MathiasTCK
Android Dev, Gamer, Dad
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Count the fingers.
Careful what you say for it may be repeated in strange whispers to parts unknown.
Look for symbols.
Understand that style is as important as form.
Repetition
(Explainer: https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/11xz6yc/comment/jd6aq4k/ )
“You take the blue matrix… the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red matrix… you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the LinearAlgebra goes.”
Context is here:
https://lemmy.world/comment/12118240
I’ve made the same points in many similar social media discussions. A bunch when people declared the Starship Troopers Movie wasn’t satire.
I could have combined the replies to 1, but then they would exceed the character limit if I want to copy paste them elsewhere.
It’s handy that the reply char limit in some places is same or smaller than the title of a post limit elsewhere.
I meant original post to link to the threads.net post, but I’ve had this conversation several times.
This community started as a subreddit, dedicated to Starship Troopers Gifs. I never promoted it as such though, and basically used it as a place to bookmark. But I’ll still post Starship Troopers and Heinlein stuff here, or any time someone is Doing Their Part.
Original post was supposed to link to the threads.net thread I am quoting. No bots involved, I am using the Sync lemmy client on my Samsung.
We don’t really to have to infer though, Heinlein was an outspoken activist outside of his fiction, ran for office, etc.
https://www.baen.com/chapters/W200408/The_Notebooks_of_Lazarus_Long.htm
"Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.
Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.
Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it. "
My take is Heinlein was a professional SciFi author, he wrote what he thought would sell, but given that: he was happy to conduct thought experiments meant to examine positions he may or may not have agreed with, considered, or actively opposed. That said, I think he also often had a self insert character that basically expressed Heinlein’s take.
I point people at the Notebook of Lazarus Long if they want Heinlein’s take expressed via fiction.
In discussions on this topic people frequently want to use one book, or another, as expressing the views of the author at some period of time. That fails here because two books with seemingly opposing views were written by the same author at the same time.
When the topic comes up I like to point out Heinlein was writing StrangerInAStrangeLand , a book some called “The Hippie Bible”, at the SAME TIME he was writing Starship Troopers.
‘Under the engineerium,’ Torgaddon said, ‘the ducts are twice as high, but I can touch them.’
‘You lie.’
‘I’ll prove it.’
‘We’ll see.’
Besides LLMs, large language models, we also have GANs, Generative Adversarial Networks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network
I reversed accidentally on first attempt.
Living? In this economy?
Take your time, hurry up
Choice is yours, don’t be late
Take a rest as a friend
As an old
Memoria, memoria
Memoria, memoria
https://lemmy.world/comment/12215712
Count the fingers.
Careful what you say for it may be repeated in strange whispers to parts unknown.
Look for symbols.
Understand that style is as important as form.
Repetition
(Explainer: https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/11xz6yc/comment/jd6aq4k/ )