Bookworm come Eldritch Horror on Hiatus

Recursively self-optimizing seed human. Programming, RPGs, puns, and reblogged rationalism. Born in the 90s, busy being dumb in the smartest way I can

[bibliolithid]

Okay, it is once again time to say goodbye to tumblr (historically speaking I'll be back in three months) if any of y'all want my discord or to hang out around Greater Seattle let me know!

[toasthaste]

HI I JUST LEARNED THAT THE PROTAGONIST FOR THIS SHOW (PRESUMABLY THE ONE DEPICTED HERE) IS A WOMAN AND I HAD NO IDEA AND I NEED TO WATCH IT YESTERDAY (first season has been out a while, season 2 this year apparently)

[tlirsgender]

They don't tell you this but besides the Beloved Mutual there's also the Longterm Follower who you don't follow back but they're always in your notes and you're kind of watching them. Checking on the longterm follower's bio every so often like turning over a log. She's trans now good for her

[tlirsgender]

Longterm followers I am putting fresh leaves and hrt in your enclosure

[nat-20s]

You can replace [ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY] with [SCROLLING] but watch out. This sucks bad 👍

[nat-20s]

Some things about this post since getting quite a few notes:

1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!

2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.

3. I think there are times where scrolling is fine. Right now, for example, I'm being connected to a machine for two hours to donate plasma and platelets. Yes this is a brag but it is also a time where scrolling is one of the few things I can do. (Though I will probably also read or watch something on phone lol)

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

hmmm, this seems to be some kind of curse breaking spell… be free ye reader

[cloudmancy]

need to become a guy who exclusively does evil commissions. like this

WILL DRAW ✓ mecha ✓ gore ✓ furry ✓ nsfw

WILL NOT DRAW X ocs X fanart X simple backgrounds

[cloudmancy]

great question and I'm glad you asked. in this case I would only draw:

real people, places, or objects

art of media that neither of us are really a fan of

unoriginal characters

[collapsedsquid]

I am extremely normal and can be safely invited to the discord server *thinks for a moment* I am weird but in a pleasant rather than unpleasant way and can safely be invited to the discord server.

[eightyonekilograms]

The "Golden Gate Claude" paper/model is a big deal for AI interpretability, AI safety, LLMs as useful engineering tools in general, and possibly even philosophy of mind/consciousness, so it feels kinda bad that my first thought was that this has incredible kink meme potential.

[eightyonekilograms]

In other “LLM research as kink fuel” news, here’s chain of thought injection

[collapsedsquid]

Yeah if you mess around with local ones where you have more control and they are crappier it's especially clear the LLMs can have a hard time separating what you said with what they said in a dialog, but even talking to high-end ones they will often talk about "my suggestion" when it is in fact their suggestion.

[collapsedsquid]

[collapsedsquid]

i do get annoyed whenever a supreme court justice incorporates "necessity" into their decision of constitutional law and such, "We need to do it this way or the consequences would be catastrophic." Dudes that is not your job to decide necessity. That is congress's job! I get you guys are all schmittians but you are not the fucking sovereign, that is not your job here.

[bibliolithid]

file a lawsuit about it

[tsarina-anadyomene]

Study finds 99% of interstellar flights result in a mysterious incident that kills entire crew save a sole survivor.

[lateonseteverything]

Yeah but the distances are so huge, it's still one of the safest travel methods per kilometre

[bibliolithid]

me to my partner when discussing whether to take a plane or rocket to Alpha Centauri:

[nostalgebraist]

my strongest claudes would kill you, traveler

[bibliolithid]

consider: SQL but you have to malloc/free

[toasthaste]

steel cut oats! they're chewy in a pleasing way. I would almost describe the texture as "bouncy"

[toasthaste]

I will not open up the Eva Stratt tag at 2am I will not open up the Eva Stratt tag at 2am I will not open up the Eva Stratt tag at 2am

[bibliolithid]

this is what she would have wanted

[renmoss]

who will i be when the empire falls?

[tobiasdrake]

Can you imagine being Gandalf? Getting shit from other wizards because you have a thing for hobbits and you're just like, okay. Okay, maybe I'll temper my fascination with hobbits.

This Ring quest will have two hobbits. Maximum.

Then they all get to Rivendell and have somehow multiplied into four hobbits. And it's like. Okay. Maybe the others are right.

Maybe this is too many hobbits.

We have as many hobbits as we have not-hobbits.

But damn it, you just don't want to get rid of any of these hobbits. Screw it! Everyone can deal. Four hobbits. This is a four hobbits problem.

So away you go.

And things go bad in the worst possible way.

Over and over.

You've lost your hobbits. You've lost yourself. The fellowship has been separated.

It takes everything in your power to help the humans defend themselves, bringing them together to save Rohan. Finally, as things begin to look upright, you're ready to face the war with everything the Rohirrim have left.

You're ready to face him. This may be the hardest battle you've ever fought. But you ride.

Then you get there and two of your fucking hobbits are sitting there like "Yeah, while you were gone, we raised a tree army and beat Saruman's ass. Wanna help us loot his tower?"

....

There were not, in fact, too many hobbits.

This was a four hobbits problem.

[elodieunderglass]

A wizard neither underestimates nor overestimates the number of hobbits needed for an equation. He, er, always has precisely as many as he needs to.

[toasthaste]

eva stratt you are my everything, I would die in space for you even though I know whether I'm willing to do that or not doesn't really come into it