Omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience all make an intuitive sense to me as characteristics of a God entity, but I’ve never really understood why omnibenevolence is considered a required trait as well.

Hmm the more I think about it, the more that sounds like a good time. Good sex is kinda silly anyway, might as well ratchet up the silliness.

When I delivered Amazon packages for USPS on Sundays pickers would sort packages into bins by route then us drivers would organize packages from the bins to the truck. I think that was better than having someone else pack because then I could get a feel for where in the vehicle a specific package was, and I could better place them where I could get them (putting early packages closer to the front to grab or way at the back door if it was very large).

Almost did this yesterday on the hour long drive to tubing. My roommate was in the back seat with me reading, and a few times I almost tried including them into the conversation before reminding myself that they were off in book world.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how I wish my first exposure to the idea of people transitioning wasn’t the episode of Family Guy where Brian learns the woman he just had sex with is trans and gets grossed out.

Right, silent acceptance. Hence the example you responded to of a Christian speaking up to a stranger and expressing his disdain for the evil being wrought by other “Christians.”

I am not serious at all, that first paragraph was copy pasted from an LLM button in DuckDuckGo I had to go out of my way to look for.

A lot of the big models were trained on reddit data with little indication whether there was selection for high quality content, which means to me that the overall training data quality is unreliable. If an LLM can hallucinate an answer, it can hallucinate its confidence value since that is also an answer.

In other words, I agree with your sentiment.

I’m not a civil engineer, but based on my experience with traffic lights pushing the button doesn’t actually alter the order of operations for the lights, it just makes it so the next time there is a natural gap in traffic that would allow for safe crossing, the crosswalk light turns on. So it doesn’t affect drivers at all. I’m still not a fan of jaywalking unless the road is REALLY clear.

That said, I’m always Jay walking when I go somewhere :P

I’m two episodes into Serial Experiments Lain and this looks about right for where things are headed.

I like the way you break up the Zs in the second panel to show waking up!

Huh, I’ve had Honey Bucket saved in my library for like 10 years and always assumed it was an Offspring song. Like just the other day I was listening to The Offspring wondering how odd it is that they also made this song. Oops.

It’s a cool album cover. Any other songs from it I should give a listen?

We are we are we are mature children
Finding our way around indecision

-Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream) by The Icicle Works

I got soul but I’m not a soldier

-All These Things that I’ve Done by The Killers

The first twangs of the guitar in that song always tear at my soul.

Oh yeah? Well AI systems can be useful for everyday tasks like recommendations or summaries, but their reliability depends on the context and the quality of the data they were trained on. Researchers have developed methods to measure an AI model's confidence in its answers, which helps users assess trustworthiness in high-stakes decisions such as healthcare or finance.

So, uh, maybe you should be aware of the high quality data used in training and ask those, uh, other people who throw out LLM answers what the confidence value is before you judge. Ha, got em!

I like that one as well. It's cool to watch Mando do PG John Wick stuff, Rotta the Hutt was a surprisingly chill dude which was neat, and that part in the middle that was all puppets was a lot of fun to watch. Babu Frik was (in my opinion) the only good part of Rise of Skywalker, and the other little dudes in Mandalorian and Grogu were just as fun!

There are only a couple pieces of writing advice I see people consistently agree on:

1. Write something consistently, even when you don’t want to. If you’re a full time writer, that might be at least one page a day. If it’s just a hobby, it could be less. The important thing is to keep what you are writing somewhere in your head to keep the creative juices flowing eventually.

2. Read. Read good books/stories to give you an idea of what to do and what’s been done when writing. Read mediocre or even bad books/stories to give you an idea of what not to do and what’s been overdone in writing.

3. Learn about or experience some stuff to help spark ideas for writing.

You gotta warn someone before sending them down a TV Tropes rabbit hole!

I looked into why protein is so popular right now, and the main thing I can see is that protein takes a while to break down, leaving you feeling fuller longer and making it easier to eat less. The problem with that is most people (Americans at least) already eat way more protein than they need. In almost every case people would be better served by eating more fiber or replacing processed grains with whole grains, both of which achieve a similar effect while also actually aiding the digestive system. But the HHS as it is today isn’t interested in that, so they just increased the recommended amount of protein instead.

Sometimes Factorio.