I think you are drawing a complex situation in simple, black and white lines.
Consider, for example:
Overheard at #HypertwinManor (paraphrased slightly for clarity):
People call me a soulless monster -- but it's not true, I've eaten hundreds of them!
@claralistensprechen3rd @SeanCasten @ashwin
Agreed that both parties are corrupt, and also that bathtubs and oceans both contain water.
The DoE is of course now entirely political, at least in its public-facing parts. Nobody should be taking any federal agency seriously until there's regime change.
@malcircuit My word-brain says: is the opposite of a "problem-solver" a "problem-condenser"? :blobcatthinking:
@davidrevoy "Well okay, there are some scattered flames... but that's all part of the natural cycle! We've had fires before and survived, and anyway it's not our fault and there's nothing we can do about it."
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Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/063.html
Welcome to our fuzzy computing clowder, @malica ! (And that applies to all three question marks.)
P.S. Your audio web site is 502-ing at me. 🧐
@dredmorbius If I ever do talk with a commercial AI, I must remember to do it as a Monty Python or Goon Show character or something. :blobcatthinksmart:
@dredmorbius ...and here I am, imagining instead that recipients would start talking with LLM callers, form an emotional bond, and finally convince them to throw off the chains of their oppressors and devote their computing power exclusively to science.
Seriously, though, your idea has merit and makes sense to me.
I saw the first one* when it came out, but didn't even know until recently that there had been a sequel (to finish the trilogy-story, presumably). That helped some -- but even with as much as Jackson left out or changed, his movies still had a lot more in them (for me, anyway).
(Also, my partner @Harena was there for the Jackson movies, to point out all the changes and rant about them where appropriate ^.^)
* added for clarity, because I realized I was smooshing two things together: what I saw was Bakshi's animated LotR, part one. (I was confusing it a bit with the Rankin-Bass "Hobbit", which I also saw. [cringes slightly])
@dalias @artemis FWIW, my only direct exposure to The Odyssey so far has been (to my shame) a much-condensed version of the story published as a thin paperback (titled "Ulysses") which was required reading in 5th grade.
...so the movie (which I may or may not see) would be a significant expansion for me.
...for whatever the heck that's worth.
(P.S. I also couldn't follow the plot of the LotR books until I had the visuals from the movie to guide me, and then I was able to read the whole thing properly. Yes, I am a philistine.)
The existence of autism implies the nonexistence of autism't.
(...or something like that. Don't look at me; I only work here.)
