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Post by echelon »

andai wrote: post #136
echelon wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not slop. It took effort. This is not a one shot fire and forget project.

Value != Effort: Infinite randomly generated slop + The Algorithm = Extremely personalized value delivered

A lot of effortful things deliver value, yet we call them slop. The Jurassic Park sequels, for instance.

One of the common tropes anti-AI people fall into is calling all AI-enabled works low effort. I'm refuting that point here, but you're right in that there's a broader discussion to be had as to what constitutes value to different demographics, individual tastes, and subjectivities.

There are highly discerning craftspeople with good taste who are both using and consuming AI works. This should not be disregarded.

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Post by greenbit »

adamgordonbell wrote: post #34

Rare but useless Voluntary tube opener here. Ask me anything. https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/voluntary-eustach...

I scrolled the whole list looking to see if there was anything about being able to stop hiccups by conscious effort alone. Suspect that there would be some overlap between voluntary tube openers and hiccup stoppers, as the internal sensations are kind of similar.

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Post by greenbit »

vesterde wrote: post #26
amelius wrote: post #25

Do we have a theory yet why people hiccup? Wait, I just see you have a page on it :)

Not that I know of. But some people so far visiting the site have voted that they do no get hiccups, which is very odd.

I used to get hiccups often, but acquired the ability to will them to stop in my teen years. Since then it's become an automatic reflex that when something triggers that first hiccup, I "do the thing", and there's never even hiccup #2 ever since.

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Post by vunderba »

WA wrote: post #169

Monday is a light brownish, Tuesday black, Wednesday blue, Thursday ochre, Friday dark blue, Saturday white/silver, Sunday black. January blue, February brownish, March is black and white, April green, May black, June yellow, July darker yellow, August dark green, September ochre, October blue, November brown, December black. Thanks for coming to my synesthesia TED talk.

I read about a study a while back in which researchers brought in a person who had synesthesia and asked him to identify the exact colors associated with 500 different random numbers drawn from a range of up to a million. (He did not know what numbers they were going to ask for). A year later, they brought him back, and he repeated the associations almost word for word.

I guess he still could have done it with eidetic memory or a PAO-style system, but it was still pretty impressive.

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Post by ToriTech »

SamBam wrote: post #197
ToriTech wrote: post #161

I've had closed-eye hallucinations my entire life. When I was a little kid, I used to be able to see geometric patterns or just sparkles. If I pressed my palm gently over my eyes, I'd be able to change those patterns or make them pulsate. I would spend a lot of time trying to figure out what exactly I was seeing, and then end up falling asleep. Nowadays I still have them, but they're less vivid and mostly appear as c…

Were your geometric figures Form Constants? I learned about those from the novel Blindsight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_constant

Kinda? They sometimes do sort of look like cobweb or tunnel patterns but not always. They're different every time.

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Post by initatus »

smusamashah wrote: post #123
bogwog wrote: post #115

It should be illegal to publish AI horrors like this: https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/gleeking/ Life in prison (at least) But more on topic, this site is a cool idea but with the lamest execution ever. Whatever effort you might have put into collecting these phenomenon is overshadowed by the lazy AI slop. It doesn't seem like you're earning anything from this, so you just donated money to Anthropic/OpenAI/…

I know someone who can literally vibrate their eyes sideways. It is very odd to see. You can see his eyes rapidly moving left/right but only a centimeter or less. Don't know if this has a name.

Nystagmus, I'm guessing.

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Post by readergreader »

Such a great idea and implementation! I found out I had Alice in Wonderland syndrome as a child, after being sick with a 107+ fever - https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/alice-in-wonderla.... It lasted for a few years, occasionally recurring. I guess this was teleopsia, although my experience was that I could not tell what the distance was to an object. Very odd feeling, and pretty scary. Nobody I told about it had any idea what I was talking about.

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Post by rvba »

SA9G wrote: post #15

They left out "autoheadslap", the sharp pain you get whenever anyone mentions Nvidia and you smack your forehead as you remember cancelling your massive buy order back when it was $110 and had not split yet!! It is often accompanied by uncontrolled twitching and repeatedly saying "fuuuuuuuuu" as you bite your tongue. Yes, a rare but real human affliction.

Imagine you heard about bitcoin when someone bought 20 000 of them for a pizza...

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Post by Minimaator »

The geometric patterns and checkerboards you see when pressing gently on your closed eyes as a kid (phosphenes).

As a child, I used to treat it like a built-in screensaver or kaleidoscope before sleep, completely unaware that it was just mechanical stimulation of the retinal cells producing false electrical signals.

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Post by ycombinete »

ulrikrasmussen wrote: post #85

The geometric nightmares! I had those as a kid whenever I was very tired or had a fever, and kept having them until my late teens. Never seen them described and didn't know it was a thing.

I used to have something like this as an adolescent/teenager, but while I was awake. It’d feel like my whole body became enormous and numb, and if I closed my eyes I’d see cascading geometric shapes collapsing in on themselves, and it would feel like I was falling constantly.

So I’d just slowly put my head on the desk and ride it out until I was returned to my body

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