Zompist Bboard Again

Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 3:17 pm The problem with underlying structures is that it is too easy to posit that all languages are essentially English.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Thu Jul 13, 2023 3:31 amThis is the sort of rake science is constantly stepping on

alice wrote: ↑Tue Jul 04, 2023 3:01 amYoung people today, honestly! When I was young we had to go 24 hours each day without the Internet, and we had no choice!

keenir wrote: ↑Sun Aug 06, 2023 7:03 am … like Dr. McWhorter's anecdote about a talking walrus, none of those things are in the article.

masako wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 6:26 pm

doctor shark wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 6:11 pm I just want his [Donald Trump's] supporters to realize what fools they've been (and are)...

You're more likely to be struck by lightning after winning the lottery with a shark attached to your leg and being next in line to the German Throne. Twice.

Raphael wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2023 12:05 am

masako wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 6:26 pm

doctor shark wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 6:11 pm I just want his [Donald Trump's] supporters to realize what fools they've been (and are)...

You're more likely to be struck by lightning after winning the lottery with a shark attached to your leg and being next in line to the German Throne. Twice.

zompist wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2023 8:43 pm I mean, letting go a helium balloon is a little like the Apollo program, but not much and not in any interesting way.

keenir wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 8:13 am

xxx wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 6:58 amthis big night consisting, moreover, of living outside this materialistic paradise:
having only unique objects,
personalized treatment only with human beings beings face to face,
far from the crowds where even to hunt wild animals,...

I'm glad I don't have to hunt animals - I'd've been stomped into paste long ago.

salem wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 10:47 am esoteric Catholic Maoism

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 12:45 pm

salem wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 10:47 am esoteric Catholic Maoism

Is that a political ideology, a religion, or both?

alice wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2023 2:22 pm For those who were confused by zompist's reference to the "typewriter", it was a mechanical device somewhat like a laptop with a built-in printer but no screen.

alice wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2023 4:51 am

Ares Land wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2023 4:19 amOh, I disagree with malloc, but lots of people are worrying along similar lines. I've had similar debates a few times IRL.

It's time to come "out of the AI closet", as it were: the ZBB member you know as "alice" was actually replaced by an LLM several months ago, and none of you have noticed!

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 7:13 pm king/kink merger would be interesting

zompist wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2023 5:12 am

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:40 am What do you think of this theory about the uncanny valley?

There's a bunch of theories there, each more unlikely than the last.

Ares Land wrote:I'm usually all right with horror movies but I have to watch The Big Bang Theory from behind the couch.

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 4:38 pm

malloc wrote: Imagine having to drive hours into the backwoods of Missouri just to find a novel written by an actual human.

I have a sudden desire to read the batshit dystopian novel where this would somehow become reality. Can I commission you to write it for me?

zompist wrote:My toaster can make toast and I can't do that by breathing on it. Oh noes toasters are taking over the world.

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 11:46 am

zompist wrote:My toaster can make toast and I can't do that by breathing on it. Oh noes toasters are taking over the world.

Raphael wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 12:23 pmBut what will they do with it once they have taken it over?

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 12:15 am So the next time you read a hacky sci-fi premise where a character named Norfmo is from the planet Norfmo, before you judge the author too harshly, consider that they might simply be from the Balkans.