I mean yeah, one Bayonetta could take on the entire wizarding world with both hands behind her back.

Oh, I must have misremembered. I knew their clothes had charms in them. It makes sense that it wouldn’t be something most people would need outside of a conflict.

Isn’t that just the killing curse with extra steps? Magic is a lot harder to evade.

During the Dumbledore’s army arc, I think book 5. I don’t really care enough to go back and find the quote, but it was a fairly significant plot point in the resistance movement.

I hate JKR too, but she literally did. Wizard clothes are enchanted with protego charms which turn away any mundane attacks, and wizards really have no reason to fear muggles. During the witch trials some would allow themselves to be burned at the stake because they liked how the flames tickle. It’s very much a ‘magic must defeat magic’ setting.

In the books it explains that wizard robes have charms against physical attacks woven into the threads. They’re wearing full body bulletproof vests.

It wouldn’t even get through a wizard’s robes, they’re enchanted with protego charms (at least according to the books)

Who has ever seen a yellow Canada tour bus? Pretty much the only yellow busses in US and Canada are for school.

But the queen can move diagonally between the formation.

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Fuck you too pal

You keep leaving this comment, exactly what sort of wood scientist are you?

Couldn’t they just start accepting ACH to get around the payment processors? Or is that overly complicated?

Totally. At least Strattera is a reuptake inhibitor, so it’s moving in the same direction as a stimulant with less of the negatives. I do not recommend taking an agonist, I don’t know what my psychiatrist was thinking.

I’ve been trying methylphenidate and it’s really nice, it doesn’t have as much dependency or falloff risks as something like Adderall.

Maybe guanfacine is just particularly unhelpful.

This! I was diagnosed as a child but only started getting treatment a month ago, it’s incredible. I feel like I spent my whole life with the target lock on, bouncing from one focus to the next, and now I can choose when to lock on and when to free look.

I will say that in the US treatment has been made more difficult due to fail first treatment policies enforced by insurance companies. They will only give you effective medicine after you first try a non-stimulant with low efficacy and lots of side effects.

If I could do it again with what I know now I would have just thrown away the guanfacine and told them it gave me the side effects with none of the benefits. It’s a norepinephrine agonist, it does the opposite of the highly effective ADHD medication, and it was mostly only tested on children who had negative reactions to stimulants. If you have low norepinephrine to begin with (which many people with ADHD do) the effects are agonizing.

I have always thought marshmallow maties made more sense than lucky charms. It’s only natural for marshmallows adrift in a milk sea to turn to piracy.

There are some that are a heck of a lot better. Oxfam, Ben & Jerries, maybe Valve; but it does seem that on a large enough timeline all of them turn to the dark side.

I think this idea misses the fundamental way that the transformer works on neural networks. The output can be useful, but the mechanism of arriving there is more about probability than creativity.

An LLM cannot create true art because it cannot experience feelings, it has no continuity of being. It can only replicate the artistic patterns it was trained on; those patterns can come from true art, and can be combined in unique ways, but the only real art is in the writing of the prompt and the data it was trained on.

It’s like how the patterns of a kaleidoscope can make beautiful images, but all the creativity is in it’s construction and how it’s used.

We could conceivably extend the transformer model to include other aspects of thought, possibly even a consciousness capable of artistic expression, but it will take a lot of new work, it’s not a place we can arrive by simply adding more power or additional training to our current models.

Almost all the algorithms used by modern AI were written decades ago, it’s only usable now because compute power has made such huge gains. It will likely take many decades more to create true artificial consciousness.

I think we just don’t like guns.

Also his wrists are phasing through each other.