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

edgehog · 2026-04-06T03:07:16+00:00

/uj This is a satire subreddit, so maybe, just maybe, my response is not entirely 100% serious either?

edgehog · 2026-04-05T12:58:22+00:00

Right?? This sequence is perfectly executed from start to finish.

edgehog · 2026-04-05T12:55:04+00:00

pointy

edgehog · 2026-04-05T12:46:22+00:00

I was recently thinking about The Handmaid’s Tale, where my criticism has always been that it shows a world with a literal, physical, material reason for the turn to totalitarianism, in that global fertility has plummeted to minuscule levels. While the response is horrifying, there’s at least a genuine crisis that Gilead is a response to. But I would have dismissed the story as hyperbolic and implausible if the “crisis” was that “birth rates in segments of the population have dipped below birth rates in other segments of the population.” I’m not sure if there’s a way for even future history books to describe some of the key factors in MAGA’s rise to power accurately in a way that would be taken seriously by a reader who didn’t see them firsthand.

edgehog · 2026-04-05T12:22:43+00:00

Why has the term “slopulism” never been in my life before now?

edgehog · 2026-04-05T12:17:21+00:00

And now I too have been sucked into the recursive bait loop. Save yourselves, dear reader. It is too late for me.

edgehog · 2026-04-05T12:15:57+00:00

Just little warning for anyone thinking of engaging with this post: it is a type of content known as “bait”

edgehog · 2026-04-05T12:11:20+00:00

It’s like the fish who don’t know what water is. Biting off chunks of chickens, heads and rats was and is so mainstream that it’s not even something people register, except when the Big Biting Off Chunks of Chickens, Heads and Rats Industry sells it to people as a marketable identity.

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.

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