damn I hate green apparently

Do you know the hatchet books? I loved them as a child.

You know thought experiments are not used as evidence right, but rather to direct the search for evidence.

You go: "if X were true we might imagine finding Y under Z conditions" then we go and do real experiments in order to actually see if this holds true. Using the evidence we support or refute the imagined scenario.

Special relativity isn't true because of trains mirrors and torches, it is true because it's true and we know it's true (in the empirical not logical sense) because we have done measurements of atomic clocks and shit.

If the new regulations haven't kicked in yet: 99 rare candies and a pack of each vitamin.

In their defense, a lot of lay Catholics are extremely ignorant of the mystical and theological foundations of their religion.

Live vicariously through me.

You seem to have a very extreme view of who I am.

Good use of emotion in discussion: "Imagine if every time you said you loved your wife people complained about how you always had to bring heterosexualilty into things. Wouldn't you find that really isolating?"

Bad use: "Aren't I a good person? Don't you love me? You're spitting in the face of a thousand years of tradition by being gay. Do you want this family to die out?"

If you are trying to make a factual claim about the future. aka a prediction, and you use as evidence for your beliefs an event that didn't happen, you are an idiot at best.

Yeah and lying to people or bribing them are also good tactics if your goal is just manipulating people you have no respect for. Using them degrades yourself, profanes society, and shows that you have nothing but contempt for your interlocutor.

appeal to cinema is a nice punchy name for it!

I am building a hell specifically for people who think Lord of the Flies has anything useful to teach us about the nature of society and cooperation.

If it's obviously true you don't need to support it. "The sky is blue" is not annoying. "remember MiB, the sky was blue in it. The sky is blue" is a deranged way of expressing it.

Also I contest that this is obviously true. Massed humans are generally pretty sedate and if anything more predictable, cities are surprisingly stable for example.

yeah nah, you're missing the point. Stuff which did not happen is not evidence of stuff happening and so can't be used to support a prediction of the future.

What you're talking about seems to be some broader defense of fiction as having merit in expressing emotions or values which is a different thing entirely.

If the thing is in fiction because it happens in reality just use an example of it happening.

Made up shit only supports arguments about made up shit.

My wife was playing around with a soviet style take on the Aussie national anthem and decided to compare lyrical output of chatgpt and deepseek.

Chatgpt had better rhymes but deepseek started with "Here is a rewritten anthem that celebrates the inevitable victory of communism: ..." which I thought was a hysterical emission for a corporate slop machine to output.

Is andor the Syril arse mfers to fume huffer pipeline?

I'm not sure if I'll play again tbh. The guards arrived and the difficult really spiked, super realistic combat injury system.

I can't seem to pull up the save and quit menu with enemies around either.

It's less that AI isn't real and more that it's a nebulous marketing term.

A videogame enemy is AI, a spam classifier is AI, a computer vision motion alarm is AI, an extremely convincing text emitter is AI.

I honestly can't understand why people use these things outside of applications for transforming text you created where you are checking the output. Their whole thing is learning how to output text which is an extremely convincing facsimile of human writing. Like their whole thing, literally just the thing they do and optimise for, is forging being a thinking human being. That's quite useful for say summarising a body of text you wrote, or helping you soften the tone of something, or draft rhymes or something. If you use them to learn anything though, or produce something you don't entirely understand inside that output will be things with only a limited relationship with reality and every single piece of it will look extremely convincing.

Like holy shit, even putting aside all other concerns you are exposing yourself to a specialised misleading machine. Why not just take a hammer to your own head while you're at it?

Every time my wife farts now I put on the voice and do the speech.

#couplegoals

This is art, it's provocative. It's satirical from the perspective of using these super high tech gadgets and infrastructure to perform a pointless and unpleasant task. It's asking why such a task might be considered desirable, especially by someone who had access to such tools and knowledge.

It's creative and interesting. Not everyone who uses computers is some Randian nightmare goblin.

They do that in the open areas though. Like they'll put some enemies, a beautiful scene, maybe some dialogue (sometimes that hilarious thing where the game says "wow isn't this game so beautiful") and then it's corridors again.

I love this game, it's awesome. The corridors are weird though.