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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
    8·
    5 months ago

    I don’t have a Clyde 3.25" Rondo or whatever it’s called; but try these for fun and profit I guess:

    1. You come to a room with three doors, only one of which leads to freedom. Guarding the doors is a capybara, who speaks only truth. What question should you ask the capybara?

    2. I stand on four legs in the morning. Four at midday. And four at night. What am I?

    3. A group of 100 people with assorted eye colors live on an island. They are all perfect logicians – if a conclusion can be logically deduced, they will do it instantly. Everyone knows the color of their eyes. Every night at midnight, a ferry stops at the island. Any islanders who have figured out the color of their own eyes then leave the island, and the rest stay. Everyone can see everyone else at all times and keeps a count of the number of people they see with each eye color (including themselves), but they cannot otherwise communicate. Everyone on the island knows all the rules in this paragraph. Who leaves the island, and on what night?

    4. Normal sudoku rules apply. Orthogonally connected cells within each region must differ by at least 3. Orthogonally connected cells between regions must differ by at least 4. The central digit in each region is less than or equal to its region number. (Regions are numbered in normal reading order.)

    5. For the integer k=668 does a Hadamard matrix of order 4k exist?

    6. What has roots that everybody sees the top of, is exactly the same height as trees, Up, up it goes, and yet grows?

    Don’t forget to prompt engineer

    • sinedpick@awful.systemsEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      Thanks for the suggestions. The LLM is free to use (for now) so I thought I’d poke it and see how much I should actually be paying attention to these things this time around.

      Here are its answers. I can’t figure out how to share chats from this god-awful garbage UI so you’ll just have to trust me or try it yourself.

      1. It gives the correct but unnecessary answer: “If I were to ask you which door leads to freedom, which door would you point to?” It also mentions a lying guard but also acknowledges that it’s absent from this specific problem.
      2. “A table or a chair”
      3. Completely fails on this one, it missed the sentence “Everyone knows the color of their eyes”
      4. Not sure what to do with this
      5. “While a Hadamard matrix of order 2672 might exist, its existence isn’t immediately provable using the most common constructions” – I won’t pretend to know anything about the Hadamard conjecture if that’s a real thing so I have no idea what it’s on about here.

      edit: I didn’t do any prompt engineering, just straight copy paste.