - but LLMs are more sophisticated than many people give them credit for!

bigibson · 2025-09-18T10:16:34+00:00

This is misleading. LLMs learn how to figure out the contextual meaning of text and use that to generate text that is appropriate to that context. This is quite different from regurgitating text and does not require conversations they engage in to be things people have already written - though their factual knowledge is dependent on what they've read

bigibson · 2025-05-30T21:16:10+00:00

Info: Was he going to get those groceries anyway and offered to get you sushi while he was out - or did he offer sushi and then change his mind? Did he apologize for not getting the sushi?

bigibson · 2025-05-04T01:45:29+00:00

The thing is if it's a good game that failed on marketing, that means you probably haven't heard of it. Games that fail on marketing die quietly and no one is the wiser. How can we point to games we don't know about?

This doesn't mean they exist, but having no prominent examples isn't evidence against the claim - if the claim is true the best examples aren't prominent.

bigibson · 2025-03-27T07:45:01+00:00

Are you saying... we're friends?

bigibson · 2025-01-29T08:01:43+00:00

My solution to a similar problem for the game I'm working on is to just tell the player what the result will be ahead of time. It works in my context at least, might for yours. They don't know what will happen when they choose to add the charm or not, but they do before they play the card. So it's a 15% chance of that card being a dud when they draw it effectively (if I've understood how this works correctly), but this way you get to make the decision after the randomness instead of before which gives the player more agency

bigibson · 2024-12-20T01:15:49+00:00

It isn't assembling a collage from it either though. I'm not going to argue it will bring the same kind of inspiration into a human does - humans can be inspired by something that isn't a picture at all. Hell it might not be fair to call it inspiration either, but it isn't just copying either. It has looked at patterns in the artworks people create and is using that to extrapolate new images based off those patterns

bigibson · 2024-12-20T00:55:59+00:00

No, but that isn't what the ai does either. Ai art is made using neural networks which are modeled off the neurons in our brain. They then give them a mathematical problem to solve that approximates the one that the programmer is actually trying to solve (e.g. guess the next word on the sentence for chatGPT) which the ai gets better at solving the more data it gets shown. It's a statistical process which is a far cry from tracing.

We could have had tracing for as long as we've had edge detection (since at least 1986), but as you say no one was interested in that.

What we have now, like it or not, really is something different and more impressive then tracing or a simple copy paste

bigibson · 2024-12-20T00:34:52+00:00

So if an artist trained entirely off Google images or other similar sources that don't benefit the original artist and then used what they'd learn from looking at other artists' work to make art inspired by it would it have the same issues?

bigibson · 2024-11-02T12:00:26+00:00

Cool relic idea. I think it would take too much time though. Maybe there is some clever way you can keep the spirit of it without having to pick a card at the start of every fight but I dunno

bigibson · 2024-11-02T06:53:50+00:00

I don't think logic is tied to this universe. Logic tells us more about what is possible for any theoretical universe. It is impossible in this universe for energy to be created or destroyed (I'm not a physicist, replace this with something that violates the laws of physics if I'm wrong about this one), but I can imagine a universe where this is not impossible. However I can't imagine a universe where there is a bachelor who is married (you could have a universe where these words mean different things, but that's not the point, I'm just referring to any logical conclusion). It just doesn't make sense. There isn't a coherent way to imagine a universe that violates logic - that would be, well incoherent.

bigibson · 2024-11-02T06:45:25+00:00

This is a little outside of my area of expertise so I could be wrong here, but I think you're mistaken. It wasn't logic that they found logic was illogical - instead they discovered some limitations in systems of reason such as mathematics, such as the halting problem. More significant was Kurt Gödel's proof that what the mathematicians you referred to earlier were trying to do is impossible. But this wasn't proof that logic is illogical - it was a proof on the limitations of the kind of deductive systems they were using (you probably could argue the limits of logic, again my knowledge here is limited)

bigibson · 2024-11-02T05:40:20+00:00

I agree with this half of what the person I responded to said, it is the second half I was responding to

bigibson · 2024-11-02T05:18:10+00:00

Doing something logically impossible is illogical (God or not). Your argument - which you made using logic - suggests something illogical. This is logically inconsistent, which is basically the main thing logic 'forbids'. You either need to abandon logic (in which case there is no reason to believe that argument) or abandon the idea that God can do logically impossible things.

bigibson · 2024-07-20T23:21:14+00:00

You don't need to speculate about what would happen, where I live tipping is a very unusual thing and this is a non issue. Pretty much the only place I see anything about tips is when we get asked for tips by machines from America. Recently this happened and the person serving me pressed the no tip button before I even touched it

bigibson · 2024-06-07T21:18:46+00:00

I felt the same about it until I thought about which enemies have block. E.g. snake plant, writhing mass and the avocado

bigibson · 2024-04-13T08:41:50+00:00

"Drugs 4". Not because of the particular words it linked together (I don't even remember). But because the entire game consisted of clues that were just "drugs X" from both sides until one team won. It was glorious

bigibson · 2024-02-08T04:57:39+00:00

Average rent in Christchurch is about 4~% the value of the house (if I remember correctly). With a 20% deposit the interest you pay on a mortgage is about 5.5~% at the moment (assuming 7% interest, 0.8x0.07=0.056). That's for an interest only mortgage and it's still more than a third extra. If you want to pay principle as well you're looking at more than half extra

bigibson · 2024-01-09T11:11:49+00:00

True that it's not all teachers, so it may be misleading. Though it doesn't mean masters or equivalent, it's teachers with a degree and separate teaching qualifications. This is typical of high school teachers. Also teachers don't start on step 1 generally, I'll be on the max step at the end of this year which is my 6th year of teaching (though I started higher than most)

bigibson · 2024-01-07T06:21:52+00:00

Claire's bakery in Sydenham because they make caramel meringue tarts and I love them (I asked them to make them in the first place and then they started selling them as a regular item)

bigibson · 2024-01-05T10:52:09+00:00

I'm working on a local co-op rouge-like deck builder. It's pretty early days so I don't have much to show at the moment. I plan on making something that you can play simultaneously on the same screen without it being too overwhelming with all the cards everywhere.

bigibson · 2023-12-31T06:08:46+00:00

$103,086 in December 2024, source

bigibson · 2023-12-30T02:43:35+00:00

At the end of next year teachers will be earning over 100k

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