Bookworm come Eldritch Horror on Hiatus

harrow and gideons entire childhood is so insane to me. absolutely hated each others guts to the point theyd beat each other bloody but they were the only kids around all of drearbruh so they had no choice but to want each other's attention and the only way they knew to get that attention from each other was to literally abuse each other. all that for them to go into adulthood and be all 'i am undone without you.' genuinely the most codependent toxic situation ive ever seen i need them to kiss for real so bad

There's really this strong temptation that everyone has which basically says "to have interiority is to be like me; ordinary people are surface everywhere." And this manifests in different ways in different spaces, and becomes really pronounced when you cluster together with similar people. So tumblr users often act like straight people don't have any interiority because it helps you feel the deepening of social bonds with other gay people. This happens professionally too. I think it was Summer or Sharks who was saying that programming people think that intelligence is just being really good at writing code. Not surprising but very strange to me! I am (equally ridiculously) used to thinking that intelligence is being really good at philosophy, having command of a lot of sources that you can use creatively, etc. This reflects a kind of dynamic on tumblr and reddit. On reddit to have interiority is to be a science guy and on tumblr to have interiority is to be a humanities girl (and the dynamic is gendered in exactly this way). And I think there is something dangerous about habitually regarding other people as automatons. It's good to have people outside of your niche to remind you that other people from different walks of life are quite deep and complicated. They are full of love and fine grained attention to things you never thought to care about. And I think a lot of people go through life thinking of themselves as perpetually victimized by basically empty people rather than having genuine confrontations with full, genuine people who are committed to subtle, complex and real values, who have detailed and intricate histories, and who have a bond to you that you might never quite fully understand. But we rarely even try at understanding these things. We just decide that they're stupid and ridiculous and unreasonable.

I would still use my turn signals in the Mad Max Wasteland. They'd call me "Signal" because I'd hit my blinker before ramming the enemy hot rods into the side of a desert ravine. I'd use my turn signal every time. They would respect me for this.

"That is Signal, the Last Follower of the Old Law."

new mychart message! aw damn....doc says my reality and existence lab work was wayyy off so she's referring me to an Ontologist

odysseus absolutely does present a threat to penelope if he perceives her as at all unfaithful, and i feel the unfairness of this, and i think people tend to undersell how much tension at least potentially exists between odysseus and penelope. but i'm also like. his reaction, all speculation aside, his actual reaction in the odyssey to her flirting with the suitors is delight, because he immediately ascertains that she is running a con. sorry that they're so in-sync in spite of the forces that try to drive a wedge between them, including their own misgiving hearts. sorry that they invented homophrosyne ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

would i, tumblr user thee odysseyofhomer, lie to you?

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this is the only funny addition to this post

They don't tell you this but besides the Beloved Mutual there's also the Longterm Follower who you don't follow back but they're always in your notes and you're kind of watching them. Checking on the longterm follower's bio every so often like turning over a log. She's trans now good for her

Longterm followers I am putting fresh leaves and hrt in your enclosure

You can replace [ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY] with [SCROLLING] but watch out. This sucks bad 👍

hmmm, this seems to be some kind of curse breaking spell… be free ye reader

I am extremely normal and can be safely invited to the discord server *thinks for a moment* I am weird but in a pleasant rather than unpleasant way and can safely be invited to the discord server.

The "Golden Gate Claude" paper/model is a big deal for AI interpretability, AI safety, LLMs as useful engineering tools in general, and possibly even philosophy of mind/consciousness, so it feels kinda bad that my first thought was that this has incredible kink meme potential.

In other “LLM research as kink fuel” news, here’s chain of thought injection

Yeah if you mess around with local ones where you have more control and they are crappier it's especially clear the LLMs can have a hard time separating what you said with what they said in a dialog, but even talking to high-end ones they will often talk about "my suggestion" when it is in fact their suggestion.

i do get annoyed whenever a supreme court justice incorporates "necessity" into their decision of constitutional law and such, "We need to do it this way or the consequences would be catastrophic." Dudes that is not your job to decide necessity. That is congress's job! I get you guys are all schmittians but you are not the fucking sovereign, that is not your job here.

file a lawsuit about it

Study finds 99% of interstellar flights result in a mysterious incident that kills entire crew save a sole survivor.

Yeah but the distances are so huge, it's still one of the safest travel methods per kilometre

me to my partner when discussing whether to take a plane or rocket to Alpha Centauri: