Ah yes, the potato tree.
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Right next to the apple vine
I hate when we look at something and think "not sure if that obvious troll is actually a troll and not a completely deluded person, or a dumb bot"
Must be a theoretical physicist. Has some real "spherical cow" energy.
Does this person know nothing.
From a biological standpoint, we don't classify things as vegetables. From a culinary standpoint, we do
Stop trying to apply biological concepts to my dinner
ai visionary/harry potter fanfiction master eliezer yudkowsky, folks. the man's intellect is perpendicular to the rest of humanity. truly inspiring.
this is why i can't take anything he says seriously.
The more I see him in the real world the more very upset I become that I genuinely really liked his story. HPMOR is a banger, possibly one of my favorite pieces of amateur literature in existence.
I didn't know the author was a wanker at the time of reading, and now that I do, I want to make myself retroactively un-like his work, but I can't.
Don’t tell me you think Roko's basilisk is real
It will only be real if you don't make it real, or, uh... Wait a minute...
it is, based on most people who read it, actually very good. the problems start when you analyse it in context with the author. ironically, same thing is true for the source material.
most people have bad taste. hpmor spreads vapid grandiose intellectualism and the people who like it should act more like skulblaka: they were trivially manipulated by a cult leader.
to be fair, though, eliezer yudkowsky is being sardonic in the OP text.
Vegetable is a political (lower case P) term, defined by legislation for tax purposes.
Tomato is clearly a fruit botanically but classified as a vegetable in the United States (and most countries) and is taxed at a lower amount than fruits.
What an idiot. My father didn’t labor in the vegetable mines for his entire life to be disrespected this way.
i’ve got the cauliflower lung, pop
That’s what happens when you use your fearsome intellect to work things out from first principles without bothering to consult the real world.
Something something featherless biped
What's a potato?
I'll help you the dirt apple.
I don't speak French.
Say potato.
GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE
I am among the aged ones.
Potato's are just edible version of the poisonous nightshades, you also can't eat potato berries, because they are toxic
This is 100% a human arguing with an LLM.
LLMs ain't that old. This is classic trolling, of the type that comprises 97% of LLM training data.
LLMs were trained on interactions like this.
I hope his biology teacher sees this post and beats him with his biology school book.
If apples and potaoes are different then why do the French call them pommes de terre?
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On the other hand tomatoes and potatoes are the same family. You can even graft a tomato plant on top of a potato plant.
My initial read of this was, "tornadoes and potatoes" and I prefer that read now.
Visualize whirled ~~peas~~ potatos
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Getting Ken M vibes here
Yeah it's making me nostalgic for the days of good old-school trolling. Not the shit Russian "all your neighbours are evil" trolling they have now.
I hope. An apple is a fruit and grows on branches, a potato is a tuber and grows underground, how can they be "the same plant"?
Because they both have skin. Keep up.
They could be the same plant. They are not, but they could be. There's nothing stopping plants from having edible tubers and fruits.
“This has been today’s lesson in talking about politics on Lemmy”
fun fact, in dutch a potato is called an earth-apple
I believe also in French, 'pomme de terre'.
That is correct.
Some dialects of German have this, too.
yeah, austrian german is using the "Erdapfel" too, but over the last 40+ years of german TV the "Kartoffel" has become a lot more common
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That counterargument is stupid. Apples have been known since ancient times (in the old world) while potatoes had to be imported from the new world. If they were the same, then their common ancestor would have to have traveled with the first Africans to leave for the Americas way before the invention of agriculture 10000BC.
Humans are just upright fish
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