Predominantly Erroneous (Exohedron nonsense blog)

State of the lyrics: trying to write a queen declaring that an errant knight is on thin ice without making it sound yandere.

 

I think the problem that I have in all of these conversations with my dad is that I don't think that it really matters if a robot or a human is doing the bad thing; bad things are bad. Drone warfare is bad because it is warfare, not because it is drones. AI art plagiarism is bad because it is plagiarism, not because it is AI. GPT-generated misinformation is bad because it is misinformation, not because it is GPT-generated.

 

Okay, but do vampires show up on the non-reflective side of one-way mirrors? Asking for a friend.

 

State of the lyrics: why am I spending so much effort trying to get this one line right when it's completely unintelligible anyway?

 

I'm always willing to answer questions, but answering them correctly might be above my paygrade.

 

State of the lyrics: I don't know how vocables work. It just ends up sounding like quotes from Hollow Knight.

 

I think I've realized the problem: I have a non-rhotic accent, and Japanese people trying to pronounce English words usually have a non-rhotic accent, but the vocal samples in the Vocaloid engine are rhotic, so it sounds really over-emphasized. Not to go all Rykard Elden Ring, but it is in fact "togetha", although the last a is actually a schwa probably. At the very least, it's not "togethrrrrrrr"

 

Yes, they're both dnb tracks with growling basslines and complicated drumming and a sad girl singing about disappointment on top, but the difference is that for one of them the lyrics are really just a bunch of algebraic topology puns which completely undercut the tone of the track once you notice them.

 

Unwritten sci-fi story: deuteragonist appears to sincerely believe that humanity in general used to think that computers spontaneously generated from piles of plastic tubing.

I'm not sure if she actually believes this or if one of her character flaws is that she just spouts abject nonsense when she thinks she's losing an argument.

 

The realization that, due to several unrelated worldbuilding decisions, the phrase "eat some grass" is a pistols-at-dawn level of insult.

 

It looks like I'm back to giving bad suggestions for entertainment purposes.

 

Occasionally I am reminded that the (assigned-at-birth) gender of an upcoming baby is something that a lot of people ask pregnant people. It's not that I have any principled reason not to ask, I just keep forgetting that that is data to be had.

 

Making things in major key is so uncomfortable for me now. It's the same tones! I'm just starting four semitones lower than I usually would! Why does it sound so bizarre?

 

But the reason that we study these things, flowers and insects and clouds and stars, the reason we peer so closely and seek so keenly to understand, is not that we want to tear away their wonder or their beauty, but because we love them, and therefore we submit them to the mortifying ordeal.

 

Two tumblr polls I'm surprised I haven't seen yet:

Cooperate vs Defect
Cup in front of me vs Cup in front of you

One which I would like to figure out how to do: Monty Hall problem

[EDIT] Okay, I have now seen multiple prisoner's dilemmas and an iocane powder. You are all forgiven.

 

When the entire team simultaneously forgets that sample means often differ from true means because none of us are statisticians.

 

New stupid idea: using tumblr polls as a slow, probably very biased random number generator.

 

When you inform your boss' boss' boss, perhaps with a tad too much enthusiasm, "Nope, gunshot wound, not guillotine. He died in a duel."

At least the presentation itself went well.

 

It's a good thing that I don't get vertigo, so that when I think to myself "it's a good thing that I don't get vertigo" and turn around to look out the window of the elevator before panicking for a moment that I haven't mentally confirmed that I don't get vertigo, I don't get vertigo.

 

New poll idea: tumblr Plays Pokemon. The description text is just a picture of the start menu from Pokemon Red and the choices are Start, Select, A, B, Up, Down, Left, and Right