ArbitraryValue
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- Comment on Anon watches Lord of the Rings 1 day ago:
Even if not, it makes the refusal of Aragorn to use them again even more noble, which is the literary goal of their existence.
Maybe, but given that they were trapped in undeath for thousands of years because they didn’t hold up their side of the oath, finding out what would happen if Aragorn didn’t hold up his end of the same oath seems like a bad idea.
- Comment on Anon watches Lord of the Rings 2 days ago:
They’re a limited-use item - once they do enough to fulfill their oath, they won’t keep fighting. Also, in the books it wasn’t clear that they could actually cause physical harm.
- Comment on Asking for a chocaholic friend 4 days ago:
Winning a Nobel prize causes one to consume enormous amounts of chocolate? Is that what the prize money pays for?
- Comment on The level of discourse in the US right now 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think Garfield or anyone is going to change an adult’s well-established sexual orientation, but the idea that children growing up in a society that normalizes homosexual attraction will be more likely to develop inclinations that otherwise would have been suppressed seems reasonable to me. It’s supported both by the prevalence of what we would call bisexuality in certain cultures and by my own personal experience - I distinctly recall being young and trying to decide whether an attractive character in a picture was a flat-chested woman (and therefore OK) or a long-haired man (and therefore not OK). I had internalized social expectations before I even knew what the differences between men and women were, and so from that point my sexuality developed to be strictly heterosexual, I think that I might have become bisexual if those social expectations had not been taught to me before that formative time.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 3 weeks ago:
Some of those symptoms are caused by the virus as part of its strategy for spreading. They make you likely to spread infectious fluid from your nose and mouth. Meanwhile your body has to learn how to recognize a virus that has evolved to be hard to recognize (and do that without also accidentally “recognizing” some of your own cells and killing you) and then track down every last virus. And there are billions of viruses, many of which are hiding inside your own cells.
- Comment on Good evening. 3 weeks ago:
I saw a guy once with no gap between his beard and his chest hair.
- Comment on Do you ever feel full and hungry simultaneously? 3 weeks ago:
Hmm, it’s probably several of those things at once. The last time it happened was when I ate a bunch of pancakes for lunch while having a stressful day and not sleeping very well.
- Comment on Do you ever feel full and hungry simultaneously? 3 weeks ago:
Usually I feel a more normal “I’m full but I could eat more because that was tasty.” I have also felt “I haven’t eaten all day but the thought of eating disgusts me,” but that was definitely a side effect of a medication I was taking at the time.
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- Comment on Rust 3 weeks ago:
We’re not the first organisms to alter the atmosphere and cause a mass extinction. The first ones were microorganisms and the gas they released was oxygen. We’re descended from the survivors that managed to adapt to a high-oxygen atmosphere but to this day there are many microorganisms that die if exposed to even small amounts of oxygen.
- Comment on Don't 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on sorry guys i slept in 4 weeks ago:
Ah 2013, the year I got my first real job after grad school. That was fun. I miss being 27 - I didn’t have the “Oh shit, time is running out and soon I’ll be old!” feeling quite as much, although back then I did worry about turning 30.
- Comment on Anon goes to a steakhouse 5 weeks ago:
Pottery, art, kinesiology
I admit that I have a double standard because I want a woman who is interested in my nerd hobbies but I have zero interest in that girly stuff. What the hell is a kinesiology?
- Comment on irl shiny 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on how good are you at lying during job interviews? 1 month ago:
I’m not sure what the point of lying about a requirement that you have which the employer intends not to satisfy is.
- Comment on Ideal car 1 month ago:
I think that’s what I was actually thinking of but I mixed it up.
- Comment on Ideal car 1 month ago:
I read an article once about a guy who got a NO PLATE licence plate and ended up being automatically blamed whenever a cop wrote in that a car had no licence plate. I wonder what 0X00000 would do.
- Comment on Ideal car 1 month ago:
You can have equals signs on license plates? What do the cops do if they need to catch you? Do they put out an APB for emoticons?
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 1 month ago:
The elites don’t want you to know this but the flags of the USA are free you can put them on your packaging I have 458 flags.
- Comment on Anon goes on a diet 1 month ago:
Even when I got used to feeling hungry all the time while dieting, I never got used to the fact that I was constantly tired and sleepy. I was way less productive than I had been while eating as much as I wanted to.
It was different when I took medicine that messed with my appetite. ADHD medication pretty much made eating optional. I still enjoyed it when I did eat, and if I paid attention I would be able to tell that I was hungry, but if I was distracted by other stuff I would often just forget to eat all day.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 2 months ago:
Depends on what you mean by “drastically”. The guy evangelizing to the rest of the company was claiming an increase in productivity of about 30%. I’d say that’s a big increase, but I wouldn’t use the word “drastic”.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 2 months ago:
Well I, for one, have gained a great deal of effective psychological advice from ChatGPT - advice that has significantly altered my internal state and is changing my life for the better. My friend (an experienced software developer) uses AI to review code and look up obscure syntax. According to him, it functions at the level of a “very well-read intern”. A scientific collaborator I used to write data-analysis scripts for almost never asks me for help anymore. She is very happy because Gemini is good enough to do almost all of what she needs. A digital artist I know often edits promising AI-generated pictures rather than drawing from scratch. A very no-nonsense coworker increased his productivity so much using Copilot that he voluntarily arranged to give a talk to the rest of the developers about how great it was.
All these are people I know personally. I don’t think an AI can write a B- paper (it can write something that looks like a solid paper until, as you say the sources are checked) but it’s already helping many professionals work more efficiently. For now, this looks like a warm-and-cozy “AI works together with humans rather than taking their jobs” scenario but every one of the people I’ve mentioned thinks that the technological development that lets AI take his or her job could happen any day now.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 2 months ago:
Pumping out a B- paper means being able to replace the average college graduate.
- Comment on Anon did philosophy 2 months ago:
Large breasts are hypnotic in a way that smaller breasts aren’t, and I don’t deny that I’m attracted to them, but I’m not necessarily more attracted to them even though I am more likely to stare.
I also have a thing for the athletic flat-chested look. I had such a huge crush on my friend who was competitive long-distance runner.
- Comment on Anon did philosophy 2 months ago:
My impression is that breast size matters primarily for competing with other women. It’s like muscle size for men.
- Comment on Anon looks into cults 2 months ago:
I would be a fool if I gave all my money to a charlatan, and I’m no fool. That proves that Jesus IV is the real deal.
- Comment on And so it was 2 months ago:
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 2 months ago:
Predictable in the same way the inevitable leak of the people submitting their selfies in order to view porn is predictable.
- Comment on sharks are older than polaris 2 months ago:
North star? More like noob star.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Sexual attraction plays a role - I’m not aroused by playing a game, but attractiveness is a type of beauty and I enjoy looking at beauty. I also think that women are just prettier than men even in an entirely non-sexual way, but I wonder how much of that is simply a reflection of being taught that women are the beautiful gender rather than an innate aesthetic preference. That segues into an interest in traditionally feminine social roles. I admit that I’m a bit envious of women, not because I consider myself a woman or want to become a woman, but because women get to be beautiful, delicate, desirable, etc. and men don’t.
