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  It's funny. I'm generally a pretty happy person, but I just turned in the manuscript for Sawyer Lee 2, and honestly every time I turn in a book I feel this mix of uncomfortable giddyness and I sort of temporary despair. Hard to describe. I should probably spend a week gardening or something, but alas, in order to get my last 4 manuscripts in on time I had to burn down everything else! On the other hand, the alternative was a real job, SO

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  You know, I'm not a vegan, but the arguments against veganism often strike me as extraordinarily weak. Like the strongest ones are about cost and wherewithal. But the usual arguments are hear are often naturalistic fallacy in different disguises, or an elaborate version of calling vegans a bunch of sissies. Or variations on "but aren't you a hypocrite for not [meeting impossible standard]?"

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  Fairly depressing post on the future of mathematics, currently getting passed around a lot: https://kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-night-of-mathematics/comments

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  Some lovely internet person made SMBC searchable: https://smbc-search.com/

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  Now that America has been thoroughly shamed, and we therefore must call it Football for another four years, a question I was afraid to ask: Assuming it were done in a non-corrupt non ad hoc fashion, wouldn't it be good to have post-game review of penalties that result in suspensions?

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  Seems as if my wife is slowly becoming the Bodily Functions in Space go-to person? https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct8kcm

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  RE: https://aus.social/@AuntyRed/116816209138420986 Genuine LOL

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  In a data point that surely means something, today I had a reader write to say he's always appreciated my pro-AI stance, and another say he's always appreciated my anti-AI stance.

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  Bonus panel here: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/terminal #smbc #ai #comics

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  Full comic here: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/joke-5 #smbc #comics #batman

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  The best training set is forcing a robot to attend employee training. Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/llm-2 #smbc #hiveworks #comics #webcomics #ai

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  This week I'm having that thing that every writer knows about where I spent days banging my head on a plot elements only to feel like I got nowhere. And, of course, experience suggests you MUST do this, because it's the only way to get your subconscious off its ass full of glial cells to organize some solutions while you sleep. But I wish you could just zap it some how instead of all the frustration.

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  Full proposal here: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/shenanigans #smbc #comics #philosophy #shenanigans

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  Pleased to introduce this quote to the world. Bonus panel here: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nagel #smbc #comics

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  Just realized that people under 25 probably have no mental association between low quality electric jazz music and porno. Sad, the way times change.

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  Full comic here: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/peace-4 #smbc #comics

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  Do you think of LLMs came out in, say 2003, the major players would've allowed nsfw mode? Like to my knowledge there was never serious pushback on search engines indexing basically anything legal, even if it was deeply offensive. Is that a culture shift or is it more about how an LLM feels like a human being, rather than a mindless indexer.

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  Nerd confession: I've read hardly any Pratchett. But yesterday, my 12 year old got loaned a copy of Wee Free Men and read it front to back in, like, an afternoon. And then was quoting it to me for hours. Help me, what does she need next?

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  Comicking...

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  Available now! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weiner/parenting-an-smbc-comic-collection Thanks for your support, everyone!

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  Available now! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weiner/parenting-an-smbc-comic-collection Thanks for your support, everyone!

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  You are free to decide to click to see the bonus panel here: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/quantum-6 #smbc #comics

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  Have you noticed this thing where when a type of character appears in story enough, they become dissociated from the actual nature of the original character type? E.g. being a cartoon cowboy does not imply that one is a young man who runs cattle. It's about a set of clothes and a gruff attitude. A pirate strictly speaking no longer needs to be engaged in any kind of violent robbery. A princess is someone young with a crown, but may not really need a monarchy they are in line for.

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  @LucasWerkmeister Still... I am planning to do something like "Dystopia: In Which Everything is Ruined"

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  PSSST https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weiner/parenting-an-smbc-comic-collection #smbc #comics #parenting

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  Hey linguistic dorks: So, I grew up in Texas where "y'all" was normal, though not always used when outside the US South. In the last 10-20 years, it seems like it's become normal. Like I see Canadians using it. But it occurred to me that I *actually* only see it used online. I had the impression that Y'all basically won the Second Person Plural wars via the popularity of AAVE, but perhaps it's more of an online slang usage?

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  Full comic here: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/waas #smbc #comics #saas

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  Bonus panel here: #smbc #comics #math

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  Sometimes the Internet is OK

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  Another wild result using LLMs to solve math problems. https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1smehbo/stunning_ai_breakthrough_gpt_54_solves_erdos/ I continue to be amazed how little people care about this compared to automatic PowerPoint presentation generators and Ai girlfriends.