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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #1350 on: September 26, 2021, 02:14:10 pm »

If my calculation is correct (which it may easily not be in this case), then given the projected results right now, Social Democrats/Green/Left would narrowly miss a majority.

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« Reply #1351 on: September 26, 2021, 02:17:01 pm »

Although I'll score any result where Laschet isn't chancellor as a win.

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« Reply #1352 on: September 26, 2021, 02:20:37 pm »

My gut says we'll have another grand coalition only in reverse order (i.e., with red in front)

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« Reply #1353 on: September 26, 2021, 02:21:39 pm »

It is kind of hilarious how fickle people are btw. The Social Democrats have been on a perpetual losing streak for so long, and now we have a hand full of scandals, and suddenly they're in first place. I did expect numbers to be a little more sticky than that.

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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #1354 on: September 26, 2021, 03:10:48 pm »

There also isn't any small party I'm enthusiastic about tbh.

I'm personally pretty enthusiastic about Piratenpartei. (I'm a member in the Finnish Pirate Party, for the record.)
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« Reply #1355 on: September 27, 2021, 09:40:55 am »

There also isn't any small party I'm enthusiastic about tbh.

I'm personally pretty enthusiastic about Piratenpartei. (I'm a member in the Finnish Pirate Party, for the record.)

I have actually heard good things about the Pirate Party in Finland from people who aren't likely to say good things about any party anywhere. I'm not sure that the Pirate Party in Germany is as good though it's possible

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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #1356 on: September 27, 2021, 10:11:59 am »

There also isn't any small party I'm enthusiastic about tbh.

I'm personally pretty enthusiastic about Piratenpartei. (I'm a member in the Finnish Pirate Party, for the record.)

I have actually heard good things about the Pirate Party in Finland from people who aren't likely to say good things about any party anywhere. I'm not sure that the Pirate Party in Germany is as good though it's possible

All Pirate Parties have the same core values, and even the interpretation thereof is generally almost identical between different countries, and we do a lot of international cooperation and stuff. The German Pirates are unfortunately a bit of an outlier with their anti-nuclear stance, but that seems to be normal in Germany. Other than that, I'm under the impression that they pretty much advocate for the exact same things as we do.
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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #1357 on: September 28, 2021, 05:16:38 pm »

I've watched a bunch of interviews about the new coalition, and in the end it feels like a bunch of adults trying to figure things out. It could be so so much worse.

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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #1358 on: October 02, 2021, 12:52:59 pm »

And god said, let there be light
and the firmament of the heaven
and all of the other useful stuff
but then he went, "you know what I need to do?
I need a powdery disgusting completely useless gray substance
that's not quite like anything else in the world
to accumulate at the corners of every home
and under every bed
also I need tiny flying and crawling things to spontaneously spawn near food if it's out for to long
and I need to build humans such that they are disgusted by them"
and no-one noticed that these are the design decisions of a psyopathath

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« Reply #1359 on: October 02, 2021, 04:16:10 pm »

So I think the main insight about writing is that characters >>>> story, plot, setting, etc.

Earthquake Bird had nothing going for it except for good characters, and it's really memorable.

Quintin Tarantino's movies do have other things going for them, but characters are probably most of the reason. People just tend to be the most interesting thing for most people, but in most stories, written or on screen, most characters don't feel like real people.

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« Reply #1360 on: October 02, 2021, 04:19:05 pm »

The Hateful Eight is the most interesting case study. Generic western, but somehow one of the better movies I've ever seen.

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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #1361 on: October 02, 2021, 04:28:06 pm »

Hard to think of a great movie or fictional book whose greatest strength aren't characters. Maybe Spirited Away.

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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #1362 on: October 02, 2021, 04:47:16 pm »

Hard to think of a great movie or fictional book whose greatest strength aren't characters. Maybe Spirited Away.

I think Lord of the Rings fits in that category honestly. There are also authors that kind of purposefully create sort of blank slate characters, like Kafka or Murakami.
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« Reply #1363 on: October 02, 2021, 05:04:24 pm »

Hard to think of a great movie or fictional book whose greatest strength aren't characters. Maybe Spirited Away.

I think Lord of the Rings fits in that category honestly. There are also authors that kind of purposefully create sort of blank slate characters, like Kafka or Murakami.

Good point, LotR is definitely a major exception.

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« Reply #1364 on: October 02, 2021, 06:20:54 pm »

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« Reply #1365 on: October 03, 2021, 04:22:29 pm »

the sounds that japanese words make so beautiful

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« Reply #1366 on: October 03, 2021, 04:26:45 pm »

It's not the first time that I wonder whether I should just set aside one hour every day to learn but I don't know maybe if I understood it that would actually make it less beautiful

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« Reply #1367 on: October 04, 2021, 12:17:02 pm »

Had the difficult class for a second time and it was  bit anti-climactic, I had already planned to throw out harsh punishments but this time they managed to keep the volume down to a (barely) acceptable level

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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #1368 on: October 05, 2021, 03:23:16 pm »

a few months ago, I was playing around a lot with GPT-3 via AI dungeons. (The one that made the [dominion cards](http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20446.msg847957#msg847957).)

Yesterday, I read that the popularity of AI dungeons has decreased a lot because...

... this is very sad ...

... a lot of people were using it to create not only sexually explicit material, but apparently sexually explicit material involving minors.

Then Sam Altman was like 'well that's obviously not what we want so you'll have to censor that' and AI Dungeons did and people went bad which is very weird what do you expect them to do

then again it was an article and most articles are trash so maybe my version of the story is completely wrong

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« Reply #1369 on: October 05, 2021, 03:24:18 pm »

I hereby proudly announce that I have never used GPT-3 for sexually explicit content. It's appeared out of nowhere once or twice, but I've never pursued it

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« Reply #1370 on: October 05, 2021, 03:29:34 pm »

And they didn't even ban using it for porn from what I understand, they just banned child porn.

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« Reply #1371 on: October 05, 2021, 03:47:44 pm »

But there was no-where else to walk. I had reached the bottom.
At the bottom of the stairs was a girl, waiting for me. She was pale, sickly pale, the white porcelain skin that marks many a fairy tale and nursery song played on every childhood night before the old wireless. But unlike most fairy tales she was not shallow; her eyes were deep, dark pools, reflecting the entire universe and my destiny within them. She had hair like silken strands of golden thread, and a smile like the Mona Lisa; enigmatic, unknowable, unattainable, but lovely to the world nonetheless.
Her dress fit for a queen was tattered and torn, its original grandeur long since vanished beneath the wear and tear of hard travel. It was soaked with blood from broken nights spent in the wilderness, from the rats' cave to the sorcerer's tower, from the outlaws' cavern to the pillar of the witches. Its golden threads glowed with a fierce inner light, a whisper of a promise that it would one day be restored to its true magnificance.
"You're no different from me," she whispered."You're no better than me. Because we're the same person."

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Re: The Necro Wars
« Reply #1372 on: October 06, 2021, 01:25:44 pm »

So Yang is founding a third party.

Generally, I respect him enough that I would just defer on his judgment. I didn't think this was the best idea, but if he thinks it is, that's probably correct. His plans of striving for reform via changing the voting system on the state level does sound really good and practical. The two negative things I will say are that

- afaik, ranked choice voting is a really bad system, and he talks about it as if it's the best system. Maybe that's because even RCV system is so much better than first past the post that backing the most popular alternative is the highest expected return option? But approval voting is supposedly much better (I haven't thought about this in detail myself, but I'm going by a consensus I trust), and that's reasonably well known. And there are very simple systems that are also much better.

Of course, there is the impossibility theorem that shows that no voting system is perfect, but that's kind of a red herring.

- why can't he say 'if Trump is at risk of re-election, our candidate will drop out and endorse his opponent'?

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« Reply #1373 on: October 07, 2021, 06:03:49 pm »

There is a certain class stupid arguments that it unusually painful for me to hear. It contains arguments like

" It's hypocritical to advocate for term limits and then not step down after the advocated limit has passed (if it hasn't become law)"

" Musk is hypocritical because he argues that the government shouldn't subsidize electrical vehicles "

It's literally wrong because hypocritical means lying about what standards you have, and none of these things do that. But I think the worse part is that is how it doesn't understand incentives. Disadvantaging people who argue for term limits this way is just so unbelievably stupid.

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« Reply #1374 on: October 07, 2021, 06:05:12 pm »

Like in general the idea that if you argue that you should be treated systematically worse and then people demand that you now have to artificially treat yourself worse in that way, that's just so unfathomably dumb
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