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Potatoes are definitely apples. The French call them “pommes de terre”, apples of the earth. Ipso facto.
I will not be accepting questions at this time.
Ah yes, the potato tree.
Right next to the apple vine
I hate when we look at something and think “not sure if that obvious troll is actually a troll and not a completely deluded person, or a dumb bot”
Must be a theoretical physicist. Has some real “spherical cow” energy.
Not a physicist. I suppose you could call Yudkowsky an anti-AI activist. And/or world-famous fan-fiction author. These would be strange but technically accurate ways to describe him.
I’d describe him as a person who doesn’t know how potatoes work.
Does this person know nothing.
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.
Don’t tell me you think Roko’s basilisk is real
It will only be real if you don’t make it real, or, uh… Wait a minute…
Roko’s basilisk is a really cool metaphor for fascism. If you help the regime come into existence, you are rewarded; if you fight it, you are punished but only if you are unsuccessful.
If you help the regime come into existence, you are rewarded
well don’t count on that. totalitarian regimes have a tendency to be paranoid and to enact rather unpleasant purges at every level of the organisation.
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.
HPMOR definitely has its share of problems – a mary sue main character for one. But it was incredibly unique at the time it came out, in particular for taking the world of harry potter down as many pegs as it could with such exacting precision. I think it’s one of the all-time greats (of fanfics) personally, but you definitely have to get past how full of himself the author is.
the thing is
you don’t have to get past how full of himself the author is
the entire cult the author founded is in denial of the fascism
From a biological standpoint, we don’t classify things as vegetables. From a culinary standpoint, we do
Stop trying to apply biological concepts to my dinner
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
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.
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
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.
So will we admit that trolls saved us from the AI nightmare that was to come ?
That’s 0% an LLM, unless the screenshot altered the date.
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What’s a potato?
I’ll help you the dirt apple.
I don’t speak French.
GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE
I am among the aged ones.
Say potato.
Potato’s are just edible version of the poisonous nightshades, you also can’t eat potato berries, because they are toxic
I hope his biology teacher sees this post and beats him with his biology school book.
If apples and potaoes are different then why do the French call them pommes de terre?
It comes from Latin “malum terrae”, which has been attested in French since 1488 to designate various tuber or bulb plants
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.
Big Yud was homeschooled after biting a maths teacher.
This fact makes it into his Harry Potter fan fic as a self insert.
“She didn’t know what a logarithm was!”
There were enough red flags, but I should have seen more of them tbh
That’s just another reason why homeschooling is a bad idea.
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
Good point, I want this.
Getting Ken M vibes here
Yeah it’s making me nostalgic for the days of good old-school trolling. Not the shit Russian “all your neighbours are evil” trolling they have now.
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”?
Because they both have skin. Keep up.
They could be the same plant. They are not, but they could be. There’s nothing stopping plants from having edible tubers and fruits.
