The New ZBB Quote Thread

[WeepingElf]

Obviously a typo for feminine nouns, but I found this too funny not to preserve…

No, not a typo. The mutation happened on the adjective following the noun.

The typo is ‘nuns’ for ‘nouns’.

Ah, there is the error! I missed that

[Travis B.]

"The feminine nuns have mutated! And they're heating up the planet!"

Sounds like a plot for a classic scifi B-movie.

[Raphael]

"The feminine nuns have mutated! And they're heating up the planet!"

Sounds like a plot for a classic scifi B-movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGf0AHky0Os

[Man in Space]

"The feminine nuns have mutated! And they're heating up the planet!"

Sounds like a plot for a classic scifi B-movie.

Plan Nun from Outer Space

[Raphael]

On the other hand, an LLM doesn't really understand anything. It's the furthest a parrot could go if it had brains the size of data centers while still not knowing what it's talking about.

[Raphael]

Is Elon Musk a fascist? In a sense, no, he's not even Italian. But he was not blowing kisses with that arm, if you see what I mean.

[Raphael]

Regarding associations: Islam values intellectual activity so much, some Sufi sects traditionally regard coffee as a holy drink.

Now that's a doctrine I can get behind.

It sounds like an interesting idea until they make you stay up late drinking coffee, reciting increasingly elaborate prayers.

[Raphael]

I've also used mine as a debit card in Mexico and various other European countries.

[Raphael]

(I still can't tell how or why the Nestorians differ from regular Christianity.)

Oh, it’s all very simple: Nestorians believed that Christ had two natures, one divine and one human, in two different substances united into one person, whereas Dyophysitists believe that Christ is in two natures, one divine and one human, united into one substance in one person; neither of which should be confused of course with the Miaphysitists, who hold that Christ is of two natures, one divine and one human, united into one substance in one person, nor with the Monophysitists who believed that Christ is of two natures yet in only one, and which are of course all fundamentally different to the Arians, who held that Christ was of two natures, one divine-ish and one human, and the Modalists, who hold that Christ was merely one mode of three in a single nature, and…

(No, I never have understood the idea of the Trinity myself. As far as I can tell all the comprehensible interpretations have been rejected as heretical.)

[Raphael]

In my religion book, I included a list of heresies about Christ, plus the orthodox position. Re-reading the book, I find that I've forgotten which position is orthodox.

[Raphael]

The Monster Raving Loony Party reportedly has 3 candidates standing for Clacton!

I mean, it is in the name…

One for "Monster", one for "Raving", and one for "Loony". I think it's the first time they've realised their name's potential.

[Travis B.]

... that Sam Altman is actually a powerful sorcerer capable of forging souls and binding them to data centers.

Doesn't that fit the financial facts?

It fits what the financial people think the financial facts are.

[Raphael]

bradrn, addressing malloc:

They do not yet ‘have democracy in check’ by any means. Of course, if everyone had that defeatist attitude they would have had it in check long ago. Thank God that lots of people have a more determined attitude than you do.

[bradrn]

On second thought, that feels rather rude. I’m not sure it’s a post that makes me proud, so to speak.

[Raphael]

On second thought, that feels rather rude. I’m not sure it’s a post that makes me proud, so to speak.

Do you want me to edit my previous post into a period?

[bradrn]

On second thought, that feels rather rude. I’m not sure it’s a post that makes me proud, so to speak.

Do you want me to edit my previous post into a period?

No need. I did say it.

[bradrn]

For foreign observers— as we have an Administrative Branch and a Judicial Branch, Congress provides the Entertainment and Obstruction Branch.

And later:

There is another thing Congress values even more than votes: its summer vacation.

[Raphael]

Granted the perception of sophistication is obviously quite subjective. German seems reasonably sophisticated with its famously dense philosophical tradition (Kant and Hegel and so forth) yet it also has many constructions that sound rather silly if translated literally: water-stuff for hydrogen, flutter-mouse for bat, and so forth. The fact that Germans talk about "coal stuff" and "sour stuff" has hardly hindered them in the field of chemistry.

[Man in Space]

Intelligentia artificiālis dēlenda est.

[Raphael]

It sounds a lot like English already, though the grammar is barely human.