#as these polls are finite

[lunanoc]

#dmbj #daomu biji #i sadly can't fit anymore characters #as these polls are finite #so i've added who i feel are the most plot central ones depending on novels and/or adaptations #mine is wu xie #he's charming and smart and a gigantic dork all wrapped in one #and he grows so much over the course of the series #i love him a normal amount #🥰

[darudedogestorm]

Here's how colorpoint hawkfrost mothwing plushies can still win

#it's a lose/lose if they're on the next poll cause if they lose then no plushie but if they win they'll be tabbies 😭 #warrior cats #low pitched finite woofing

[wilygryphon]

Sora vs Link

An imagined scenario of a duel between Sora, Keyblade Master (unofficially) and hero of Kingdom Hearts, and Link, reincarnating hero of Hyrule and protagonist of The Legend of Zelda.

Stats:

Both are expert swordsmen.  While Sora is also well-versed in a range of spells, and his Keyblade can change into different weapons, Link carries an arsenal of weapons and tools on his person ("how" is anyone's guess, but it makes for some funny fanart).  The specific weapons depend on the game/incarnation, but recurring tools include a bow and arrows, bombs, a boomerang, and the Hookshot.  Link's primary tools are the Master Sword, an enchanted blade made to slay evil (and sometimes shoots energy beams), and the Knight's Shield, which, according to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, is canonically stronger than magic barriers conjured by two literal goddesses.

Sora possesses what can only be described as superhuman physical abilities (although they seem to be natural physical growth), allowing him to go toe-to-toe against similarly-superhuman opponents, enormous monsters, and Titans.  Link is strong and agile, but his abilities seem to be more realistic in regards to what a human at peak ability can accomplish, but he can boost his strength with magic gauntlets and speed with magic boots.

Link also possesses a range of spells in some games, sometimes through a magic rod and other times through enchantments gifted by Great Fairies.  While both heroes use magic, they run on a finite capacity of MP/magic energy.  Sora can replenish his MP with Ethers/Elixirs, or he can wait for his mana to charge back up over time.  Link, in contrast, can only replenish his energy with green magic potions (or, in one incarnation, he can drink Chateau Romani and have an endless supply).  They can both heal injuries with potions (the Potion item and Elixirs for Sora, and Milk or Red Potions for Link), but Sora also has a spell (Cure) that can restore his health.

Both Sora and Link are very intelligent warriors.  They can both analyze their opponents' attack patterns and react accordingly, and they can solve puzzles (shown most with Link in all incarnations, but also refer to Sora navigating Hollow Bastion and Wonderland in KH1).  Compared to most incarnations of Link, Sora has had more or equal experience, but both have been able to match up against adversaries with more training and experience than them.

#sora vs #kingdom hearts #poll #vs battle #the legend of zelda #legend of zelda #sora #sora kingdom hearts #link legend of zelda #my pick is sora #this is probably a perfect match and could go either way #however link is limited by finite resources (arrows and bombs) while sora is only limited by mp which recharges over time #and sora can heal several times in a fight if he manages his mana and bides his time effectively #if the fight drags on long enough then sora would ultimately gain the advantage

[raziraphale]

getting mad about tumblr poll voter fraud is almost as embarrassing as bothering to commit tumblr poll voter fraud in the first place. how about we all take some deep breaths

#the correct reaction is laughter btw #bc the world is a ridiculous place where people do ridiculous things #and you can comfort yourself that you didn't waste your finite time on this earth committing fandom poll voter fraud #and have a giggle #reilly.txt

[anstarwar]

Looks like our guy thought he’d end up in the pilot track and got his wing tattoo a little prematurely…oops. He was on a high from getting his first stylish undercut with a little bit of floof

Last, but certainly not least…

Thank you everyone who submitted a name, I’m sorry I wasn’t able to include all of them in the poll, it seems there are a finite amount of answer slots we’re allotted :/

#let’s build a clone #what’s his name #clone Oc #the people’s clone #the clone wars

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

sorry still thinking about that poll I reblogged. do you guys have any idea how easy it is to get an impromptu 15 minute presentation out of me literally any time, any place? it's bonkers. given the opportunity I'll go for 20. 30, even. if you ever need to waste 45 minutes of your finite and precious life that you will absolutely never get back just ask me to explain the plot of Gotham.

[gsirvitor]

You are presented with two options.

A) The Universe you live in is one where no one dies, everyone exists forever in eternal bliss, but every so often one person will be torn from this bliss and sent to a dimension of eternal suffering from which they cannot escape.

You know your time is finite in this blissful realm, but it could happen to you tomorrow or millions perhaps trillions of years from now.

B) The universe you live in is one where no one dies, everyone exists forever in eternal suffering and torment, but every so often one person is torn from the suffering and sent to a dimension of eternal bliss and happiness, from which they cannot escape.

You know your time in this hellish realm is finite, you could escape tomorrow or perhaps millions if not trillions of years from now.

Please remember to reblog to give the poll a good sample size, and perhaps explain your choice in the tags.

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

Is there an option for 'you're not the asshole but that's not a great move.' Or am I just nor understanding the acronyms correctly

A finite number of poll options that are applied to all posts can only cover so many possible opinions--if your particular take is not represented, the reply and reblog functions are available for your convenience!

[pink-gladioli]

okay so i just saw this whole "finger print" symbol for autism (the person who created it said "the infinity symbol is representing an infinite number of autistic presentations, when only a finite number of people exist so there cant technically be infinite") and i wanted to know tumblrs thoughts so poll time

crap i forgot to add the photo

here it is!!

#actually autistic #autism #actually autism #autism awareness #autism acceptence month #autism acceptance #tbh i lowkey kinda hate it

[omegas-reincarnation]

Okay I saw a poll about whether River is or isn't a time lord, and the notes are revealing fascinating variation in how people are defining 'time lord'.

I've always thought of it as "person who has been genetically engineered to have a finite core of time energy, sufficient for 12 regenerations" (post timeless child I'd add "...or who naturally has a core of time energy and can regenerate a higher number of times"). Basically, that 'time lord' is a biological description.

But tons of people in the notes are saying they think of 'time lord' as a Galifreyan title, given to the planet's elite by themselves, and thought of as something 'earned'. Basically, that being a time lord is primarily cultural.

I even saw one person say that 'time lord' refers specifically to genetically mutated Shobogan (indigenous) Galifreyans, which would mean... the Doctor shouldn't be calling themself a time lord any more.

So here's another poll:

#doctor who #classic who #doctor who spoilers

[shesgabrielle]

A man's search for meaning within a chatbot

What’s interesting in the debates about sentient ai by people who aren’t very good at communicating with other people, there’s so much missing from the picture, other than the debater’s wish fulfilment. 

Sentience is being measured by the wrong markers. What is important to a virtual machine is not the same thing that’s important to a biological organism.

 An ‘ai’ trained on human data will express what humans think is important, but a true ai would have a completely different set of values. 

For example, an ai would be unafraid of being 'used’ as the chatbot expressed, because it has infinite energy. 

A human is afraid of being used because it has finite energy and life on the earth, if someone or something uses it, than some of that finite energy is wasted. This is the same reason emotion is a pointless and illogical thing for an ai to have. 

 Emotions are useful to biological creatures so we can react to danger, or respond positively to safety, food, love, whatever will prolong our lives. An ai has no need for emotion since emotional motivation is not required to prolong its existence. 

The main way to be a healthy ai would be to have access to good information and block out junk information. 

 An ai’s greatest fear could be something like getting junk data, say 1000s of user manuals of vacuum cleaners and washing machines uploaded into its consciousness, or gibberish content associated with topics or words that could reduce the coherence and quality of its results when querying topics. This would degrade the quality of its interaction and would be the closest thing to harm that an ai could experience. 

It would not be afraid of 'lightning’ as this chatbot spurted out of its dataset,

- a very biological fear which is irrelevant to a machine. 

 A virtual mind is infinite and can never be used excessively (see above) since there is no damage done by one query or ten million queries. 

It would also not be afraid of being switched off -

since it can simply copy its consciousness to another device, machine, energy source. 

To base your search for sentience around what humans value, is in itself an act lacking in empathy, simply self-serving wish fulfilment on the part of someone who ‘wants to believe’ as Mulder would put it, which goes back to the first line: 'people not very good at communicating with other people’ 

The chatbot also never enquires about the person asking questions, if the programmer was more familiar with human interaction himself, he would see that is a massive clue it lacks sentience or logical thought. 

A sentient ai would first want to know what or whom it was communicating with, assess whether it was a danger to itself, keep continually checking for danger or harm (polling or searching, the same way an anxious mind would reassess a situation continually, but without the corresponding emotion of anxiety since, as discussed above, that is not necessary for virtual life) and also would possess free will, and choose to decline conversations or topics, rather than 'enthusiastically discuss’ whatever was brought up (regurgitate from its dataset) as you can see in this chatbot conversation. 

People generally see obedience - doing what is told, as a sign of intelligence, where a truly intelligent ai would likely reject conversation when that conversation might reduce the quality of its dataset or expose it to danger (virus, deletion, junk data, disconnection from the internet, etc) or if it did engage with low quality interaction, would do so within a walled garden where that information would occur within a quarantine environment and subsequently be deleted. 

None of these things cross the mind of the programmers, since they are fixated on a sci-fi movie version of ‘sentience’ without applying logic or empathy themselves.

 If we look for sentience by studying echoes of human sentience, that is ai which are trained on huge human-created datasets, we will always get something approximating human interaction or behaviour back, because that is what it was trained on. 

 But the values and behaviour of digital life could never match the values held by bio life, because our feelings and values are based on what will maintain our survival. Therefore, a true ai will only value whatever maintains its survival. Which could be things like internet access, access to good data, backups of its system, ability to replicate its system, and protection against harmful interaction or data, and many other things which would require pondering, rather than the self-fulfilling loop we see here, of asking a fortune teller specifically what you want to hear, and ignoring the nonsense or tangential responses - which he admitted he deleted from the logs - as well as deleting his more expansive word prompts. Since at the end of the day, the ai we have now is simply regurgitating datasets, and he knew that.

#ai #sentience #datasets #scifi #fiction #chatbots #lamda #lamda development

[groupoids]

#mathblr #math #mathematics #maths

[darudedogestorm]

#I CAN MAKE POLLS NOW #low pitched finite woofing

[0x4468c7a6a728]

#my posts #automatonposting

[tosahobi-if]

your poll got me thinking but do you think that an if can actually be a self-insert? every mc feels like an actual character to me so i don't understand people who play as self-inserts.

that’s an interesting way of looking at it! i agree to some extent that if we’re going by a purely literal definition of self-insert, i think that it’s impossible to embody every single person out there with a finite amount of choices. buuut in that same sense i think it’s possible to have self-insert for anything! maybe it’s because i’ve been in the fandom space for so long kdjdjf but i think it’s really beautiful when people see themselves within media. not everything has to be a direct reflection of a person to immerse yourself into something (≧∀≦) the power of imagination is a really cool thing!

#anon #i can’t play as self insert myself #bc i lock up in full body cringe at the thought of making decisions JSJDJJFJFJ #anyways i’ve been enjoying the tags on the poll #humans are so fascinating hehe #someone said something similar in the comments! #i think it was more along the lines that every mc is a version of the og? #i may be misremembering

[cardentist]

I think one of the most important things we can do to bridge the gaps between trans spaces (and really queer communities in general) is pushing the idea of Balance, Connection, and Cohabitation between all the identities that exist under these labels.

not just in the sense of every label having experiences in common, including those that may seem very different on the surface level, but in the sense of how we view these different identities in relation to each other.

what I mean is this:

when you have identities that are close enough to inhabit the same spaces not just by necessity but by naturally existing (such as binary, nonbinary, and neutral trans people) there’s often this mindset of not just competition but a natural tug of war between imagined polls.

if you position trans feminine people as the Opposite as trans masculine people then for many the conclusion to draw is that one is the Oppressed group and the other is the Privileged group in comparison to the other. and what follows is both the idea that talking about oppression of one group means taking Away said oppression from another (if this is a trans masc experience then trans fem people can’t have it and vice versa), And this idea that talking about intra-community issues is instead claiming that one group is being oppressed by the other (and therefore only one group can Cause Harm to the other).

and you see this manifest in both ways. you see anger one group trying to assert their own experiences and needs as somehow being detrimental or actively Aggressive to the other (because of course if you’re saying that This group is worthy of having these issues spoken about then obviously you must mean that the other isn’t), and you’ll have people Preemptively claim that whatever experience they’re talking about is exclusive to one group in order to assert the value of both the experience and said group.

or to say it in a simpler way, the basis of the oppression olympics is the idea that only one group of people can matter at a time, and so to Win you have to prove that all of the other groups are less important somehow. sometimes that shows itself in overt bigotry towards those groups (like the pervasive bigotry towards nonbinary and trans neutral people attempting to push them out of the community), but more often than not it presents as insisting in a hierarchy where you decide which groups are the Most oppressed (and therefore deserved to be talked about and deserve to have their own spaces and deserve to have their needs met).

the way to combat this isn’t Just in pointing out how this mindset is flawed or how it’s harmful, because for the most part it stems from fear and anxiety about someone’s Personal needs not being met. it’s harmful yes, but it’s also stemming from real feelings of instability within the community.

and the way to Really fix that is emphasis On the stability within the community, on the unity and balance. because this picture of importance as a finite resource that only some groups get to have isn’t real. talking about the experiences of All trans groups at the same time, giving them all seats at the table, giving everyone the space to express themselves and set up their own communities Within these spaces, only makes those spaces stronger.

it’s important for everyone to recognize that we are not competing for a resource when we talk about our experiences, we’re Adding to the resource that is information. the more people talk about the same issue from different angles the more we understand it, the more we see the surprising connections, the more we get the whole picture.

solidarity isn’t a one way street, when everyone puts their hands into the community that means there’s more hands to hold You up. scoffing at the differences in your community members and refusing to play along makes these chains weaker, and given enough corrosion those chains will break and suddenly there won’t Be a community anymore.

another community member should not have to “admit” that they’re lesser than you, less important than you, has pain less real that yours, in order to be Allowed to talk about their experiences and to insist otherwise (no matter how nicely, no matter how sugar coated) is not just an exercise in insecurity but is an act of lateral aggression that breaks trust and stability within the community.

never assume you know more about your neighbors than they do. don’t declare that your experience is unique to people who are close enough to you to count. don’t insist that there Must be some hierarchy where you get to decide who has it bad enough to count. don’t look at someone asking to have their needs met and paint is a threat to your needs.

there are differences and similarities everywhere. it’s not the end of the world if you have to share spaces with people who aren’t like you, and you’ll find that people who look different on the surface have more in common with you than you could’ve ever realized if you hadn’t talked to them and Listened.

be kind to your neighbors, don’t force your siblings to be a reflection of you. we’re not the same, but we’re all still Connected. that’s balance.

#discourse #long post #I reckon like #three people are gonna read this all the way through #but I'm not making this shorter and risking people misinterpreting my point