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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • It doesn’t fall any more than with a spoon, unless we are talking about something extremely crumbly such as thousand layer cake. Which to be fair is also a pain to eat with a spoon, or any kind of cutlery. I find the flat profile of the fork is excellent to cut a small portion of the cake away without upsetting the rest of the cake structure. I can’t say the same about the curve of the spoon, which forces a scooping motion that often messes up the cake. I also find that the curved edge of the spoon makes it difficult to lift any crumbs from a flat plate surface. If I can’t lift crumbs with the fork’s edge, I can always press them down flat between the prongs and lift them. The curved shape of the spoon doesn’t allow for this. Finally, I prefer how the fork feels in my mouth as opposed to the spoon.

    So, these are my reasons for preferring a fork over a spoon when eating cake. Interesting to see people making a case for the opposite, but hey that’s exactly what I wanted to know.

    Edit: clarification on first sentence


  • Are you asking why a device with no feelings or personal life experience can’t create realistic dialogue when prompted to create something based on dialogue from comics and fanfic? Comics which barely explain context with words (since they use images)? Have you noticed how over the top, melodramatic, stylized and unrealistic dialogues are in so many comics, superhero ones in particular? Fanfic isn’t that much better. Of course there are some with good writing but the vast majority is mediocre at best and cringe at worst.

    I’m surprised the LLM could come up with something narratively cohesive to begin with








  • I originally meant to leave a much shorter comment; apologies.

    I can’t code to save my life. However I find your observation interesting. The way I see it, AI, no matter where, is eroding human to human interactions. It becomes the middleman for everything.

    It’s really obvious with personal research. A couple years ago if you wanted to start say, growing tomatoes in your backyard, you would have searched people’s comments on a variety of media platforms, would have read a few books or blogs. You would have asked questions to a bunch of people with some experience, left a like or upvote on people posting photos of their tomatoes, you would have used your own judgement to discern what consisted good quality advice and what not.

    It would have taken you days. But all that interaction is very rewarding especially for those authoring comments, blogs, books, and photos of their experiences. Because nobody makes something just to be ignored.

    Now LLM does all that process for you. In a matter of seconds. And giving no feedback or interaction to anyone whose information was used. It’s depressing, but I’m intrigued to see how it plays out.