wolframhydroxide

joined 11 months ago
[–] wolframhydroxide 2 points 5 days ago

SHH!! Yes you can, Elon! recursively training your model on itself definitely has NO DOWNSIDES

[–] wolframhydroxide 13 points 5 days ago

Yes! We should all wholeheartedly support this GREAT INNOVATION! There is NOTHING THAT COULD GO WRONG, so this will be an excellent step to PERMANENTLY PERFECT this WONDERFUL AI.

[–] wolframhydroxide 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
  1. Alchemists are magic chemists.
  2. Witches seem closer to magic geeks. They follow a long, complicated and self-contradictory canon of lore, and when that fails, they just sort of fill it with their headcanon. Sometimes, that doesn't work, and sometimes, they end up finding a better ending to their ritual than the original. It's a much more creative and innovative endeavor than wizardry.
  3. Sorcerers, at least in the d&d tradition, are magic nepo babies.
[–] wolframhydroxide 1 points 6 days ago

I tend towards more of 'the Prestige' for my wizardly aesthetics, but yes! Everyone should become an alchemy instructor, so you, too, can explain the mechanics of phlogiston to thy pupils!

[–] wolframhydroxide 33 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Silly L. Ron Hubbard, trying to convince people to follow in your footsteps again?

[–] wolframhydroxide 3 points 1 week ago

I could get behind a Jekyll/Hyde scenario with magical girl transformations.

[–] wolframhydroxide 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Nebula has some of the best educational content, especially ever since Tom Scott went on to other things. There are definitely some weird ones on there, as well as a couple which I'm convinced are right-wing shills, but by and large many of the best edutainment channels have collected over there, especially if you're into writing/world building. HAI/Wendover, Minutephysics, legaleagle, extracredits, nilered, and hellofutureme are the big ones I'm aware of that are also popular on YouTube which publish their videos over on Nebula. It's well worth it to know that you're supporting them more directly, and no ads.

Also, dropout (nee collegehumor) is worth it.

[–] wolframhydroxide 3 points 1 week ago

Well, history tells us that it is very difficult for a country to do both at the same time. See Russia, Red October vs. WWI

[–] wolframhydroxide 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The reason it's still held up is because Edison was a genius at precisely one thing: marketing. He was an incredibly efficient (read: ruthlessly cutthroat) venture capitalist. That's it.

This, and people have a tendency to hear a story, then integrate that story into their entire worldview, until the only four scientists ever to live were Einstein, Edison, Newton, and maybe Galileo.

Thus it has always been, and thus it shall remain.

[–] wolframhydroxide 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Same, and I only use discord for d&d, though I don't do Reddit at all.

[–] wolframhydroxide 2 points 1 week ago

And he's going to do that in part by giving us a third one

[–] wolframhydroxide 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Did no one else clock that GRAY'S ANATOMY is in that picture? The fuck?

The foremost anatomical textbook, so well-devised and illustrated that it is still in use today?

Well, let's hope that nobody's trying to teach anatomy in those schools, because even pictures of the _dissected musculature of the pubic area is sufficient to result in a ban

Also, it seems we're ignoring the fact that every single book touching on ANY kind of mythology or history of the ancient world is being banned.

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