Since Mrs, Ms, And Mr Are All Descended From The Latin Word Magister, I Propose The Gender Neutral Version

Non-spanish eating schedules dont stop pressing me, if there is supper what hour are you mad people dinnering at?

Breakfast Should Refresh You

Lunch Should Encourage You

Dinner Should Challenge You

Supper Should Make You Wonder

It would be an insane disaster in every possible way, but christ, it’d be so fucking funny if the Icon of the Seas ran aground and sank

Just very recently started liking little birdies and looking them up and so and its made me so happy

Your quality of life will increase ten-fold when you learn to appreciate the sight of a little bird

DNI as in Documento Nacional de Identidad(Spain identity document), I presume

I just saw a DNI for "evil intentions". nobody puts up a warding talisman anymore just a fucking DNI

He's cute and all but are we now saying major-generals and the military and so killing people in the name of a nation is ok?🧐

Hello hello

Just wanted to share the Norwegian Major-general and military mascot Sir Nils Olav III. He is a penguin. He is the highest ranked penguin in the army, and I think more people should know about him. He makes me happy. I hope he makes you happy too.

Thank you for your time, have a good day.

He makes me happy too.

Maybe cause im european but instantly thought it was as a pedestrian, and im not waiting for any ghost cars, but as a driver i change my opinion, i am bound by respect

Theory: Nobody who writes a physics textbook gives any fucks

Evidence:

On Discomfort and Morality

My father finds gay men uncomfortable.

He's told me before that it's like a knee-jerk for him. Something he doesn't consciously control. He sees two men behaving romantically, and his body reacts with mild discomfort.

In the 1960s, when he was in high school, most of the boys in his form thought he was gay on the simple fact that he wasn't homophobic. He wouldn't participate in insulting queer people, he didn't care if someone was gay, he wouldn't have a problem hanging out with gay people. So people thought he was gay. That's how prevalent homophobia was in his formative years.

When I was 10, my dad told me very seriously that Holmes and Watson were gay. That it was obvious from the literature and the time period that they were meant to be a gay couple. When I was 14 and I came out to my parents as bi, when my mum was upset my dad ripped into her for it. Told her that she was being stupid, that it was my life to live how I wanted to and that she needed to get over herself.

My dad formed my views on censorship: that being that it was completely ridiculous and thoroughly evil. He didn't believe in censorship of any kind. If I asked him a question about sex, he answered it honestly. When I was 12 and I asked him about homosexuality, still young and uncertain, he told me that there was nothing wrong with it. That it was just how some people were. That there was likely an evolutionary reason for it. And that for some people it was uncomfortable on an instinctual level.

He taught me that just because you're uncomfortable with something, doesn't make it wrong. He also taught me that most people don't understand this.

I see a lot of this on the internet as of the last few years. The anti shipping movement, the terf movement, the anti ace movement. It all stems from discomfort that people have crossed wires into believing means wrong. Really every -ism and -phobia out there stems from this same fundamental aspect of humanity.

The next time you see something and you automatically think it's disgusting, or wrong, or immoral, I invite you to ask yourself: is this actually wrong or does this just make me uncomfortable?

The problem here isn’t that large language models hallucinate, lie, or misrepresent the world in some way. It’s that they are not designed to represent the world at all; instead, they are designed to convey convincing lines of text. So when they are provided with a database of some sort, they use this, in one way or another, to make their responses more convincing. But they are not in any real way attempting to convey or transmit the information in the database. As Chirag Shah and Emily Bender put it: “Nothing in the design of language models (whose training task is to predict words given context) is actually designed to handle arithmetic, temporal reasoning, etc. To the extent that they sometimes get the right answer to such questions is only because they happened to synthesize relevant strings out of what was in their training data. No reasoning is involved […] Similarly, language models are prone to making stuff up […] because they are not designed to express some underlying set of information in natural language; they are only manipulating the form of language” (Shah & Bender, 2022). These models aren’t designed to transmit information, so we shouldn’t be too surprised when their assertions turn out to be false.

ChatGPT is bullshit