"the ick" is the negation of fantasy by way of the revelation of being
snav
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snav
@qorprate
here to make friends and cause trouble
- this meme has incredibly powerful energy and i don't understand why
- at some point in my childhood in cold upstate new york, i remember having the thought "i just need to let the cold into my bones". then, the cold stopped feeling like an imposition, i stopped suffering. this thought stuck with me over the years.
- my favorite bit of starship troopers trivia is this story about the actor who played the protagonist, Rico, being recognized by a bunch of kids while picking up his 8 and 10 year old daughters at school
- is there a polite way to tell someone that you know they're writing with ChatGPT and that it's not just slop-coded – it's cringe.
- THIS IS SO FREAKING COOL LLMS CAN LITERALLY SEE BECAUSE TEXT HAS SPATIAL QUALITIES THAT'S HOW THEY MAKE ASCII ARTNew paper! We reverse engineered the mechanisms underlying Claude Haiku’s ability to perform a simple “perceptual” task. We discover beautiful feature families and manifolds, clean geometric transformations, and distributed attention algorithms!
- The toddler method (asking "why?" repeatedly) is actually a more powerful tool for gaining philosophical intuition, because it forces the answerer to consider the relation and transition between various explanatory frames, whereas Socrates always maintains frame control.
- I have this theory that people use Twitter to say the things they wish they had someone in their life to hear
- i wonder how many people out there struggle with a vague sense that they've lost something essential that they had as a child
- today i ordered an espresso and the barista let one of the two espresso streams miss the cup entirely and fall onto the tray "did you pull me a single espresso?", I asked "no, it's a double shot" "then why..." "this is just one, did you want two?" "..." what do words even mean
- my new hot take: the reason men are "bad" at discussing their feelings isn't because vulnerability needs to be normalized or w/e, but because psychology as taught isn't rigorous or systematic enough to let men treat emotion like an engineering problem -- something to do together
- my dream gf: - does stuff i like with me and enjoys it too, incl. talking about stuff and hanging out - i think she's pretty and she thinks im handsome - is nice to me, generally - has various other qualities i could not have anticipated finding endearing in advance
