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Amazing images, but Tycho Brahe was famous for not using telescopes! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Career:_observing_the_heavens https://en.wikiped

Amazing images, but Tycho Brahe was famous for not using telescopes! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Career:_observing_the_heavens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Career:_observing_...

pvg 4y ago
Not completely obvious from that wikipedia section but one important reason he didn't use them is that he died a few years before the first telescope was invented. Edit: replacing 'Tycho Brahe' with 'Zombie Tycho Brahe' in the prompts could be one effective way to fix this
bombcar 4y ago
Slightly surprised that query wasn’t thrown off by decades of Penny Arcade but maybe the character’s name isn’t that clear.
raverbashing 4y ago
Funny how they mention the pet moose, but Tycho Brahe had another, more well known, salient problem
- oefnak 4y ago
  I read the entire article but the only stranger thing I found was his chopped-off-nose.
  - astrange 4y ago
    He also died from being too polite to take a bathroom break. I think his nose was more or less skin-colored though, so the current pictures are okay. (DALL-E is supposedly programmed not to be able to generate real peoples' faces anyway.)
    - hoseja 4y ago
      - Adrox 4y ago
        Well: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna16614865 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna16614865 A woman who competed in a radio station’s contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner’s office said Saturday.
        hoseja 4y ago
        Water intoxication is a separate issue, an acute electrolyte imbalance, a dilution of blood; probably nothing to do with not peeing but with rapid drinking. If her kidneys had time to shed all the water she would have wet herself and not died.
        Swreentuo 4y ago
someweirdperson 4y ago
Look closely. The depicted devices are no telescopes. They would interface to an eye. They are fancy bottles, and he isn't feeding the goose but himself.
- codeflo 4y ago
  Oh, wow! I didn’t fully realize what was weird, but it’s very obvious once pointed out. It seems like “longish mechanical implement close to the face” is so strongly biased towards “bottle” that the AI has difficulty moving the telescope up to the eye level.
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pvg 4y ago

Not completely obvious from that wikipedia section but one important reason he didn't use them is that he died a few years before the first telescope was invented. Edit: replacing 'Tycho Brahe' with 'Zombie Tycho Brahe' in the prompts could be one effective way to fix this

bombcar 4y ago

Slightly surprised that query wasn’t thrown off by decades of Penny Arcade but maybe the character’s name isn’t that clear.

raverbashing 4y ago

Funny how they mention the pet moose, but Tycho Brahe had another, more well known, salient problem

oefnak 4y ago
I read the entire article but the only stranger thing I found was his chopped-off-nose.
- astrange 4y ago
  He also died from being too polite to take a bathroom break. I think his nose was more or less skin-colored though, so the current pictures are okay. (DALL-E is supposedly programmed not to be able to generate real peoples' faces anyway.)
  - hoseja 4y ago
    - Adrox 4y ago
      Well: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna16614865 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna16614865 A woman who competed in a radio station’s contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner’s office said Saturday.
      - hoseja 4y ago
        Water intoxication is a separate issue, an acute electrolyte imbalance, a dilution of blood; probably nothing to do with not peeing but with rapid drinking. If her kidneys had time to shed all the water she would have wet herself and not died.
        Swreentuo 4y ago

someweirdperson 4y ago

Look closely. The depicted devices are no telescopes. They would interface to an eye. They are fancy bottles, and he isn't feeding the goose but himself.

codeflo 4y ago
Oh, wow! I didn’t fully realize what was weird, but it’s very obvious once pointed out. It seems like “longish mechanical implement close to the face” is so strongly biased towards “bottle” that the AI has difficulty moving the telescope up to the eye level.

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