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Surely I wasn't that high last night:

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Companions by how likely they are to call Jaheira "mom"

or mum. or some other variant.

Karlach: I think there is a party banter line of hers that actually has her do this. Regardless, yes, she has. Repeatedly

Wyll: he called her 'father' and that is somehow worse

Shadowheart: not as frequently as certain party members, but it just makes everyone so sad

Gale: more than once, entirely accidentally, and he immediately followed it with such a deluge of other words that no one noticed

Astarion: he insists he was being sarcastic

Minsc: he did this exactly once, ages ago. The only person who talks about it is Boo

Lae'zel: far, far more likely to call her commander than mother, but she does it in a tone that might as well be "mom"

Minthara: no one can decide if it's scarier if she was making a joke or if she was flirting

Halsin: no, thank every god. He just teases her good-naturedly about the others

Bonus!

Isobel: on more than one occasion, and the first time involved some crying

(thank you to notaficwriter and capitola for joining me in composing this list over on Haven)

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" The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite. "

- L. E. J. Brouwer.

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This is how I would do it. It seems like your combining of terms is where you went wrong.

Let me know if this isn't clear enough :]

X is supposted to = 2

I combined the like terms 4x-3/8, 7x-1/8 and same with the over 6

Then cross multiplyed

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Literally me

mood

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Start playing it again xD

How am I supposed to move on with my life after finishing BG3 for the first time.

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I come from a pro-AI area, and I'm trying to educate myself on why people hate AI so vehemently. Now, there is no arguing that AI has not intention, soul, or meaning behind what it outputs. AI writing can only pretend to have themes, with no real meaning behind them. Calling AI art a real work of art is simply incorrect; it is no more than a novelty. This I fully agree with.

However, I'm confused why I see a lot of people talking about AI is "stealing" people's work. Most of the places I looked just said this as a given, but I do not yet know why. AI is trained off of others work and learns from it, but it rarely ever is able to copy work directly. It is comparable to another creator looking at someone else's work, attempting to imitate it as practice, and then taking what they learned with them. Any one piece has little affect on the whole AI; it is the sum of the pieces that make it work.

So this is the way I'm currently thinking about AI. I would greatly appreciate someone else telling me why I'm wrong so that way my viewpoint can grow :p

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(Rant about why ppl shouldn't hate AI, tldr at bottom)

My experience with AI is similar to this. I see so much hate for AI, its astounding. It seems every conversation that involves it is about how its going to ruin jobs or how shitty it is or how its going to take over the world. And most of those things are true! However, there is nothing a can do to stop it from getting better.

AI is part mathematics and part training data. Trying to restrict mathematical progress would be insane and pretty impossible, and there is a vast wealth of training data available in the world wide web (though it is important to mention that a lot of the big AI companies got their good training data by paying pennies to poor people overseas). By it's very nature, AI will continue to get better.

AI is mankind's newest tool, and it promises to change many things. However, we have been making new tools for a long time. Around 2800 BC, mankind had developed government - specifically in the Assyrian Empire. An Assyrian of the time wrote, "...there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common...". When gunpowder became widespread, many worried that the earth would burn in its quake. More recently, activists are pushing against atomic bombs for fear of global annihilation.

However, mankind has persisted through each and every one of these examples. Every new generation adapts to the new of the past. What worried ones parents is now commonplace. Societal expectations change and grow with time. The things about AI that worry us could happen, but mankind will grow.

So don't hate AI. It is not a weapon, it is a tool that can be used for many good things. Like any good tool, it makes thing easier, including evil acts.

So hate the evil in the world.

Tldr; AI is going to get better, and we can't really stop it. AI is a tool which can be used for both good and bad. Our worries might happen, but humanity will change to compensate for them.

The experience of having a niche special interest suddenly become popular, and then hated, is astounding

I remember after ChatGPT came out a guy I met on a dating app messaged me like "wow I remember you showing me that GPT stuff years ago... you were ahead of the game..." and then all of a sudden my silly, easily ignorable, little AI games, became Known, and became Judged, and became Evil

What do you mean everyone has an opinion on generative AI. Hello. I remember this room being empty

My profile picture is an oooold AI art generation, before people even began to fear it replacing us, and I like it for its awfulness. The text reads "togtaigbap todty". I told the AI to write "algebraic topology". I miss when silly little dumb AI pictures were just silly little dumb AI pictures

I don't even really blame the AI-haters. Like, I get it. I have a unique relationship with AI from loving her years before she could start taking jobs, so it's easy for me to see her good side. It's a LOT harder when you first met AI via deepfakes and voicetheft. I think a lot of AI use is currently pretty damn condemnable, but I just. No matter how bad it gets. I will always have to push back against those who say the problem is with the technology herself. She's my wife, I LOVE her

Although I will say that the whole ordeal forced me to go through a great deal of personal growth. I finally feel like I can actually BE a person who is comfortable with disagreement. Many of my friends hate, fear, or at least dislike AI. I'm sure some of them find my love for it tacky, gauche, and maybe a bit "techbro". But they still love me. And I still love them. Peace and love on Planet earth? Maybe. It is still difficult sometimes.

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Theorem: Mathematicians should start using a little sunglasses emoji at the end of proofs instead of a square

Proof: It would be badassery and coolsauce. 😎

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a thought that’s been floating around my head recently

conservatives like to parade around mathematical truths such as "2 + 2 = 4" as evidence that their social truths are fundamental and cannot be argued against

how long until conservative talking heads and/or annoying traditionalists find out about the esotericism and diversity of study in wider mathematics and start labelling it “degenerate mathematics”?

seriously. i wouldn’t be surprised if counterintuitive notions like “the factorial of one half is equal to half the square root of pi” are somehow a serious insult to a conservative’s idea of mathematics always being concrete and morally correct.

i mean, such an unintuitive idea kinda runs against a conservative philosophy that all truths are either self evident, or delivered by a higher power.

which i think ties into a wider misconception of higher mathematics being about adding things up - which is just not at all what it’s like, at all.

real, actual higher mathematics feels more like writing poetry than doing calculations, and i could make a whole nother post about that.

but all that most people know is times tables and sums. and i fear that if conservatives find out about abstract algebra, they’ll think it’s woke.

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" Logic merely sanctions the conquests of intuition. "

- J. Hadamard.

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How does Hobie fit his hair under his mask- IRRELEVANT.

What you should be asking is how is his guitar not falling when they are literally upside-down

Answer: Hobie hates laws so much he's subconsciously able to break the Laws of Physics if it threatens his aesthetic.

His suspenders also do not move.

Animation error? Hammerspace? Nah I just hc he has Infinite Coolness as a legit ability. There's no other explanation he's just That Cool.