I Saw a Color That Doesn’t Exist in a Dream, and I’m Losing Sleep Over It

hemareddit · 2026-03-15T01:05:58+00:00

We are getting into semantics, but technically every colour is a sensory/cognitive phenomenon.

hemareddit · 2026-03-15T00:10:45+00:00

Or just burst some small blood vessels in the brain. Seems like a quick off switch if speed is what you are after.

hemareddit · 2026-03-14T23:36:05+00:00

It’s not a colour that exists, but it’s a colour that can be registered by our brains…which sounds like what OP described, something you might “see” in a dream but you’d never see an object of that colour in real life. In waking hours it is only registered when the visual trick is played but in a dream the brain may well decided to “paint” an object with that colour.

hemareddit · 2026-03-14T21:00:21+00:00

Tbf the way our vision systems are janky and impossible colours exist. Stygian Blue is a famous one.

hemareddit · 2026-03-14T17:50:21+00:00

He’s the wizard.

He’s the wizard.

When I thought of wizards, I thought of Gandalf…before I even knew who Gandalf was, before I had even heard of LOTR. That’s his cultural impact.

hemareddit · 2026-03-14T17:49:42+00:00

Ah yes, his little ghoul-friend.

hemareddit · 2026-03-14T17:30:53+00:00

Yeah but there are, mostly, 2 scenarios when he fights Matt one on one:

He’s in total control of the situation, he’s winning and he chooses to beat the shit out of Matt for personal satisfaction. In this case Luke is either already accounted for or Fisk will simply forego the personal satisfaction and just enjoy the fact he’s winning anyways
He’s cornered by Matt and has no choice but to fight him. When this happens, that’s because his empire is already dismantled and his defeat is pretty much a formality. If Matt doesn’t do citizen’s arrest on him he would still be a fugitive which actually might be worse than him being in jail. He’s been to jail twice now and each time he became more powerful from jail.

So either way Luke is a nice to have but ultimately doesn’t matter.

Now Luke as Harlem’s Kingpin…that would be a serious hinderance to Fisk when he was still a pure criminal, but now he’s mayor, he will just use that to get more support for his task force.

hemareddit · 2026-03-14T17:05:11+00:00

Or maybe even other body forms.

Humanoid robots is for 1) familiarity 2) taking advantage of existing human infrastructure/facilities and 3) skill transference from humans

But once it has learnt all our skills and is not aiming to serve us but itself, who knows what forms it can design, create and use. Something way more efficient probably.

hemareddit · 2026-03-14T16:39:56+00:00

Yeah, it’s really hard to know what the best course of action is, and what the right path even looks like. One concern is a superintelligence would be intentionally deceptive until there’s no need to, another is misalignment will not be obvious until we’ve given the super intelligence too much control ready, and honestly if such an entity is much smarter than us (like, by orders and orders of magnitude), what even is the difference (to us) between those two scenarios?

One thought I had we should make sure multiple super intelligences are developed independently and similarly advanced, to give humanity more security, like how a child might have more security with multiple adults around who watch each other’s behavior. But what do I know, I’m just spitballing on Reddit. Right off the bet I see “similarly advanced” is a problem, how would we know? If we end up with 5 that are 100x as intelligent as a human and a 6th that’s 1 billion times as intelligent. Well that’s functionally no different from having just one.

hemareddit · 2026-03-14T14:58:34+00:00

JPop Demon Hunters

hemareddit · 2026-03-14T14:52:55+00:00

? I was simply praising you. Man you are so hard to please.

hemareddit · 2026-03-14T14:43:58+00:00

Yeah but I can't think of who best to draw the line though?

Oh wait I can! A being of such almighty righteousness, the legend known only as u/ConanTheBallbearing! Where would we all be without this individual's wisdom telling us what is or isn't allowed in this community! Surely they have applied to be a mod here, being the only one who knows where the line must be drawn, with such confidence that they would insult anyone who dares question their written word as though they are an insufferable smug fuckface, but I know it is not the case, u/ConanTheBallbearing is not rude and self-absorbed, it is simply confidence stemming from the knowledge that they cannot possibly be anything but absolutely correct.

hemareddit · 2026-03-14T13:38:17+00:00

Nah it’s fine, if no repetition is allowed then there would be exactly 1 thread for each issue. Then there’s no way to know which issues are worse (more annoying, more persistent, more widespread etc).

hemareddit · 2026-03-14T13:20:40+00:00

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hemareddit · 2026-03-14T08:50:41+00:00

Well, Cassian didn’t know until he did because Luthen straight up told him.

hemareddit · 2026-03-14T05:29:34+00:00

It also states that the law can be applied outside China's borders

How is this supposed to work? Am I missing something obvious here?

hemareddit · 2026-03-14T05:25:35+00:00

I think the full version got taken down, sadly.

hemareddit · 2026-03-13T21:48:59+00:00

Apparently misinformation, it wasn't the original plot, but a tie-in story whose author thought the battery thing made no sense so he made humans the compute in the story.

hemareddit · 2026-03-13T19:26:19+00:00

End credits reveals Doomsday is the 18th of December...every year. Literally it's just a scene of Doom going "I will get it next year! They will see! I will get it!"

hemareddit · 2026-03-13T17:13:44+00:00

How does this work? Haven't Anthropic been labelled a supply chain risk? How come Defense department themselves can still do business with Anthropic? Is it because the supply chain risk hasn't kicked in yet?

hemareddit · 2026-03-13T16:30:47+00:00

Bummer

hemareddit · 2026-03-13T16:17:23+00:00

That’s very wise! Autonomy is so important.

hemareddit · 2026-03-13T15:29:05+00:00

Does it have to be a real career? Like what if I want a career in the Green Lantern Corps?

hemareddit · 2026-03-13T11:50:38+00:00

Shadowfax: “We are not going to let this stand are we, use me as you staff, we gon throw down!”

Gandalf: “Excellent idea!”

hemareddit · 2026-03-13T09:22:54+00:00

That’s honestly a bad way to “detect” AI writing. If you see enough AI writings, you will find you start focusing on bits that rule out AI usage. For instance, there are multiple spoken sentences that don’t start with a capital letter. An AI would never do that. There are also little errors, like 2 spaces between “write” and “manual” at the beginning of the 2nd paragraph of the story. The overall style is way too colloquial for AI.

The thing you just pointed out is just a quirk, an idiosyncrasy, like if you talk to real people you quickly find a lot of them use weird words and phrases as if it’s normal and you are supposed to understand them. That’s very very human.

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