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Post by californical »

Klathmon wrote: post #111
Diederich wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some of this stuff is just gold: https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/ggf1mq/i_...

This one is also fantastic, the post text itself is so goddamn convincing that I actually searched on youtube for the name of the show to see if it existed (it doesn't). https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/gj2z4f/ia...

These comments within that post were also really impressive.. it still seems off but the fact that it carries the topic between replies in a thread is so crazy to me:

> How do you feel about the internet arguments subreddit, r/iamverysmart? > As a young professional, where do you prefer to have internet arguments with your friends? I've been thinking about leaving YouTube for Reddit, but I don't currently have much free time, and I want to have some quality back and forths with my friends.

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> I love that subreddit. I love how open minded it is. The only reason why I didn't like it was because it's so popular. I'm glad that I'm not the only person who has this problem, because I never had any reason to like it.

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> Thanks for the reply :) I had a bit of an argument with one of my friends over reddit, and I was wondering if you could give me insight on the way you handled it?

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Post by malkia »

Erwin wrote: post #136

Very impressive. It was reminiscent of the Polish sci-fi writer, Stanislaw Lem who invented more words than Shakespeare. That made for some tricky translations. Here's a list of new words in just one of the books alone: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Hal_Bregg_II/Neologisms_... This 1961 book predicted what Lem calls "opton", an electronic book reader with only one page between the covers (Kindle Opton special f…

And we owe the word "robot" to Karel Čapek (AFAIK). "Rabota" - means work in Bulgarian, and I guess similar in many other slavic languages.

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Post by screenbeard »

dr_orpheus wrote: post #117
tiborsaas wrote: post #35

This is perfect to name startups / products. Very well done.

Yes, I am here to launch my new cure-all "metasodium" its like sodium, but meta. metasodium meta·sodium any of a group of silica compounds thought to act by the interaction of sodium with sodium, the latter of which has many physiological roles and is essential in the modulation of many physiological processes "a polymeric metasodium oxide from which such compounds in the cell cycle are derived"

This sounds like the method Star Trek: Voyager writers used to come up with their technobabble

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by domador »

I guess it's only to be expected that from time to time, this would generate an actual word, even if perhaps the definition doesn't match a word's actual definition.

The first time I loaded the page, it came up with "polypyrrole", an existing word.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by dmix »

MauranKilom wrote: post #173
brogrammer2018 wrote: post #141

Complete List (so far) of this X Does Not Exist sites: • This Person Does Not Exist https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ • These Lyrics Do Not Exist https://theselyricsdonotexist.com/ • This Cat Does Not Exist https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/ • This Rental Does Not Exist https://thisrentaldoesnotexist.com/ • This Waifu Does Not Exist https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ • This Resume Does Not Exist https://thisresum…

Those cats are nightmare fuel. Too many tails, paws and everything is fur. Not to mention pose and body proportions being in uncanny valley territory even when it gets the number of appendages right... https://i.imgur.com/saUivfe.png shudder

When it's wrong it's really wrong.
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