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Don't Make Me Think

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19 pointsAmezarak13 comments

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

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.

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.

"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!

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.

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

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!

It's so unreadable, it's upsetting

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

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.

This website is broken, not just the emoji

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?

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.

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