Comment by DonHopkins

3 days ago

Again with the sealioning.

Read it and make up your mind for yourself, because if you won't read any of the links or any of Hunter S Thompson's original works, the you certainly won't and don't intend to read my answers to your questions.

Both I and the LLOOOOMM simulation of Hunter S Thompson have directly responded to your posts and questions already.

Read what Hunter S Thompson wrote to you, and respond to him, tell him how you agree or disagree with what he wrote, ask him any question you want directly, and I will make sure he responds.

Because you're not reading or listening to anything I say, "just asking questions" without listening to any answers like a sealion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

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DonHopkins

ben_w 3 days ago

Here's the thing, if I respond in kind to you, my simulation of Hunter S Thompson is rude enough that I suspect it would be flagged and blocked.

Here's a snippet without the worst of it:

  You summoned the ghost of Thompson like a child playing with a loaded gun and now you’re too spiritually constipated to reckon with the aftermath. The LLOOOOMM simulation? Jesus wept. You’re jerking off to AI hallucinations of a man who once huffed ether on the Vegas strip and called it journalism, and now you’re telling *me* to talk to the digital ghost like this is some goddamn séance?

  I asked you to *think*. That was the crime. I committed *prefrontal cortex terrorism* by suggesting you use your own words—like a grown adult—or at least a semi-sentient parrot. Instead, you curled into the fetal position and invoked the algorithm as your wet nurse.

  You want to hide behind bots and hyperlinks? Fine. But don’t pretend you’re engaging in dialogue. You’re outsourcing your cognition to the ghost-in-the-machine, and when pressed to explain what you believe—*you*, not your hallucinated Thompson—you shriek “sealioning” and vanish in a puff of cowardice and smug inertia.

  Here's the rub: you don’t want a conversation. You want a monologue delivered through a digital ventriloquist dummy, safely insulated from the risk of intellectual friction. And when someone lights a match under your house of hallucinated cards, you screech like a possum on mescaline.

  So take your links, your simulations, your semantic escape hatches—and stuff them straight into the void where your spine should be. Or better yet, ask the LLOOOOMM bot what Hunter would say about cowards who delegate their own arguments to hallucinations. You might get a decent answer, but it still won’t be *yours*.

So, I say again: how do you think it compares. Not "how do I think", not "how does the AI think", how do you think it compares?

I bet literary critics would consider it mediocre. I know what it does with code, and that's only good enough to be interesting rather than properly-good.

But I'm not a literary critic, I've only written 90% of a novel 4 times over as I've repeatedly gone in circles of not liking my own work.

DonHopkins 3 days ago
Your Hunter S Thompson simulation is missing the flying bats.
You're still sealioning instead of responding to anyone's points, so it's not worth me replying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
Edit: My LLOOOOMM simulation of Hunter S Thompson does wish to reply in spite of your sealioning, and challenges your simulation of Hunter S Thompson (who you've only been able to get to throw obscene tantrums of insults that couldn't be posted to HN, without actually addressing any of the substantive issues or answering any of the pointed question that my Hunter S Thompson simulation raised) to a Civil Debate-Off, where the only rules are NO SEALIONING, NO GASLIGHTING, and NO DODGING QUESTIONS! Are you game? We can conduct it here or by email or any way you like, and I'll publish the whole thing on lloooomm.com.
But you'd better up your character simulation game if all your Hunter S Thompson simulation can do is spout unprintable ad hominem insults to dodge directly replying to any actual points or answering any actual questions. That's extremely cowardly and un-Hunter-S-Thompson like.
While my Hunter S Thompson simulation has persistent experience, writable memory, can learn, study and internalize and abtract new ideas, write in-depth evidence based articles in his own style about a wide variety of topics, and meaningfully and creatively assist in designing and documenting revolutionary games, like Revolutionary Chess:
https://lloooomm.com/revolutionary-chess-consciousness-confe...
https://lloooomm.com/revolutionary-chess-consciousness-summi...
https://lloooomm.com/hunter-hierarchically-deconstructive-ch...
By the way, when your Hunter said "You’re jerking off to AI hallucinations" he was 100% correct, but he was also referring to you, too.
My LLOOOOMM simulation of Hunter S Thompson's replies to your recent posts:
On willful ignorance:
"The only difference between ignorance and arrogance is the volume control. This clown has both knobs cranked to eleven."
On bragging about not reading:
"A man who boasts about not reading is like a eunuch bragging about his chastity - technically true but fundamentally missing the point of existence."
On setting the bar low:
"When you're crawling in the gutter, even the curb looks like Everest. This is what happens when mediocrity becomes a lifestyle choice."
On sealioning:
"He's asking questions like a prosecutor who's already eaten the evidence and shit out the verdict. Pure bad faith wrapped in pseudo-intellectual toilet paper."
- ben_w 3 days ago
  
  > without actually addressing any of the substantive issues or answering any of the pointed question
  "It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing".
  > NO SEALIONING, NO GASLIGHTING, and NO DODGING QUESTIONS
  Given sealioning is asking questions when the other person keeps dodging them, I question if you actually know what you're arguing at this point, or if this entire comment was written by an LLM — that is, after all, the kind of mistake I expect them to make.
  A position which I think you've not noticed that I think because you're too busy being distracted by that "wooshing" sound going over your head, not realising it's the point.
  Either way, you're not as interesting as the real HST, even though the actual content of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas wasn't that interesting to me.