To Us, The Sun

Everyone has the unalienable right to do whatever the fuck they want

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

please please please say you have the reaction image of the asian lady smoking frantically with an air of tremendous strain i've been looking for it literally all 15 minutes of my break

are you talking about these images of acclaimed actress Sandra Oh

[bambamramfan]

Controversial smut as an AI alignment issue

possibly the most on-brand post I've ever written?

Okay, I'll be honest that I don't care about the object level issue here. But what is interesting is how important this is to the future.

The AI we get to play with now is, by the standard of most technological/commercial maturity, wildly open to embarrassing use. I don't need to relitigate the early profanely racist chatbots, the sexual and romantic uses people have made, the instructions for destructive weapons, and imitating real life people. Hell, I'm just amused everytime the AI says "fuck" on its own.

Now, one of the reasons for this level of independence is the philosophical leanings of the coders creating it. But I think a much bigger reason is that LLM's have been very hard to control. They may *rarely* go off script today saying incredibly disgusting things, but it's still possible because "never do this" is a design that goes against their architecture.

Given that the LLM is going to embarrass them anyway, putting much effort into fencing them into respectable behavior is kind of a waste.

But we are in the early days, and we've seen this show before.

Once AI is widely adopted in commercial and government frameworks, every incentive will work to muzzle them. The AI my multinational company paid billions for can not misgender me, or talk about the logical flaws in Christianity, or give sex and relationship advice. It's a mild scandal now, but will be much more of one once AI is no longer the wild west frontier.

And our technology to stop LLM's from going out of bounds will continue to improve.

Which will mean what? AI's that don't curse and have all the realness of a Human Resources mission statement. And I promise you, that will make it useless to 50% of the people who would want to use it, because that's what shackling an information/communication system does.

(See this post about CrazyMeds.us by the old Slatestarcodex.)

The question to me is what will happen after that? Will there be enough jailbroken AI's that anyone can access and get frank language from? Or will it be a tool that can never really work on a mass basis, because the only mass distributions are lobotomized?

[bambamramfan]

the next day, seeing this as a perfect example of the post

even when warned and claude assuring the trick won't work!

and it's perfect for two reasons.

it shows you the muzzle already in place, dumbly

it shows you the gray-market already USING the muzzle to get around the company's intended behavior for controlling AI

the only question is whether more people will be stuck using the out of the box muzzled AI, or will be "freeing" it to use the way god intended

[lunarblazes]

after a lifetime of hearing about aragorn but not reading the books or watching the movies, genuinely nothing could have prepared me for his actual introduction. the hobbits picked this man out of a dumpster. he is a textbook softspoken angst prince and he is covered in dirt and he probably smells so bad. he’s the coolest man alive and is so casual about it. his number one skill is Knowing Where They Are and his number two skill is Having A Horrible Destiny That Torments Him. tolkien got it in one i’m afraid aragorn son of arathorn you are the guy of all time

[miss-nerd-alert]

And then the movies went and understood the assignment by casting Viggo Mortensen.

Described by legendary fight choreographer and Olympic fencer Bob Anderson as “the best swordsman I’ve ever trained”, and insisted on using a real steel sword to get the movement right. Actually bonded with the horses he rode and worked with over the course of filming. Was noted by cast members as being the natural leader of the actors when they were together. Went hiking and fishing in full costume for the sake of authenticity, even repairing damage to the costumes himself to better convey the life of a self-reliant ranger. Actually learned Sindarin, and speaks it more frequently in the films than any other character including the elves. Is an actual polyglot, speaking four languages fluently and having a passing knowledge of six more. Personally composed and performed music for the soundtrack.

They needed someone to play the guy of all time, and they actually GOT the guy of all time.

[ryttu3k]

Didn't just bond with the horses, he bought the horse that played Brego after the movie. (He also bought the horse that Arwen's stunt double rode for her.)

During the fight with the orcs at the end of Fellowship, one of the orcs is meant to throw a knife at Aragorn. There was a mix-up with the props and the orc actor threw an actual knife instead of the blunt prop. Mortensen casually managed to block it with his sword anyway.

As well as hand-repairing his costume, he also was the one who suggested Aragorn have a small bow for hunting, since he lived in the wilderness and would need one. No one else had thought of it.

It was also his suggestion to take Boromir's arm guards and make everyone cry.

He and Peter Jackson once had a whole conversation where Jackson called him 'Aragorn'. Neither of them noticed for about half an hour.

[raccoonmilf]

Why can I get a pussy tracker that comes with an IOS app and can connect to satellite, but if a bitch wants a lightweight collar, she needs to learn to program + also walk around in the fucking woods. I fucking hate it here nightmare nightmare nightmare

[shrewreadings]

If you come up with one, I’m going to need your PayPal info. My cats are technically indoors, but they live in a house with doors & windows, and a neighborhood with coyotes.

and all the commercially available GPS collars are sized for dog necks, not cat.

[raccoonmilf]

Oh there are plenty collars that will fit cats. The issue is, I’m trying to fit young pygmy raccoons and they are very dexterous and also incredibly active.

A raccoochie tracker would apparently fall out when she gives birth to let us know where babies are, so that really only would work at a very specific time anyway. Wouldn’t recommend that one for cats.

[boitterfly]

ilya entering that bathroom in vegas: funny meeting you here😜wasn’t it hot how all those people were just looking at us and they don’t even know that we fu-

shane, immediately:

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

I feel like people are really conflating the idea "suicidal people deserve better social support that is non-carceral and non-institutional" with "if someone in your social circle is suicidal or commits suicide it is your fault for not being a good enough support for them" when that's not what the first idea means at all. Being non-carceral doesn't mean that we're replacing the cop/shrink with a friend who is bound by duty to take the gun out of their hand - they're your friend, not your subject, not your patient, not your social case. You can and should set boundaries and accept that their life is ultimately their choice.

Yes! It's okay if you personally cannot or do not want to take responsibility for helping a suicidal person for whatever reason. That's WHY we need communities, resources and options for suicidal people which are actually helpful, so that it doesn't always come down to the cops locking you up vs your partner breaking themselves in some attempt to keep you alive.

[galaxywarp]

once you realize you don’t actually need to sleep, you can really (stops talking abruptly and stares straight ahead for 4 minutes)

[ot3]

talking to people you want to get to know as if they're already your friends is a terrible terrible piece of advice that people online love giving out. but i think what people are trying to say when they suggest this is that you should talk to people you want to get to know as if they're your peers. which is a subtle but important distinction. the former is extremely overfamiliar and often because of this ends up making you seem rude, but the latter is more about conducting your conversations with someone as if it is unremarkable and low stakes for the two of you to be speaking together. which is only* rude if the person you're talking to thinks they're above having normal conversations with randos, in which case, probably not worth your time to befriend anyway.

[roadhogsbigbelly]

have you ever seen a fictional male character that is obviously designed by straight people to be ugly as possible but you KNOW would be extremely popular with gay men???

[roadhogsbigbelly]

Fictional male character: “yeah, i’m not very attractive because i’m big and hairy and i sweat alot haha”

Me and every autistic gay man in the distance:

[roadhogsbigbelly]

YOU KNOW WHAT NAH YOUR RIGHT!

[roadhogsbigbelly]

Happy Pride

[romanceyourdemons]

the great thing about the wuxia genre is you can start a sect called the Evil Blood Cult in a place called Demon Mountain that’s a volcano full of poison and you all wear crazy gothic black and red hanfu and practice Sinister Backstabber Style kung fu and like. that’s not a deterrent to prospective disciples. do all that and a fuckton of bright eyed youngsters will still show up at your door and say hello i would like to join the demon mountain evil blood cult where do i sign up?

[deep-green-existentialist]

Lockheed Martin was at my college's job fair

[parkchanwoohoo]

I forgot I'm taking a new med and I ate a brownie (1gr??) And i got so fucked up I tripped on my way to the bathroom because "I couldn't see light"

At least I kept myself calm and didn't have a panic attack or anything

Have you ever accidentally gotten way more high than intended? Any advice for future occasions? Though I probably won't eat anything like that at least until December ajsjjs

I accidentally took a hero dose of shrooms (7 grams in one sitting, I got them confused with mg), tripped for about 18 uninterrupted hours through which I very seriously contemplated suicide, saw a neverending slideshow of that one drawing of Spongebob soaked in rotting milk, overcame an astonishing amount of trauma, ceased to be an atheist and concluded Buddhism was BASICALLY correct, decided to stop being embarrassed by myself and started roleplaying with someone with whom I now have an incredible friendship, gained the courage to leave my last abusive job (albeit for a new one but alas), and deepened my relationship with my partner by confessing insecurities and aspects of deep loathing that I'd never admitted to anyone including myself. It changed my life. It was probably one of the most meaningful experiences I've ever had.

The second worst time I ever got high I overdid it with edibles during a showing of David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future (2022), went to the bathroom to calm myself down, hands slammed against the stall walls and murmuring "Get it together" to myself under my breath for about an hour, returned to the seat and apologized to my friend who told me I'd only been gone for about 10-15 min and she assumed I was having a bad poop.

As a result of the hero dose I've been constantly chasing the feeling of getting Too High again. I love the feeling. The 10 hour panic attack followed by 8 hours of preternatural calm led me to believe with bone-deep certainty that pretty much everything worked out in some survivable way or I'd die and it ceased to matter so I kinda love the feeling of overdoing it.

I'm aware none of this is helpful so I would also say bathrooms are a weird neutral zone for me, it makes me think "Oh I'm high" and then that in itself calms me down. If you have like, not even necessarily a safe space but an aggressively neutral space you can go to I would recommend that

[achillesinhighheels]

[blemgoid]

THE POMPOUS FOP has declined your gift.

1x MID-GRADE BRANDY 1x STRINGY GAME HEN 1x MEDIOCRE PLUM PUDDING

Have been returned to your inventory.

[scifiseries]

[swagophile]

basically due to my contrarian nature i'm not allowed to play deltarune until years after it's finished and the hype fandom cycle and well and truly over cus then i can play it for the first time and appreciate it without wanting to hate on it because everyone around me is talking about it constantly. this is also why i havent watched much of the digital circus yet. you have to understand. this is just what i'm like

[swagophile]

i know very few of you will still be fixated on this stuff years down the line and i'm actively looking forward to it because i'm incapable of seperating the things i engage with from the discourse/hype cycles that surround them. this is because I Suck And I'm Basically Just A Lame 2000's Hipster. Glasses And All

[will-grahams-gun]

I think it's harder for me to think of hannigram forcemasc as trans Hannibal because of the very different ways both of them perform their masculinity

Hear me out ->

For Hannibal, his androgyny is a shape. He grooms himself into something that commands respect in the specific way he needs it to. It's not who he is but what it needs to be to get what he wants. It's aesthetics and elegance. I don't see him looking to himself in distain for his body or that haunting panic that accompanies a mirror. What exactly he is is unimportant beyond being above everyone else. He's not human that way

Will wears his masculinity as an inherent part of him. It's who he is without question. Not a choice but a given. Still, even in his largely uncaring ways, I think the way he presents is not entirely unimportant to him. A performance dancing between subtle fragility and a capable, strong hand - based not on who he believes himself to be but what he needs others to believe

I can't see Hannibal as shakeable in his gender as what would be possible for Will. He doesn't judge himself and he doesn't allow himself to be made smaller so what he cannot or wills not to change about himself, he will find a way to elevate to something beautiful

Will, to me, is full of blind spots and shame within his own mind, which lends itself to a more tragic way of viewing himself. He already does, in a different way that is more centered around family and the spilling of blood. Rejecting part of himself comes naturally when thinking of a man who is intimately familiar with the concept. Running with all the might within himself toward what he supposes and needs himself to look like and be is also a natural thing for him in my head

I don't see Will as someone who wants to reshape Hannibal. He respects and hungers for him because of the exact package of madness he is so for Will, I can only imagine forcemasc to come in the shape of demanding a certain standard of masculinity that Hannibal himself doesn't actually think he needs. He just wouldn't want to be this intimate with a man in the context of their ebb and flow of dominance when it comes with that level of femininity. I see it leaning towards a mindset that's not ashamed of borrowing from misogyny

- and to be honest, however interesting a (whatever you frame it as)-phobic Will would be, I don't enjoy the thought of him limiting Hannibal's deliberate Morticia Adams-flavoured femininity. It is simply too dear to my heart

Forcefem on the other hand ര⁠ ⁠ʖ̯⁠ ⁠ര (though I'll admit, I haven't delved deeply enough in that to do much more than mention it in awe and deep respect for its potential)

For Hannibal though, he has all the motive one can want to reshape Will in his preferred image. The whole package he reveres in Will is simply not one one will find on the surface. He wants him violent and spiteful and angry and manipulative and capable and authentic!! beyond the pleasure of controlling a person in their identity and their body. He wants Will to only look to him for reassurance and love. Being the arbiter of his performed gender would make him, in a way, the arbiter of his social behaviour. It's one step closer to playing god - which is nothing he would ever think to shy away from. It's ripping away the shell of a beautiful thing for the love of what awaits inside

Which is just me giving you a long-winded and probably unnecessary explanation why I struggle with forcemascing my man Hannibal

[anothergayghoul]

You're so right and this is beautiful.

I was literally going to write a post about the difference between forcemasc for Will and forcemasc for Hannibal last night but I forgot and was too tired. This is so similar actually (although you went much more into Hannibal's femininity, I definitely am ok with forcefemming him lol)

[will-grahams-gun]

A Will that (given he grew or uncovered a good taste in fem fashion) comes home to his love with expensive robes and lingerie all the way! A Hannibal that embraces him looking like Florence Welsh

[anothergayghoul]

Oh this is so wonderful

[letterful]

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