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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

We all know the story of Newton sitting under apple vine, right?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 hours ago

Potatoes are definitely apples. The French call them "pommes de terre", apples of the earth. Ipso facto.

I will not be accepting questions at this time.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago

Right next to the apple vine

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 hours ago

I hate when we look at something and think "not sure if that obvious troll is actually a troll and not a completely deluded person, or a dumb bot"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Must be a theoretical physicist. Has some real "spherical cow" energy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Not a physicist. I suppose you could call Yudkowsky an anti-AI activist. And/or world-famous fan-fiction author. These would be strange but technically accurate ways to describe him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

I'd describe him as a person who doesn't know how potatoes work.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

From a biological standpoint, we don't classify things as vegetables. From a culinary standpoint, we do

Stop trying to apply biological concepts to my dinner

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

Does this person know nothing.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

ai visionary/harry potter fanfiction master eliezer yudkowsky, folks. the man's intellect is perpendicular to the rest of humanity. truly inspiring.

this is why i can't take anything he says seriously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 minutes ago

Is he also the dildo behind less wrong?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

The more I see him in the real world the more very upset I become that I genuinely really liked his story. HPMOR is a banger, possibly one of my favorite pieces of amateur literature in existence.

I didn't know the author was a wanker at the time of reading, and now that I do, I want to make myself retroactively un-like his work, but I can't.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Don’t tell me you think Roko's basilisk is real

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Roko's basilisk is a really cool metaphor for fascism. If you help the regime come into existence, you are rewarded; if you fight it, you are punished but only if you are unsuccessful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

If you help the regime come into existence, you are rewarded

well don't count on that. totalitarian regimes have a tendency to be paranoid and to enact rather unpleasant purges at every level of the organisation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

It will only be real if you don't make it real, or, uh... Wait a minute...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

it is, based on most people who read it, actually very good. the problems start when you analyse it in context with the author. ironically, same thing is true for the source material.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

most people have bad taste. hpmor spreads vapid grandiose intellectualism and the people who like it should act more like skulblaka: they were trivially manipulated by a cult leader.

to be fair, though, eliezer yudkowsky is being sardonic in the OP text.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

HPMOR definitely has its share of problems -- a mary sue main character for one. But it was incredibly unique at the time it came out, in particular for taking the world of harry potter down as many pegs as it could with such exacting precision. I think it's one of the all-time greats (of fanfics) personally, but you definitely have to get past how full of himself the author is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

the thing is

you don't have to get past how full of himself the author is

the entire cult the author founded is in denial of the fascism

[–] [email protected] 112 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What an idiot. My father didn’t labor in the vegetable mines for his entire life to be disrespected this way.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 hours ago

i’ve got the cauliflower lung, pop

[–] [email protected] 106 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That’s what happens when you use your fearsome intellect to work things out from first principles without bothering to consult the real world.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 12 hours ago

Something something featherless biped

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago

Vegetable is a political (lower case P) term, defined by legislation for tax purposes.

Tomato is clearly a fruit botanically but classified as a vegetable in the United States (and most countries) and is taxed at a lower amount than fruits.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

This is 100% a human arguing with an LLM.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

LLMs ain't that old. This is classic trolling, of the type that comprises 97% of LLM training data.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

LLMs were trained on interactions like this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago)

So will we admit that trolls saved us from the AI nightmare that was to come?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That's 0% an LLM, unless the screenshot altered the date.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I hope his biology teacher sees this post and beats him with his biology school book.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

If apples and potaoes are different then why do the French call them pommes de terre?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

It comes from Latin "malum terrae", which has been attested in French since 1488 to designate various tuber or bulb plants

[–] [email protected] 70 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

Because their language is made of hate

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Big Yud was homeschooled after biting a maths teacher.

This fact makes it into his Harry Potter fan fic as a self insert.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

"She didn't know what a logarithm was!"

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 hours ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'll help you the dirt apple.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

I don't speak French.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

On the other hand tomatoes and potatoes are the same family. You can even graft a tomato plant on top of a potato plant.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

My initial read of this was, "tornadoes and potatoes" and I prefer that read now.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 hours ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah it's making me nostalgic for the days of good old-school trolling. Not the shit Russian "all your neighbours are evil" trolling they have now.

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