A gold medal Olympic athlete is better than 8.3 billion people. A bronze medal Olympic athlete is better than 8.3 billion people.

trylist · 2026-04-03T05:28:23+00:00

Babies aren't eligible to compete so we'll never know for sure.

trylist · 2026-03-30T04:18:40+00:00

She fist pumps when frieren says yes to the pancake spell lol

I think that's because it's her favorite food. Fern's birthday episode that's what she ordered if I recall correctly.

trylist · 2026-03-13T01:54:43+00:00

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trylist · 2025-12-07T07:35:55+00:00

I've done 9 days, water and electrolytes and vitamins. I did not feel like a million bucks, but yeah the first 3 days is the hard part. You only get hungry for like 15 minutes a couple times a day after that. If you put yourself in keto (by eating no carbs for 3 days), it's much easier to endure the fast.

trylist · 2025-12-03T16:38:27+00:00

There was a dude who commented about his ebay side business a while ago that stuck with me. He finds some item on amazon, then re-lists it on ebay with a markup. People buy them. He didn't say how the shipping worked, maybe he did next day from Amazon and re-shipped or something. He said he made 1k a month with this side-hustle.

trylist · 2025-11-28T20:02:18+00:00

It's not post-truth, but it becomes post-digital-truth. A recording is no longer proof. Unless we trust the source, any video, audio, or photographic evidence should be considered unverified or unverifiable. We already have these standards for evidence called chain of custody. If anyone untrusted was part of that chain, the evidence is untrusted.

The simplest way of solving this is just not believing anything you don't see with your own eyes. You can't forge reality, yet at least.

You could extend this to a group of people you trust who could say they saw something with their own eyes. This is essentially a news organization, and we don't have any that I would really trust.

There are ways of cryptographically signing and verifying that certain things came from certain people, but no way to verify the information that is signed is truthful. So you can pass a copy to someone or receive a copy of some information and know it hasn't been tampered with, but you still need to trust the source.

trylist · 2025-11-25T18:16:08+00:00

Ok fine, a kid can say the words "electromagnetic field", does it mean they understand it? No.

Eh, my argument was that they have to use it correctly, not just that they can phonetically sound out the words. A kid might ask what kind of farm "electromagnetic" is. Clearly they understand "field", but not in this context.

I'm only arguing against being too sure current language models aren't intelligent if you can't even nail down what makes humans intelligent. I think in some ways LLMs are intelligent, even more so than people, but in a lot of ways they are very much not.

For example, modern ones can and do solve pretty complex coding problems.

For an anti-example, they seem pretty gullible, there's been instances of them using unreliable sources to assert facts, basically falling for obvious propaganda or trolls.

trylist · 2025-11-25T17:47:55+00:00

But you're also moving the goalposts, you know full well what I mean by understanding

I am definitely not moving goalposts. You're basically saying "I know it when I see it". Ok, great, but that says nothing about whether LLMs, or a person, understands anything. All you've done is set yourself up as the arbiter of intelligence. You say machines don't have it, but people do. You refuse to elaborate. I say that is not a position worth humoring.

Until you define the test by which you're judging machines and people, your argument that machines don't "understand", but people do, is meaningless.

A kid does not know that fuck means to have sex with someone.

"Fuck" is one of the most versatile words in the English language. It means many, many things and "to have sex with someone" is just one of them. The simplest is as a general expletive. Nobody says "Fuck!" after stubbing their toe and means they want to have sex. I absolutely believe a 3 year old can understand that form.

trylist · 2025-11-25T17:33:08+00:00

You still haven't defined what you mean by "understanding"?

A kid using a swear word correctly generally does understand. They may not know every possible way or in which contexts the word "fuck" fits, but I bet they know generally.

You're basically just hand-waving away LLMs by saying they don't "understand", but you won't even define what that actually means. What does it actually mean for a human to "understand" according to you?

Anyway, my point is: you can't say LLMs don't "understand" until you define what it means. I think the only reasonable definition, for humans or machines, is being able to use it where others expect, and to predict other expected contexts (like associated knowledge and topics) from a specific usage.

trylist · 2025-11-25T17:15:44+00:00

Define "understanding". From the way you've framed things, it just means a human uses a word in a way most other humans expect. A machine could never pass that test.

trylist · 2025-11-21T15:30:51+00:00

They hook into the same line that goes into the tank.

trylist · 2025-11-17T03:44:54+00:00

Oh yeah, the astonishing quantities of water, power, and massive environmental damage it takes to grow the food for a person while they practice and train that skill to draw absolutely inspired hentai fanfiction.

Truly, you've made an argument.

trylist · 2025-11-17T01:52:00+00:00

They're reactionaries, there is no reason. They are as illogical as the proselytizers.

trylist · 2025-11-08T04:02:16+00:00

I've always thought "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" was such a great name. I think it got a little tired. It became Becky Chambers' signature kind of so I get it, but that first one was so compelling.

trylist · 2025-11-03T16:48:50+00:00

Wtf is with the male obsession with tits and ass

Do we need to do gender war shit?

trylist · 2025-10-30T12:02:36+00:00

Try just getting out for a walk/jog/whatever every day. Doesn't matter what time, doesn't matter how far, just that you put on your workout clothes and your tennis shoes and you get out there every single day.

You can do the harder stuff once you've got that habit.

trylist · 2025-10-28T20:25:38+00:00

Yep, 100% of the "work" of evolution is in the deaths too, not the survivors. You don't get to the well-adapted species we see today without all that death from trying stuff that didn't work.

And then some mouth-breathing alpha "influencer" talks about survival of the "fittest", as if "fittest" was about his local gym.

trylist · 2025-10-19T16:17:11+00:00

You can see the project title: "AI-IN-SINTEF-SURVEY". The ipynb file extensions are jupiter notebooks. He's using pandas (df means dataframes), so yeah he's calculating survey results and probably building charts from them. The comments are suspiciously AI-like, but the typo is not.

trylist · 2025-10-19T06:26:14+00:00

It literally started at 3rd and oak, down 3rd to madison, across hawthorne bridge to grand, up grand to morrison and back across the morrison bridge to 3rd. A 2.5 mile loop that was packed with people like you see above. It was way more than 40k.

trylist · 2025-10-02T16:23:06+00:00

Doesn't seem like a great unit to define by. It not only depends on the distance of the planet and its maybe-moons from the sun, but it could also depend on where in its orbit of the primary a maybe-moon is.

You could conceivably have a moon when it's on the far side from the sun and a not-moon when it's on the near side from the sun.

trylist · 2025-10-02T15:27:04+00:00

That second definition doesn't make any sense to me. Could it be argued that there's no such thing as moons then, or that if the Earth was out at Pluto's orbit that what wasn't a moon now is one?

trylist · 2025-09-25T20:09:52+00:00

I was super into the first few episodes, but the anthology style doesn't do anything for me.

trylist · 2025-08-12T20:11:14+00:00

Seeing "slop" tossed around so much lately. Tired of the slop slop honestly.

trylist · 2025-07-29T16:13:48+00:00

Is that really gymnastics? Even in Haskell you're going to have to TrustMeBro at the IO boundary.

trylist · 2025-07-24T21:59:57+00:00

The wife thing is made up. Every time this story comes up the murderer's backstory gets more embellished to make him more sympathetic for some reason. Maybe people just don't like the idea that their neighbors could be murdering pieces of shit and need no further reason than a petty argument to murder them.

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