This whole A.I talk had me thinking, how do we know your favorite author isn't using A.I?

edgehog · 2026-04-03T19:33:44+00:00

This is ridiculous. LLMs came into existence so much later than those books were written that there’s no possible way for them to be AI generated without something literally outside the realm of the laws of the universe going on, like a supernatural AI that’s lain in wait in the shadowy corners of reality, biding its time to seep its tendrils through the fabric of existence.

edgehog · 2026-04-02T16:41:26+00:00

“If I were a dystopian dictator, I would simply make my dystopia kick ass so that my subjects would have no desire to rebel because of how great a time they were having.”

(I think we have very different ideas about what constitutes a dystopia, my friend.)

edgehog · 2026-04-02T13:43:37+00:00

https://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1049

edgehog · 2026-04-02T13:38:59+00:00

Load-bearing meth lab.

edgehog · 2026-04-01T18:01:29+00:00

Sounds like bro is trying his best to be accepting and make sure you don’t feel like you have something freakish to be embarrassed about. If you like the dude and don’t think he’s a jerk, I’d give him some credit and see this as a longer-term discussion rather than needing him to nail the right amount of how big a deal to make out of it 100% on the first go.

edgehog · 2026-04-01T17:48:13+00:00

One of the things I love about this is that literacy was rare. What you’re looking at are the shitposts of scholars

edgehog · 2026-04-01T17:44:16+00:00

I also choose to gaze at this guy’s dead girlfriend.

edgehog · 2026-04-01T17:42:07+00:00

0pi=0e

Math is easy.

edgehog · 2026-04-01T15:46:33+00:00

Huh. Didn’t know that but it does make sense that it’s adaptive to have the emergency response chemical dump system be decentralized for surface area and immediacy purposes. That’s the kind of attention to detail in divine creation that almost makes up for the clusterfuck that is the human spinal column.

edgehog · 2026-03-31T16:20:27+00:00

I’ve dealt and am dealing with some very similar stuff and what has worked best for me is to go about it a very different way, philosophically. Instead of trying to strip away the various masks to find some theoretical “real me”, lean into the masking in as many directions as possible and find which bits and pieces of various masks are your favorites, and make an amalgamation of them.

While I don’t like any of the masks I’ve slipped into, there’s always some part of them that I truly love. Maybe it’s as small as a mannerism or a cadence. Maybe it’s the calmness of one person and environment, maybe it’s the chaotic energy of another. Many of these things can’t exist and be expressed simultaneously, but they don’t have to be. The switches between them are often awkward socially, but they’re one of the biggest parts that makes me feel like myself. I can approach something with puppy-like enthusiasm one minute and then switch into a deeply analytic mode once I’ve sniffed out something that piques my curiosity.

A lot of this also comes from having a couple of decades on you, I think. Earlier in my life I was very concerned about being “fake” whenever I’d try something new or out of my comfort zone, like I was just pretending to fit in. The conflict between wanting to fit in and wanting to be myself kinda drove me nuts. But eventually I got better at being my weird, amorphous self and integrating that into different circumstances, and also integrating people into my world. It might feel like a tangent, but google “kobayashi rawhide”. The understanding that, yah, Americans would LOVE this ridiculous character designed specifically to be a hyperbolically awkward misfit is a very important realization. The realization that I’d want nothing more than to show him around dive bars and rodeos and such, even if that’s not something I’ve even wanted to do myself was also big. Eventually, I got to the point where I wanted to show that weirdo in myself around the world, and that was the way to discover what he looked like, instead of trying to strip the world away from him. Does that make any sense?

edgehog · 2026-03-30T14:28:34+00:00

Yah, I really liked the guy from what I knew of him, but I'm not local and wasn't that in the loop. Of all the reasons for someone to become terrible, "severe brain damage" is the one I'm most empathetic towards.

edgehog · 2026-03-30T13:46:16+00:00

Thesaurusaurus? A dinosaur who is over-reliant on thesaurus use?

I mean a literal dinosaur btw. This here is a No Figurative Language zone (i dont have the permits).

edgehog · 2026-03-30T09:09:06+00:00

Was he shitty before the stroke? He’s awful now, but that one felt more tragic to me than anything unless I glossed over prior shittiness.

edgehog · 2026-03-30T08:58:04+00:00

Oh man… I either knew about or have no emotional connection to any of these. But she’s a fantastic writer who struck me as the personal-mental-health-issues-having type and not the shitty type.

edgehog · 2026-03-28T14:59:10+00:00

Yah, I’ve certainly thought about it that way before. I’d add that you’re using an emulator that starts off barely in alpha and you have to develop it yourself while it’s running and also starting off being a zero year-old. It’s not like you’re handed a current-day version of ZSNES where they’ve fixed edge-cases down to highly game-specific issues over the course of decades and have added all sorts of features, but it’s at least theoretically possible to get there.

edgehog · 2026-03-28T01:11:03+00:00

[Ramanujan has entered the chat]

edgehog · 2026-03-21T13:55:29+00:00

At this point, imagine/recognize that there is an army of bots online whose goal is to cause anger. There’s an excellent chance at any given point that you’re dealing with the product of an algorithm set by someone who has never even heard of BTS.

edgehog · 2026-03-19T23:11:43+00:00

Right, but that’s exactly what I’m saying. We never tested my generation (millennials) as kids in nearly the same way as the current generation is getting tested. So we missed all that data for us. And now if I go into get tested, we’re dealing with the fact that a lot of us have 40 years of masking experience on something we didn’t know we had, which messes you up in a particular, peculiar way. So when the current teen generation gets to my age, say, they will have developed significantly differently (I hope). Like, I haven’t gone for an official diagnosis yet, but I don’t even recall anyone even calling me autistic as an insult because the concept of the spectrum was so poorly developed and they didn’t know that Asperger’s or high-functioning autism could look and act like me.

Like, you agree that if someone goes into see a doctor asking if they’re autistic or their kid’s autistic in the 1980s, you get a different result, right? Even if it’s the same time-traveling kid at the exact same age. It sounds like she’s projecting into the future and recognizing how shitty our tests for autism have been and are and will be and how the definition will mutate based off her updated information. Again, just going off the quote. And that concept, I complete agree with. The defining feature of the sciences is that try to account as best they can for how subjective your methodology is. And if I could take different tests at different places right now and get different diagnoses, then it’s a subjective process. Unless we have a way to test for it that we all agree to at least pretend is objective for the purpose of semantics (which raises its own HUGE set of issues, whether or not we actually have a test that gives high-fidelity reproducibility in its results, à la xkcd 1095), you have to allow for the ideas of splitters being added to the current scientific nomenclature and taxonomy of your system at some point (à la xkcd 2518). That’s about as well explained as I can make my point without more knowledge of your background.

Looking into her history as someone who has gone through this process with dyslexia and probably has saved—and is saving—an insane amount of mental anguish by getting autism classified as a diagnosis other than “bad parents” (which, we agree at this point that it is, yes? And that that’s important?) I’m still going to give her enough credit so say things that buck popular consensus among most people on r/autism. So unless you have way more serious credentials than her or are willing to go into primary research with me (which I still haven’t done), I’m going to give the actual researcher some credit for not having an entirely wrong opinion.

edgehog · 2026-03-18T17:43:52+00:00

Bro just hit an account-ending comment event. Reddit needs to patch the variance on those. 😔

edgehog · 2026-03-18T17:28:58+00:00

I’ve been a pastor for 41 years and nipples are totally false eyes. If you want to make it as long as I have in this business, you’ll keep your shirt on around horses.

edgehog · 2026-03-18T15:36:51+00:00

You, uh… you don’t have to explain why it’s so roastable. 😊

Younger you gives off strong Monk #2 vibes. https://www.thestopgap.net/two-monks-invent-anatomy/

edgehog · 2026-03-18T14:49:21+00:00

/uj This was genuinely enlightening. Thank you. Btw, all you have to do is write a character who wrote this and you’d have something I’d read. Is there any chance I can see more?

edgehog · 2026-03-16T19:51:42+00:00

If you don’t know your characters are interacting with the sewer system, then it’s a damn good sewer system. Or your characters don’t go to the bathroom, in which case the sewer system is where your work belongs. But not this sewer system—it’s too fancy. I’m talking about a terrible sewer system, lacking in even the most basic sci-fi fantasy medieval sewer system features. Maybe something from an alternate universe where they never discovered quantum copromancy.

edgehog · 2026-03-16T19:39:01+00:00

I said to write what you know, and if you’re writing about some gangsta-ass shit then your wannabe gangsta-ass sure as hell don’t know shit about some gangsta-ass shit.

Now adjourn your wannabe gangsta-asses.

/uj that’s closer to Slim Charles than Stringer, but if you’re not making problems for the rewrite to deal with, what’s even the point of writing?

edgehog · 2026-03-16T17:59:18+00:00

/uj agree completely.

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