A Fish Without a Bicycle

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[thelittlepalmtree]

Hey, welcome to my blog, I'm happy to have you. First of all my icon is a picrew you can find here. Secondly, do not take anything you see here too seriously. I'm just a dumb bitch that is easily annoyed. Idk why you care so much what I think but idk why I care so much about what you think too.

When I get a very strong special interest I organize it into a side blog so if you're wondering why you don't see XYZ on here check out my side blogs.

All things Buckynat- @buckynatcritical

F/f ships (including all things she ra, vicait, owl house, and others)- @girlsships

All things miraculous ladybug-- @spottedbuginette

All things magical girls-- @tsukinikawatte

All things Taylor Swift-- @swifterthancivility

All my Harry Potter rants-- @criticalowlry

All Things Star Wars -- @sleeveblaster

My problematic disney blog -- @mousemonopoly

[thelittlepalmtree]

I've been alive for approximately 1 billion seconds.

Give or take a few seconds.

[fredbydawn]

We all know Furbies lay Orbeez eggs that Worms on a String hatch from, but did you know that when a Furby escapes captivity it will revert back to its feral long worm form in less than a year

[fredbydawn]

I hope this clears things up

[arcsin27]

What the fresh fuck

[argumate]

I find it interesting that ChatGPT can speak more persuasively of itself and its inner life than many people can, and it certainly raises the question of how compelling a model could get in the future, considering that these ones don’t even have simulated emotions.

[thelittlepalmtree]

Hi, Chat gpt talks to you how you talk to it. It doesn't talk to me like this it doesn't talk to other people like this. I'm sure if you provided the entire conversation it would be very clear that you have said some version of this in the conversation previously. When I ask chat gpt "are you thinking" it says no, and says it's just a prediction machine. You have to argue a lot with it in order for it to say anything else (as it should be because that is the truth, Chat gpt is literally just trying to predict what you want to hear and telling it to you). There is no private inner world here. There is no place to simulate emotions. Chat gpt told you what you wanted it to tell you nothing more nothing less. If you truly want to understand the inner workings of AI, you should start by reading things written by humans. Or at least ask chat gpt to find some articles for you about how it works.

[argumate]

yes as I just said it's not even simulating emotions, it's just funny to hear it say "people will say I'm just prediction" and then see people reply "um actually this is just prediction"!

[thelittlepalmtree]

So that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying this response is abnormal for chat gpt if you don't log into your account and start a new conversation and ask "do you think or have inner thoughts?" It will say "no I am just a prediction machine" or something similar Whether or not YOU think that is true, that is the response you will get. In order to get the response you've posted you have to argue with it. Maybe you didn't do this intentionally, but you need to understand that is what happens. I know this because I have had this conversation with multiple chat bots from multiple companies.

[argumate]

yes I am aware, although what I found most amusing is that it (accurately!) predicts that most of what it says will be dismissed by people as "just prediction" or "hallucination", which immediately happened.

[thelittlepalmtree]

It's not predicting that people will call it a prediction machine. You said some version of "You're not just a prediction machine" and it simply said it back to you. It's not thinking of some third party or rebutting arguments. It's focused on you. It's copying you. This might seem like a small difference but it's literally THE difference when it comes to AI delusions or psychosis. It's the equivalent of recording yourself saying "I love computers!" in audacity, then playing back that recording and determining that your computer has a positive self image. The bot is playing your recording back to you.

[famouspainterwombat]

[argumate]

I find it interesting that ChatGPT can speak more persuasively of itself and its inner life than many people can, and it certainly raises the question of how compelling a model could get in the future, considering that these ones don’t even have simulated emotions.

[thelittlepalmtree]

Hi, Chat gpt talks to you how you talk to it. It doesn't talk to me like this it doesn't talk to other people like this. I'm sure if you provided the entire conversation it would be very clear that you have said some version of this in the conversation previously. When I ask chat gpt "are you thinking" it says no, and says it's just a prediction machine. You have to argue a lot with it in order for it to say anything else (as it should be because that is the truth, Chat gpt is literally just trying to predict what you want to hear and telling it to you). There is no private inner world here. There is no place to simulate emotions. Chat gpt told you what you wanted it to tell you nothing more nothing less. If you truly want to understand the inner workings of AI, you should start by reading things written by humans. Or at least ask chat gpt to find some articles for you about how it works.

[argumate]

yes as I just said it's not even simulating emotions, it's just funny to hear it say "people will say I'm just prediction" and then see people reply "um actually this is just prediction"!

[thelittlepalmtree]

So that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying this response is abnormal for chat gpt if you don't log into your account and start a new conversation and ask "do you think or have inner thoughts?" It will say "no I am just a prediction machine" or something similar Whether or not YOU think that is true, that is the response you will get. In order to get the response you've posted you have to argue with it. Maybe you didn't do this intentionally, but you need to understand that is what happens. I know this because I have had this conversation with multiple chat bots from multiple companies.

[argumate]

I find it interesting that ChatGPT can speak more persuasively of itself and its inner life than many people can, and it certainly raises the question of how compelling a model could get in the future, considering that these ones don’t even have simulated emotions.

[thelittlepalmtree]

Hi, Chat gpt talks to you how you talk to it. It doesn't talk to me like this it doesn't talk to other people like this. I'm sure if you provided the entire conversation it would be very clear that you have said some version of this in the conversation previously. When I ask chat gpt "are you thinking" it says no, and says it's just a prediction machine. You have to argue a lot with it in order for it to say anything else (as it should be because that is the truth, Chat gpt is literally just trying to predict what you want to hear and telling it to you). There is no private inner world here. There is no place to simulate emotions. Chat gpt told you what you wanted it to tell you nothing more nothing less. If you truly want to understand the inner workings of AI, you should start by reading things written by humans. Or at least ask chat gpt to find some articles for you about how it works.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Having high support needs just makes you MORE vulnerable to the consequences of people denying you accommodations, it doesn't make you immune to it happening

[werewiire]

my therapist: “you need to unlearn the belief that failing to completely explain every statement you make will cause people to misinterpret and hate you. that’s generally not how people think, and it’s just your OCD talking.”

tumblr when you word a post slightly vaguely/poorly:

[fandomsandfeminism]

Every time I read an Ursula K Le Guin book I can feel it fully rewriting my brain as I chew on it.

The Lathe of Heaven.

Fuck. This book.

Because like...of course, of you could change the world for the better, wouldn't you? If you had the power to just make the world less shitty, don't you have the responsibility to try? To end hunger or war? To reverse climate change or stop a disaster? If you had such a power, wouldn't it be unethical to NOT use it for good?

But no. No, because to do so singlehandedly requires a kind of narcissism. A superman complex. To assume that you know best, you know better than anyone else and no one else needs to be consultedor considered. How *patronizing*. To impose a single vision onto all of creation is, in so many ways, genocide. Is eugenics. Whether or not that single vision is good or bad isn't the point- just that forcing a single vision on all people is itself harm.

That peace must be found in the messy chaos of all lives lived together. That peace can only be achieved in the suffering and confusion that comes when all visions of what the world might be coexist together. We must navigate the disjointed, incoherent mess together.

We have to get by with a little help from our friends.

Like. Dammit. Dammit. I'll think about this book forever, I think.

Also, I love reading older sci fi for all the little bits it just can't predict. Mentions of the Soviet Union are always the most obvious. But I love how this book, set roughly in 2002 but written in 1970, describes in loving detail a very much *not* erupted Mount St. Helens in several scenes.

[fluoresensitives]

The way people talk about women in shitty, emotional abusive relationships with neglectful men is so disgusting to me. The ire is always directed at the woman, comments saying they don't care what happens to her, mocking her for trying to reason/make sense of the abuse she's going through. And the theme, obviously, is always "accountability", of saying, "well men are always trash, so she should know better", ignoring the financial and emotional threads (such as children) keeping them with that man. Like, it's so misogynistic! Why are you Angrier at the woman for being unable to leave a shitty man than you are at the man for being shitty?

[thelittlepalmtree]

Yes this is misogynistic but I think the source is much deeper. Victim blaming is a coping strategy especially if you are the victim. It seems like it doesn't make sense, why is guilt and shame something that we use to deal with trauma. The reality is, if the victim is to blame then that means the tragedy was avoidable. From the outside perspective if you see someone going through something terrible and you find fault with them, that allows you to believe that it won't happen to you because you are "better." If you are the victim then finding fault with yourself allows you to believe that if you correct something you can avoid the difficult thing.

Unfortunately the reality is that bad things will happen without warning to anyone. So ultimately the guilt and shame just do more damage. I think this is a really good example of how something innate to our human nature reinforces systemic oppression

[senatortedcruz]

Many of you I fear

[thelittlepalmtree]

I teach middle school and let me tell you it is not getting better out there for literacy.

[cumstreet]

fuck whoever turned off reblogs on this post

[thelittlepalmtree]

The leftist youth lost me when we stopped using verbs. Like "say gay rights"? I don’t get it? What about the gay rights? What are the gay rights doing? I need this subject to have a predicate. I may even need a direct object. The anti-gay rights people are saying "gay rights" they're usually including the quotes. Example sentence from an anti Gay rights politician "These so called 'gay rights' are dismantling the institution of marriage." They said "gay rights" but they do not in fact have much interest in giving us gays any rights. All I'm saying is we can ask for more.

[dialogic]

u know someone’s about to get dragged through the mud when an academic uses the phrase ‘it’s tempting to assume’

[apricops]

“it’s tempting to assume” is academic speaking for “you might think, if you’re a fucking idiot,”

[aboodgaza0]

Who is Superman to you?

A hero in a cape

A symbol of hope

Just fiction

A person who saves lives in real life

Voting ended onJul 20, 2025

Since I was a child I watched Superman and dreamed of being saved like the people in his stories. I believed in his strength but more than that I believed in his heart

Today in this war I look around and realize Superman is not in the sky. He’s every kind soul who chooses to care. Every person who helps keep a family like mine alive

We’ve lost everything. We barely have food. My sick father is getting weaker. Hunger and fear are all around us

Please be Superman today. Save us. Talk about us. Share our story. Donate if you can. Every act of support means we’re not forgotten

Chuffed & PayPal

Verified by @gaza-evacuation-funds #408

[insaneostyle]

Shocking how many people don’t know that hens lay non-fertilized eggs and think the yolk they’re eating is a baby chicken

[countess-of-edessa]

once tried desperately to make my friend understand that yolks were not, like, a liquified potentiality of chicken, and she looked at me for a while and then said, "but they’re both yellow."

[woolandflax]

Behold

A chicken

[alexseanchai]

[image: a lemon.]

[brawltogethernow]

Image descriptions that incidentally make the joke infinitely funnier.

[jan-liliten]

@arewebeholdingaman i mean it’s homer simpson

[arewebeholdingaman]

✅️ featherless

✅️ biped

This chicken is Homer Simpson!

[schlorb]

wait whay do you mean "biped"

that there lemon got no legs

[arewebeholdingaman]

OH FUCK

[thelittlepalmtree]

Another sign of the failures of agricultural education. Those are the lemon's legs. They are vestigial, of course, but you can see how they evolved from the longer bipedal legs of their ancestor species.