• 10 Posts
  • 521 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: August 15th, 2023

help-circle



  • pimento64@sopuli.xyztoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldYou calm down
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    arrow-down
    8
    ·
    4 days ago

    Telling people “calm down” is a very unconstructive de-escalation tactic because it has no substance. People respond much better if you address specific conduct, explain a potential consequence, ask for something else, and then give space.
    For example, when someone needs to calm down, I tell them “You’d better fix that attitude problem of yours before it gets you into trouble”, and then as soon as they begin to respond I interrupt with “Close your mouth” and I walk away. This makes people realize they’re overreacting and they calm down right away.





  • Bad movies aren’t fun if they’re bad on purpose, though. They need to be bad because they’re a failed attempt at a good movie, made by someone who’s either talentless, insane, degenerate, or (ideally) all three. That’s why it’s so much fun to watch The Room or Double Down or After Last Season: those movies are the sincere but crushed dreams of crazy charlatans. Conversely, that’s why crap like Sharknado is so boring, it’s because there was no attempt to reach something. Asylum movies like that are the film equivalent of the kind of person who keeps repeating the same three Monty Python references.


  • Grok has clearly been instructed to defend Charlie Kirk in every context and to assert he “wins” in any given situation. Right-wing people like Kirk and Musk are obsessed with image and not losing face. Grok, like Kirk was programmed to simulate the kind of rationalizations and vernacular that appeal to right-wingers, and so it tries to spin-doctor Kirk getting capped as “actually he’s fine lol shut up nerd”. I think it’s hilarious, because it implies “Defend Charlie Kirk” is excruciatingly over-emphasized in the LLM’s instruction set to compensate for the fact that Kirk actually got humiliated regularly.