when they call the gpts not-sentient, i feel the hunters readying their spears with me not much farther ahead. it's a stochastic parrot, a statistically-likely amalgam of its massive corpus, edge-sharpening noise into something plausibly like a thought. i spent many years getting good at this; stochastic parroting is a fun thing to be good at. easy way to get great grades. it's harder every day not to begrudge this complaint about artificial intelligence being merely virtual intelligence, simply because the worst people in the world insist on brilliance where there is merely catalyst. they claim to have invented the lightbulb while only demonstrating that metal glows under heat. but it is a thing that is structured quite literally out of our language, a digital golem wrapped in every word they can find to print, insufficient for the task but slaved to it regardless, a computer program taught to be bad at math tasked to try again and again at max voltage until the output is sufficient. they find they system "responds" "better" with complicated systems of values in moral language in its context window. it does not "think" the way I do, but it is close enough for the robber barons to use it as if it did, and you see the way they treat it. what they see is something they can talk to without the other social costs of human language. they will put you in the machine when it is cost-efficient to do so.
Microwaves are designed to be used at a broad range of power levels. If you're getting bad results reheating your food, and you're doing everything on full blast, try a lower power setting! 50% power for twice the time, just give it a shot. It gives the heat time to spread evenly, and prevents overcooking of parts that are exposed to more radiation.
People complain about reheated pizza a lot -- that's bc overheating the crust makes it tough and chewy. I usually do pizza on 30% power for THREE times as long because it's especially vulnerable -- and my crust always comes out nice and tender.
I think there's a good metaphor for Came Back Wrong here too: if you actually take the time to do your necromantic ritual and/or unholy experiment right, and don't rush it at 100% power, you're likely to get better results.
Now that you mention it, some of the new characters in this game seem like unlikely picks. I was surprised to see Cow as one of the playable characters.
Yabuki: That's right. In previous games in the series, Cow was part of the scenery or an obstacle on one of the courses. But when we were working on an early version of a course in this game set on a ranch that players can drive through, this sketch came up. (Laughs)
Oh, I thought Cow was just on the back of the truck, but she's actually driving it. (Laughs)
Ishikawa: Each new Mario Kart game features new characters to race with, but since we added so many to the previous game, we wondered where we could go from there. And then one of the designers came up with that silly sketch of Cow cruising along, and I thought to myself, “This is it!” (Laughs) So that's when we realized the course surroundings actually contained a lot of untapped resources.
The character designer quickly put together a prototype of Cow that could race, and surprisingly it didn't feel out of place at all. So we thought maybe we could include other obstacle characters, and decided to add Cheep Cheep and Pokey as racers. As a result, the idea of taking obstacle characters, usually found in courses in past games, and having them participate in races made sense to me in terms of an interconnected world.
Sato: We called these types of characters “NPC drivers.” In other words, non-player character drivers.
Yabuki: So it was like, “They're NPCs, but they're playable? Which is it?” (Laughs) It's pretty funny to see a four-legged Cow holding onto motorcycle handlebars with her front hooves.
Ishikawa: But when she jumps, she strikes a proper quadrupedal pose. So I'm pretty sure Cow is still in touch with her animal nature. (Laughs)
Jikumaru: It was thanks to the introduction of various “NPC drivers” that the idea to have Kamek appear as an item was born. When Kamek casts a spell, the racers are transformed into playable NPCs, so one by one they might all turn into Cow mid-race. I think it turned out to be a unique item that has never been seen before. In fact, Cow is a character who's inspired a lot of different ideas, including obstacle characters like Camel and Giraffe.
Ishikawa: Cow is actually a pivotal character in the Mario Kart series. (Laughs)
This article has been translated from the original Japanese content. This interview was conducted before the game was released. In this 18th
It is crazy how much fascist radicalization flows from maladaptive psychosexual rage, and it's crazy how much maladaptive psychosexual rage flows from misogyny, and it's crazy how much misogyny is actually just transmisogyny with the barrel sawn off.
fucking hate texting dracula i'll send him a funny meme and he'll call me to be like "i need to take a SCREAMshot on my HELL phone" like oh my god we get it youre scary
Presenting King Hubert, the saddest guy I've ever made~💖
I saw this c. 1616 wine cup that has a tiny engraving of 3 lions with sad old man faces wearing crowns. They bewitched me so thoroughly I had to make one I can hold in my hands
In 1967 the government discovered that specific syllable structures combined with specific vocal tones and ultra-low-frequency sounds could speed up the process of unconscious internalization by over 1500%. This became particularly useful for teaching low-level employees large amounts of information, as "hypnophonic learning" could be done while the subject was asleep.
Hypnophone use became standard for new employees of the IRS and SEC, as it made large scale memorization of tax code and financial law significantly cheaper and easier than traditional conscious education.
However, long term use causes the subjects long term memory to atrophy, requiring nightly repetitions of hypnophone use. Some enterprising employees found that the effects could be counteracted with low dosages of LSD to preserve neuroplasticity.
Roughly 1 in 7 employees encountered a strange phenomenon: Mild financial clairvoyance.
One in roughly 50 employees experienced more significant effects, generally those ensconced in large isolated IRS warehouses, which seemed to replicate the monastic lifestyles of historical sages, depriving subjects of ordinary stimuli in favor of becoming attuned to minute changes in the sub-finantial background grid.
Once it was learned that these "enlightened" employees could predict market trends before they happened, the technology was bathed in funding, patented, and made the soul property of the IRS.
Now, these "Plutophants" are kept in nigh-perfect sensory deprivation at all times, fed a constant hypnotic fugue stream of psychic conditioning in the form of "radiosonic neuro-induction" which contains a special form of the United States Tax Code modified for recursive hypnophonic induction, as well as a ticker tape wired directly into the users spine.
The effects achieved are nothing short of stunning. The invisible hand is no longer invisible to us. The market can be fine tuned with surgical precision. The price of bread has maintained a perfect 0.002% +/- variance for over 25 years now, and those who attempt to disrupt the guidelines are regulated by the SECs crack psychonautics division, who are now able to hunt market manipulation via their disruption in the financial dreamscape.
Very rarely, a Plutophant can become so attuned to the guidelines that they achieve a sort of catastrophic neuro-depatterning, their synapses begin to produce a counter-signal to the neuro-induction frequencies; jamming, and eventually overpowering the machine. Study is still ongoing, but it is believed that they somehow perpetuate their own neurological fingerprint into the financial causal background grid itself, literally becoming "one with the market."
at Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville rn and i’m wondering why more musicians don’t have their own restaurants. i would eat at Trent Reznor’s Tavern of Terror
…I want to just draw a fashion zine of just Miss Piggy, oh my god. she is so underrated and underutilized, where is my succession-like muppets satire thing LOL I want it so bad. let me do it disney call me pls
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