Spoken like a man who jerks it to tradwife Midjourney pics. Can't get it up unless the fingers look wrong, can you?
What pushes Levy’s stories beyond being merely on the level of smart magazine essays is the empathy you can sense below the starkness of her sentences. A typical observation: “When I’m at a party and I look across the room I can see everyone holding their red Solo cups and hurting.”
"When I am at a party, I feel like nobody understands me," said the voice of a generation.
One character is nearly canceled when, on a college radio station, she says, “Trigger warnings trigger me.”
2014 sent a Vine; they want their joke back.
Generations no longer understand one another because we haven’t been injected with the same memes.
"Marvy. Fab. Far out," deadpanned Calvin's father.
When the AOE enters the Texas compound, there's nothing there.
Just cryptographically locked black boxes. They can take them, but they can't access or use or analyze them, and we just reboot from backups later.
There's a longish section about the physicist John Archibald Wheeler. I know people who worked with Wheeler. I've read Wheeler's unpublished notebooks. Get John Wheeler's name out of your mouth.
The very first thing that section says is
John Wheeler is a famous physicist who coined the term "black hole".
No, not the forcing values! :-O
"Honest, babe, I'd only dump you for a ten-out-of-ten smokeshow as evaluated on my personal scale!"
epistemic status: 20 milligrams
Yudkowsky:
Talking to the general public is hard.
Multiple commenters on FanFiction.net replying to chapter 23 of HPMOR: Genetics don't work that way. If magic were recessive, then wizard parents would always have wizard kids and there would be no such thing as squibs. Look, I drew the Punnett square....
Men will literally use an LLM instead of ~~going to therapy~~ writing documentation
I think it was Walter Lewin of MIT, not Harvard
I read War and Peace but have only vague memories of it, because I read it in eighth grade. We had an "accelerated reader" program, you see, in which we were supposed to read books and then take quizzes on them to accumulate points. The longer books counted for more. Nearly all of the list we could pick from looked incredibly boring, so I decided to get a year's worth of points in one go.
whomst among us has'nt err'd?