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A very happy belated holidays to pookie @ryukawa29 and their Gavin design for the Sky Side server exchange!

I don’t think humans should be living in studio apartments or little one bedroom apartments you can barely turn around in. It’s like how the minimum tank size requirement for a betta fish is technically 2.5 gallons but you’re a monster if you put them in anything less than 5 gallons. I think people deserve at least one extra room in their house.

I get wanting to avoid urban sprawl, wanting to use space efficiently or whatever but goddamn. You should have space for potted plants, for a pullout couch for when your mother comes to visit, space to pursue your hobbies. I don’t think that’s a greedy thing to want.

I see some of the apartments listed in NYC and it’s like. that should be illegal. I’ve seen snakes with enclosures bigger than that

This is so fucking embarrassing. This is one of the most embarrassing business quips I have ever seen in my entire vile career.

We need to go back to using sailing ships full time like immediately. Yes it would take longer to get places but the Aesthetic is unmatched

Like there is nothing sexier hthan this

Can’t wait for OP to get scurvy

Are you under the impression that the ships themselves are what caused scurvy

Once again. Do you think this is the fault of the ships themselves

the internet is a place for reading wikipedia articles and watching every movie for free. social media is an invasive species. never forget this

yo what

why would you do this to me

in 2026, remember how GOOD writing feels. remember how satsfying it is to get your characters to the point you have been dying to get to, where they will experience the love, fear, relief or whatever the feeling you want to bring to life may be. let this year be the year of writing, prgress and of satisfactory endings.

I love asking friends, without context, "what are you really into this week?" I'll go first. this week I'm really into mouthwash and sudoku. Last week I was into peaches.

we used to be a society on here!! reblog, don't like! I want to hear what you're into!!! I'm literally looking into the nyt game Pips!!!

compiling my favourite responses

I've been fascinated for some time by what makes people susceptible to believing that ChatGPT is superior to their own thoughts.

I found this blog post about how ChatGPT can "enhance" journaling. The blog post itself was "co-written" by ChatGPT, and you can tell.

This is one of the most godawful pieces of writing I've ever run across in the wild; incredibly repetitive, rewording the same sentences over and over again and stacking them into interminable paragraphs of empty sludge. There is one "idea" in here, "I tell ChatGPT to ask me questions to help me reflect on myself, and I think that helps me to journal and think in new perspectives," and it is repeated in slightly different words like 50 times.

Expose a copy of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style to this slop and it'll start oozing blood from the pages like in a horror movie.

But the thing is, this guy wasn't always that bad of a writer. You see, I got to that blog post after reading this blog post from 4 years prior, which is about meditation and the difficulty in defining meditation in a way that can be operationalized for objective study, and it is much clearer, more structured, and actually contains ideas in it.

ChatGPT clearly made this guy's writing much, much worse, but he appears to believe that the opposite happened.

His problem isn't "being a bad writer," in fact, he didn't even write the whole thing, ChatGPT did some of it. His problem isn't exactly "inability to evaluate his own writing" either. You see, evaluating your own writing is about asking whether you communicated your ideas in the most effective way possible. This blog post certainly failed, because it argues that you should involve ChatGPT in your writing process while demonstrating very clearly that you should NOT do that. But that is deeper than failing to communicate effectively; that's failing to understand what ideas you have, why you have those ideas, and whether the ideas made it into the writing at all. Possibly, it's a failure to understand if you have ideas.

Is the problem the simple fact that he uses ChatGPT to help him come up with ideas? Potentially. ChatGPT does not contain ideas, it creates statistically plausible writing based upon a large body of data on how writing is constructed. If a person is or becomes susceptible to seeing "ideas" in ChatGPT's outputs, they might begin to have difficulty distinguishing between meaningful and non-meaningful writing. That is, they could lose the ability to tell what makes writing meaningful (as opposed to just technically formed into the shape of an idea)

But is everyone susceptible to that? What makes someone susceptible? Would someone have to have a weak sense of their own thoughts and ideas, or could a strong, accomplished writer that is skilled in expressing themselves fall apart with too much ChatGPT usage?

I don't know. Really interesting case study nonetheless.

We’d probably need a study on it. I do remember on here the posts that say no one is immune to propaganda.

There are news articles about how ChatGPT encourages delusions of grandeur and feeds egos in an unhealthy fashion. It’s possible that ChatGPT fed this guy’s ego. There’s another options

Having used Jasper in a work setting two years ago (because my coworker and I were having to write a hundred articles a month each, our boss told us to use Jasper, and our clients were dissatisfied with everything else) it does feel like producing garbage. We were desperate. I’m so glad to not be in that position anymore.

Maybe this guy started using ChatGPT a little for deadlines, and it took over. Now he’s addicted to it and how it makes his life “easier”.

Yea, I lean towards the conclusion that it will cause negative consequences for anybody.

If ChatGPT can cause people who are otherwise psychologically "normal" to lose the distinction between real and not-real, it's not hard to believe that any writer can lose the distinction between good writing and bad writing.

That being said, I think the reason that ChatGPT has its nails so embedded in so many people is that it sounds like a person and everybody is lonely. Humans are susceptible to attributing feelings and human attributes to non-living, non-thinking things. As it was once said, "humans will pack bond with anything."

Our social nature, and our ability of sophisticated communication, are some of our most distinct traits as a species, so I think we are just really, really vulnerable to something that appears to communicate like a person does.

One of the emergent effects from its development is that it uses a lot of the same cold reading tricks as con artists do:

Why do vampires get depicted sleeping in their coffins with no blanket. Girl why are you rawdogging slumber

every year i forget how impossible it feels to function when you're cold and under a blanket. u really expect me to be productive right now? to think about things? outside the warmth and safety of my blanket? kind of messed up to be honest

i swear to god if people don't start understanding that responding to doylist critique of a piece of media with watsonian exonerations is not an actual rebuttal

somebody saying "hey i don't like that the only gay man in this story is a weird pervert and it portrays gay sexual promiscuity as a moral failing and character flaw" cannot be rebuked by arguing about how the character's backstory or personality traits explain their behaviour. the choices made by a writer are all fundamentally mutable; somebody saying an author's choices should have been different is not going to be persuaded by an argument that takes those choices as immovable fact