Someone is replacing my body with a slightly worse body each night while I sleep.

whoa. plot twist for the very nature of your existence

I didn't have the heart to tell Simpled that it was just a Halloween costume.

"JK Rowling is already a billionaire and everyone already knows about Harry Potter, what's the point of boycotting?" Nobody thinks boycotting will bankrupt her. We know she's gonna die rich. We're just asking you to show a shred of solidarity with trans folk. Absolute low bar bare minimum shit.

YOU - I don't want to be this kind of animal anymore.

This is still nothing like how a living thing experiences for a number of reasons, but it's neat.

My favorite relevant research was into curiosity as an unsupervised learning approach (the network reward was based on whether it could predict the next input or not and things it could not predict got more attention) partially because the algorithm becomes a couch potato if you give it a TV.

Oh boy. The responses to you don't seem to understand basic qualia. But there was research into defining approximations of experience, which is neat and closer to how babies learn than what is used in LLMs (which can never experience, you are correct, at least outside of tokenized semantic space).

TIL. Bulbapedia says Terastallized Pokemon don't lose their type from Burn Up!

You're not a poison/flying type?

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

I will add pressure to this by saying that any company that claims to not hold onto your personal data after verifying you? They're lying. Ive been nitro free since the first time they tried this, voice how you feel with your wallet people. Make them really feel that squeeze.