succession x reddit’s stupidest arguments
‘don’t you want your favourite character to be happy???’ no? i want my favourite character to be interesting. i want me to be happy. which sometimes involves my favourite character being in exquisite agony
where oh where would I have been these last five years without my amazingly supportive Sleeping Beauty x
never not thinking about her
Sarah Snook in Norway filming Succession
Just on a whim, because I know that Alcibiades is one of the weirdest and funniest characters in ancient Greek history, I asked ChatGPT "What's the weirdest thing Alcibiades ever did?"
ChatGPT came back with the details of something Alcibiades (henceforth referred to as 'Alci' so I don't have to keep typing it out) was accused of, but acquitted of.
When I pointed out that he had been acquitted and may not have actually done this thing, Chat GPT apologised and said, "yes, he was acquitted", and then went on to tell me that, nonetheless, the event was significant because it made Alci flee the city.
Alci did not flee the city, he was sent away on a military expedition, which was exactly what he'd wanted and asked for. When I pointed that out, ChatGPT apologised again for being wrong.
I asked again for weird things he might actually have done, and was told one version of a story I've heard before about how Alci stole some stuff from a friend. ChatGPT's version was different from what I'd heard, though, so I mentioned that, and only then did ChatGPT acknowledge that there were different versions of the story. As part of its apology and correction, ChatGPT said that it did not always have access to all information - but then proceeded to provide details of the version of the story I'd heard before, showing that it did, in fact, have access to that information.
I asked again, what is the weirdest thing Alcibiades ever did? ChatGPT gave me an answer, which was a story I'd never heard before, so I asked for a source. ChatGPT told me it was in Plutarch's Lives, and I presumed it was in his Life of Alcibiades, so that's where I looked. When I said I couldn't find it there, ChatGPT told me, sorry for not being specific, it was actually in Plutarch's Life of Nicias. So I went and read Plutarch's Life of Nicias and couldn't find it.
So I told ChatGPT that I couldn't find the story in that book, could it please be more specific? What I was hoping for was a chapter or page number or something, I just presumed I'd missed it.
ChatGPT came back with "no, actually it's not in that book, it may be a later invention, there is no concrete evidence for this story."
TL;DR: ChatGPT cannot be trusted. Even when it does give you a source, it can be wrong. It has no capacity to evaluate the accuracy or likely accuracy of the information it gives you. It will present you with wrong or debatable information and give you absolutely no indication that it may not be correct, or that other versions or interpretations are possible.
gotta remember that chat GPT works basically the same way autocomplete works, but it can autocomplete longer runs of reasonably coherent text.
it’s not looking up facts, its both trying to say the thing that’s most likely to come next in the text it was trained on, and also trying to not perfectly replicate the training text, because it’s supposed to be a bit creative.
what this means is that it’s actually primed to lie to you. you can feed it nothing but perfectly factual text and it will spit back lies because the truth replicates the training set too closely.
it’s not really capable of answering a question the way a person might.
what it does is generate text that reasonably seems like what an answer to that question might look like.
it’s a bullshit generator.
it is made to bullshit tech investors. (who exclusively talk by making up things that sound correct without regard for the actual truth) so, if you’re smarter than a venture capitalist then don’t fall for the bullshit meant to ensnare venture capitalists.
That's a really good way to put it!
Reblogging this again because I am about to have to explain this to my boss and the head of academic quality today
ngl, I'm beginning to take issue with how in conversations about anti-intellectualism almost automatically, the face of girls and women will be slapped on the problem.
Peer Reviewed your tags, OP.
"Perhaps you have forgotten. That’s one of the great problems of our modern world, you know. Forgetting. The victim never forgets. Ask an Irishman what the English did to him in 1920 and he’ll tell you the day of the month and the time and the name of every man they killed. Ask an Iranian what the English did to him in 1953 and he’ll tell you. His child will tell you. His grandchild will tell you. And when he has one, his great-grandchild will tell you too. But ask an Englishman—” He flung up his hands in mock ignorance. “If he ever knew, he has forgotten. ‘Move on!’ you tell us. ‘Move on! Forget what we’ve done to you. Tomorrow’s another day!’ But it isn’t, Mr. Brue.” He still had Brue’s hand. “Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see. That is the point I was making to you. And by the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.”
- A Most Wanted Man, John le Carré
thinking about that kakapo egg that got crushed but the conservation team patched it up and it survived
life will persist against all odds
For those who don’t follow kakapo conservation, they are critically endangered parrots who only breed on years where the rimu tree they rely on meet a certain threshold of fruit production. One breeding season in 4 years can be typical, and about half of all eggs laid by kakapo are infertile (they still aren’t completely certain why, it could be a recent population bottleneck) so each fertile egg is worth its weight in gold.
This was one of only 5 fertile eggs laid on the Whenua Hou island population in the 2014 breeding season and it got crushed by its mother on accident. It was mended with glue and tape and incubated by the rangers until hatching.
At 150 days old kakapo chicks are officially added to the population total and given a unique name, until then they are given their mother’s name and a number for birth order laid in the clutch. This chick was known as Lisa-one before officially being given the name Ruapuke by local indigenous Ngai Tahu people.Here he is grown up:
fucking obsessed with the "okay now three in a row? how did you do that?"
#i love that this is the last scene that was filmed#what a lovely thing to end on#and T___T this is the happiest we've seen them#unbridled happiness! childish glee! let me live in this moment#where kendall is imitating their mom and shiv catches three slices of bread in a row#and roman's going to lick the special cheese#succession spoilers
As someone who is unrepentantly ~wild and zany~ it feels strange to admit that being stereotyped as ~wild and zany~ is a major insecurity. It always made me feel like shit when I was younger and my social groups would assign each other archetypal roles or character associations and I would indelibly be pigeonholed as The Kooky One. It wasn’t that I was offended to be perceived as eccentric—it just felt like, in Pip’s words, other people assigned their own inability to or disinterest in understanding me as a static trait that I possess.
I know full well that I’m weird, often flamboyantly so, and in such a way that I can be extremely offputting to people with more restrained personalities. But I have interiority! I have depth of feeling! I still value the regard of others! It stings to realize that someone is not willing to even attempt to reciprocate empathy because their perception of me is flattened into a caricature of impenetrable kookiness.
Like yeah man I can see why I annoy the shit out of you but if impulsive Dracula impressions, some odd statements, and moonwalking down the IKEA lighting aisle are all it takes for you to stop seeing someone as fully human or deserving of basic respect, I think maybe we both have insufferable personalities.
To be clear, I don’t mean this in an ableism way—I don’t NOT mean it in an ableism way, but also I resent the implication that odd behavior must be explained by diagnosable medical conditions before those displaying it are deserving of empathy. Just a pet peeve in the way we talk about neurodivergence on this webbed site.
#yeah....not even on this site though#i am not really ~zany~ or ~kooky~ but i hate seeing this (and still have dealt with this on rare occasions?)#this is like a cousin to people immediately saying someone is drunk or high when they're just generally happy or excited#god the number of times i see this because someone on a talk show#either isn't dead in the eyes or apparently acts OOC to someone because#idk they're quiet but they really get on with the interviewer and is talking about something they're enthusiastic about#like....people aren't robots. sorry to tell you people have emotions and interests#there's nothing wrong with drinking or being high but it's weird as hell to me that people struggle#with the idea that someone can exhibit stronger emotions than they do apparently and there's only ONE explanation for that#i'm starting to veer away from the main point of this post though so i'll stop here
"i won't miss milly's animal noises"
– "Ask A Footballer" by James Milner
"i'll probably miss him the most out of everyone"
#i'm not ready to watch this#milly was VITAL to this team and to hendo#jordan was so young when he stepped into stevie's shoes#i was fuming when milly was appointed vice captain immediately upon the start of the season when he joined us#but jordan really really needed guidance from someone senior like that#at least the previous season he had stevie around even as he started as the captain a few times#but milly's experience and good head on his shoulders were crucial in a way i didn't appreciate until a bit later#ANYWAY! i want to lie flat on the ground and stare up at my ceiling unblinkingly
kendall outright DENYING the key admittance that brought him together with his siblings at the end of season 3 all because he was willing to burn his relationship with them to the ground if it meant being viewed as a worthy heir to his father… m&m loser for life daddy’s no candy baby
shit show at the f*ck factory // with open eyes
roman, tom, shiv, and kendall final scenes
SUCCESSION — 4.10 “WITH OPEN EYES”
#no i'm not okay#i thought okay cool i feel a little numb and sad that the show is over#but they tied everything up neatly#and then i had a depression hangover today lmao#i'm so sad that this is the last we'll see of them#and THIS is how they end up! this!!!! it's bleak!#there was no way it was going to end but this so i'm not surprised but still!#succession spoilers
that vote was the last bit of autonomy shiv had, she will never hold that much power in her hands ever again and so she Decided to Leave by staying. chained
not sure how to kindly say that there is a difference between writers using misogyny as a plot device and writers themselves actually being misogynists
what i'm saying is that the "shiv roy is a victim of misogyny" takes coming from distraught users on here are funny. because it's like yeah. that's the point. you are not serious people