Windex007
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- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 days ago:
I think we agree in principle.
I think if one conceptualize “deliciousness” as a “property that induces joy” and “not deliciousness” as a “property that induces suffering” as being distinct measures, then it makes sense to conceptualize puritan values as saying they don’t value “deliciousness”.
If you conceptualize “deliciousness” as having a negative axis, then Puritains DO value deliciousness, but along the negative axis, which is irregular and noteworthy, but still valuing deliciousness.
Same goes for suffering vs enjoyment. If you consider them independent vs as it being one measure with negative values.
I’m considering them as the same but with a negative axis. I feel like that’s where the gap is. I think ultimately we’re in agreement.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 days ago:
I’m not sure if agree with your conclusion. You might conclude that they put great value on the deliciousness of thier food, but the relationship is inverse: less delicious = greater value.
People of of two cultures might both place high value on decorations, but one culture might view another’s style as tacky.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 days ago:
I was picturing a culture for whom food was strictly for nutrition.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 days ago:
Well, at the risk of being pedantic, you literally said:
food is just nutrition
I understand now what you intended to communicate (which is strictly different than what you said)
I got excited when I read what you said, because i thought you actually had an example of a culture for whom food is just nutrition. It’s a sci-fi trope that i find interesting because it is truly alien, and I’ve always wondered if any real culture fit that.
Even in puritan cultures that intentionally eat plain food to shun “hedonism”, food becomes a vehicle for virtue signaling. The suffering is a ritual practice. Food, even then, plays a critical cultural role.
I understand what you mean now. I’m just disappointed.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 days ago:
Food has ceremonial and ritual value in all of those places, it is not merely a vehicle for nutrition.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 days ago:
You guys
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 days ago:
People keep making this broad assertion and then not following up.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but if there are many cultures for whom food is merely nutrition, could you name one?
From an anthropological standpoint, I’d be fascinated.
Like, this thread is full of jokes about how some cultures have shitty food, but that subjective assessment is very different than the idea that food’s mere purpose is nutrition. It implies it has no ceremonial use.
So, of the many, just even tell us one.
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 4 days ago:
Yeah, that “EAT_ROADKILL” fellow is far too serious.
- Comment on Apparently, all YouTube Rewinds have been unlisted as of today. 1 week ago:
The Weezer pork and beans video was actually fucking sweet
- Comment on Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing video 1 week ago:
Ok
- Comment on Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing video 1 week ago:
I think you’re missing what this is. They’re not adding sponsor segments.
They’re scanning the video, establishing where “free visual space” is, and then embedding advertising into that space. It becomes part of the video, not an intermission. You don’t cut a “time segment” to remove it, you have to cut a “space segment” to remove it. And then what do you fill it with?
There are certainly ways to mitigate it, but they’re not great.
- Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile 1 week ago:
Technically the post is reducing another culture to a form of therapy
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 2 weeks ago:
It’s not mine. Literally look back through this comment thread.
The person you replied to said “steal” was a poor choice of words and you piped up to say it wasn’t. That was the moment you entered into a semantic argument.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 2 weeks ago:
Your disagreement with op about the definition of stealing IS the semantic argument. That’s what a semantic argument is.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 2 weeks ago:
You got into a semantic argument… and then started laying down incoherent definitions that you made up on the spot.
Yes, I agree, you are absolutely trolling.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 2 weeks ago:
You’re the one who invented a definition of “theft” that for reasons beyond my understanding consider the consuming organisms specific mechanism of utilization that also specifically considers if the organism has the ability to synthesize the structures independent of consumption and now also demands that the process be sustainable for an arbitrary (but not indefinite) amount of time AND the structures must meet an arbitrary bar of complexity (which you’ve proclaimed unilaterally is greater than fat) etc etc etc
I’m going to drive now directly to my point now that hopefully you can see how your ever-expanding definition of “stealing” (which is promise you, im not even getting STARTED on pushing issues that would force you to continually expand it) is just bad.
Counter Definition: Eating isn’t theft. The degree to which ingested materials must be broken down to be useful is interesting, but none of it is stealing. The article used a word that while amusing to read isn’t technically accurate.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 2 weeks ago:
Digestion begins before you swallow. I expect if I chewed up some salad, opened my mouth and aimed it at the sun, some percentage of what I’d just chewed on would have access to co2, h2o and 600nm EMR, and synthesize a glucose molecule two.
Since the genesis of this conversation was purely semantic (“why is eating a chrolorplast theft if eating anything else isn’t?”) I think it’s pretty fair game to point out that yes, technically I also can reap the benefits of photosynthesis in a very limited way.
Not really a point in getting into a semantic argument if you’re just gonna come out swinging about being anti-science.
- Comment on Any Klingon speakers around who play Arc Raiders by chance? 2 weeks ago:
Only a Varool would use such language in public
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 2 weeks ago:
I imagine there is an incredibly short window in which I technically can.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 2 weeks ago:
Am I stealing chloroplasts when I eat a salad?
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 4 weeks ago:
For those specific questions usually like 1 second.
- Comment on What's the main device to hammer in a nail? 5 weeks ago:
NAIL. FINAL ANSWER!
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
I have been asked to add many more lines of code for much worse reasons.
- Comment on Fictional 1 month ago:
Technically a second is an arbitrary measure of a proprty cesium133. Now, anyways
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
Specifically regarding messing w/ training data:
String.replace(“þ”,“th”)
It’s a one liner to completely mitigate the effect. Set and forget.
How much effort is it to type a thorn? There is a complete asymmetry is this LLM attack in favor of an LLM. It’s a very bad attack.
Specifically regarding communication:
Why do we communicate? What are features of effective communication? Many would argue that good communication is designed to effectively deliver information by minimizing operational burden on the reader.
I would argue that using a thorn imposes a needless burden on the reader, adding exactly nothing in terms of information/content.
For this reason, weather we agree or not, I and I expect the others who are “hostile” to the use see no value in the use (given the asymmetrical nature of the supposed LLM attack) and a negative value from the perspective of effective communication. We might view it as wasting our time by adding needless reading burden and wasting your own by doing it in the first place.
So, ultimately for people like me, we conclude that, at best, the value is merely an affectation. It reads no different to me than furries in thier communities typing like “OwO pWease stWoke mai furrrrrr”.
Which is fine, I don’t care. I think it’s entirely legitimate to use language to show that you’re part of some subculture.
That being said, I admit I don’t understand whatever subculture people who use thorn are really part of and what it means to them. Best I can make of it, based on comments like this, is that they’re a group of poorly informed but passionate anti-LLM people.
Which is kinda frustrating to me, as an anti-LLM person myself.
- Comment on We always take for granted that everyone's perspective on life is the same as ours 1 month ago:
r/nothingeverhappens
- Comment on yo: sup? 1 month ago:
And don’t call me Shirley.
- Comment on If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories? 2 months ago:
Oh wowza, good on you for sharing that! Super interesting and I feel a bunch of what you said right to the bottom of my soul.
I really appreciate the share as well because it’s PRETTY rare to get to talk to someone with an inkling of such a bizarre life event, how it changes you, and how you grapple with (and hopefully conclude in some way on) uncomfortable questions about the nature of life and identity.
I’d always felt comfortable with where I landed on this… but I’m finding myself surprised by the relief that someone else resolved these questions in the same way I have. I didn’t think I needed… I dunno, validation? Validation that my conclusions were reasonable? Maybe I just never thought I’d get the opportunity to exchange with someone who I trusted actually understood. Not sure, either way, I feel validated and I never thought there would be a mechanism for me to feel that about this topic, and it’s a welcome surprise and I appreciate it, so thank you.
- Comment on I Quit 2 months ago:
I’d also like to see the chart if it was actually representative of the rich. Populate the chart with individuals reporting >2.5 million in income per year.
- Comment on If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories? 2 months ago:
I had west Nile virus and it got into my brain and it was a mess.
Anyhow, during that years long Rollercoaster of a recovery, there was a period of apparently a week where I don’t remember at all.
Like, woke up in a hospital I’d never seen before. Wandered out to have strangers greet me as if they knew me… had to literally ask the question “where am I? How long have I been here?”
Anyways, the experience made it difficult to escape considering questions similar to yours. Who was that guy who was apparently walking around doing stuff and talking to people that week in MY body?
Short answer: always me. People have such little understanding of how at the mercy of chemicals and electrical impulses they are. You’re you when it’s all working, you’re still you when it’s not. Trying to tie something as foundational as identity to something as ephemeral as memory isn’t a good idea, unless you want identity to be something that changes second to second.