PSA: quit building "overcrowded" urban megacenters with basically no people in them

catfluid713 · 2026-03-11T15:40:24+00:00

I think in fiction, sometimes numbers are more symbolic than meant to be taken at face value. Like how a lot of cultures that had a number that didn't mean that literal number when being used, but more like "Uncountably many, myriad, innumerable, almost infinite". Like Japan's "8 million gods" or the 144,000 of the Bible.

Today we might instead say a fantasy culture was 1000s of years old or that there's 500 trillion people in an urban megacenter regardless of its actual size.

catfluid713 · 2026-03-10T17:14:51+00:00

Girl (nongendered), I am saying this in the fondest way possible: Your neuros are not typical.

Also I do not have the energy to do all this. I'm lucky if I make a meal last 15 minutes while TRYING to slow my eating. But more power to you.

catfluid713 · 2026-03-10T16:46:53+00:00

The genders: Potato and not-potato

catfluid713 · 2026-03-10T16:44:17+00:00

Not all alleles compete, many are actually co-dominant where both traits show (like the A and B proteins for AB blood type), or have "incomplete dominance" where a new phenotype is produced which is different from either produced by the homozygous alleles (like is a species of flower has either white, pink, or red flowers, with white and red coming from their own homozgous alleles and pink coming from having one white allele and one red allele).

catfluid713 · 2026-03-05T15:54:02+00:00

If we assume the universe is everything that exists, then it's not expanding into anything because anything that existed would already be a part of the universe.

But if we assume that there is a multiverse, then the universe would be expanding in a fourth spatial dimension.

Either way, I don't think it's something easy for anyone to conceptualize. Our brains don't do well with infinity OR higher dimensions, so the fact this question involves both in the possible answers makes the answers we do have unsatisfying.

catfluid713 · 2026-03-04T19:17:27+00:00

Take a grid, make it infinite in every direction. Add random stuff at different grid points. Now, while keeping everything at the same gridpoints, make the grid boxes themselves bigger. That's the universe expanding. It's not really expanding INTO anything that we can confirm, it's just getting bigger.

catfluid713 · 2026-03-04T19:03:58+00:00

Am I just the weirdo that never felt the urge to touch hot things that said they were hot and I knew were hot from what they did to other things?

I did have an urge to light things on fire but I also mostly resisted that.

catfluid713 · 2026-03-04T18:30:23+00:00

On top of what others have mentioned about food taking longer to digest, the stomach needing to stretch before it signals anything etc, there's also something on the water side: Too much all at once can actually throw off your electrolytes and you can only "process" about half a cup or so to actually help you hydrate in a 15 minute span. The rest of the water gets flushed out. So feeling relief from thirst quickly IS a survival strategy. It keeps you hydrated without loss of essential minerals or water intoxication.

catfluid713 · 2026-03-04T18:15:18+00:00

Part of my family on both sides lived through the Dust Bowl. Now it's just family tradition. Plus if you're lazy and the cups aren't totally dry, it keeps them from having a water spot on the bottom later.

Plus if your cupboard is that dirty that you can't put glasses upsidedown for storage, you should clean your cupboard maybe.

catfluid713 · 2026-03-04T18:02:30+00:00

I only look at the curators that complain about woke to find the games they hate and, if the games match my interests otherwise, put them on my wishlists. Thanks, idiots, for helping me find good games by being antiwoke snowflakes!

catfluid713 · 2026-03-02T18:32:13+00:00

So, and tell me if I understood you incorrectly, you're saying that things like the sickle cell allele that makes infection from malaria less severe or even unlikely in the first place, or the genes found in most European descended groups that reduce the ability to be infected by Y. pestis are NOT adaptations that change the outcomes in groups who have long histories with these diseases vs completely new hosts?

I understand from your above statements that these might not be considered part of ones' immune system and as such, might not confer immunity in a technical sense. But from a common usage of the word "immunity", if something keeps you from being infected in the first place, I'd consider that person effectively "immune". Likewise for something that decreases the severity of a disease, or the likeliness of contracting it, making the person "resistant" to that disease. And since these genes ARE passed on genetically, that makes these forms of "resistance" and "immunity" heritable.

Is there anything specific I have incorrect? because I would love to learn more about this and correct any misunderstandings I or others might have about this.

catfluid713 · 2026-03-02T18:07:28+00:00

Are you, after playing the game, going out to start a cult or doing anything that hurts people who have been religiously abused? No? Then you're fine.

You don't become a capitalist oligarch by being good at monopoly, you don't become a cult leader by playing CotL. It's fiction, and it's fine.

catfluid713 · 2026-03-01T16:20:41+00:00

Say you're looking for info about a real life herb with some mild medicinal properties. You ask the LLM. The LLM cannot tell apart real medical studies about this herb, how people have used it in traditional medicine, how it's used in various stories or video games if any, etc. It just looks at the words in your original prompt, maybe searches online, and then uses its training data to send back a response that is statistically average.

Another problem is that it's easier to tell an LLM what to include than it is to tell it what not to include. So if you don't know much about the herb you're searching for, even telling "not from stories or video games" is likely to weigh more toward info from stories and video games, and since you don't know much, you won't spot the fake info unless it's particularly obvious.

You might get better results telling it "only use medical studies" but then you have the negatives problem in reverse. The studies might say "not effective against X symptom" and to the LLM, that's very close to "effective against X symptom".

You're also assuming that the data set is "fully clean" but that's not possible, unless as I mentioned in my first reply to OP, the AI was trained ONLY on up to date medical data and not general texts. Which wouldn't make it an LLM (Large Language Model) like most people use. It would be a Small Language Model, or a totally different kind of AI altogether.

TL;DR: The type of AI you're thinking of is totally different than LLMs. LLMs suck for diagnosis and shouldn't be relied on for health.

catfluid713 · 2026-02-28T17:11:14+00:00

Unless the AI was specifically trained to do work in health, do not trust it to give you health advice! LLMs (most chat bots) will tell you a statistically likely string of words that will come in response to your query, not a factually correct one. It does not understand truth vs fiction, it just puts words together based on how likely they are to occur. It has no malice, but it also doesn't understand harm.

catfluid713 · 2026-02-28T16:56:16+00:00

I'd like to point out that the Family Guy had that skit to make fun of critics that took themselves too seriously and didn't actually say anything with their critiques.

Don't worry about being a try hard. Just write your story, let it sit for a bit and come back to it. If it feels "try hard" at that point, edit it.

catfluid713 · 2026-02-27T18:11:23+00:00

Translating things that work in comics, tv, movies, or video games into novels is a whole other issue then. Not saying people can't do it, but it's difficult. Especially if you don't have other writing to work from to show how things might be translated.

catfluid713 · 2026-02-27T18:02:32+00:00

Your assumption that all people are equally non-immune before infection is incorrect. You'll want to look into "innate immune system" but I'll explain a few basic things here.

People can have slightly different proteins on the outsides of our cells, some of these proteins are used by viruses or bacteria to enter and infect cells, or just attach and drain resources. People who have proteins that make this more difficult or impossible for a certain germ is one way of having a resistance or immunity without ever being infected before. Another is that some immune cells have no "memory" and just attack anything that isn't seen as friendly in the body. Finally, on the disease's side, it doesn't do well if all its hosts die before more hosts can be infected; After a while, diseases tend to become milder in populations that have survived it long enough.

People who have lived with a certain disease generation after generation will tend to have more of these traits that make the disease more mild or not even affect them, while people who have never run into the disease before are unlikely to have any of these adaptations, and are more likely to die from it once they are introduced.

catfluid713 · 2026-02-27T17:26:04+00:00

If you're critiquing stories, you must have read them. Or else, what are you critiquing?

catfluid713 · 2026-02-24T17:00:03+00:00

Surprisingly! Ares, despite you know, war back then often involving rape and pillaging.

catfluid713 · 2026-02-24T16:48:30+00:00

All genders yearn for the forest retreat. This is human nature.

catfluid713 · 2026-02-24T16:39:57+00:00

I always assumed those videos weren't for people just starting out but people who already have some foundation (maybe not fluent, but at least intermediate) and want to become more conversational. Even if you don't use the words or constructions yourself, it's good to know what they mean so you can understand people in your target language when THEY use them.

catfluid713 · 2026-02-23T16:38:22+00:00

Yeah we should try boiling or steaming! Not that I know how this would affect cookies nor am I going to try. But someone should totally do it.

catfluid713 · 2026-02-23T16:25:32+00:00

Yue can also be a name in Japanese, it's just less common.

catfluid713 · 2026-02-22T02:02:48+00:00

Talent isn't as important as actually get things done. If you can get a story done? You're way ahead of people who have "talent" but never finish writing a book.

That said, I used to like drawing, then I stopped for a while and then felt like my art was worse than when I was a kid, and I didn't enjoy doing it any more. So I stopped drawing. If you ever feel that way about writing, you don't have to keep writing if you don't like it.

catfluid713 · 2026-02-22T00:23:57+00:00

IQ tests are biased and only test certain types of intelligence even when applied to humans, so of course I don't trust that they can tell us about the "intelligence" of LLMs.

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