76925 pts · November 26, 2015
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Imgur's new parent company did a mass firing, broke its own terms of service, broke app notifications, then started removing posts for being critical of them. So we're giving them no content except being critical of them. And leaving the site, in mass numbers.
Not to be the pronoun gestapo or anything but he's labeled 'guy from the library' so he probably isn't the 'she' you think he is
Astrophysicist here: you're absolutely right. The proper term is "big bang nucleosynthesis". Fusion is a specific nucleosynthetic process that cannot produce hydrogen. Hydrogen is made through a different process called Recombination, which happened maybe 400,000 years after the big bang, once the universe was cool enough for stuff to clump together into atoms
Fair enough, haha. I tend to just take a critical eye to whatever the question leads me to, but yeah that can be a lot to dig into if that doesn't happen to be where you wanted to go
This of course leads one to the natural conclusion of creating characters on both sides of that conflict. A Fahrenheit 451 style reluctant bookburner. A zealous authoritarian magistrate who actually believes this is all necessary to maintain public safety and the rule of law. A poor smuggler and conman who normally uses the lack of public literacy to swindle people but now has a contraband book fall into his lap and the eyes of the law searching for him. Etc etc
I tend to start with the big 'what if' worldbuilding question, then determine what kinds of people and seats of power would arise to have influence over the direction of the consequent world. For example, 'what if d&d wizards existed' leads to the obvious end result of the literate elite burning books and enchanting villagers into unwilling spies to keep the public at large from doing enough reading to become untraceable siege weapons
I'd like to offer a bit of advice I found helpful from N. K. Jemisin's Masterclass on worldbuilding: Pick a spot and consider what conflicts arise naturally there. Think about resources, cultural differences, ethnic differences, environmental challenges, and any additional challenges your world poses. Now consider which perspective would be the most revealing and compelling to tell your story through, in light of those conflicts. A prince and a beggar tell different stories in the same city.
100% my favorite museum. Cannot recommend highly wnough to my fellow commenters- NMAAHC is massive and full of incredible stories beautifully presented with activities for children and seemingly infinite depth for adults to immerse themselves in and come away changed for it. I've never before been at a museum at 5pm already planning when we can come back the next day to see more of it. Its that good
Orcish Bowmasters you say?
Legit answer: of all creatures on Earth, what separates us most from other animals is not our intelligence- multiple species have passed all the known intelligence benchmarks that early humans did- it's our ability to identify with tribe-members we cannot see. As far as we know, there are no other species that can do that.But just because we can do it, doesn't mean we're good at it. It is very unnatural by evolutionary standards to care at all about anyone you can't see.
Always downvote AI
America: we have 0 healthcare and 3 nazi. Aww man! Why couldn't we have 3 healthcare and 0 nazi?
Cool story, now where's the epstein list?
If the idea is to deorbit the moon to crash it into Earth in a cataclysmic fireball of death- I have good news and bad news
Two facts for you: 1. Octopuses are incredibly intelligent. They have cities with intergenerational homes, they modify tools, they understand delayed rewards better than small human children, and they have cultural signals and disagreements.2. Octopuses don't mind eating octopus.
If you're saying 'the billionaire campaign contributor has no more blame in this than the felon in florida who was denied the right to vote by a republican run council because they decided he was likely to vote blue' then you're letting the billionaire off the hook and that's just the truth
I'm not the guy you replied to, but take it down a notch bud. Talk like this legitimizes voter suppression by shifting the blame onto the voters who were purged from the roles or unable to take off work without being fired or couldn't get to a polling station because all but one in their majority black district were closed or because they took a plea deal after they couldn't afford a lawyer 40 years ago, etc. Yelling at voters doesn't save democracy, comrade, fighting fascist suppression does.
In invincible, they cut to the title card when they say the word invincible. Samus is the main character of the metroid franchise. Metroid is the name of the alien here. So the title card would be cutting to the name of the alien samus is becoming
Everyone on this post is falling for misinformation. This post never happened and Stacy Is Right has condemned the post as something she'd never say
Technically there's not a lot of difference between pro wrestlers and drag performers. Both are costumed performers who commonly embrace campy hyper-gendered outfits in an over the top take on gender performance.Of course there *is* a difference. I'm not going so far as to say pro wrestling is drag, but it's really not that far off
#9 always downvote AI
Astrophysicist here: science communication matters and is valid. Saying 'there are three states of matter' is fiction. Saying 'hydrogen has a mass of 1' is fiction. 'the sun will eventually expand and consume earth.' Fiction. Most images of the sun. Fiction. 'Water boils at 100°C.' Fiction. 'Space is cold.' Fiction.None of these things are truly correct, but they are all far far more easily grasped by a general audience than the full technical details. Visualizations are a part of that.
Nah as it turns out there's only one thing to do in the whole city
I hate AI as much as anyone, but this technically isn't true. What you mean to say is *generative* AI isn't ready for professional use. AI learning models are great for processing large datasets like looking at an all-sky survey and telling humans which 0.01% of stars are most worth spending more time on researching. AI is really helpful for digesting a vast amount of data and turning into a jumping off point for more reliable research to then take over. Generative AI is a marketing scam.
#4 always downvote AI
#15 is arrested development
Everything is an algorithm. But that's not what algorithmic content means. Algorithm in this context refers to a program siloing you into a content bubble of what it wants you to see instead of showing you the same thing as every other user on the site. Besides blocking or following tags, which is opt-in, imgur has no siloing echo chamber the way every other social media does
Imgur's new parent company did a mass firing, broke its own terms of service, broke app notifications, then started removing posts for being critical of them. So we're giving them no content except being critical of them. And leaving the site, in mass numbers.
Not to be the pronoun gestapo or anything but he's labeled 'guy from the library' so he probably isn't the 'she' you think he is
Astrophysicist here: you're absolutely right. The proper term is "big bang nucleosynthesis". Fusion is a specific nucleosynthetic process that cannot produce hydrogen. Hydrogen is made through a different process called Recombination, which happened maybe 400,000 years after the big bang, once the universe was cool enough for stuff to clump together into atoms
Fair enough, haha. I tend to just take a critical eye to whatever the question leads me to, but yeah that can be a lot to dig into if that doesn't happen to be where you wanted to go
This of course leads one to the natural conclusion of creating characters on both sides of that conflict. A Fahrenheit 451 style reluctant bookburner. A zealous authoritarian magistrate who actually believes this is all necessary to maintain public safety and the rule of law. A poor smuggler and conman who normally uses the lack of public literacy to swindle people but now has a contraband book fall into his lap and the eyes of the law searching for him. Etc etc
I tend to start with the big 'what if' worldbuilding question, then determine what kinds of people and seats of power would arise to have influence over the direction of the consequent world. For example, 'what if d&d wizards existed' leads to the obvious end result of the literate elite burning books and enchanting villagers into unwilling spies to keep the public at large from doing enough reading to become untraceable siege weapons
I'd like to offer a bit of advice I found helpful from N. K. Jemisin's Masterclass on worldbuilding: Pick a spot and consider what conflicts arise naturally there. Think about resources, cultural differences, ethnic differences, environmental challenges, and any additional challenges your world poses. Now consider which perspective would be the most revealing and compelling to tell your story through, in light of those conflicts. A prince and a beggar tell different stories in the same city.
100% my favorite museum. Cannot recommend highly wnough to my fellow commenters- NMAAHC is massive and full of incredible stories beautifully presented with activities for children and seemingly infinite depth for adults to immerse themselves in and come away changed for it. I've never before been at a museum at 5pm already planning when we can come back the next day to see more of it. Its that good
Orcish Bowmasters you say?
Legit answer: of all creatures on Earth, what separates us most from other animals is not our intelligence- multiple species have passed all the known intelligence benchmarks that early humans did- it's our ability to identify with tribe-members we cannot see. As far as we know, there are no other species that can do that.
But just because we can do it, doesn't mean we're good at it. It is very unnatural by evolutionary standards to care at all about anyone you can't see.
Always downvote AI
America: we have 0 healthcare and 3 nazi. Aww man! Why couldn't we have 3 healthcare and 0 nazi?
Cool story, now where's the epstein list?
If the idea is to deorbit the moon to crash it into Earth in a cataclysmic fireball of death- I have good news and bad news
Always downvote AI
Two facts for you:
1. Octopuses are incredibly intelligent. They have cities with intergenerational homes, they modify tools, they understand delayed rewards better than small human children, and they have cultural signals and disagreements.
2. Octopuses don't mind eating octopus.
If you're saying 'the billionaire campaign contributor has no more blame in this than the felon in florida who was denied the right to vote by a republican run council because they decided he was likely to vote blue' then you're letting the billionaire off the hook and that's just the truth
I'm not the guy you replied to, but take it down a notch bud. Talk like this legitimizes voter suppression by shifting the blame onto the voters who were purged from the roles or unable to take off work without being fired or couldn't get to a polling station because all but one in their majority black district were closed or because they took a plea deal after they couldn't afford a lawyer 40 years ago, etc. Yelling at voters doesn't save democracy, comrade, fighting fascist suppression does.
In invincible, they cut to the title card when they say the word invincible. Samus is the main character of the metroid franchise. Metroid is the name of the alien here. So the title card would be cutting to the name of the alien samus is becoming
Everyone on this post is falling for misinformation. This post never happened and Stacy Is Right has condemned the post as something she'd never say
Technically there's not a lot of difference between pro wrestlers and drag performers. Both are costumed performers who commonly embrace campy hyper-gendered outfits in an over the top take on gender performance.
Of course there *is* a difference. I'm not going so far as to say pro wrestling is drag, but it's really not that far off
#9 always downvote AI
Astrophysicist here: science communication matters and is valid. Saying 'there are three states of matter' is fiction. Saying 'hydrogen has a mass of 1' is fiction. 'the sun will eventually expand and consume earth.' Fiction. Most images of the sun. Fiction. 'Water boils at 100°C.' Fiction. 'Space is cold.' Fiction.
None of these things are truly correct, but they are all far far more easily grasped by a general audience than the full technical details. Visualizations are a part of that.
Nah as it turns out there's only one thing to do in the whole city
I hate AI as much as anyone, but this technically isn't true. What you mean to say is *generative* AI isn't ready for professional use.
AI learning models are great for processing large datasets like looking at an all-sky survey and telling humans which 0.01% of stars are most worth spending more time on researching. AI is really helpful for digesting a vast amount of data and turning into a jumping off point for more reliable research to then take over.
Generative AI is a marketing scam.
#4 always downvote AI
#15 is arrested development
Everything is an algorithm. But that's not what algorithmic content means. Algorithm in this context refers to a program siloing you into a content bubble of what it wants you to see instead of showing you the same thing as every other user on the site. Besides blocking or following tags, which is opt-in, imgur has no siloing echo chamber the way every other social media does