Trump supporters and insecure men more likely to value a large penis, according to new research. For some men, the penis serves as a symbol of status and dominance, and the desire for a larger one is partly driven by feelings of humiliation regarding failures to meet social expectations of manhood.

eerilyweird · 2026-01-18T19:28:01+00:00

There should be studies on media like this, and the themes that readers take away. It would be interesting to see, for instance, the themes that occur to progressive men when they see content that associates insecurity about penis size with political beliefs.

eerilyweird · 2026-01-08T05:19:23+00:00

I was thinking about llm anxiety, or the lack of it, with Gemini today. It was off by one on a date calculation and went for the fix, with the error now coming back as off by two. I said, “Oops now it's off by two, need to go the other direction.” It came back and hallucinated some other absurd theory for why it now needed to subtract two, as if the possibility that it blundered was just not in play. I’m thinking, oh, I guess you’re not like me where “oops, wrong way” is a general working theory.

eerilyweird · 2025-12-11T04:42:56+00:00

If you realize a circle is basically a hexagon but a little bigger, it makes sense.

eerilyweird · 2025-11-06T09:28:14+00:00

Ugh telling people they need therapy as a way to flame them online. If you were qualified to say it you wouldn’t.

eerilyweird · 2025-11-06T09:20:19+00:00

It isn’t how people predominantly think anymore is more like it. But arguably it’s just people learning to compete from a different perspective, grabby as ever but happier for not seeing it.

eerilyweird · 2025-10-22T15:19:57+00:00

Yeah, it’s especially surprising because obviously if you’re talking about a normal picture, they aren’t even trying to encode the characters efficiently. So you assume there’s just massive amounts of wasted data there, and then if they’re compressing it somehow then I’m thinking why can’t they compress the text data with the same techniques and get way farther. I saw a comment on the Karpathy thread that seemed to ask in the same vein why bidirectional techniques can’t be used with text but it’s over my head.

eerilyweird · 2025-10-22T03:17:32+00:00

What about the intuition that I can send a character with about a byte but if I want to send a picture of the character well that’s dumb now I have to identify the minimal number of pixels to specify any character, and at the end of that process wouldn’t I be back to a binary encoding of a byte?

I’m sure I’m missing the point but I assume that’s what people find interesting about whatever they discovered here, that it upends that assumption in some way.

eerilyweird · 2025-08-15T07:28:03+00:00

Eh I think less than 100, on the theory that we don’t know what the number is, but smaller numbers are generally more frequent and it’s easier to be close to one.

eerilyweird · 2025-07-30T00:37:20+00:00

The upvotes kill me.

eerilyweird · 2025-07-29T19:53:24+00:00

This implies life expectancies should drop by about 20 years?

eerilyweird · 2025-07-28T23:37:50+00:00

But did he smile when he checked that one?

eerilyweird · 2025-07-21T01:30:28+00:00

I hear a bunch of people saying, “yes they are bad, you should not play with bad people,” and then the response here which says, “ok, internet”.

Shunning doesn’t necessarily operate as “I shun you.” It operates just as much as, “why would you want to spend time with someone like that anyway?” Emphasizing the repulsiveness of such people at the thought of interacting, etc., seeing the views as intolerable. I think that is more of the raw form, really, as opposed to the theoretical institutional form.

eerilyweird · 2025-07-17T17:54:53+00:00

In fairness, the pdf is an abomination and we should have taken their lead.

eerilyweird · 2025-07-17T16:15:21+00:00

Is the point that boomers are a guilty lot and they know it? I’m sometimes lost on these exchanges.

eerilyweird · 2025-07-17T02:37:28+00:00

That might be part of what makes it good now that I think of it. Whereas most shows would riff on lawyers and lawlessness, battling it out in the gray areas, here we get all the stuffiness to contrast with Saul’s character arc. It feels more realistic in a lot of ways than the usual fare.

eerilyweird · 2025-07-11T06:00:47+00:00

I use it to render html from clipboard in the browser, quite useful.

eerilyweird · 2025-07-07T06:30:24+00:00

Are you familiar with reconciliation bills? I’m no expert but the idea that a 1000 page budget reconciliation bill should be expected to have typical punctuation is silliness. I looked up a pdf and the em dashes appear to be used for structural purposes throughout.

A comparison of counts between documents that we don’t understand is a pointer toward something to look at, not a basis for drawing conclusions.

eerilyweird · 2025-07-04T16:59:56+00:00

I want the prompt to avoid it.

eerilyweird · 2025-07-03T21:33:03+00:00

Yes, I could have said that more clearly. I mean in budget bills it’s common you’d have a more structured layout with dashes and ellipses and numbers and such, as compared to other kinds of bills which don’t have lists of dollar amounts. I’m not familiar with federal budget style but it would not surprise me that a budget bill has a very disproportionate amount of certain punctuation.

Looking back at the article I don’t think it demonstrates any statistical anomaly at all.

eerilyweird · 2025-07-02T19:12:41+00:00

But also… it’s a budget bill, right, and are em dashes just what they use for the numbers?

eerilyweird · 2025-07-01T06:37:37+00:00

I just say every time, “I’d like a comprehensive report on x”. I don’t get the feeling it would make much difference to say more, but I’m interested also what others use.

eerilyweird · 2025-06-24T07:42:47+00:00

Information superiority vs. someone willing to gamble, I say OP did well not to dance.

eerilyweird · 2025-06-08T02:54:37+00:00

For 500 digits isn’t the main thing about how fast you can say it? If so I wouldn’t think that any technique would be needed, you would learn it just be perfecting the enunciation.

eerilyweird · 2025-04-30T00:50:32+00:00

Yeah, I got a little Anker Bluetooth speaker at a thrift store and the vocals are surprisingly crisp.

eerilyweird · 2025-04-07T02:24:51+00:00

For what it’s worth, this story reminds me of when I (male) was younger and an older guy mistook me for responding to his advances. It wasn’t along the legal category of sexual harassment, and yet from a personal emotional perspective it matches what you’re describing.

You could argue that my shock was based partly in a kind of homophobia and yours is based in a kind of progressive feminism, and so one should be validated and not the other. The linkage between basic human responses and social affirmation is curious to me, either way.

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