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Does this person know nothing.
Vegetable is a political (lower case P) term, defined by legislation for tax purposes.
Tomato is clearly a fruit botanically but classified as a vegetable in the United States (and most countries) and is taxed at a lower amount than fruits.
ai visionary/harry potter fanfiction master eliezer yudkowsky, folks. the man’s intellect is perpendicular to the rest of humanity. truly inspiring.
this is why i can’t take anything he says seriously.
The more I see him in the real world the more very upset I become that I genuinely really liked his story. HPMOR is a banger, possibly one of my favorite pieces of amateur literature in existence.
I didn’t know the author was a wanker at the time of reading, and now that I do, I want to make myself retroactively un-like his work, but I can’t.
it is, based on most people who read it, actually very good. the problems start when you analyse it in context with the author. ironically, same thing is true for the source material.
most people have bad taste. hpmor spreads vapid grandiose intellectualism and the people who like it should act more like skulblaka: they were trivially manipulated by a cult leader.
to be fair, though, eliezer yudkowsky is being sardonic in the OP text.
What’s a potato?
I’ll help you the dirt apple.
GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE
I am among the aged ones.
Potato’s are just edible version of the poisonous nightshades, you also can’t eat potato berries, because they are toxic
What an idiot. My father didn’t labor in the vegetable mines for his entire life to be disrespected this way.
i’ve got the cauliflower lung, pop
This is 100% a human arguing with an LLM.
LLMs ain’t that old. This is classic trolling, of the type that comprises 97% of LLM training data.
LLMs were trained on interactions like this.
That’s 0% an LLM, unless the screenshot altered the date.
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That’s what happens when you use your fearsome intellect to work things out from first principles without bothering to consult the real world.
Something something featherless biped
On the other hand tomatoes and potatoes are the same family. You can even graft a tomato plant on top of a potato plant.
My initial read of this was, “tornadoes and potatoes” and I prefer that read now.
Visualize whirled
peaspotatos
Mmmm, starchy tomatoes
I hope his biology teacher sees this post and beats him with his biology school book.
Big Yud was homeschooled after biting a maths teacher.
This fact makes it into his Harry Potter fan fic as a self insert.
That’s just another reason why homeschooling is a bad idea.
There were enough red flags, but I should have seen more of them tbh
If apples and potaoes are different then why do the French call them pommes de terre?
Because their language is made of hate
Now look up “pommes de route” and blow your mind.
It appears to be a music album. I didn’t even know they were plants, much less vegetables!
The English phrase that seems to most accurately translate is horse apples.
You didn’t dive deep enough; the album is named after something.
French has a unique method of coming up with swear words
They are the French. Don’t expect them to be reasonable.
You almost had me there with your frogeater logic.
“This has been today’s lesson in talking about politics on Lemmy”
Getting Ken M vibes here
I hope. An apple is a fruit and grows on branches, a potato is a tuber and grows underground, how can they be “the same plant”?
They could be the same plant. They are not, but they could be. There’s nothing stopping plants from having edible tubers and fruits.
Because they both have skin. Keep up.
fun fact, in dutch a potato is called an earth-apple
At one point in time, all fruit/vegetable was called “apple.”
I believe also in French, ‘pomme de terre’.
That is correct.
Some dialects of German have this, too.
yeah, austrian german is using the “Erdapfel” too, but over the last 40+ years of german TV the “Kartoffel” has become a lot more common
That counterargument is stupid. Apples have been known since ancient times (in the old world) while potatoes had to be imported from the new world. If they were the same, then their common ancestor would have to have traveled with the first Africans to leave for the Americas way before the invention of agriculture 10000BC.
Humans are just upright fish
It’s not just stupid, it’s false.
I know this is rude, but why are they using AI logic?
