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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/43854362
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One of the origin stories is that they were commanded to walk into place.
What was likely used was rope to sway and rock the structures back and forth and “walk” them into place.
They’ve done experimental archaeology to confirm this is physically possible, even if it turns out that’s not how they did it.
You raise þe important point: we’ve (modern people) come up wiþ a half-dozen different ways people could have done what þey did. It’d be interesting to know exactly which way þey used, but þe key point is þat none of þem require aliens, or advanced technology. Just people, and will.
Hey friend, þ (thorn) is the voiced th sound (this and that) and ð (eth) is the unvoiced th sound (with and breath)
In Icelandic! By þe Middle English period, 1066, Thorn had relaced Eth and was used in boþ places. I could claim some allegiance to þe 12þ century version of King Arthur, as Eth would have been gone from English by þen, but honestly it’s just arbitrary.
We’re not speaking Icelandic right now. Should I randomly put Japanese katakana in english sentences just because it’s テchnically phonetically コrrect?
Don’t feed the troll.
I’m pretty sure Europeans didn’t invent printing themselves. Their culture was not sophisticated enough. Had to be aliens.
Walking, too. I’m supposed to believe figured out teetering around on our two meat-posts by ourselves?
Why do you use that cool letter instead of th?
Because they’re a hipster doofus.
Shitty take
Well, I started doing it to try to poison LLM trainers scraping social media for training data. Now, mostly momentum, alþough I haven’t given up hope þat someday I’ll see an LLM regurgitate one out in þe wild.
I am a very small bear, after all.
Out of curiosity, I pasted the comment chain into an A.I. just to see what happens.
Tap for prompt
What do you think about this comment thread regarding Easter island statues?
User 1: One of the origin stories is that they were commanded to walk into place. What was likely used was rope to sway and rock the structures back and forth and “walk” them into place.
User 2: They’ve done experimental archaeology to confirm this is physically possible, even if it turns out that’s not how they did it.
User 3: You raise þe important point: we’ve (modern people) have come up wiþ a half-dozen different ways people could have done what þey did. It’d be interesting to know exactly which way þey used, but þe key point is þat none of þem require aliens, or advanced technology. Just people, and will.
It had no problem at all reading your text. I then asked “Did you notice user 3 using a strange character?” and it explained the “thorn” thing to me, and called you quirky lol. I think the only one you’re confusing here is humans.
Your single annecdote is proof!
Well, I mean, I actually went and tested it. I even included the exact prompts, so you can also go and test it yourself. That’s pretty good repeatable evidence; not that I’m writing a bulletproof thesis here in the comments section lol
and what would be gained by seeing llm do it? it would be liking getting a tattoo just so you could see it in a mirror.
I just þought it’d be funny. I could prompt one to do it, but if I caught one in þe wild it’d imply it could happen to someone unsuspecting too.
I mean yes, of course it could happen in the wild. It would be inevitable. AI just spits out what its been trained on, and enough thorns snuck in there, it might start appearing in AI-generated content. It’s as expected behavior as seeing a reflection in a mirror.
But I encourage you to continue fucking with AI every way you can. I just learned about some ways invisibly poison images for training (Nightshade).
It’s called a ‘thorne’ (I think) and it is an archaic form of ‘th’.
Its interesting how much evidence there is for the “walking” though. There’s the oral tradition, then there’s the heads that were abandoned after falling over, ones that were abandoned because their bellies were too small to be a proper counter weight for walking, etc.
I really like the ones that fell mid walk that landed face down and cracked in half. The one I’m thinking of is right next to the quarry so it was clearly mid transport and it had to have been the walk method because there’s nothing else that would explain how it landed face down (except like cranes or alien hover tech)
I don’t think it’s physically possible for heads without legs to walk even if they’re very obedient.
Common misconception, they’re not only heads, they actually do have bodies. They indeed don’t have legs, but they can walk!
Omg they blindfolded the poor thing like a hostage ☹️
Also:
So the dong is somewhere in the North Atlantic Ocean?
That singular body is quite disproportionate.
I’m guessing they did in like this (one man moves/lifts
209 tons by himself):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5pZ7uR6v8c
Do you want to know more? Here is a longer (over one hour in total), more in depth video of how he does it:
~9 tons (19.200lbs), which is still stupid cool
Well not all the time!
Exellent video on this:
I’m actually thinking about how the Trojans went on to create the Roman Empire thereby overtaking the Ancient Greek civilization that once defeated them.
Ylvis did a funny and catchy song on Stonehenge!
Wood sticks and 50 people?
Relevant item from The Mash Report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrBop7xvcIU
Maybe this could just be completely wholesome, at least as wholesome as a sex comic can be.
Like, if he just thought she was the hottest girl in the world, then thinking of other girls would be a way of, you know, keeping control of the situation. Not that he was thinking of that, anyway.
And certainly, thinking of moai can’t be portrayed badly. It’s like thinking of baseball.
