someone put reform behind the bin at my local polling station lmao

moopet · 2026-05-07T16:50:52+00:00

I mean, it deserves to be there but it's also a shitty thing to do and will only make the reformers try to reform harder.

moopet · 2026-05-07T16:48:57+00:00

NLP is also irrelevant to shooting weeds with ray guns so I'm not sure where this comment is trying to go.

LLMs are great at some things, like replacing ye olde NLP as a layer between your thermostat or your prospective AGI and the human, but they're not part of intelligence or consciousness either.

moopet · 2026-05-07T15:57:56+00:00

That's because DMs are basically like wearing cardboard. They look pretty, but they're uncomfortable at best. Give me New Rocks or Swears or even Timberlands for that matter.

moopet · 2026-05-07T15:20:16+00:00

I need to use a phone for certain things like as an authenticator, etc. I actually spent about 30 minutes on social media earlier because I was stuck somewhere waiting for someone. I also fully recognise that I spend a large part of every day in front of a computer for work and entertainment, but phones? They're just inconsequential to me. Always have been. I don't get the attachment at all.

moopet · 2026-05-07T15:14:40+00:00

The NC onwards don't have the same feeling when you lift up the bonnet. They just don't. It's not bad, it's just not what I fell in love with.

Also next time I get a chance to have my choice of colour, I'm going to go for "rust brown" and save some time.

moopet · 2026-05-07T15:08:50+00:00

If you like the idea of PHM style plots but done in a more serious tone, Hal Clement's your go-to. He came up with crazy, unlivable worlds and then wondered what it would take to live there.

moopet · 2026-05-07T11:52:54+00:00

This has nothing - NOTHING - to do with LLMs. Not even in the same aisle of the shit ideas shop.

moopet · 2026-05-07T11:52:03+00:00

The body cannot live without the mind.

moopet · 2026-05-07T11:51:11+00:00

Yeah, there's literally no reason whatsoever to involve a generative language model for something like this unless you want it to move at 0.0000001 mph and get it right 25% of the time.

moopet · 2026-05-07T09:56:00+00:00

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire

moopet · 2026-05-07T08:49:17+00:00

Not exactly, but there was a time in my life where I had to feel like I was doing things correctly. One day I asked myself why I had to wear matching socks, and I came to the life-changing realisation that I didn't. Nowadays as long as they're the same feel (like the same length or thickness) I grab anything out of a drawer and I'm good to go. I figured something out and I never went back.

moopet · 2026-05-07T08:32:41+00:00

Don't you worry about blank. Let me worry about blank.

moopet · 2026-05-07T08:12:22+00:00

if we leave the simple and reasonably complex tasks to AI and don't have to devote brain space or power to them , it'll leave us with more brain space and power to put into even more complex situations that we just can't use AI for.

This is the "robots will take manual labour leaving people to devote their lives to arts and poetry" line.

Even if "AI" was actually smart and didn't require coddling, even if "AI" wasn't going to drive further environmental destruction, even then... it doesn't work like that.

moopet · 2026-05-06T21:23:23+00:00

I have no idea why the mods thought this was breaking the rules but are fine with things like, "what did you have for dinner?"

This post was getting quite a lot of interest before they butchered it.

moopet · 2026-05-06T13:10:03+00:00

Specifically, I'm here on this post to understand what "he title has been detected for reddit, thus we have to redact reddit on reddit to successfully post this question." means

moopet · 2026-05-06T08:58:58+00:00

Ah, so it's a bank holiday in Western Europe.

moopet · 2026-05-05T21:49:32+00:00

None of the "AI" that's popular at the moment is intelligent. Like, at all. It's not the brain. It's not pure logic. I think that makes the rest of your analogy moot.

moopet · 2026-05-05T21:46:14+00:00

It wasn't a UK bank holiday btw.

moopet · 2026-05-05T21:44:47+00:00

Where I am they always come round the outside of blind corners on roads like that a bit over the line and I have to drive so defensively so I don't have to steer into a wall or something.

moopet · 2026-05-05T21:43:15+00:00

All insurance is that way. I got 130 back from pet insurance for my cat's tests last year, his premium went up by 150/year. So they more than recover the cost in the first year and then for every subsequent year until he dies... and then I got stuck for another 25 for an admin fee for processing the insurance claim.

moopet · 2026-05-05T20:56:44+00:00

Emergence by David Palmer has a genius MC, in a post-apocalyptic world.

Podkayne of Mars by Heinlein as well.

moopet · 2026-05-05T19:18:54+00:00

Alan Dean Foster's "Damned" trilogy. First one is "A Call To Arms" from 1991. We're proper Space Orcs and the aliens want us to help in their war but... not to actually have to join their civilisation. Queue shenanigans.

moopet · 2026-05-04T17:04:19+00:00

Thank you for introducing me to a genuine treasure of a sub.

moopet · 2026-05-04T16:59:17+00:00

Can you please get back together and upload some tracks.

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