Woah, Haruhi is now considered classic.
It was a huge hit, and those tend to turn into classics with age. Gotta admit that it's making me feel old.
Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof
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#153Oddly, the image that Scientific American chose to illustrate their article isn't from any of the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya projects, but from Aokana - Four Rhythms Across the Blue, a much more obscure title.
You seem well versed in anime - can I give you a few math proofs to work out?
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#154I am not surprised that the author of this great article is Manon Bischoff. I have been reading her articles on Spektrum.de for years now, and they are always excellent. Here is a list of all her articles: https://www.spektrum.de/profil/bischoff/manon/1486871 Selected articles get translated and published by SciAm: https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/manon-bischoff/
I am more surpised that the other amateur mathematian appearing in this article is Greg Egan (He has a personal website on https://www.gregegan.net/ ). He is one of the best contemporary hard SF writers in the world.
Wow. Any recommendation where to start?
Re: Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof
#155I am not surprised that the author of this great article is Manon Bischoff. I have been reading her articles on Spektrum.de for years now, and they are always excellent. Here is a list of all her articles: https://www.spektrum.de/profil/bischoff/manon/1486871 Selected articles get translated and published by SciAm: https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/manon-bischoff/
I am more surpised that the other amateur mathematian appearing in this article is Greg Egan (He has a personal website on https://www.gregegan.net/ ). He is one of the best contemporary hard SF writers in the world.
He also must be one of the best recreational mathematicians in the world, as anyone who follows his work on his website and Mastodon knows.
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But Copilot exists and people seem to be happy to pay for it.
(Some) people are also happy to pay to have someone piss on them, too. Do you think Microsoft should offer a Golden Shower tier of Copilot, complete with Trickle Down?
They already have this service, it's called "CosmosDB".
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> That feels untrue. 4chan was launched only in 2003. Forums are much older than that. Web forums are basically as old as the web; I have accounts that are older than 4chan on forums (what I believe is the oldest forum that I have an account on, which also has my oldest continuous forum account [though not my first forum account] launched in 1996 -- I didn't join until 2002.) Online forums, more generally, are older…
Usenet was great until the spammers arrived.
I've still found a lot of use for it from a "free content" platform and haven't seen anything at all from the spammers. Maybe it's a matter of the indexers I use? What form does usenet spam take?
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4chan was great, but it very much was one of the oldest proprietors of the so called "normie filter". The biggest most offensive boards caused 95% of the trouble the site is known for. the smaller boards and threads could get some interesting stories and content (of all were of course, of reasonable falseness and potential homosexuality). The vibe was fine as long as you avoided the modern attitude and approach every…
There's something great about enforced anonymity. It gets rid of people saying what they think they should say, and instead simply what they think. It reminds one of the wisdom of the masses experiments. If you take a bunch of people and ask them how many peas are in a jar, the average will come out extremely close to the right answer. But if you let those people collaborate, debate, and try to pick the smartest answ…
> There's something great about enforced anonymity. It gets rid of people saying what they think they should say, and instead simply what they think.
No it absolutely does not. It enables people to hold whatever positions are immediately expedient regardless of personal beliefs. There is no way to call an anonymous person a hypocrite when you cannot connect their directly contradictory statements due to their anonymity. 4chan is a perfect example of group think overriding other opinions.
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Kinda with you, but outside of those two there is still a bias towards antisemitism and misogyny among other uncouth worldviews.
And those people are rightly called out as tourists, and told to go back to the hole they came from.
Yes, once I was naive enough to believe that all the 4chan regulars were just being ironic and it was just the uninformed visitors who took the degeneracy seriously. Unfortunately we all have to grow up at some point.
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I wouldn't say 4chan's smarter than other social media. I'd say "stupid people not pretending".
The median user definitely seems smarter on 4chan (at least that is how it felt 10-20 years ago).
I think median is the wrong term here. There are some absolute freak geniuses on 4chan, but it's not the norm. It's the exception. The median is just as fucking stupid as they present themselves to be.