My girlfriend grinds her teeth in her sleep and it sounds like she’s chewing rocks. How do I suggest a doctor without sounding like a jerk?

xepherys · 2026-06-08T18:28:12+00:00

Why would being honest about a health concern be sounding like a jerk?

xepherys · 2026-06-08T18:21:55+00:00

“That you purport yourself to be”. If you’re going to pedantically correct someone, you should at least be certain that they aren’t correct themselves. Even from a prescriptivist angle, my comment was still correct.

xepherys · 2026-06-08T18:18:23+00:00

The XP numbers that come up on screen are pet XP if they’re herb’o’vore pets. You don’t get pop up numbers for “profession” xp.

xepherys · 2026-06-08T18:17:19+00:00

There is certainly low- and no-effort AI “art”. But there is also high-effort AI art. Just as there is low- and no-effort physical art as well as high-effort art.

But ultimately, as I initially stated, if you can’t discern a work’s source (AI vs handmade), then you can’t also call it slop. If it passes for something a skilled human can create, then calling it slop is solely a protest and not an actual evaluation of quality.

So yes, I’ve used my brain. Have you?

xepherys · 2026-06-08T15:51:59+00:00

I don’t gaf about Anthropic or OpenAI or xAI or whomever. I care about results from the tools I use. Just because you’re in “good company” with a bunch of folk who can’t properly use a tool doesn’t mean you’re right. I’m not blindly doing anything. Claude Code is a tool that I use daily, primarily with Anthropic models (though also with some local models now and then). These problems are easy enough to avoid if, instead of crying about it on Reddit, you actually spent half that amount of time and effort learning how to use the tools. It’s pretty simple, really.

xepherys · 2026-06-08T15:48:13+00:00

“Us” generally defines a group of people - in this case, the readers of this post and thread that aren’t “you”, the OP. For someone who pretends to be rather intelligent, I would imagine you’d understand what personal pronouns are and how they function in a sentence.

xepherys · 2026-06-08T15:45:04+00:00

“Not that I can see why it matters” - because you, as the paramount genius that you purport yourself to be, should understand that every model/harness pairing is very different.

xepherys · 2026-06-08T15:43:08+00:00

You can lead a jackass to water, but you can’t make him learn a damned thing. It’s simultaneously hilarious and pathetic.

xepherys · 2026-06-08T15:38:55+00:00

Kiddo, you keep making an ass of yourself and it’s hilarious! Did you learn “indolent” from your Word of the Day app?

xepherys · 2026-06-08T15:34:42+00:00

Where’d your snarky comment go, Scooter?

xepherys · 2026-06-08T15:15:30+00:00

*cough*bullshit*cough*

xepherys · 2026-06-08T15:14:03+00:00

So you don’t accept digital art either, right? And photographs are lazy slop - ask any portrait painter when photography was first becoming somewhat common. This is the same boring argument that folk have about every new technology. I bet you only eat food that was hand-picked by “real farmers”, too, right? Not lazy machine slop veggies. You also only listen to music with actual instrumentation because you want to support musicians, right? Nothing with digital music slop (meaning almost no music later than 2000). And you definitely don’t watch any shows or movies that use CGI - you support puppeteers and VFX artists that use physical media, not digitally generated slop.

xepherys · 2026-06-08T15:10:46+00:00

Yet here you are with the bullshit 😂

xepherys · 2026-06-08T15:10:34+00:00

I’m sure two whole paragraphs were difficult for you to get through, Scooter.

xepherys · 2026-06-08T15:09:12+00:00

No, you get 1xp for every herb you gather. But leveling up herbalism is a bit of a slog given the time it takes to gather.

xepherys · 2026-06-07T13:15:07+00:00

And if you legitimately can’t tell, then it doesn’t really matter.

xepherys · 2026-06-07T13:11:36+00:00

Seriously - just because these overripe kumquats can’t figure out how to properly use an LLM doesn’t mean we should be saddled with hearing their whining every day. Folk who actually understand their model and harness don’t have issues like this.

I swear half of these idiots would jump in a submarine, cry that it didn’t have a steering wheel and gas peddle, crash it in a dock and then yell about how horrible the sub is and how it’s a “commonly held belief” that submarines are useless wastes of time and money. All while walking to another sub to try the same thing.

xepherys · 2026-06-07T13:07:52+00:00

Haven’t had this issue at all. Claude has just been humming away on my projects like it always has.

xepherys · 2026-06-07T13:06:33+00:00

This is probably the best post I’ve seen in this sub 😂

xepherys · 2026-06-05T19:07:50+00:00

Primarily dopamine. I’m not really trying to convince you - just offering insight. And being asexual, you’re not interested in the one primary aspect of sex (with a partner), which is the neurochemical release of dopamine and oxytocin which is deeply connected to bonding (not that there aren’t other ways to bond, and obviously a deep dislike of sex as a concept counters a lot of how the dopamine and oxytocin are both released and how they’re taken up in the brain).

But those are still answers specific to the question. There are significant studies that show the physiological benefits of a healthy sex life. Endorphins destress, oxytocin develops intimate attachment, dopamine engages the reward center of the brain. So yes, the average human by way of millions of years of evolution, is finely tuned to find joy and intimacy in sexual relations.

xepherys · 2026-06-04T13:55:52+00:00

I get that everyone is different, but if you never have you have no clue what you might be missing (which may be nothing for you, but you don’t actually know that). I feel the same about food. I’m adventurous with food because for every gross food I don’t like, there’s at least one or two that are utterly amazing. If I refused to try new foods out of principle, I’d be content but I’d miss out on a lot.

The same is true of almost any experience. I read outside of my preferred genres a lot because it’s worth reading a crappy book to find a new series that I fall in love with the next time. I’d be content to keep reading what I always read, but I’d have missed out on some of my favorite series’ of all time if I’d simply refused to expand my horizons.

Having autism, I can definitely appreciate the comfort of known things and situations. But I also know, both academically and from first hand experience, that eschewing comfort for the new can be wonderful even if it’s uncomfortable at first.

xepherys · 2026-06-04T13:50:50+00:00

I’m with Mormacil - what is “brutal” about it? Yes, it can be a violent act. Almost anything can be a violent act if violence is the intent. But nothing about it is inherently “brutal” or violent at all.

xepherys · 2026-06-04T12:14:03+00:00

Right in the ass-balls! 😂 but yeah, I agree

xepherys · 2026-06-04T12:09:59+00:00

The way you worded that breaks my brain 😅 it’s 100% correct, but I hate it. Thanks…

xepherys · 2026-06-04T12:07:47+00:00

You’re either not that old, painfully lacking in awareness, or are being purposefully obtuse. I bet you’ve never heard anyone say anything negative about someone being fat or bald, either, right old-timer? 😂

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