I’m perfectly happy with most of the discourse I experience online.

Haha, in which you picked an unnecessary fight with someone who, in his own words, ‘offered up some speculative BS,’ casts some rather looming amounts of doubt upon all that.

These little upvotes & downvotes are designed to entertain me, right?

YES, baby. :D
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5vlPpzSCb5M

Which still suggests some patterns, mais non?

Sorry about that! Let me try to figure out what’s going wrong…

EDIT: Hang on, what’s your browser? And anything else I might try to figure out…?

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Hahahaha…

Yeah, I already explained the full range of reasons why I added the comment above, regardless of anyone’s petty attempt to characterise my comment as ‘simply copying and stealing AI.’

It sounds like you should add “less condescending” to your prompts from now on.

Which again highlights the response above, i.e. welcome to the internet, my friend.

Bonus pts for the idea that: maybe just maybe, if you’re being an obnoxious a-hole in life, people just miiiiight not treat you with the customary politeness that you’re otherwise due?

Or did you want a special exemption in this case?

Offended? You and the other person seem to be doing a great job of that all by yourselves, lol

No one needs to waste their time scrolling past the literal garbage of a reposted gpt response.

For the record, I didn’t “repost” anything. I formulated the query, tweaked it, improved it, got the best results I deemed possible, then heavily edited it down in to something quick and comprehensible. Did a couple quick hand-queries which seemed to confirm the GPT results, then decided to add it to my comment, just for Gits & Shiggles.

What I do find amusing, however, is that you two are reacting as if I’d loudly trumpeted “AND HERE ARE THE DEFINITE RESULTS FROM OUR NEW GOD.”

Also worth a good chortle is you acting as if social media is intrinsically meant to be chock full of the highest-quality, fact-checked results, when you know perfectly well it never was and never will be.

Indeed, I’d put money on the modern AI response performing better in terms of facts & reality than the average social media users’. I don’t think it would even be close, really, as most popular threads are typically overflowing with BS and bad jokes, as you should well know… oh! Unless of course you’re completely new to the medium!!

Which it sounds like you are. In which case-- WELCOME. 😀

Oh, and just for the record-- I despise the dangers of AI, personally, and am hugely concerned about it destroying jobs and possibly even worse. I don’t trust it for a minute, yet at the same time, don’t mind taking advantage of it for very simple, innocuous queries like this.

Again, I hope you two have a better day. And again, we welcome you, kindly. ^^

I didn’t try to answer the comment above. I upvoted it, seconded the request, then added on with another query about the bow.

Nobody’s forcing you to read the GPT output. I simply condensed what I found for readability and offered it up for the purposes of anyone’s curiosity. FWIW, so far my hand-searches indeed seem to confirm the results above.

And yeah, sure, I get that LLM AI’s can hallucinate results at times, but I consider this a pretty straight-ahead kind of query, one in which I’ve found LLM’s highly useful in the past.

Also, there’s a rather well-known aspect of the internet in that one of the best ways to test knowledge and get it swiftly corrected is to post or comment with flawed info. So that’s another thing I was curious about-- did GPT’s findings make the grade in this case? Yet reason I specifically added on to the comment above, since they were asking for an archery-experienced person to opine.

Hope you have a better day going forward.

I’m seeing a darker-looking hairline there. I take it that he shaved it back for whatever reason, not unlike how some Samurai did.

Yeap, I immediately noticed that. It was moreso the “only man” portion that led to the comment above.

In high school, I was out at an outdoor party at a farm and two cows and a pig were the hardest drinkers out there.

Hah! (insert Ms. Krabappel image)

Yes, please. I’m also curious how these metal bows stacked up to traditional bows of the period.

I figured I’d throw that question to GPT, but instead of pasting an enormous wall of text here, I’ll just try to summarise:

• Metal bows of the 19th were much rarer and more costly.
• They had the advantage of being super-durable, resistant to moisture, and being able to be stored for long periods of time, say in a guardhouse.
• They originated in regions like India, Persia, and sometimes parts of the Middle East.
• Typically heavier and less flexible than wood.
• They often served symbolic or ceremonial roles.
• In India, steel bows had a long tradition, often tied to Rajput and Mughal warfare and status display.

EDIT: Hahaha, yes indeed-- bring on the swift, angry downvotes! Let the HATE flow through you! ^^ [my personal hero]

Wow, that’s impressively egalitarian in terms of destination, altho I seem to see some notable exceptions, such as Southern Italy, Greece, Ireland, Slovakia and Romania.

Could those lesser-traveled places perhaps be down to the two cultures tending not to be a great match?

As a naturist-wannabe, I like the quote, but I’d say it hasn’t aged the best, unfortunately.

Assuming the “drink” is of the psychotropic nature (i.e. booze), then there are in fact many examples across the wild of animals consuming substances that ‘boost them’ in various ways. Some examples might be dolphins who nibble on fugu (toxic pufferfish), lab rats who prefer psychotropic rewards over food, and a variety of animals who enjoy getting drunk on naturally-occurring, fermented fruit alcohol (lots of YT videos to look at with that last one). Or bears breaking in and…

One notable case occurred in 2004 at the Baker Lake Resort in Washington state where a black bear was found passed out on the lawn after consuming 36 cans of Rainier Beer. It reportedly tried one can of Busch beer but preferred the Rainier. Wildlife agents were eventually able to trap the bear, using doughnuts, honey and even two open cans of Rainier as bait, according to the LA Times. --Google bot

😭 😆

That said, on the whole I think it just tends to reinforce that man, also being an animal, is much like the others across a vast multitude of ways. As much as we might find that inconvenient, uncomfortable, or even humiliating to entertain.

/mini-essay rant alert!

Whups… late reply alert. 😅

Bueno!* I checked out some of your posting shares, and really enjoyed your urban sketches and portraits. Indeed, I really envy that skill of being able to quick-sketch and colorize, capturing a scene accurately with a minimum of fuss.

Watercolor is easily my favorite medium, but I’m sadly untrained in it. I did share a sketch-page earlier, in which I bitch about not being able to handle watercolor pencils. Part of that might be down to them being just a cheapie set of Kimberly Master’s pencils, I don’t know.

Interesting thoughts on your process, above. “Visual library” is a great way to think about it, I think, and “analogue heart” made me chortle. Love that.

* Castellano & Francais happen to be my two hobby languages, and I’m actively working on getting the latter up to the level of the former, such that I can brag that I suck at both, equally. 🙃

Wow… that’s surely the smallest guard I’ve ever seen. I guess this was not meant for swordplay, eh?

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Answering the real questions!

So on the one hand it sounds like the library made the draconian-style decision without anyone else’s input, and at the same time, Kråkström just kind of rolled over on his back and did CEO things, talking about “healthy societal discussion,” but offering no actual debate or pushback.

Kinda makes me wish that when someone objects to something on ‘racist’ and other controversial terms, that it would be nice if they could be asked to write a little essay explaining precisely what was racist / offensive / etc about the matter, if indeed they were actually insisting that changes be made for the ‘good of society.’

Otherwise it’s all just “healthy societal discussion,” mais non…?

Which is a big part of why I said “it’s the Dutch.”

I don’t know anything about this being an ‘infrastructure canary,’ however. TBH, I’d tend to hope that they don’t assign nearly the specialised resources to this project as they do far more critical works. Because this is mostly just a fun little project, right…?