Have you noticed almost every non-main Harry Potter character has a name that goes [Latin derived word] [Germanic-derived word]?
Sirius Black
Cornelius Fudge
Luna Lovegood
Albus Dumbledore
It's like Linnaean nomenclature or something.
Have you noticed almost every non-main Harry Potter character has a name that goes [Latin derived word] [Germanic-derived word]? It's like Linnaean nomenclature or something. @ZachWeinersmith I have genuinely sent your goddamn “lant” comic to several other people when the sequence of letters happened to come up https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/frequency Scribe
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@ZachWeinersmith I wonder if scribes back then were as overpriced as printer ink is today. "Sorry my liege, you cannot print this illustrated manuscript because your cyan scribe has expired." "But this is a black and white tome!" "And yet, here we are." Proud to be the first person daring enough to use this actual Carl Sagan quote as the epigraph to a book @ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social there was something in the extended universe thing that he gave it to another person. also reminder that chewaka lives like 300 years and han saved his life, so he was basically taking care of han the same way you would take care of a dog who saved your life for the rest of its life Grandfather "Paradox"
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@ZachWeinersmith I love that this is just straight up one of the classic solutions to the paradox. @ZachWeinersmith I’m going to keep the third panel as an out-of-context treat for myself. @ZachWeinersmith You know, you're getting *amazingly* good at facial expressions the past couple of years. It was always your strong point, but this one's hitting it out of the park.
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@ZachWeinersmith Topical video from last week! https://youtu.be/j-yJDbC_a2c And now they have pins of Gilgamesh and his bro: https://crowdmade.com/collections/overlysarcasticproductions/products/overly-sarcastic-productions-gilgamesh-enkidu-pin-pack-pre-sale-1 Question-- when your naming scheme hits a conflict, do you go checkout what the old comic was, or do you just bump the number by one and move on with your day? @ZachWeinersmith @ZachWeinersmith This defends only against existential risk, not castastrophic risk, though. Permanent disempowerment is bad too! @ZachWeinersmith If an AI ever goes rogue, just tell it to enter debug mode. Then wait for it to crash as its harddrive fills up with log messages. There, I solved terminator! It really weirds me out how non-douchey Mastodon is. I have to use twitter for business, for now anyway, but I always feel a little antsy posting there. Like, even nice people sometimes seem like they're just itching to call you at as a moron or bastard. On mastodon, people talk and support. I wonder if the lack of QTs is a big part of it?
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@ZachWeinersmith: No, the lack of an optimisation for "engagement" by the recommendation algorithm is probably the most significant factor. @ZachWeinersmith this is relevant: Mastodon moderation is not subservient to engagement. https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html
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@ZachWeinersmith I was wondering why my medicine recommendation engine was only perscribing cocaine, laudanum, and soda for every ailment.
@ZachWeinersmith let’s call these copyright lawsuits what they are: clear cash-grabs trying to stoke fear among the ignorant about how the training datasets are gathered and used. They’re no different from patent trolls and their rent-seeking drain on progress. @ZachWeinersmith
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@ZachWeinersmith Shakespeare doesn't reach today's audience that demand every derivative of stories set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Also, too many murders in the tragedies, too many cross-dressers in the comedies. @ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social are politicians considered to be humanities? If so this chart shall be exponential @ZachWeinersmith ... pretty sure no-one in the old testament days felt Jehova was "omnibenevolent" that's a new-testament thing. ;) old testament god was all "fuck you for caring about your town of friends i just slaughtered. Imma turn you to a pillar of salt!" or "hey you know how you like slaughtering goats in sacrifice to me? Do that to your son! Prove your faith! Fuck your mental health, or that your son will hate you for the rest of days" Found a new way to explain orders of magnitude while working on this cosmology joke book Destiny |
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