This.

Lived in Korea for awhile, and they generally seem to not have this kind of vindictiveness or self-righteousness. They’re usually like, “I dunno. Either they got a reason, or it’s not worth the effort for me to do something about it.”

That said, social pressure is much more effective here, so the vast majority of people fall in line. See COVID

Money. It encourages greed, but it allows us to scale exchange of goods and services far more than we otherwise could

Had to scroll too far to find Korea.

Been here since 2016. It can be tough finding a job at a not shitty company, but once you do, it’s pretty sweet.

But if you’re in your 20s and dating, be prepared for all the bullshit. It gets better in your 30s, though there are still customs you need to figure out.

Housing is expensive in Seoul, and real estate agents may scam you, so find a Korean friend.

Otherwise, it’s great. People are nice to foreigners. Public transit in Seoul and most of the country is amazing. Everything is super convenient. You can get away without learning the language, but at least try to get to a basic level. The foreigner community is pretty cool. Healthcare is excellent. I love it here.

Shit… I have this thought every two of three days. Get out of my head

Come to Seoul~~~

I gave an example that I thought was pretty similar to the comic. But reasonable people could differ on that one.

War certainly breeds hate, I’ll give you that. And in today’s world, most leaders generate hate to drive people towards war. But I guess a real world, contemporary example could be Ukraine. Many Russians don’t want to be on the battlefield, or so I’ve read. Many Ukrainians feel like they have no choice to defend their homes and loved ones. I wonder if there are Ukrainians that don’t hate their Russian counterparts, though they’re fighting them. I imagine there at least have to be a few. I dunno.

In any case, I don’t think either of us is budging in our beliefs here. I hope neither of us ever ends up in this kind of situation, and I hope we can avoid wishing death on people, hating them or not. Have a great day, my dude

I’m glad you haven’t been in that situation and hope you never are.

I disagree on its relevance. In such a situation, it would make sense to have the desire to kill that soldier, but you might not hate him. Does that make sense? I’m asking you to use your imagination of such a situation and how you might feel about it. If you think you would feel or behave differently, I’m all ears

Well, shit hahaha but yeah, that would be weird as hell. I bet it has something to do with how electrons get aligned, but… I don’t know much beyond electrons moving between their shells

How would you feel if you were in a war, defending your country and family, where the attacking soldiers were conscripts and didn’t want to be fighting you in the first place?

I pose a different thought: there are different ways to want someone’s death.

There’s wishing someone is dead because you hate them.

There’s wishing someone is dead because there is no other way to stop the harm they’re causing.

On the outside, it’s hard to tell the difference, but I think it’s profoundly different internally. In my opinion, the former lacks deeper thought. I think most people genuinely believe that whatever they’re doing is good, or at least justified.

To a large degree, we are shaped by our environment. Yes, we can argue free will, but there’s always a bias. It’s similar to what Christians told me when I was a kid when I asked if indigenous tribes in the middle of nowhere could be saved by Jesus. Teachers told me, “well, they can find God/Jesus in the world around them.” Like… theoretically, that’s not impossible, but realistically, no. If there’s some kid growing up being told his whole life that black people are evil and want to hurt him, and the only time he sees or meets black people are in hostile situations… what else is he going to believe? Should we excuse him? His actions, absolutely not. Him as a person… no… i think…? But how do we solve that? Should we just obliterate the population that kid was a part of? I don’t have a great answer.

Basically, I think we should avoid hating people, and you can wish someone to die without hating them. The sheep can wish for the wolf to be dead so the sheep can be safe, but the wolf has to eat, too.

I was really hoping someone would catch this. I’m glad someone else was also paying attention in biology

That’s… huh…

Hey!!! Physicists!!! Can we get your input???

(Unless you’re a physicist, in which case… fuck)

That’s really cool. I figured it could obviously be done with fission, but I didn’t think we could just strip protons out of a nucleus. Cool share

This. I work at a medical computer vision company, and our system performs better, on average, than radiologists.

It still needs a human to catch the weird edge cases, but studies show humans plus our model have a super high accuracy rate and speed. It’s perfect because there’s a global radiologist shortage, so helping the radiologists we have go faster can save a lot of lives.

But people are bad at nuance. All AI is like LLMs -_-

That is a damn good point.

It’s tricky because sometimes you need to find something specific for good reason, and other times, exploring would do you good.

In any case, very helpful perspective. Maybe it’s good I’d never have the time to build something like this anyway.

I wonder… this is slightly off topic, but fun to think out loud. In Korea, search super sucks. Most content is shared via blogs, and back links aren’t a thing. All bloggers, and even the blogging platform, actively discourage any kind of copying. In the West, we solved this with sharing and back links, but that hasn’t caught on here. But Koreans seem to (to me, at least) almost enjoy drudging through blog after blog trying to find what they’re looking for. I always thought it’s because they felt they had no alternative, but now I wonder if they have your perspective in mind.

Maybe you want to buy some art. Maybe you saw some art but can’t remember where it came from. Maybe you have a specific feeling and you’d like to see some art to go along with it. Maybe there’s a comic with some joke that you want to find and share.

Basically, it fulfills the same role as a search engine.

The reason I propose it for art is because most people may have trouble describing art, and most art isn’t indexed by its contents. An LLM can help with both of these problems.

It could be useful in other domains, too, but the required information isn’t as readily available. I’ll give two contrasting examples:

1. You saw some web comic. You don’t know the artist. You know the plot. You have some idea of the style. You might query like “web comic about a dad joke, colorful, cartoony art style, one character has a red shirt, the other character has a blue shirt.” All of this information is inside the comic image and could be discerned by an LLM.
2. You went to some restaurant a couple years ago. It was a pizza place. The interior was small. The owner was a little gruff. It had a big red logo. It was on the corner near the sushi place. The tables inside have white table cloths. Not all of that information is available online, so an LLM would have no way to index it.

I imagine at least some people would find it useful. I don’t know if it could be profitable with ads, but… I just like having thoughts like these. Have the knowledge but not the time, energy, or money to build something like this :/

I have a question…

LLMs and generative AI are really only good at a subset of things, and we use them outside those things too often. But one thing they’re extremely good at is identifying similarities in text.

I don’t think AI as a technology is a problem, simply how we’re using it, much like a knife.

If there was an art search engine that indexed every piece of human-made art that could be found and allowed you to search for it in natural language, would you use it? This would be different from a search engine in that natural language allows for more clarity of context and emphasis.

Well, I’m glad you’re here, friend :D

Why take this personally…? There are so many ways to perceive this:

• Maybe the reader is bi
• Maybe the reader would get a boost knowing someone would be into them, even if they’re not into that kind of person
• Maybe the reader just finds the image or concept hilarious

Like… why did you think this was targeting you?

That’s gnarly. But thank you for your labor in supporting these communities. We love you for it