The_Terrible_Humbaba

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I mean I would totally give it a try⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
lmao I appreciate the honesty. After a quick search, I found this for you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon cheats through college⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
There are different LLMs and some are better than others at some things. I also would not word a question for ChatGPT in the same way I would word a search query. I also never found the LLM provided search results useful, but I have found ChatGPT very useful when I want to figure out something about a technical thing. And off course it’s not gonna be perfect, but you can use it pretty well as a starting off point.

Translation is different from conversation, I can speak English and Portuguese fine, but having to translate is a pain in the ass. And even then there are better translators than Google’s - in my experience DeepL is much better. But going back to the topic, LLMs are good at generating text, that is what they do, and that is why they are good for practicing a language. And pen pal programs to learn a language don’t typically involve getting angry or jealous, the objective is just talking about your day and basic interests, and forcing you to use and think in the language. You won’t always have access to people, and LLMs can be a good replacement.

As for DnD/text adventure, again they’re not perfect, but I think you would be surprised how good some can be and how much story they can have to work with. And they’re obviously not meant to replace a real game with real people, it’s just a bit of entertainment. Some people might not have friends who like to play DnD, for example.

Essentially what I’m saying is: yes, LLMs are not perfect and don’t fit every scenario, but they don’t have to. Sometimes you don’t need a drill, when a screwdriver will do.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon cheats through college⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My 2 cents on this.

I never used LLMs until recently; not for moral or ideological reasons but because I had never felt much need to, and I also remember when ChatGPT originally came out it asked for my phone number, and that’s a hard no from me.

But a few months ago I decided to give it another go (no phone number now), and found it quite useful sometimes. However before I explain how I use it and why I find it useful, I have to point out that this is only the case because of how crap search engines are nowadays, which pages and pages of trash results and articles.

Basically, I use it as a rudimentary search engine to help me solve technical problems sometimes, or to clear something up that I’m having a hard time finding good results for. In this way, it’s also useful to get a rudimentary understanding of something, especially when you don’t even know what terms to use to begin searching for something in the first place. However, this has the obvious limitation that you can’t get info for things that are more recent than the training data.

Another thing I can think of, is that it might be quite useful if you want to learn and practice another language, since language is what it does best, and it can work as a sort of pen pal, fixing your mistakes if you ask it to.

In addition to all that, I’ve seen people make what are essentially text based adventure games that allow much more freedom than traditional ones, since you don’t have to plan everything yourself - you can just give it a setting and a set of rules to follow, and it will mould the story as the player progresses. Basically DnD.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This world is cruel…⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t do it, but I’d like to. The few times I tried it I quite enjoyed it, it’s just hard to find a place near me where I can practice archery. It’s quite fun, I think.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨louder for those in the back⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
They very clearly were wrong for painting technology as the problem. The problem is and was capitalism.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨louder for those in the back⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, the post is only true if we start implementing a bunch of copyright laws for the training and use of AI; ironically that is something most anti-AI people support.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I think it’s just part of how languages work and people communicate, at least for people learning a second language.

For example, if when you are learning English you hear a lot of people say “God dammit” when they are frustrated, then when you are frustrated you’ll probably also start saying the same without ever even thinking about God. It’s just a series of sounds when you learned to make to express frustration.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I think this is it.

The historians I know of actually seem to lean quite left of the average person; it’s the light hobbieists, who are often more interested in the aesthetics/surface stuff, who seem to fall victim to the alt-right stuff.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good point⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve only had this phrase explained to me recently, and since then I can’t help but think it would make more sense if it was told the other way around; such as “you can’t eat your cake and have it too”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's coworker is a flat-earther⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Man, a lot of comments on here are giving me reddit debate lord vibes. People talking about “the truth matters”, but the way a lot of them are saying, it sounds like they just want to ego boost and dunk on/bully someone that they perceive as inferior; which I suppose could also be called “asserting intellectual superiority”.

Chances are that any argument you use on them is something they’ve already heard, and the more you push and demean them the more defensive they will probably get, and the harder it will be to convince them. And even if you did manage to pressure and shame them into believing the earth is round, that won’t suddenly make them good critical thinkers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The men vs. bear saga reaches the inevitable conclusion⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Ok 👍 😘
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The men vs. bear saga reaches the inevitable conclusion⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You managed to say a lot without really saying anything. And when did I argue semantics or put words in someone’s mouth?

I’m not gonna go through this entire conversation again, so I’ll just link you my last comment which should sum up my thoughts relatively well.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The men vs. bear saga reaches the inevitable conclusion⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Okay, this comment was the best so far and actually seemed to care to make a point/converse, so I’ll make just one final reply.

Your first sentence might be true for older men, or men who are already “allies” to put it simply, but it’s simply not true for younger men, and again it’s also just unhelpful and pushes people away. Overall, it makes you sound like you care more about being angry and being right, than actually helping to make society better. Not that I don’t understand that feeling by the way, I’m just saying it’s unhelpful and not constructive.

And yeah, off course there will always be some men who will feel threatened anyway when people raise the issue, but the question is how many feel threatened and “othered” in one situation versus in the other situation. I mean, I’d hate to fall from a ladder, but I’d rather fall from a short ladder than a tall one; does that make sense? I’d rather you go with the option that will push less young men into the arms of people like Andrew Tate, rather than the one that will push the most just because you’re angry and want to make your point in the most brutish way possible.

And they will feel ‘othered’ because the patriarchy has raised them to believe they are the superior humans because of their gender and any suggestion that some men may do the wrong thing where women are concerned is an explicit threat to them personally.

They feel “othered” because the meme is inherently sexist, and if they complain they get called sexist. Again, imagine if instead of “men” this is talking about a marginalized group and the problem becomes explicit. Just because men are not a marginalized group in society, does not mean that the same feelings are not evoked in them when confronted with such rhetoric.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The men vs. bear saga reaches the inevitable conclusion⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
What are you talking about? When did I even say anything like that? Of course they will still get threats, the point is what is the best way to move forward, raise attention to these issues to bring about a better society, instead of making the situation worse, which is what I think your behavior does.

I’m really not sure if you’re even engaging in good faith and I’m not gonna spend all day on this, so this will be the final thing I’ll say:

I think that meme is unnecessarily divisive and will cause the average man (at least young man/teenager) who stumbles into it to feel attacked, and even more so when accused of either “not getting it” or “being a misogynist”; and in a time when they are just a couple clicks away of falling into and alt-right pipeline that will acknowledge their feelings and tell them the left/progressives have it out for them, it’s really unproductive to use rhetoric like that, which can make them feel “othered” and part of an out group.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The men vs. bear saga reaches the inevitable conclusion⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
By just highlighting the experiences of women in the society we live in, and all the sexual violence they fall victims to, and how much violence is specifically directed at women - without resorting to cheap inflammatory “memes” (*). And as another way to a solution, we can also just try to be and create good role models for young men.

(*)And saying that has actually reminded me, that’s usually exactly how the far right likes to act and spread their message too: inflammatory rhetoric that can make a catchy sound bite that will reach a lot of people, but which has no real depth to it. I’d rather not those tactics and actually try having real conversations.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The men vs. bear saga reaches the inevitable conclusion⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Gr8 argument m8!

Should be pretty clear if you actually bothered to read it, but I’ll spell it out for you: P-R-O-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E-S; and overall people who acknowledge the experiences of women that this is supposed to highlight. And I am also on that side, I just think you’re doing an absolute shit job of it, being needlessly discriminating, and creating division - as I already explained.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The men vs. bear saga reaches the inevitable conclusion⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, god forbid people get angry when others make sexist remarks! They must be real misogynists for not liking sexism!

If you replaced the “man” with “black man” or “black person”, or if someone said this with immigrants, it wouldn’t need to be explained to you or anyone why this is a pretty fucked up thing to say, but for some reason when it’s just “man” it’s okay and anyone who disagrees is a misogynist, according to you. If I made a general frustrated remark about women, plenty of people would take issue with it, and I don’t think you’d would be saying “it wasn’t meant to be a debate, it was meant to illustrate a point”, would you?

How about just stop using sexist rhetoric? There are a lot of people on your side who would agree with you if you just dropped the needlessly sexist and divisive rhetoric.

And before you get there - and if not you then I’m sure someone will think of saying it - it’s true that the world and system we live in isn’t as hostile to men as women, but progressive spaces definitely tend to be that way. And believe it or not, that actually has an effect with pushing younger men into the arms of the alt right; you can insult them and just call them fascists if you like, but that doesn’t change the reality that young hormonal men going into progressive spaces and seeing this kind of rhetoric will feel excluded, pushed out, and like the world is against them.