ProfessorPeregrine

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think that was in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, iirc

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I think this is why LLMs work, and some research backs this up. Humans actually don't create new phrases for unique situations very frequently. Much or even most of what we say is existing word chunks stuck together.

For example, look at this sentence. It communicated what I intended, but it is just a small idea conveyed with a standard text requiring no thought to generate. It could have easily been "Peregrine, with self reflection," or something. Memes are a more obvious example of this.

At some point in that imaginary culture maybe they just abandoned the original language since they could adequately communicate using only shared story references. Whether that part is realistic for an advanced technology culture maybe requires suspension of disbelief.

For a more sophisticated take on this, there is a similar story inside of the Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe that asks some interesting questions. In that case, the language is specifically limited to ideologically-approved tracts in order to limit what the populace can think about, so as to be easier to control. However, the story told might be subversive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did you even read Sotomayor' dissent? I did.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

You are not considering the part where we can't use relevant testimony or documents to prove that what the President does is illegal in the first place. The President can just say whatever illegal things they did were official acts, and all the evidence that might prove otherwise is off-limits. It relies on other people in the administration to not follow the illegal order, but of course that is a weak protection and the President can fire them or do something illegal to them without consequence too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The right to arm bears...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Dhalgren by Samuel Delaney is exactly what you are looking for.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if it would be helpful for your project, but you might be interested in the concept of the grammar of graphics (https://towardsdatascience.com/a-comprehensive-guide-to-the-grammar-of-graphics-for-effective-visualization-of-multi-dimensional-1f92b4ed4149).

I use a version of this in R as implemented in ggplot2. What is nice about it is that you can use standard text descriptions to build an arbitrary graph.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I had this posted over my when I was at engineering college!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

The Supreme Court has no jurisdiction over a political party's nomination process. That said ...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

From a jury I was being considered for (sexual assault), is not that you have no opinion, it is that you think you can be objective based on the evidence.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

It's not scare quotes. Just indicating a verbatim quote from her ex.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

His name will be on the ballot, but if scotus finds that he's ineligible he can't win the nomination here, so vote for him would be wasted. Well, it's wasted no matter what but you know what I mean.

 

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