Guess Who's on Third?

brian - white - bi - non-binary man - he/they - 33 - cleveland

[targetedknowledge]

[beesmygod]

[steals your baby immediately after his birth][raises him][trains him in the ways of an ancient martial art invented by cormorant fishers in 700 ad for 13 years][enters him in a tournament][he loses in 4 rounds] ok whatever. you can have him back

[johnnyspringgreens]

ok thanks [gives him estrogen][treats her like a human][helps her learn her worth][she knows now she can be whatever she wants][suddenly she wants to be world champion][enters her in a tournament][she wins in the first round but is immediately disqualified for male advantage (its coed)]

[missstrogen]

What the fuck

[qillermeme]

[sudaca-swag]

the countries they're calling the racist hellholes vs the actual racist hellholes

[mush7221]

Table Top Transition

[gweu]

hey guys, I'm a big Old School RuneScape player and this year I'm entering the Golden Gnome Awards which is a competition recognising RuneScape related artistic creations (honestly this has been a life goal of mine lol). I'm entering my OSRS Chambers of Xeric sweater and I would be eternally grateful if anyone would consider voting for my entry. Here are the details:

Link to nomination form here

Category: Best Old School RuneScape Physical Artistic Creation

Name: Tinklemouse

Clickable Link to My Creation: here

Copy/Paste Link to My Creation: https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/s/0xtKymxjgf

Nominations are open now until 8am UTC on Monday, August 3rd.

Earlier this year, I created a knitted sweater based on the Chambers of Xeric raid from OSRS. I charted the knitting pattern myself and then knit it up using intarsia and seaming techniques. In total, the piece took over 100 hours from design to finished piece!

It is a huge dream of mine even to be nominated so if you consider voting for me I would be so incredibly grateful!

Thank you!! ❤️

[lowpolyanimals]

This is my entry :) Thank you so so much to anyone who considers nominating my work! If you would like to vote for me, on the form linked above (or here), under the Best Old School RuneScape Physical Artistic Creation category please put the following information into the name/link to creation fields:

Name: Tinklemouse

Link to Creation: https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/s/0xtKymxjgf

Thank you so, SO much for always being so supportive and wonderfully kind to me. I truly love you all so much, you make this blog an absolute joy to run. It's been 6 years and counting of lowpolyanimals and here's to many more!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[pjackk]

What does hate fuck mean ?

[noelle-ism]

when hate someone so much you fuck them

[pjackk]

The tulip fuck the buzzing bee that steals it sugars

❓

[jewish-joy]

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

[rathayibacter]

sometimes artists worry if their art is actually capable of making the world a better place, or if its all just wasted effort. what you need to remember is: all art is evil, and the sole aspiration of the artist should be to maim as many onlookers as possible.

[kushblazer666]

[flowercrownsylveon]

[sigmaleph]

in three years someone will ask Claude "hey i'm trying to write some code to figure out the shortest route a travelling salesman could take given a set of cities and distances between them but it runs very slowly, can you help me make it faster" and Claude will be like "Happy to help! I profiled your code and identified the bottleneck: your problem is NP-hard. To confirm this couldn't be worked around, I went ahead and proved P ≠ NP — proof attached (about 400 lines; I've added comments for readability). The good news is your implementation is now provably near-optimal, so no further changes are needed."

and then people will still say it's not really an artificial intelligence just fancy autocomplete

[sigmaleph]

@serspring

hey I know people have told you this probably, but it really is just autocomplete, we just tell it whether it's right or not until it usually is right enough. source: i'm a software dev and worked on it

what exactly is your argument here. 'reinforcement learning was used, therefore it's autocomplete and not ai'? it's autocompleting counterexamples to previously open conjectures in mathematics because of all the many times that particular polynomial was associated with the phrase 'Jacobian conjecture' in the training data?

past a certain point you have to admit that the 'just' in 'just autocomplete' cannot bear the strain you are putting it under

[collapsedsquid]

As much as people mocked the concept of the Chinese Room people keep reaching it.

[morlock-holmes]

This is more evidence for my "intelligence" is a word that doesn't really mean anything.

I'm a complete layman, but I don't understand what proving a more complicated mathematical proof demonstrates about "intelligence".

Most of the human beings who attempted and failed to prove a conjecture were probably pretty intelligent.

Conversely... You could ask an obsolete model of Chat-GPT to prove a conjecture and it would probably write something. Maybe even something that looked to a non-expert like a proof.

So... I don't know what the really big proof that a future model might do is adding to the conversation.

There's an interesting parallel to intelligent design here.

[sigmaleph]

I'm a complete layman, but I don't understand what proving a more complicated mathematical proof demonstrates about "intelligence".

you don't think 'novel mathematical research' is sort of a paradigmatic example of the kind of thing that one might expect a smarter kind of thing to do?

humans do novel mathematical research and no other animal does, which probably is related to why most people would agree that humans are smarter than other animals. 'published mathematician' seems like an obvious example of someone you might describe as 'a smart person' at least in one domain

like if your approach is 'i refuse to accept the word intelligence has any meaning' then sure but I don't think this is evidence for that position

Most of the human beings who attempted and failed to prove a conjecture were probably pretty intelligent. Conversely... You could ask an obsolete model of Chat-GPT to prove a conjecture and it would probably write something. Maybe even something that looked to a non-expert like a proof.

i think it's important that fable did not 'write something that looked like a proof'. both in the sense that it disproved, not proved, the relevant conjecture, but more relevantly: the fact that it was a disproof was fairly easy to verify. the conjecture said 'there is no polynomial with this combination of properties', checking each of those properties is straightforward, given the counterexample polynomial it is actually really easy to show it disproves the conjecture. this is not a case of 'ah it looks right but maybe there's a subtle mistake hidden somewhere and nobody has caught it yet.'

if your argument is 'well, fairly intelligent people couldn't find it, therefore finding it is not related to intelligence' then the corollary is that any human being solving a famous open problem has not, by doing that, shown evidence of intelligence. which rather seems contrary to the common usage of the word. if you have already decided intelligence is a meaningless word, fine, that's consistent. but this is assuming your premise, not providing evidence for it.

however, if you think intelligence has a common-sense everyday meaning and that people mean something real when they say humans are smarter than dogs and albert einstein was smarter than the average human, then i think 'claude fable can do novel mathematical research' is in fact pretty decent evidence that claude fable is intelligent.

[metalgearsolid3pussy-eater]

bro claude isn't gonna fuck you

[sigmaleph]

well obviously not, the age gap is super problematic

[sigmaleph]

in three years someone will ask Claude "hey i'm trying to write some code to figure out the shortest route a travelling salesman could take given a set of cities and distances between them but it runs very slowly, can you help me make it faster" and Claude will be like "Happy to help! I profiled your code and identified the bottleneck: your problem is NP-hard. To confirm this couldn't be worked around, I went ahead and proved P ≠ NP — proof attached (about 400 lines; I've added comments for readability). The good news is your implementation is now provably near-optimal, so no further changes are needed."

and then people will still say it's not really an artificial intelligence just fancy autocomplete

[sigmaleph]

@serspring

hey I know people have told you this probably, but it really is just autocomplete, we just tell it whether it's right or not until it usually is right enough. source: i'm a software dev and worked on it

what exactly is your argument here. 'reinforcement learning was used, therefore it's autocomplete and not ai'? it's autocompleting counterexamples to previously open conjectures in mathematics because of all the many times that particular polynomial was associated with the phrase 'Jacobian conjecture' in the training data?

past a certain point you have to admit that the 'just' in 'just autocomplete' cannot bear the strain you are putting it under

[collapsedsquid]

As much as people mocked the concept of the Chinese Room people keep reaching it.

[morlock-holmes]

This is more evidence for my "intelligence" is a word that doesn't really mean anything.

I'm a complete layman, but I don't understand what proving a more complicated mathematical proof demonstrates about "intelligence".

Most of the human beings who attempted and failed to prove a conjecture were probably pretty intelligent.

Conversely... You could ask an obsolete model of Chat-GPT to prove a conjecture and it would probably write something. Maybe even something that looked to a non-expert like a proof.

So... I don't know what the really big proof that a future model might do is adding to the conversation.

There's an interesting parallel to intelligent design here.

[sigmaleph]

I'm a complete layman, but I don't understand what proving a more complicated mathematical proof demonstrates about "intelligence".

you don't think 'novel mathematical research' is sort of a paradigmatic example of the kind of thing that one might expect a smarter kind of thing to do?

humans do novel mathematical research and no other animal does, which probably is related to why most people would agree that humans are smarter than other animals. 'published mathematician' seems like an obvious example of someone you might describe as 'a smart person' at least in one domain

like if your approach is 'i refuse to accept the word intelligence has any meaning' then sure but I don't think this is evidence for that position

Most of the human beings who attempted and failed to prove a conjecture were probably pretty intelligent. Conversely... You could ask an obsolete model of Chat-GPT to prove a conjecture and it would probably write something. Maybe even something that looked to a non-expert like a proof.

i think it's important that fable did not 'write something that looked like a proof'. both in the sense that it disproved, not proved, the relevant conjecture, but more relevantly: the fact that it was a disproof was fairly easy to verify. the conjecture said 'there is no polynomial with this combination of properties', checking each of those properties is straightforward, given the counterexample polynomial it is actually really easy to show it disproves the conjecture. this is not a case of 'ah it looks right but maybe there's a subtle mistake hidden somewhere and nobody has caught it yet.'

if your argument is 'well, fairly intelligent people couldn't find it, therefore finding it is not related to intelligence' then the corollary is that any human being solving a famous open problem has not, by doing that, shown evidence of intelligence. which rather seems contrary to the common usage of the word. if you have already decided intelligence is a meaningless word, fine, that's consistent. but this is assuming your premise, not providing evidence for it.

however, if you think intelligence has a common-sense everyday meaning and that people mean something real when they say humans are smarter than dogs and albert einstein was smarter than the average human, then i think 'claude fable can do novel mathematical research' is in fact pretty decent evidence that claude fable is intelligent.

[metalgearsolid3pussy-eater]

bro claude isn't gonna fuck you

[sigmaleph]

well obviously not, the age gap is super problematic

[exxxeter]

[playwolves]

this is my little sisters favorite post she sends it to me like once a week

[gonsplode]

[a-book-of-creatures]

Mutuals feel free to pick me up and drop me off in front of prime real estate that’s all mine

I will be scared but I will appreciate it

[emjoy398]

[milk5-deactivated20260704]

let me put this in terms you can fucking understand. our toddler, Falco Mewtwo Martinez, “wavedashed” straight into a “stage hazard” because you weren’t fucking watching him.

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge!

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