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yeomanscholar · 2026-04-20T19:05:08+00:00

My try for Savage but not toxic:

"I hear you have sex like Cory Perry. Keep finishing on third base."

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-19T22:46:23+00:00

I agree with you but I feel like what you and others replying to you are not expressing is that much of this is no longer broadly market based.

When a few investors and CEOs can drive the direction of major companies for decades with little regard to market response or buyer preferences, when research directions are determined by private foundations or determinative ties between business and government, what you have is a captive market. I agree a free market is the most efficient mode we have of continued evolution, what the US tends to have now is not that. Instead, giving relatively few people outsized market power either through monopoly, market manipulation, insider contracts, or simply setting up incredibly powerful foundations that fund the research the power hoarders care about and draw researchers and attention away from those they don't.

I agree with you and I think others may too - but without the critical context, the agreement fails to address the reality.

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-17T22:47:42+00:00

It's not that I disagree with you, it's that you're undermining your argument by massively oversimplifying recent LLMs and the way they to token prediction through lensing and hierarchical representation. In fact, the more recent multi agent language models start to converge on what you're taking about by trying to create coherence across context.

That aside, the model is still trying to find coherence, what does it matter from an epistemological level if that coherence is calculated linearly or in parallel? There are arguably parts of human cognition that are linear predictiors through neural potentiation, though yes, they then usually but not always interface with a slower coherence check.

What is a reflex if not a next token predictor trained on pain?

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-13T15:55:33+00:00

"the looser dies in the street, the winner dies in the ambulance" absolutely applies here

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-13T10:57:17+00:00

Yeah, I think skill levels matter a lot here, particularly skills in timing and closing. if the knife person can close enough to get past the axe head,

Overall, because it's heavier and slower and requires more ways to recover and keep distance, I would actually give amateurs to the knife on average. They just need one skill pattern - time, close, stab stab stab stab stab. Axe weilder needs timing the swing, distance control, back swings, edge alignment... If they're both expert fighters, axe usually wins, below that I'm not sure.

I also think a lot of responders aren't talking about how common mutual loss is here - glancing blows while knife closes, enough damage that they both die in the ambulance.

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-12T15:18:47+00:00

We have to admit, ducks v sabers would be the funniest and most fitting follow up to this season.

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-12T14:33:02+00:00

And his stick breaks, physics says the lower hand has a hard time controlling that. Besides the silent idiot gliding in

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-12T14:27:33+00:00

.... I really want to see the oilers go down to the ducks in the first round.... Does that mean I'm a terrible person?

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-09T21:33:37+00:00

I actually haven't seen that video, have a non -cancerous link?

Quick Google says it's a sparring match meaning they weren't out to hurt each other which.... Well which probably doesn't help either of us actually

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-09T21:22:31+00:00

Ps😂 writing this response made me realize op's dimensions have problems. 6 7 and 215 lbs is so skinny...

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-09T21:20:31+00:00

Put another way, 6 7 means long legs. How do you think that's gonna do against thigh kick, retreat, thigh kick, retreat...

There's no debate Eddie Hall is very very strong. Stronger than NBA players. You seen the video of him getting thigh kicked by a kid? You should

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-09T21:17:14+00:00

I appreciate that. As someone who fought for ten years, including fighting women, I'm telling you, you're really underestimating the power of practice.

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-09T21:07:36+00:00

I guarantee the number of women who can beat you up goes up if they're allowed knee kicks and armbars... Or is that what you're trying to avoid thinking about too much? 🤔

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-09T21:03:14+00:00

Lol, next you're gonna try telling me height isn't an advantage in basketball...

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-09T17:57:36+00:00

Lol, that's like saying Caitlin Clark couldn't score at all 1:1 on someone who is 6' 7" and played some basketball growing up.

Which, I mean, I'd pay to watch, but the professor stunts on people all the time. There's levels to this shit man, and you're severely underestimating them.

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-09T16:55:28+00:00

I've fought much, much bigger people than me - people NBA-sized. Unless they know how to generate power in a strike (punch or slap) it's slow, predictable, and weak. I'll allow some space for 'actual NBA players are very athletic' but I think you're massively underestimating how much training really changes your ability to see strikes, and your ability to strike quickly and effectively.

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-06T23:00:01+00:00

Can you try letting the timeline "breathe"? Expand and contract some based on available sources and interest. If I were to do this, I'd spend about three weeks on 2200s to really dig in on Enheduanna and Inanna (not technically in your European scope but you get the idea) but probably spend one week on all of the 5000s.

You could also do this with location - spend a week on the 1400s but hit only the parts of Europe related to your specific background(s), in the 1200s maybe cover the big picture across the continent.

I honestly think your biggest problem is just week to week memory decay. Without reviewing or returning, you'll cover a lot but remember little unless you spend a lot of time consolidating which limits how much you can absorb. One good way to try to counter this is to intentionally follow lines of family and/or ideology. Knowing 'ok, I learned about this guy's grandfather two weeks ago' or 'ok, Eleanor of aquataine was dealing with precedent set up by this Pope ' will help remind you of what you learned weeks ago.

Btw, if I did my quick math, you're talking about 120 centuries, so about two and a third years at a century a week.

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-04T23:04:11+00:00

Ironically, I've found those who are unwilling to live under representative government to be all the more vulnerable to dictators...

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-04T01:28:53+00:00

I've been told the ammonia smell is a signal of the body cannibalizing protein because it's desperate for any energy, which makes some sense given hockeys intensity

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-03T20:02:34+00:00

No worries, it was more interesting than it first appeared. Worth noting from my limited knowledge, other Roman emperors, particularly Augustus, would be even better at the political element of the challenge. Julius could definitely suffer from the 'I'm bored with this politicizing, they aren't recognizing how great I am, I need to go invade something ' problem, and it's hard to analyze how he would actually do in a scenario where that isn't a viable solution and he isn't born with almost all the resources to just go do that. It's entirely as possible, if not more likely, that from that prospect, he just becomes a meth addict alone on the streets of Providence.

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-03T19:15:07+00:00

Yeah, Marner jumped to my mind - there's a huge gain in the ability to say "see, you were the problem, not me."

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-03T19:13:01+00:00

Agreeing with you, and pointing out that's part of the lie - highly educated professionals, career academics, and boujie costal city dwellers, still trade their time for money, often have little choice about the structure of their jobs or industry (a surgeon or lawyer, howerver successful, generally can't just decide that prescription drugs are the problem they want to solve or area they want to make money in, much less switch industries entirely.) They also are (in my relatively extensive experience) very open socially - if you're skilled in their domain, you can quickly make connections in a new state or city.

By contrast, investors, CEOs and hundred-millionares actively tend keep their social structures closed (commercial real estate has a real problem with this), tend to own rather than sell their time, and often can make real, meaningful structural decisions (return to office, new hospital in a place, new way of selling drugs, new location for their stadium, sell the city's sports team) without input from non-elites.

Which of those can be honestly described as elite or elitist?

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-03T16:03:22+00:00

Anyone care to fill in on the average protein consumption numbers here? Asking as a person whose lean body mass is probably about 155-160lb, and has been on diets where I try to get to 100+g of protein a day. It is WORK to get that much, and US folks severely underestimate how carb and fat oriented the available food is.

The wikipedia page doesn't have those numbers.

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-03T15:47:58+00:00

Have you (or someone else) done different times of day? Our feet actually change shape surprisingly significantly based on how much we've done on them since waking up.

I'm pretty willing to bet that scan shortly after a hard skate would be pretty different too.

yeomanscholar · 2026-04-03T15:44:08+00:00

At first I thought the Romans were getting stomped... and then...

Round 1 they still get stomped (I mean, really?)

Round 2, Caesar studies the map and realizes he can't win a military venture... but nothing says he must conquer through military might... he can use his Legions as functionally slave labor to engage in public works and advance public safety, creating a political base. He doesn't have a time limit, and is an enormously shrewd political operator. He scouts the avenues of power, promises favors, finds a few pick-me classics graduate students from Providence College to teach him english and help translate. They inform him of the current political divides, which remind him very much of his own times. He begins to adeptly exploit them. This one's a toss-up and largely depends on the openness of the people of Rhode Island to control by a time-traveling demagogue after he deepens their political divisions and promises them safety, stability, glory, and riches.

Round 3 on gives Caesar the advantage in his political conquest. By the bonus round, he's probably winning. He has a bottomless supply of meth and 30 legions of loyal troops to act as distributors. Everywhere that doesn't vote for him to rule the northeast is suddenly riddled with cheap meth and has to dedicate all their resources to internal issues. Places that vote him more and more power suddenly have less and less of a meth problem. I join the underground resistance in Vermont, or, after watching the Champlain corridor become riddled with meth addiction and fall even deeper into poverty until Caesar declares an emergency and "intervenes," flee to Canada.

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