Well, I guess we’re different. I always want to pet all the dogs and all the cats too.
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I take it you think nuclear winter is unlikely?
Also, how are you going to get the phosphate fertilizer to grow crops after a nuclear war?
Possibly stupid question: what do you think would happen if you tried to connect with and talk to literal children?
How do you feel about cats?
Is it okay to hang out at a bar if you don’t drink?
So, are you turning into Linus Van Pelt, who said that he loved humanity—it was people he couldn’t stand?
I think most people have trouble finding people at conventions they can click with, at least for longer than a few minutes, simply because of how hectic and overwhelming things can get...
Maybe you should try an anime convention or Comic-Con instead? (Assuming you have any interest in geeky entertainment topics...)
But yeah, having an experience akin to being a world class musician listening to a middle school band and cringing at how bad they sounded must not have been pleasant.
When I’m talking in person, I’m much, much worse at expressing myself precisely and handling sophisticated ideas—and objecting to stupid ones—than when I have all the time in the world to write something and post it online. :/
Michaelangelo’s David was the subject of a joke on an early season episode of The Simpsons.
Probably not—most likely, the person who had been controlling the hivemind just didn’t realize it was possible.
So Facebook’s ad division makes up fake people to simulate advertising effectiveness, and intelligence services mistake the fake people for real ones (after all, they have Facebook accounts) and uses them as cover identities for spies, and the people at Facebook are very confused as to why their fake people are turning up in the real world, and conclude (erroneously) that their ad data simulator is simulating what the Facebook pages of people that do actually exist but weren’t Facebook users would have looked like?
Because the rewards are, from your perspective, a discount on purchases you would have made anyway, since most merchants charge the same price for both cash and credit card transactions. (There are costs associated with handling cash that, depending on the business, can end up being as expensive as paying the merchant fees to credit card companies—accepting credit card payments is not just a pure convenience to the customer.)
And they probably administer rewards programs for banks and various other organizations that want you to use the credit card they issue instead of the credit card issued by some other bank.
In Claude’s first try, it played Ironclad on Ascension 1 and died to Hexaghost, the Act 1 boss. It wasn’t terrible but occasionally got the mechanics a little bit mixed up.
In Claude’s first try, it played Ironclad on Ascension 1 and died to Hexaghost, the Act 1 boss. It wasn’t terrible but occasionally got the mechanics a little bit mixed up.
An example: near the end of “Saving Private Ryan”, the squad led by Tom Hanks gets into a pitched battle with some German soldiers. One of the members of the squad spends the entire battle hiding behind a building and crying.
I’m curious to see how well LLMs can play Slay the Spire. I could actually try that manually and see what happens.
I thought the “going insane” thing would have been about showing everyone around you that you need help and/or are not a person able to give help to anyone else.
This is an old post, but I can’t resist answering the question...
This mode of interaction is called “playing hard to get”: Alice is trying to manipulate Bob into something Alice wants. Bob is willing to accept being “manipulated” into an outcome he wanted all along, but Bob is going to make Alice work for it first.
The song “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is probably the classic example of the dynamic. The “Wolf” is insincerely expressing concern for the “Mouse” when what he really wants is to sleep with her, and the “Mouse” is insincerely refusing because she doesn’t want to get a reputation for being the kind of person who accepts such proposals even though she wants the same thing as the “Wolf”.