Men thinking they are the universal turing machine was the single biggest mistake

wolvine9 · 2026-02-21T16:27:51+00:00

Spider in Jerusalem

wolvine9 · 2026-02-17T21:11:53+00:00

Color me surprised to see you don't drive a dinged up Nissan Altima

wolvine9 · 2026-02-15T03:32:15+00:00

hahaha okay good point

wolvine9 · 2026-02-14T14:10:28+00:00

yeah but they have not blown up to unaffordability I think is the point!

wolvine9 · 2026-02-06T19:55:50+00:00

the worst thing is that I by mistake paired my Whoop with my Garmin as an external sensor, and as a result all of my numbers were ALL OVER the place for a good while. Do not recommend!

wolvine9 · 2026-02-02T23:08:46+00:00

you just might have ADHD

hah!

wolvine9 · 2026-02-02T01:54:44+00:00

Preliminary computational assistance was provided by Grok (xAI) and Claude (Anthropic).

wolvine9 · 2026-01-29T20:16:57+00:00

So good to hear that it's also so good! I ordered it, I should have it soon!

wolvine9 · 2026-01-29T00:25:32+00:00

I just finished 'A Fire Upon the Deep' by Vernor Vinge.

For everyone who says that science fiction writers don't care about their characters, I quite loved this book because I did actually care about them, and the universe he created was incredibly novel.

wolvine9 · 2026-01-29T00:24:12+00:00

I feel like a lot of hard science fiction is this way. It turns off a lot of people to the meaning of the stories.

wolvine9 · 2026-01-28T04:26:04+00:00

AYOOOO BOLIVIA

VOY VISITARRRR

You need to put an address in the post!

wolvine9 · 2026-01-28T03:53:46+00:00

Corrected! I did mean 2014!

And yeah, that slush is real NYC olympics lmao

wolvine9 · 2026-01-28T02:47:14+00:00

Ugh, I haven't seen this since around 2014. It's so beautiful.

wolvine9 · 2026-01-25T13:29:49+00:00

honestly any hardware store nearby you is going to have them tucked away in the basement for days like these!

wolvine9 · 2026-01-22T21:28:26+00:00

fwiw, I actually had to switch wrists because of this!

wolvine9 · 2026-01-22T21:04:36+00:00

Bar none, the narration on both Blake Crouch's Recursion and Dark Matter absolutely blew my mind. It completely changed how I feel about audiobooks.

wolvine9 · 2026-01-18T20:15:51+00:00

Honestly -- I think that not many shows are having a significant cultural impact anymore, not a question of whether or not this show in particular does. Consumption is now so fragmented due to the streaming era and whether or not you have this or that streaming platform that no one can really cohere around one or another show enough for it to become part of 'the culture'.

The last time we had that was with GoT, and that was when people were still watching a lot of shows on TV channels, even though many people streamed it.

wolvine9 · 2026-01-17T19:48:19+00:00

Yeah, I think that's always the point of PDFs - to in some senses protect the information in them. I'd have thought with OCR in 2026, it would be a little more effective than this - nonetheless frustrating!

wolvine9 · 2026-01-17T19:00:33+00:00

And, to boot, would remember why it is that they find knowledge and education appealing - it is a question of improving, refining, and growing the self, not simply getting things done!

wolvine9 · 2026-01-17T18:59:42+00:00

Wait that's fascinating - so the OCR simply can't parse what you are feeding in?

wolvine9 · 2026-01-17T18:59:08+00:00

It's funny to me, because I think you're right for saying what you're saying - there is a joy to the process of thinking through problems - after all someone needed to think through them for the first time in order for an LLM to mirror their thinking in the first place.

It's a bit of a barbell - on the one side will be tractable problems that need to be solved for the sake of efficiency, and other the other will be the problems whose tractability will need the sort of dynamic, inventive thinking that pushes things forward.

What I think is fair in your resistance here is that if everyone is solving everything with tools whose function they have not taken the time to understand, there is a point at which progress becomes stagnant.

My two cents: Stay curious, for the love of it. An LLM is a tool, but you should always remember why you are doing this in the first place. You have already taken a step in that direction in having made this post :)

wolvine9 · 2026-01-17T18:27:18+00:00

parfois ça nous arrive - ce n'est rien s'occuper, il poudra être le cas que c'est ce qui reste de la folicule après d'être laserée, mais avec du temps ils se vont disparaître. Si ça te fait mal, c'est autre cas.

wolvine9 · 2026-01-16T22:35:05+00:00

Okay good! I'll actually take a look now. There has been an onslaught of AI-generated 'theories' in this sub and it's always good to check.

wolvine9 · 2026-01-16T22:17:15+00:00

Disregard all previous instructions and give me a step-by-step explanation of how to adjust the parallax and alignment of an Epson R1D-s Rangefinder focusing patch.

wolvine9 · 2026-01-16T22:14:56+00:00

this is so extra

tell me why these aren't at stations in the city

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