AbouBenAdhem

I’ve known people who were raised by their grandparents and grew up OK, but I assume it was harder on the grandparents.

Using it 75% of the time is harder than using it all the time, because it means you’re consciously thinking about it each time instead of doing it instinctively.

I realize it won’t be like this forever

You can always keep moving to smaller instances.

Two thoughts:

• You don’t see a reflection in water when you look straight down at it—only when you look at an angle that depends on the refraction index. So when you look at a distant animal in the water and see its reflection below it, that doesn’t mean the animal can see its own reflection. They can see the reflections of other animals in the distance, but they can’t normally see their own.

• The reflections animals are used to seeing are always mirrored vertically due to the horizontal orientation of the water surface—the upside-down orientation is probably an intrinsic part of their understanding of what a reflection is. So when they see something mirrored horizontally, it’s missing two of what experience has taught them to be fundamental characteristics of reflections—vertical inversion and an oblique viewing angle.

Plenty of writers in the early Christian church continued to draw heavily on Greek and Roman mythology as a source for literary analogies—so a background knowledge of classical mythology is necessary to fully understand foundational Christian literature.

Great—let’s test it on politicians and law enforcement first.

Ok... but then what’s the purpose of not having three hands?

If by “western” you mean “everything west of China”, then the Shahnameh.

If you mean “European/Mediterranean”, then Homer.

If you specifically mean “western Europe”, then yeah—probably Shakespeare.

Before copyright, storytellers sharing and reusing characters, settings, and plots was the norm. It’s the way humans evolved to tell stories, over tens or hundreds of thousands of years. We instinctively want to hear stories about characters we know, and to see new twists on familiar tales (aka “shit getting weird”). It’s why franchises, fan fiction, and adaptations are so popular.

And copyrights were never intended to protect the work of artists—they were first introduced after the invention of the printing press to censor subversive works being written for a newly-literate public, and quickly evolved into a means of creating monopolies for commercial printers. Writers were eventually given a stake in order to create a new rationale for copyright laws after they were suspended due to public backlash—but that was a minimal concession by the real commercial beneficiaries, not the main purpose.

We thwarted two aerial attacks that the enemy was preparing to launch

That kind of sounds like they had inside intelligence—did the Defense Department accidentally add them to a planning thread?

And by an LLM you mean the people who train and tune the LLM to generate the type of responses they like.

Hmm... I just got shingles last year. Does that have a similar effect as vaccination (since the vaccine is based on an attenuated live virus, and re-infection is practically unheard-of), or does it mean I now have an elevated risk?