thanks sane person

Doggo

That looks great, where this is from?

What name do you have for the activity of making money using someone else work or data, without their consent or giving compensation? If the tech was just tech, it wouldn’t need any non consenting human input for it to work properly. This are just companies feeding on various types of data, if justice doesn’t protects an author, what do you think it would happen if these same models started feeding of user data instead? Tech is good, ethics are not

have you heard of muth?

Oh course it would be green. Red is a strong second option.

What the fuck it’s this

Eeehhh, unless you read every paper ever, you are kinda trusting the process like a black box in most cases, aka, believing. The most papers you have read in your lifetime, the less true that statement is. There is also a whole section of philosophy about this topic.

I know what you mean, but this is a fun exercise. The opposite of a Rat King clearly is a Cat Peasant. The opposite of an ant mill is trickier, there is no such machine that recomposes flour to make whole grains again, reversing the milling process, but the next similar thing would be making bread, so I pick Thermite Bakery.

If cults need to protect their members and beliefs from society and laws to survive, and with religions both support each other, then the opposite of an cult would be a society that needs to protect their members and laws from beliefs, taking drastic measures to separate their members from said beliefs. I guess some sort of atheistic authoritarian state would be the opposite, on your scale. So, North Korea? It doesn’t feel quite right because those authoritarian states depend on a cult of personality. Maybe some technocratic AI state? I don’t know if there is something simpler I’m missing.

The other way of thing it would be, the beliefs organization growing bigger and shallowing the society in that third stage, so people need to protect themselves from the big theocratic apparatus, taking drastic measures to restrict their members and separate them from the big theocracy, living in communities, farming and reading philosophy and cultivating science, educating each other? This is somewhat similar to the setting in V for Vendetta. Also reminds me of what people do in some places dominated by Islamic theocracy, a very cult like way of gathering in secret at houses, sharing banned books, and literally risking their lives for even discussing such things at their homes.

But I agree with you, OP needs to define better the difference perceived between cults and religions, so we can extrapolate a better answer.

Hello

are you citing 1984 to this guy?

vaguely gesturing at everything

Yeah, that was my point. If everything the question says is true, the only way 4/6 is more amount pizza than 5/6, is that the first one is a bigger pizza. The kid not only understood the logic with fractions and the problem statement, but came up with a really good answer. You can even calculate how much bigger the pizza is.

Teachers accepting only “the right answer” without pondering that kind of thinking, are really just damaging kids. Straight to the gulag.

If you state that Marty ate more as part of the question, you cannot answer in any other way, because it denies mathematical logic here. You introduced a lie as part of the problem, and if I need to decide myself which part of the statement is a lie, I can pick whatever I want, let’s say, Marty didn’t ate 4/6, but 6/6. This teacher should be taken to the gulag.

I expected the Turk mentioned earlier here, thanks

Oh, but that’s like shitty science fiction and pseudo science. I was probably referring to something like the book of mormon, the bible and the quram.

Like, start by having a mystical explanation for the world origin (don’t mind using science as a base, but mystically interpreted and with a lot of symbols). Then some kind of strict law or precepts for the followers of the protagonist god or gods. Something that antagonizes with the non-believers. Then some poetic books, with very vague symbolism. Then some collection of prophecies, very subject to interpretation, and even better if the prophecies contradict each other. And that would be book 1, that can be “found” in the present by some modern day prophet. That book would serve as the basis of the “new” revelation and interpretation of the prophecies, adding more symbolism, and prophecies, in part two of the book.

That would be if you want to match 1:1 the bible, maybe I can settle in book 1, and have the fiction books to cite it as is, adding the “second part” in the story. I’m thinking in something like Dune, but with the complementary full sacred book, so you could read the book, see that a priest of sorts cites the book, and then go to the book and see if it’s a verse taken out of context or it’s faithful to the intention of the book, to foreshadow if the priest has his own agenda or not. You could read the book and draw your own conclusion of the meaning of things there. You could share a piece of the universe you are reading about in the book series. Or not do it and just read the book. I see it like an optional companion for a cool book series.

Some books, Dune included, cite pieces of texts in-universe, but you can’t read them, only the cites. I think this could be cool.

I wonder if LLM can write something like that, in the same ancient style if instructed to. If the book series is not profitable, I can always start a cult with the source material, like Mr. Hubbard.

Oh, they have a sacred book too? TIL

How hard would it actually be to write a sacred book from the ground up, following the same structure? I’m thinking in writing a cryptic book that could easily be interpreted in a lot of ways, but still feel like a real thing, and make another book series that cite it. Like Tolkien did with Elvish, but a book instead of a language.

Walked right into it

But, that’s a CD. The only way it would be comparable is if people worshipped the bible itself. Not sure if I’m following.