Don't Make Me Think

https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2021/07/07/dont-make-me-think/

by Amezarak • 5 years ago

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Amezarak2• 5 years ago

I came across this last night - interesting story about the possible implications of technology like Neuralink.

tmaly• 5 years ago

I don’t even want to read that. The icons are distracting. Is that the point of the title?

gdsdfe• 5 years ago

It's so unreadable, it's upsetting

ant6n• 5 years ago

This website is broken, not just the emoji

Lukas_Skywalker• 5 years ago

Running the following code in the browser console gets rid of the emojis:

    for(const p of document.querySelectorAll('p')) {
      p.textContent = p.textContent.replace(/([\uE000-\uF8FF]|\uD83C[\uDF00-\uDFFF]|\uD83D[\uDC00-\uDDFF])/g, '')
    }

Credits: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10999907

monkellipse• 5 years ago

I clicked sort of expecting to see an article about the book by this title, about web page design. What I found instead was rather ironic in that context!

tryingtogetback2• 5 years ago

I couldn't read it. With all emojis involved it reads like a long, obnoxious text message from an unstable gen-z.

Checked the author, author's tweeter account, looks legitimate (not GPT3?).

If there was a real message written as a novel-like short story, the audience will definitely be limited.

What if it was done intentionally, on purpose?

Author constructed a targeted message that repels all but the most promising marks, causing those to self-select, tilting the actionable true to false-positive ratio in his favor?

I might be overthinking. Will dump this one in my reading list (along with Lukas_Skywalker's comment), will get to it later.

Amezarak2• 5 years ago

The emojis were definitely annoying but after a few paragraphs my eyes just glazed right over them and I didn't pay them any more mind - I guess I might be missing part of the story that way (it definitely adds a kind of flavor and given the horrendous nature of typing emojis I assume a lot of thought went into them), but I thought the story without them was well-written.

tryingtogetback2• 5 years ago

"given the horrendous nature of typing emojis" - can easily be automated. Author could've been more courteous by leaving those out, making the contents more accessible.

re: Neuralink: https://neuralink.com/approach/ the tech is fascinating and Musk is positively and admirably insane! Seems like every Sci-Fi concept possible already has Musk's involvement in it.

J. Bezos, take a note, we need more of that!

philipswood• 5 years ago

Reminds me of reading Feersum Endjinn by Iain Banks.

The "phonetically" spelled sections from the one character's point of view were a killer to get through.

myWindoonn• 5 years ago

The Mars Volta did this story years ago, in a less racist and more empathetic way, with their album "Deloused in the Comatorium". Heck, "A Girl and Her Fed" has been running this story for years. I feel like ZHL took descriptions of drug trips from Erowid and slapped emojis on them along with a massive lampshade.

The emojis aren't innocent, either. He thinks we don't see him writing "homogenizing" as RAINBOW FLAG, DNA, for example. Also, why is ZHL so racist?

eprparadox• 5 years ago

i love Deloused in the Comatorium and i think it's pretty distinct from this story. they really only share a few common themes. and the story telling methods are -completely– different from one another.

as for ZHL personally, this is the 1st thing i've read of his so it's news to me, but if true that's a bummer.

ph0rque• 5 years ago

I enjoyed the story, but it was a bit underwhelming, to be honest.

I thought that 0HPL would explore the idea that the monsters/demons were in our minds all along, but in the end it turned out to be another story of immoral immortality.

Don't Make Me Think

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