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I promise I won't call you out for that, I won't make vague posts about it or pop in your DMs to ask you why.
You are free to curate your experience and if my presence muddles your experience, please unfollow/block me without fear. I promise I won't come after you.
I trust you.
[ID: A thighs up drawing of a black dwarven woman and Zevran kissing each other. She is wearing boxers and purple toned fabric over the chest. She has many purple toned tattoos over her arms and face in an angular style. Her hair is white and long with a slight curl and is tied up. Zevran is leaning down to hold her face in his hands. Behind them is a purple sky /END ID]
Hi! :3 For the oc asks, maybe 🏨 and εїз for Arianwen (and/or any other kiddos of your choice)?
Hey, thank you for asking! c:
🏨 : How well does your muse sleep?
εїз : How does your muse feel about bugs and insects?
your opponent is the most selected option. please don't spoil anything in the tags
This is where I leave you. I wish you every success on your journey.
There is no obvious path between today’s machine learning models — which mimic human creativity by predicting the next word, sound, or pixel — and an AI that can form a hostile intent or circumvent our every effort to contain it. Regardless, it is fair to ask why Dr. Frankenstein is holding the pitchfork. Why is it that the people building, deploying, and profiting from AI are the ones leading the call to focus public attention on its existential risk? Well, I can see at least two possible reasons. The first is that it requires far less sacrifice on their part to call attention to a hypothetical threat than to address the more immediate harms and costs that AI is already imposing on society. Today’s AI is plagued by error and replete with bias. It makes up facts and reproduces discriminatory heuristics. It empowers both government and consumer surveillance. AI is displacing labor and exacerbating income and wealth inequality. It poses an enormous and escalating threat to the environment, consuming an enormous and growing amount of energy and fueling a race to extract materials from a beleaguered Earth. These societal costs aren’t easily absorbed. Mitigating them requires a significant commitment of personnel and other resources, which doesn’t make shareholders happy — and which is why the market recently rewarded tech companies for laying off many members of their privacy, security, or ethics teams. How much easier would life be for AI companies if the public instead fixated on speculative theories about far-off threats that may or may not actually bear out? What would action to “mitigate the risk of extinction” even look like? I submit that it would consist of vague whitepapers, series of workshops led by speculative philosophers, and donations to computer science labs that are willing to speak the language of longtermism. This would be a pittance, compared with the effort required to reverse what AI is already doing to displace labor, exacerbate inequality, and accelerate environmental degradation. A second reason the AI community might be motivated to cast the technology as posing an existential risk could be, ironically, to reinforce the idea that AI has enormous potential. Convincing the public that AI is so powerful that it could end human existence would be a pretty effective way for AI scientists to make the case that what they are working on is important. Doomsaying is great marketing. The long-term fear may be that AI will threaten humanity, but the near-term fear, for anyone who doesn’t incorporate AI into their business, agency, or classroom, is that they will be left behind. The same goes for national policy: If AI poses existential risks, U.S. policymakers might say, we better not let China beat us to it for lack of investment or overregulation. (It is telling that Sam Altman — the CEO of OpenAI and a signatory of the Center for AI Safety statement — warned the E.U. that his company will pull out of Europe if regulations become too burdensome.)
i am sensing a pattern here (things that start as practice getting out of hand)
Come behold the wondrous mystery Slain by death, the God of life But no grave could e'er restrain Him Praise the Lord; He is alive What a foretaste of deliverance How unwavering our hope Christ in power resurrected As we will be when He comes!
look on my works ye mighty…………………… 🍐
@copperbadge
I keep trying to come up with something funny to say but every time I stop at "And dis pear" and just. How does one top perfection?
so, i am one film in of my the hobbit re-watch and it's interesting how they portrayed each dwarf visually. there's quite an amount of fighting which showcases us the way they act: who's the fighter and who's the carer, who's the leader and who's the follower, who's the mind and who's the brutal force. but — their appearance does tell a huge part of the untold story about who they are and what are their roles in the company.
while re-watching 'an unexpected journey' i had an opportunity to pay closer attention to fili and kili:
and if i still didn't know a single thing about them aside basics and was asked «who's going to be the next king?», i'd say fili without hesitation, based only on the visual.
fili is put together. he might even seem to be somewhat arrogant with his facial expressions. and visual implications of him being the mature one are in his braids, his still growing beard but already braided mustache.
in comparison to kili — fili has a little bit of the weight that the age brings on him.
one of the reasons why we might sympathise alot with kili is because kili feels young. his appearance screams that he is the youngest: long unbraided/barely braided hair and those bangs, strands of hair over his face in a way to make it look rounder and cuter. we see kili act impulsively, him being all over the place with attachement and trust, him being childishly loud and stupidly brave. and his appearance really makes sense of that.
the relationships between durin's are also quite interesting to look at:
the thing with fili is not just him being the oldest of the brothers, for also because he is prepared/taught to be mature one. we don't really hear it specified in action but richard said that thorin prepares fili to be the next to the throne. and i think, he used the word «groomed» which might mean that they're at the beginning of the process that is not exactly wanted by one of the sides. hence, why i am using «prepared/taught to» — fili is still young and dumb at times but he is ahead of kili on the ride of growing up. because he has to. he is, again, more put together but he has alot of weaponry that he carries on him in order to be prepared for any sort of fight. he learns skills and hence the reason he still has huge assignment of blades to chose from.
fili is also less confrontational with thorin. kill is really open and honest about his feelings towards thorin's actions, for example in the scenes where thorin is unfair to bilbo. seems like kili really did get attached to the hobbit and was not shy to be judgemental.
also desperate for he is still young and doesn't really understand the meaning of calculated decisions and compromises.
fili usually keeps to the side, be it because he observes, has less confrontational character or just knows not to interfere when thorin gets moody. when kili jokes on bilbo — fili just plays along. when thorin starts to berate them it's kili who's ashamed but fili is just there. he is so done with thorin, it seems, he doesn't have it in him to react.
observing kili's behavior we can say that kili looks up to thorin in a more sincere, childish way. thorin is the hero of his childhood dreams, for he is the dwarf who took up on the role of his father while juggling all of his other duties. kili wants to impress thorin, wants to be good for him too, it shows in a way he jumps into fights hot-headed. and he is often ashamed when he disappoints him.
fili, on the other hand, just does what thorin says because he knows thorin will want of him exactly that. he learned a lot from and of thorin, he knows how to operate under his command. in a way, he might start to see thorin more as a leader rather than a father figure.
and it might be for another post but we see fili get openly confrontational only in 'the desolation of smaug' and only because kili is in danger. no matter how important it is for thorin to raise a king out of him, fili is still going to put his brother first.
he protests:
first time is when thorin rushes everyone on the river bank while kili needs healer's attention because of his leg.
second time — when thorin wants fili to go with them to erebor and fili choses to stay in laketown with kili who's gotten worse. thorin needs fili there with them because he is the next in line. fili's priorities lie with his brother. and that's probably the most loud conflict fili had with thorin in the whole trilogy. that was the conflict of interests.
the most loud conflict kili had with thorin, though, is in 'the battle of the five armies' when he finally had enough of thorin hiding behind a wall while the rest are dying for them. he almost lost respect for thorin and that was his last attempt to bring him to his senses because this thorin was not his childhood hero, was not the person he looks up to and the matter at hand wasn't just his foul character. it was the conflict of morals.
and i find that beautiful.
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Dragon Age Inquisition
sebhawke leyendecker brainrot am i right (ft my turkish sebastian headcanon)
obsessed with the way my robotics team lead talks
she’s reinventing hieroglyphics
She’s the only person who truly understands how emojis were meant to be used.
Alistair buddy are U alright. Do U need a bandaid or something pal, talk to me
Probably late, BUT!! For Arianwen Tabris:
📱 : Does your muse prefer calling or texting?
And for Maria Hawke:
⚠ : How does your muse react to possibly dangerous situations? Do they face them head-on, or do they plan out their actions first?
Have a lovely day!!
I appreciate you asking regardless of when you do! <3
📱 : Does your muse prefer calling or texting?
Texting, but sometimes she gets impatient and calls someone because typing is too slow. It sounds like this:
Alistair: ...Hello? Why didn't you---
Arianwen: Too slow. I don't want to go that movie. The internet says a dog dies in it. Pick a different one or go by yourself. *click*
⚠ : How does your muse react to possibly dangerous situations? Do they face them head-on, or do they plan out their actions first?
Maria has a general plan for dangerous situations. It follows this pattern roughly:
But she's very good at improvising when necessary c:
