in my defense, the tour guide was calling them “bullies” when she could have been calling them “infanticidal rapists”

ceterum censeo normalize dolphin personhood

So they can be tried for their crimes

No, no, nothing that socially and financially benefits me is weird. In fact I think it should be normative.

That is *such* a good board game. My favorite run was the game where they had pretty much figured out I was a cylon, so instead of revealing myself I started running for president every turn. They wasted so many resources trying to stop me that they started failing crisis events.

Depending on their circles, they might know people who hate the religion. Some branches of Christianity also heavily invest in an “us-vs-the-world” narrative and imply that it’s easier not to make your faith public, and thus an act of courage to be public about it.

ur so real for this

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I'd invite you to read up on the transformer architecture of LLMs and compare it to cognitive appropriation models of human learning. The idea that you can lump both processes into a single category called "training" is not an evidence-based position.

That does not substantively address my comment.

This argument rests on the assertion that human training and LLM training are the same kind of thing. I would argue that's an equivocation fallacy. You would need to demonstrate that the LLM is engaged in the same kind of cognitive appropriation that underlies human learning for this to hold.

I'm not saying you can't articulate fresh ideas in your writing or tell stories that haven't been told. I'm saying you're going to have to rely on the tools that other writers have built—the ones you've internalized that taught you what storytelling *is*.

This is why writers shouldn't try to be original. Being original requires building a new tradition from scratch, and I'm sorry, but you're not based enough to diff the collective effort of generations of intelligent, creative people by yourself.

wait how much of the genre does that describe? I thought it was just stuff like The Book Thief and whatever the fuck Pynchon was on