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Re: Stupid question of the day

March 31st, 2023, 4:37 pm

Like when you're watching the water swirling down the loo and think: 'riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”?
clockwise or anti-clockwise?

In Ulysses, there is a similar episode
He kicked open the crazy door of the jakes. Better be careful not to get these trousers dirty for the funeral. He went in, bowing his head under the low lintel. Leaving the door ajar, amid the stench of mouldy limewash and stale cobwebs he undid his braces. Before sitting down he peered through a chink up at the nextdoor windows. The king was in his countinghouse. Nobody.
[justify]Asquat on the cuckstool he folded out his paper, turning its pages over on his bared knees. Something new and easy. No great hurry. Keep it a bit. Our prize titbit: Matcham’s Masterstroke. Written by Mr Philip Beaufoy, Playgoers’ Club, London. Payment at the rate of one guinea a column has been made to the writer. Three and a half. Three pounds three. Three pounds, thirteen and six.[/justify]
Quietly he read, restraining himself, the first column and, yielding but resisting, began the second. Midway, his last resistance yielding, he allowed his bowels to ease themselves quietly as he read, reading still patiently that slight constipation of yesterday quite gone. Hope it’s not too big bring on piles again. No, just right. So. Ah! Costive. One tabloid of cascara sagrada. Life might be so. It did not move or touch him but it was something quick and neat. Print anything now. Silly season. He read on, seated calm above his own rising smell. Neat certainly. Matcham often thinks of the masterstroke by which he won the laughing witch who now. Begins and ends morally. Hand in hand. Smart. He glanced back through what he had read and, while feeling his water flow quietly, he envied kindly Mr Beaufoy who had written it and received payment of three pounds, thirteen and six.
Too evocative for me...

@clockwise or anti-clockwise? - that's a question for a globepotter!
 
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Re: Stupid question of the day

April 1st, 2023, 7:12 pm

What do you think of Erwin Schrödinger.. ?
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Re: Stupid question of the day

April 1st, 2023, 11:05 pm

He was in the box, right? Or not. I guess we’ll only know once we open it
 
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Re: Stupid question of the day

April 1st, 2023, 11:38 pm

He was a narcissistic perverted pedophile, who is often called the father of quantum mechanics for inexplicable reasons, whereas his main invention is wave equation based on de Broglie and Max Planck ideas, but formulated in such an incautious way that it has successfully steered the physics research off the rails into surrealistic alternative world of non-locally, quantum collapses and other weirdo beavers since 1926 until today.
 
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Re: Stupid question of the day

April 2nd, 2023, 8:33 am

Schrödinger is the kind one likes and dislikes at the same time
 
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Re: Stupid question of the day

April 2nd, 2023, 11:48 am

[color=rgba(17,17,17,var(--text-opacity))]Turns Out Schrödinger, the Father of Quantum Physics, Was a Pedophile[/color]
https://futurism.com/schrodinger-pedophile

https://physicsworld.com/a/schrodinger- ... e-reports/

It was largely due to Fitzgerald's advocacy that our Physical Laboratory was built, after his death early in this century. Its fine lecture theatre is being renamed the Erwin Schrödinger Theatre in honour of the pioneer of quantum mechanics who spent much of his career in Dublin.

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Re: Stupid question of the day

April 2nd, 2023, 3:20 pm

It's pretty alarming how much sexual abuse of minors was tolerated in the past. There are/were some creepy people with high profiles out there: Bill Wyman, Steven Tyler, Schrödinger, very likely at least one member of the British royal family. And those just the ones whose creepiness has been exposed.

Jeffrey Epstein's rape island isn't as much of an outlier as it would be nice to imagine, in that context.
 
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Re: Stupid question of the day

April 2nd, 2023, 6:09 pm

It's endemic. And when it is institutionised.

 Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell. 
Jonathan Swift with Stella and Vanessa (not their real names).

James Joyce warned us.

not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe.
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Re: Stupid question of the day

April 2nd, 2023, 6:25 pm

It's pretty alarming how much sexual abuse of minors was tolerated in the past.
It's still tolerated, Marsden
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Re: Stupid question of the day

April 22nd, 2023, 10:49 am

When do you start regretting all those photos of you wearing anime cosplay you posted online?
 
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Re: Stupid question of the day

April 22nd, 2023, 11:48 am

That’s the beauty of AI, you can claim all those photos are fake. It frees one up to do embarrassing things that could be captured by phone.
 
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Re: Stupid question of the day

April 26th, 2023, 12:09 pm

When do you think people will start to be bored with sharing online their un-interesting chatGPT experiments?
 
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Re: Stupid question of the day

April 26th, 2023, 12:17 pm

When do you think people will start to be bored with sharing online their un-interesting chatGPT experiments?
Around the time when you can get AutoGPT to do it for you?
 
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Re: Stupid question of the day

April 26th, 2023, 12:30 pm

When do you think people will start to be bored with sharing online their un-interesting chatGPT experiments?
chatGPT has the answer: As an AI language model, I don't have the ability to predict human behavior with certainty, as it is influenced by a wide range of factors that can change rapidly. However, I can offer some insights on this topic.

It is natural for people to experiment with new technologies and share their experiences with others, especially if they find it entertaining or interesting. However, over time, people's interest may shift, and they may move on to other activities.
In the case of sharing uninteresting chatGPT experiments, the interest level will likely depend on the novelty of the experiments and the quality of the content. If people continue to come up with new and creative ways to engage with chatGPT and share meaningful interactions, the trend may continue for a while.
However, if the experiments become repetitive or lack originality, it is possible that people may lose interest and move on to other forms of entertainment. Additionally, as chatGPT technology improves and becomes more widely available, it may become less of a novelty, which could also contribute to a decrease in interest.
Overall, it's hard to predict exactly when people will start to be bored with sharing their chatGPT experiments, but it will likely depend on a variety of factors related to the technology, the content, and the evolving interests of users. 
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Re: Stupid question of the day

April 26th, 2023, 1:46 pm

When do you think people will start to be bored with sharing online their un-interesting chatGPT experiments?
chatGPT has the answer: As an AI language model, I don't have the ability to predict human behavior with certainty, as it is influenced by a wide range of factors that can change rapidly. However, I can offer some insights on this topic.

It is natural for people to experiment with new technologies and share their experiences with others, especially if they find it entertaining or interesting. However, over time, people's interest may shift, and they may move on to other activities.
In the case of sharing uninteresting chatGPT experiments, the interest level will likely depend on the novelty of the experiments and the quality of the content. If people continue to come up with new and creative ways to engage with chatGPT and share meaningful interactions, the trend may continue for a while.
However, if the experiments become repetitive or lack originality, it is possible that people may lose interest and move on to other forms of entertainment. Additionally, as chatGPT technology improves and becomes more widely available, it may become less of a novelty, which could also contribute to a decrease in interest.
Overall, it's hard to predict exactly when people will start to be bored with sharing their chatGPT experiments, but it will likely depend on a variety of factors related to the technology, the content, and the evolving interests of users. 
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