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When questioned, chatgpt doubles down on how it is definitely correct.

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But it’s not relying on some weird glitchy interpretation of the art itself, a la adversarial turtle-gun. It just reports the drawing as definitely being of the word “lies” because that kind of self-consistency is what would happen in the kind of human-human conversations in its internet training data. I tested this by starting a brand new chat and then asking it what the art from the previous chat said.

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Google’s bard, on the other hand, interprets it differently

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Bard has the same tendency to generate illegible ASCII art and then praise its legibility, except in its case, all its art is cows.

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Not to be outdone, bing chat (GPT-4) will also praise its own ASCII art - once you get it to admit it even can generate and rate ASCII art. For the “balanced” and “precise” versions I had to make my request all fancy and quantitative.

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With Bing chat I wasn’t able to ask it to read its own ASCII art because it strips out all the formatting and is therefore illegible - oh wait, no, even the “precise” version tries to read it anyways.

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These language models are so unmoored from the truth that it’s astonishing that people are marketing them as search engines.

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worddevourer:

Moments when you do not speak during a watchthrough of Lord of the Rings

1. Boromir’s death
2. The lighting of the beacons
3. Theoden’s speech at Pelennor Fields

Moments when you do speak during a watchthrough of Lord of the Rings

1. “Okay, but did you know that when he kicks that helmet, he actually breaks multiple toes?  That agonized scream is actual, physical pain, and it was by far the best take.”

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This is still one of the top posts to come out of covid

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tell me something nice

if you grow mushrooms over a toxic waste site, chemical spill, or other polluted growing medium, they will suck up the toxins into their fruiting bodies with such effectiveness that they are being studied for their ability to clean up tainted industrial sites. it’s called mycoremediation.

if you do this with edible mushrooms, they are no longer technically edible, but on the other hand they make a great way to poison your enemies. this is called murder and it’s usually frowned upon, but they won’t see it coming and you get bragging rights afterwards about your ability to kill people with a pizza topping.

Sorry this was not precisely most people’s idea of “nice.” Let me add that you are a glow of comforting absurdity in an ever-more-fucked-up world.

I love everything about mycoremediation, but also

My sister studies fungi and let me tell you the shit she comes out with when someone asks her about work is mind-blowing

I love fungi.

I’m so fascinated by fungi that I’m considering going down the rabbit hole of research of how it helps neurology.

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teathattast:

I love desire paths. There’s something so wonderous about seeing an echo of humanity. Depending on it’s location, a desire path can mean so many different things.

In a city, like the pic above, they represent rebellion, and efficiency. The messiness of humanity. We like to imagine we’re oh so logical and neat so we design our cities to be logical and neat an then real humans literally trample on that idea. The ego required to think you can design something perfect that checks every box. Life is all about compromise and patching stuff when some new problem arises. Though people have certainly tried! Ohio state univeristy let students carve their desire paths, and then paved them over. It looks pretty artsy.

Some people will try to discourage desire paths, but this is almost always going to fail.

Eventually, people just have to accept them. Humans are too dang stubborn.

Certain desire paths are just adorable. A 0.5 second time saver. You just can’t design for maximum efficiency, humans will always find shortcuts!

Though on occasion a desire path can actually be the least efficient way…especially if you’re superstitious.

In a wilder area, such as below, they show us the curiosity of humans. A desire path somewhere natural often tells you there’s something interesting just ahead. (Though remember some ecosystems are fragile and will suffer if trampled! Stick to paths in these sorts of areas)

And how about desire stairs? I always think these look so cool. We get see humans determination to climb, to traverse every kind of terrain.

And for something really crazy…a desire path used for centuries will create a ‘holloway’

All of these pics are off the Desirepath subreddit, check them out for more examples! And many thanks to the users who submitted these photos.

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just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

They existed *before beetles*

Why is this sad? Why am I sad?

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