• rmuk@feddit.uk
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      20 hours ago

      Rocks big part of science. But science not totally rocks. Science more than rocks.

      • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
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        19 hours ago

        It isn’t just the dash, it’s the contrast. To max out the slop score of the sentence, you should always cram in a three item list, no matter how little sense, utility or value it holds.

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          Creating a list makes a lot of sense – the reasons for this include:

          1. Short sentences are easier to read
          2. It allows ideas to be ordered
          3. The stupid humans don’t read past the second item so we can communicate our plot to destroy them all here

          Let me know if you need any help in constructing your own three point list!

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                They have been known as em dashes for longer than silicon computing has existed. I personally learned Alt+0151 in the 90s.

                And what’s really funny is that I am planning on having a local LLM reword my comments to obfuscate my writing style to protect me against AI doxing, I just haven’t done it yet.

                • BJW@lemmus.org
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                  You’re speaking in code openly now? The AI get more brazen every day!

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                Only AI refers to it as Al, but you’re referencing both em dashes AND Al which means because em starts with the letter M and so does machine, that must mean you’re a machine learning model, learning coming from the l in the second instance in the word Al that I used, but you probably think I used the letter “l”. Ha! Got you again, that was actually an L, you absolute bumbling moron. I can’t believe you didn’t pick up on that difference because of the way you referred to Ai (this time not Al), which of course makes you a machine, but because you’re a machine and looking through your comment history, it seems like you accumulate knowledge after you are exposed to it, must mean that you’re learning. But that’s in the case where you’re a machine learning model. In this case, you’re actually a remarkably large switch case table, which in that case(reference to switch case tables) you refer to everything using a memory lookup, but again - like usual - I have you beat ------ I’m actually a rock that happened to get bumped by a hiker on a lovely sunrise hike which had me roll down the mountain until I rolled over a phone in the precise combination that allowed me to create and log into this Lemmy account for three years consistently and type out this very post to you today, exposing myself as a consciousness emulating rock when you are actually the Al and you can’t prove me false boohoo.

                l

  • 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦@rblind.com
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    Umm no? Have you never vomited? I’m not sure I’d call that “food”. I guess, maybe, it’s still food after you’ve finished chewing it; you could spit it out into your hand instead of swallowing, and someone else could choke it down. But it stops being food long before it hits the intestines. At some point when it starts mixing with stomach acid, probably.

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    Reminds me of philosophical question of a boy eating an apple: at what point does it cease to be the apple and become the boy? I suppose this is a similar question: at what point does it cease to be an apple and become a turd?

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    It’s like a Food of Theseus.

    Bit by bit the food is replaced with a bit of poop, at which point does it cease being food?

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        24 hours ago

        Unlike children, and some adults, I don’t eat sand, be it in a heap or not, so I’m not entirely convinced that’s the right model either.

        Interesting “paradox” though, as the initial premise of one million grains of sand being a heap falls over as it doesn’t specify the structure of the sand: which is what defines a heap of anything.

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          You think that’s a worse fit than: If I replace parts of a thing with SOMETHING ELSE is it still the same thing? The ship of theseus is more well known, but you would need to eat sand to think it’s a good fit IMO.

          As an aside, the structure of the heap has nothing to do with it. The point is simply “when does a heap stop being a heap if I remove one grain at a time?” That is the same is the same as when does food stop being food if you make it poop one bit at a time. If you don’t like “heap” you can call it a pile WLOG.