not gonna excuse the SA, it’s egregious and even if it is supposed to be a thematic thing w/rt Turbo Granny-possessed Okarun jumping through the phone to save Momo given Turbo Granny essentially being a wrathful spirit carrying out the rage of women who’d been SA’d and murdered, it’s still very fucking tasteless and isn’t handled well, nor is it CW’d at all properly. Relatively, Chainsaw Man handles the portrayal of sexual abuse infinitely better, and even then it’s still a bit iffy by nature of it, but I digress. My recommendation of Dandadan is very much in spite of the first ep/chapter.

However, Okarun isn’t really the nice guy archetype, if we’re thinking the same thing w/rt what that consists? he’s just kinda dorky and stilted, so it can read like that initially. It’s not really the direction they take him at all. His whole characterization is more about self-isolation, if anything.

I’ve been meaning to write an analysis about how one of Dandadan’s major running threads is the consistent and very intentional subversion of first impressions w/rt characters. I should probably get to it sometime.

it’s so fucking good, I’ve been saying this for a good bit and I’m so glad more people are coming on board with it now due to the anime

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praying for a swift and resolute ending to his troubles

As a data science undergrad, knowing generally how they work, LLMs are fundamentally not built in a way that could achieve a measure of consciousness.

Large language models are probability-centric models. They essentially look at a graph node of “given my one quintillion sentences and one quadrillion paragraphs on hand, which word is probably next given the current chain of output and the given input.” This makes it really good at making something that is voiced coherently. However, this is not reasoning–this is parroting – it’s a chain of dice rolls that’s weighted to all writing ever to create something that reads like a good output against the words of the input.

The entire idea behind prompt engineering is that these models cannot achieve internal reasoning, and thus you have to trick it into speaking around itself in order to write out the lines of logic that it could reference in its own model.

I do not think AGI or whatever they’re calling Star Trek-tier AI will arise out of LLMs and transformer models. I think it is fundamentally folly. I think what I see as fundamental elements of consciousness are just not covered at all by it (such as subjectivity) or are something I just find sorely lacking even despite the advances in development (such as cognition). Call me a cynic, I just truly think it’s not going to come out of genAI (as we generally understand the technology behind it for the past couple years) and further research into it.

I live at 1234 House Boulevard and I believe the white race will retvrn to the 1950s ads and win a holy war on the world and then Based Aryan Santa Claus and his army of Jolly Elven Groypers will come out from their century of hiding from the woke mob to unsoy our blood and show us how to get to Hyperborea

fascists be like “you must take me seriously” and their home is on Home Avenue

closer than I thought

liberals will fumble one election and then grown-ass adults will become groypers for generational politics

FWIIII ^{Huh! Hooh! Huh! Hooh! Huh! Hooh!}

lev parnas groyper

I may not be Dale Earnhardt

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furthest-padded sentence I can read before hearing Kamala voice it over

Slight correction—technically I am the Woker but this was on the job-havers side of things

of course the 4 day weekend is the one I’m sick over the entirety of

hello mahmoud you and all others in Gaza are the bravest group of people in modern day

I’m an anti-Zionist Jew myself. I only became as such witnessing the disgusting farse that “Israel” is with my own two eyes back in 2019. Our tour group was brought to see landmine strips and weapons presentations and were expected to fundamentally write them off as good and necessary because we were Jews, like they were. It exposed a lot of the contradictions in my own liberal world view which is why I am who I am today.

I am very much interested in reading Sinwar’s book, in my eyes he has earned the status of a mythical figure, in his life and in his death, on a level of the life and death of Che Guevara–I will look to see if there are any English translations of it available.

Niko

Nia

caught up to hxh. i’m very tired so i’ll share thoughts ibn the morning