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My favourite example of the domino effect

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a few years ago, i made a flowchart for my partner in order to convince them to leave a pathfinder group that was actively making their life worse. today i revised my original chart to convince a friend to leave her d&d group that is actively making her life worse.

here is the chart. i promise its utility is not only with tabletop RPGs but it does have a high hit rate for those

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When questioned, chatgpt doubles down on how it is definitely correct.

But it's not relying on some weird glitchy interpretation of the art itself, a la adversarial turtle-gun. It just reports the drawing as definitely being of the word "lies" because that kind of self-consistency is what would happen in the kind of human-human conversations in its internet training data. I tested this by starting a brand new chat and then asking it what the art from the previous chat said.

Google's bard, on the other hand, interprets it differently

Bard has the same tendency to generate illegible ASCII art and then praise its legibility, except in its case, all its art is cows.

Not to be outdone, bing chat (GPT-4) will also praise its own ASCII art - once you get it to admit it even can generate and rate ASCII art. For the "balanced" and "precise" versions I had to make my request all fancy and quantitative.

With Bing chat I wasn't able to ask it to read its own ASCII art because it strips out all the formatting and is therefore illegible - oh wait, no, even the "precise" version tries to read it anyways.

These language models are so unmoored from the truth that it's astonishing that people are marketing them as search engines.

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Happy Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

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Sorry but actually the “press any button” greentext story is objectively the best one

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self-checkout shoplifters and retail employees could form a political bloc so strong that it could forever change the face of american politics and bring about an entirely new marxist school of thought thats kind of like beverage-and-snack oriented Maoism

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thoughts on jordan peterson’s work go

The Zizek debate was genuinely hard to watch. You can tell he actually thought he was prepared.

When it comes to grifters, the worst thing you can do is believe your own bullshit. That's what made L Ron Hubbard such a successful grifter. The man could pivot on a dime. He was whatever he needed to be in that moment. He knew to never put himself in a situation where his credibility could be measured.

Peterson believed his own hype. You watch that debate, and you watch a man realize that he's way in over his head.

What's saddest to me is that Zizek seemed like he actually prepared too. Zizek picks him so efficiently in the first 10 minutes that he gets visibly bored. It gets to the point where Zizek is trying to give him freebies to save face. I think about that event a lot, but I don't think I could actually sit through that video again.

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Why do people think that Yeshua was killed by the Jewish folks in power?

Antisemitism

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every aspect of transition should be optional. everything. hrt, voice training, clothes, surgery, make up, all of it. it doesnt all work for everyone and its not all things every single trans person needs or wants, transitioning should be about Your comfort and what You want. not what cis people expect, not about passing. its Your body and You have to live in it so customise it how You want to.

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We Will Never Forget…

This is a very moving memorial photo…it’s even more powerful knowing how many brave Jews risked their lives to smuggle tefillin into the death camps.

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The Willow Project would emit more climate pollution annually than more than 99.7% of all the single point sources in the country. It would be harmful for the natives living there, animals, and the rest of the environment. The video below explains more about it

Below is a letter written by people who live in the area where the project would take place, they talk about the pros and cons of it

If you're against the Willow Project, there's this petition

And this has a pre-written letter that will get sent to Biden, the final decision maker regarding the project, saying you're against the Willow Project

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gullible

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i honestly don't think it gets talked enough about how gay men can have a very nuanced relationship with gender, complex genders, and "contradictory" identities a lot of the time. i think a identifying as a man only gets forced on to gay men a lot these days, but so many gays identify as nonbinary, transfem, women, bigender, genderfluid, genderqueer, gnc, a crossdresser, a lesbian, and many more things. i love you, gays with weird genders

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i am LOSING IT