… Maybe if you just dive straight into the main course instead of enjoying the appetizer first…

I’m excited, anon!

I may or may not love the soup itself, but I love that you tried, and that you offer it as a gift.

=D

… I think I need to lay off the stuff for a bit, sheesh.

I was talking about the ‘and then sue them’ part.

Sueing someone… is an ‘offensive’ legal action, its something you initiate, not ‘defend’ against.

Right, because everyone can afford those legal fees.

And its sure to be worth the time and money, netted out.

… why did I post this …

On the bright side, maybe an indie dev can him for cheap!

… uggghhhhh…

Hedwig’s Raging Clue

I am equally annoyed that it took them this long to finally get around to it, but happy that they did.

No worries, I get what you’re saying! (I think)

Yes, language changes over time.

Yes, some terms are basically just shot in the pan, fairly short lived fads… but, sometimes they stick around enough to distinctively form part of a kind of age bracket / location specific dialect, or even spread more broadly.

‘Cool’ ‘Radical’ ‘Tubular’ ‘Groovy’… those are all older terms that were popularized by older age brackets, you can take a while bunch of millenialspeak/redditisms as examples as well, ‘smolbean’ ‘chonker’ ‘adulting’, etc.

But also yes, often, terms get reappropriated or basicslly misappropriated, kind of transmuted into having a just totally different meaning, which can then create a lot of confusion when some people are using a more original, domain specific meaning, and then there is a kind of nebulous, vague, commonplace usage of the term.

‘Therapyspeak’ as proliferated by Tiktok is a great example of the dangers and problems of that.

Tons of people misuing terms that have actual specific meanings, that they then almost always use to essentially weaponize their own narcissism.

There are tons of other more technical terms that have more specific meanings in some field of study, but then also have a vague or different colloquial meaning, and then people will just conflate the two different usage/meanings…

That’s pretty much the basis of a bunch of woowoo, psuedo-intellectual, spiritual guru type nonsense, its also used by cults and con artists.

‘Energy’ in physics is not the same thing as ‘energy’ used to describe basically someone’s demeanor, their current mood.

But, in another comment, up the chain in this thread, I did try to lay out how ‘cats are autistic’ is actually a reasonably accurate and defensible use of the term.

I think that if people are more commonly using complex terms… actually relatively correctly… that is just a good thing.

It normalizes the idea that yeah, autistic people exist, they are different, and thats ok, and its also ok to talk about how they are different, because maybe we can all understsnd and relate to them better by way of decently accurate analogies.

What would worry me is people using the term very incorrectly, accidentally or purposefully promoting false stereotypes, or just purely using ‘autistic’ as an insult.

So, I wanted to try and point out some of the details, have the conversation.

Essentially, I’m arguing that language does broadly change over time, and also, broader acceptance and discussion of how neurodivergence actually works is a good thing.

Is me doing that ‘forced’, not a ‘natural’ evolution of language? Eh, sure.

But if a whole bunch of people are also just… using the term autistic more frequently… well, I’m not in charge of all of them, but maybe I can try to at least… shape the flow of that river, so to speak, so that more people know more about the word they’re now using more often.

… that is even funnier.

But also I think that actually breaks canon with at least some of the RPG style games… and I know that actually breaks canon with the comic strip about Mario and Luigi and errybody else, that ran in Nintendo Power, back in the day.

Mario and Luigi are very much actual, literal plumbers, who have to fix up the entitery of Peach’s castle’s plumbing, and they use their plumbing know how to practical effect in other scenarios.

But… that also has the koopalings in it, and… I’m fairly sure that they’ve been either written out of the canon or very heavily retconned… ???

My entire point is that you are just overgeneralizing, in general, and saying rather silly things.

Wait, why could he not have been a plumber, while also being in Med school?

Had a gf with that once.

Sure did make it easy to uh, find the spot.

… quoth the raven, “please, some more.”

Hahaha.

Oh, I’ve owned a game.

I own many games.

I can give them to whoever I want.

… you just have to be clever.

Completely agree with all of this.

Especially the last part.

We don’t even understand our brains, our own minds, we still can’t fully agree on what consciousness or sentience… even… are.

We’re certainly making progress on those fronts… but we are a very, very far distance from the finish line.

That finish line would be like… we solved Psychology, we solved Neuroscience, we have a Grand Unified Theory of Mind, etc.

Introverts exist, and are… very often fine with solitude, prefer it generally over socializing.

But they are generally fine at participating in society and living normal lives.

Healthy people… do need doctors … and therapists.

A person can outwardly appear to be healthy… and actually not be.

Preventative medicine, regular checkups, your body changes as you grow, and habits you develop in your youth may need significant reworking.

Therapy can give otherwise healthy people a method of exploring their inner selves more fully or more consistently… they can teach them frameworks for understanding and dealing with other kinds of people, for being better able to deal with kinds of trauma they have not yet experienced.

Also… same with physical health… people with some nascent mental problems or patterns forming… probably won’t be obvious to a non specialist, untill it gets more severe.

Here is a way of describing what I see as ‘the problem’:

An LLM cannot forget things in its base training data set.

Its permanent memory… is totally permanent.

And this memory has a bunch of wrong ideas, a bunch of nonsensical associations, a bunch of false facts, a bunch of meaningless gibberish.

It has no way of evaluating its own knowledge set for consistency, coherence, and stability.

It literally cannot learn and grow, because it cannot realize why it made mistakes, it cannot discard or ammend in a permanent way, concepts that are incoherent, faulty ways of reasoning (associating) things.

Seriously, ask an LLM a trick question, then tell it it was wrong, explain the correct answer, then ask it to determine why it was wrong.

Then give it another similar category of trick question, but that is specifically different, repeat.

The closer you try to get it toward reworking a fundamental axiom it holds to that is flawed, the closer it gets to responding in totally paradoxical, illogical gibberish, or just stuck in some kind of repetetive loop.

… Learning is as much building new ideas and experiences, as it is reevaluating your old ideas and experiences, and discarding concepts that are wrong or insufficient.

Biological brains have neuroplasticity.

So far, silicon ones do not.

It eats.

It is thus the primordial consumer.

… kinda does bare a resemblance to what AM turns Ted into…