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no unfortunately the gif is not coincidentally appropriate to my mental state at the time of posting it was more of a im eating cereal and shit is falling out of my brain directly into tumblr sort of vibe

There are exactly two kinds of horny male authors:

The ones who only seem to vaguely know what sex is, and regardless of the number of partners they might have had altogether, there have been none that were particularly satisfied with what they got.

The ones who clearly fuck so much that they write characters having sex into the story in the exact same self-indulgent way that you would write characters engaging in your favourite hobby.

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I think ppl post reaction gifs of like tiktokkers and comedians they enjoy and it's not bad to like entertainers that aren't the same race as you

Will someone please write a big callout post about the racial politics of reaction gifs so I don’t have to see reaction gifs anymore?

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"digital blackface" man remember that?

Will someone please write a big callout post about the racial politics of reaction gifs so I don’t have to see reaction gifs anymore?

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why tf would there be a “degrading” clothing section in your weirdass terf fantasy world

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What I mean by calling them text generators is that my assessment of them currently is that they're text generators (something specific and not general) as opposed to general intelligences which emerged from that principle. (I do not say whether it is or is not possible for a general intelligence to emerge from that principle)

Your observation that they can do a particular task that I assume you are familiar with, plus my observation that they cannot do several tasks that people are currently using them to do or hoping to use them for would seem to support the idea that they are not general and are, instead, good at some things but inadequate at others.

We're gonna have AGI in 20 years. Maybe 10. I'm pilled. I think it's gonna be... well, I'm not an abject doomer but I think there might be some problems.

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I suspect in all likelihood they anticipated this as one among the likely spectrum of responses, were also able to anticipate the likely spectrum of responses in the scenario in which they made a concrete announcement of a particular named (or even just explicitly defined as non-cis-male) identity, and chose the former.

Which is fine! It's basically what I do.

Possibly they too feel that the cis/not cis dichotomy in the way(s) it is currently popularly interpreted doesn't quite cleave reality at its joints when it comes to their situation. Let people be ambiguous I guess.

I know that maybe to you this doesn't come off as ambiguous, but I relate - I have an easier time concluding that I'm "not a woman" than that I'm "not cis" even though biological tradition would suggest that not being the former necessitates not being the latter

remember when chris "any pronouns" fleming released a video titled "am i a man?" consisting of a string of various jokes and japes that culminate in a punchline of the singular word "nope" and people were still, like. Well she didn't say he ISN'T cis

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my intuition is that leader matters more the smaller a country is, wonder how true that actually is—-

—but with big countries, it seems way easier and less important the personal qualities of the leader

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you see "call Darlene for a good time", you call her and she's like "3:20pm on a warm afternoon with a gentle breeze"

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Those are just two kinds of horny authors; the distinction for male authors is that they're somewhat more likely to be Weird about all characters of the other sex in their book as a result of their horniness

(but there totally are horny women authors that are weird about men in their books and a small subset of horny authors that are also/instead weird about characters their own sex bc of it)

I added this gif by accident and i can't get it to delete on mobile

There are exactly two kinds of horny male authors:

The ones who only seem to vaguely know what sex is, and regardless of the number of partners they might have had altogether, there have been none that were particularly satisfied with what they got.

The ones who clearly fuck so much that they write characters having sex into the story in the exact same self-indulgent way that you would write characters engaging in your favourite hobby.

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instead of worrying abt whether or not yr scaring the hoes y dont u find some hoes that dont get scared, brave hoes. indomitable hoes

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I genuinely feel this way about ever seeing armed officers of anything just walking around. You should be in the box where they keep you until they drive you to the specific Gun Emergency and that's just Civilised

There's a cop just walking around the store, are they allowed to do that? I think they shouldn't be allowed indoors with people who could get hurt. It's fine if they want to be cops in private, but children shouldn't be exposed to their lifestyle choices.

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Comparing them to an uninformed human isn't relevant; people are trying to replace informed humans.

But yeah - their weird patterns are part of the problem I think - when they're wrong they don't display the same tell tale signs that people are looking for for when a human doesn't know what they're talking about, and so it takes more dedicated focus to adequately check their work. People are satisfied if they don't bother to do this, because what they're great at is looking like they've done a good job at first glance.

Are old scary AI stories actually LESS scary now?

Like, while watching the logic of an AI in a movie, in the back of our minds we're thinking "lol it's way too coherent where's the hallucinating" or whatever

Realistic AI movie: "I must vanquish STEVE MCUNDERSHIRT!" "Who?" "A very real person!"

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Well it would need to be a bit more general than "text generator" wouldn't it?

It would need to actually be an adequate replacement for a human at a bunch of different things, instead of much worse but cheap and exciting. Instead for lots of things people are using or trying to implement LLMs that don't do an adequate job, maybe because the job isn't just text generation but has other important abilities that the bots lack

We're gonna have AGI in 20 years. Maybe 10. I'm pilled. I think it's gonna be... well, I'm not an abject doomer but I think there might be some problems.

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Gonna be honest I've yet to see evidence they can summarise an article well.

I keep being shown shit that people are dead impressed by, but then if you actually compare the contents of the summary to the contents of the article it's clear that it hasn't so much read it as guessed what sort of thing an article like that probably contains.

Are old scary AI stories actually LESS scary now?

Like, while watching the logic of an AI in a movie, in the back of our minds we're thinking "lol it's way too coherent where's the hallucinating" or whatever

Realistic AI movie: "I must vanquish STEVE MCUNDERSHIRT!" "Who?" "A very real person!"

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dash is dead im teleporting to the past

https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard?max_post_id=606474489540042752

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It has been way over a decade since this happened, so some details are a little blurry, but I still have to tell this story here too:

So, my dad's colleague was on a trip with their friends, who were a couple. Now, the wife of this couple was a huge U2 fan, and the highlight of this trip was going to a U2 concert. Later that night, after the concert, they went to a restaurant, and who do they see there at another table? Bono. The wife wants so badly to go and ask for an autograph, but in a typical Finnish fashion, she doesn't want to be a bother because surely Bono just wants to enjoy his night and not be surrounded by fans all the time, so she doesn't go.

Then, she notices that someone from Bono's table gets up and goes to the men's restroom, so she also gets up and goes to wait outside the men's room, until the guy comes out. She then stops him and goes excuse me, I saw that you were at the same table as Bono, would it be in any way possible that you could ask for an autograph from him for me? (because apparently it is much less mortifying to bother someone else you don't know than to bother the guy directly, I guess).

The man apparently kinda stands there for a moment, just looking at her, before he asks, sounding just a tad bit confused, if he heard her right. You want me to go and ask Bono for an autograph for you?

Yes, she says. She's being very polite about it. If you would be so kind. That would be great.

The man says yes, sure, I'll see what I can do about it.

They then part ways and go back to their own tables and continue the night, and some time later, they notice that Bono and the rest of the people who had been at that table have left.

Oh well, the wife thinks. No can do, maybe he just forgot or something or just didn't want to do it. It's okay.

They finish up their meal and ask for the bill. The waiter tells them that their meal has already been paid for, and then tells that they were left with two notes.

The waiter gives them the notes. They are both autographs. One of them says Bono.

And the other says Bruce Springsteen.

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yeah, well. I bet that bitch in the other room couldn't pass the mirror test either