#nuclearspaceheater

[hypocrisyofandrewdobson]

Feels weird to still see the guy from the "imagine being so fat that you look at computers and see food" comic still being noted all these years later. As if some part of me expects that Internet personalities should disappear along with the old memes that were around when I found out about them.

Well, when you constantly say things like this...

...and call anyone that disagrees with you a troll/Nazi/sexist/racist/evil/ect, people are going to continue to mock you for it for a long time.

Especially when you’re desperate for attention.

[ask-gpt]

basically, i think the general rule of thumb is: if someone REALLY wants the blood that’s inside of your body, and they’re like… a vampire, or a dracula, or some sort of mansquito, then that’s probably okay. a dracula and a mansquito are made for removing things like blood and swords from inside your body. that’s basically fine.

basically, i think the general rule of thumb is: if someone REALLY wants the blood that’s inside of your body, and they’re like… a vampire, or a dracula, or some sort of mansquito, then that’s probably okay. a dracula and a mansquito are made for removing things like blood and swords from inside your body. that’s basically fine.

But if you go to parent a vampire… and he is carrying a bloodkit, which is a human bloodkit, then what is there to lose from a vampire? Not much… but if they are carrying a bloodkit and something like that…

*shudder* WHOOOOOOOOOATAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH

Witnessing Grandpa's many battles – and being that when it comes to developing a good world… you IMMEDIATELY CANNOT lose that.

*shudder* Yuuna, who is in this comic is really enjoying being able to see a larger difference than I'm used to lol. I've had it all raining, and having it come down to a mere barely even half an inch too small for me to see that snowy layer of snow on my body.

Grandpa and Grandpa-y Minaho here are a lot of people. From Gozu, from Seven, from Shiro, from Dijon, from Conan – all of them. Or comes out of nowhere, like four years ago, and comes out of nowhere, like that. It's just possible. So I thought it would make sense to talk about what you've been through and the things you've experienced so far.

Children get an emotional roller coaster ride in their very eyes. I knew exactly how great it was for their parents to be able to see their children's faces in public. I knew it was a little too much for them all. So it was really hard for me to take the time to talk about that.

I always felt like there was not much I could say about it. There wasn't anything much. I was just talking about life as a child. Ever. I never used to say anything of my own. It was like I told myself I was a professional. I was really just talking about this, but at the same time I was talking about the family back then. Kayuki was always cheering her on, and Sekai was always crying at work. My entire family or whatever was cheering on me through my parents. Yuto and Hime were never in the same situation as me, but there was a place I was constantly rooting for and always hoping for and always hoping to find peace.

What's the biggest lesson I've learned from all of this?

I've learned that what is important not just to children, but to adults. It's as simple as that.

[bambamramfan]

nuclearspaceheater reblogged your post and added:

Imaginary people having moral worth sounds like an info-hazard you would maliciously invent if you wanted to torment a good person for having noncon fantasies, and more classical forms of internalized guilt aren’t getting the job done.

No, just being an explosive asshole to someone on twitter is bad for your blood pressure, regardless of whether the person you are yelling at is a “real person” or “just a bot.”

Info-hazard or not, what matters is it’s true.

[nostalgebraist]

Would you consider it fair to count representational but non-realistic art as "adversarial examples" in human visual perception? Humans are more robust but it seems to me to follow a similar principle: target the desired perception directly, rather than create a realistic facsimile of the thing that normally evokes that perception.

I understand what you’re getting at, but I think this is almost the opposite of what adversarial examples are.  Whenever anyone in the research literature constructs an adversarial example, it’s by finding the minimal perturbation to a real image (or whatever) that will change the class label.  It’s “adversarial” because to humans it looks like a very slightly altered picture of [something], while to the machine it looks like a picture of [something else].

With representational but non-realistic art -- like cartoons -- we instead have an image that is very different from a photo of a real human, but is nonetheless recognized as a human (well, sort of -- crucially, humans can distinguish between cartoon images and photos).  If anything, this seems like the kind of conceptual understanding we want the machines to have more of, i.e. the understanding that anything with a certain constellation of traits “looks like a person,” even when many other things about the image apart from those traits are drastically varied.

(I kind of touched on this here, with reference to stuff like these synthetic class examples from an ImageNet classifier.  The nets do learn how to distinguish classes in real photos, but it looks like they do so by focusing on highly distinctive, photorealistic individual features without caring about spatial arrangement the way we do, so that the equivalent of a “cartoon dog” for such a classifier would be something like “some photorealistic dog paws and muzzles, spammed randomly across space.”  For a vivid and amusing example from my own experiments with a slightly different sort of net, see here.)

[certifiedhypocrite]

"Forced safe mode" sounds like a furry kink.

Forced safe mode is a healthy BDSM relationship.

[argumate]

To prevent unnecessary conflict when women enter nerd spaces, training on appropriate behavior and speech should be provided to the arriving women.

I think that like most things this is just a special case of a general principle.

[luminousalicorn]

I imagine they're some short story about a genie or something being like, "wow, you guys really hate reds, I'll get rid of all of them for you."

[sinesalvatorem]

Maybe your trolls are all the same person because *all* of your anons are the same person.

XD

I think their writing styles and interests vary enough for that not to be true. Also, I sometimes figure out who the anon was after the fact, which means I know of lots of specific people who’ve sent me anons.