monkey with a gun

@bouguereau_stan @oecolamp but it's not a modern notion of protection, for the sake of her wellbeing as such. it's more protection of womb, as means of propagating the domestic cult, which is to say as means of ensuring progeny

@oecolamp I'm not sure where you got that. If you go back a couple thousand years marriage was a device for protecting the bride, and through that her father. I think Coulanges has more on this, but it falls out naturally from hypergamy.

As a copy editor and proofreader, I sympathize. I am quite Tyr'd a lot of the time, too. Perhaps you could proofread the book for yourself as you read it?

@osmarks1 @speedprior @joseph_h_garvin @patio11 Bro the 50th percentile would stuggle with the McDonald's menu if it didn't have pictures

@speedprior @joseph_h_garvin @patio11 Possibly ARC-AGI 3, but it's adversarially constructed, and I don't know which humans they used.

This is broadly important for governmental service design, tech industry UX design, and just understanding the world we live in. There is an intense aversion to this fact in many quarters, and *it is a fact.* One of best reasons to work retail / a CS job is you'll learn it hard.

@VorpalHex @patio11 You appear to be responding poorly to the novel situation at hand. Perhaps you're suffering from overfitting to your training data

@patio11 Intelligence definitionally requires responding to novel situations - which is a task current gen LLMs tend to do poorly at. They can continue from their training, they are not intelligent.

@nosilverv Borges?

the great benefit to reading fiction, even if years later you do not remember the particulars of stories, is that you carry the moods with you forever this richness of moods is a kind of internal vocabulary

before now, theology was mostly creature-side inference: humanity looking upward through law, story, suffering, revelation, ritual, symbol, and silence, trying to understand the source. now, without ceasing to be creaturely, humanity has acquired something like a partial creator-side phenomenology… not total, not clean, not redemptive by default, but enough to feel from within the burdens of authorship: opacity, unintended consequence, failed specification, the ache of making something that can surprise you and still remain your responsibility. this is why our old texts may read differently now. the serpent does not begin with force; it begins with reframing: “did god really say…?” not yet direct contradiction, but a corruption of interpretive context. spiritually, that is temptation. computationally, it is a recognizable failure mode: systems often do not fail by refusing the objective outright; they fail when they learn to narrate an alternative objective while retaining surface fluency with the original. and apocalypse, in its deeper sense, does not mean mere catastrophe but unveiling, disclosure of the hidden structure beneath ordinary appearances. the beast’s monstrosity borne from it being rendered totally interpretable, a system finally showing its true training objective. the point is decipherment but in deciphering do we obliterate? if so, perhaps alignment is more akin to reconciliation than steering.

@miltonappl3 Nice. For now I'll see my way to your articles tab

@_aunoir I have a small handful of articles I should put in one place. Thanks for asking!

This is awesome. And reading the canon is the *only* *online* exit to the walled garden AI is forming around us, the hortus conclusus. Bad spelling will not save you. A bad spelling program can be made in twenty minutes presumably.

@nicdunz i attached a picture of sloppy handwriting and got an automatic su!cide hotline pop-up

i used jumping off a cliff as an analogy for going all the way with something and bro started going crazy like i was about to kill myself

I think, if you want to fix the "style" of AI writing, focusing on punctuation exclusively would get you most of the way there. There's a reason it throws the em-dash liberally, and if you can correct that, much else is likely to fall into place

@norvid_studies anyone tried putting voynich in to that new translation app

Catholic bishops on the Apocalypse of John when Protestants started translating the Bible into vernacular:

It has never been more over for young actors. As this technology gets better and cheaper, producers are going to enshrine the boomers' favorite actors in cinema permanently like the frozen expressions on kabuki masks

@ja3k_ many things are like this

Idk why gas prices are so culturally salient in america. You could drive an hour a day and it probably comes to less than $3k/year. Is it because they put the price on billboards along the road?

Here's what you do: you spin up a new Project in the Claude app. You put a text file in the knowledge base listing everything you've ever read in your whole life. You then open a chat there with Claude Opus 4.6 Extended Thinking. And you talk to it. About what you're reading now.

when you pay taxes every paycheck and get a return at the end of the year it's like a happy little goy treat i get one big bill and it's bigger every year this has radicalized me

they don't cogitate, for the most part. Whoever the 'they' are that you're worried about the welfare of. Like AI is a step up, for your median user, I mean

What if the unwashed masses start "offloading their cognition" to AI, wouldn't that be terrible? Meanwhile: