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upvoteby JimboOmega19 hours ago|
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(This is a total digression, so apologies)

My mind instantly answered that with "bright", which is what you get when you combine the sun and moon radicals to make 明(https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%98%8E)

Anyway, that question is not without reasonable answers. "Full Moon" might make sense too. No obvious deterministic answer, though, naturally.

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upvoteby butlike2 hours ago|
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You could play Infinite Craft and find out what the game thinks it is: https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/

Edit: Spoiler -

It's 'Eclipse'

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upvoteby cgriswald3 hours ago|
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In the game Clair Obscur sun plus moon equals twilight.
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upvoteby awesome_dude17 hours ago|
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FTR the Full Moon was exactly 5 hours ago (It's not without humour that this conversation occurs on the day of the full moon :)
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upvoteby 16 hours ago|
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upvoteby CrispinS18 hours ago|
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> What's moon plus sun?

Eclipse, obviously.

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upvoteby christophilus18 hours ago|
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That’s sun minus moon. Moon plus sun is a wildly more massive, nuclear furnace of a moon that also engulfs the earth.
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upvoteby SauntSolaire14 hours ago|
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Reminds me of this AI word combination game recently shared on HN, with almost exactly these mechanics:

https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/

For the record, Sun+Moon is indeed eclipse.

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upvoteby fsckboy15 hours ago|
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>Moon plus sun is a wildly more massive, nuclear furnace of a moon that also engulfs the earth.

i just looked up mass of sun vs mass of moon (they differ by 10^30 vs 10^20), and the elemental composition of the sun: the moon would entirely disappear into the insignificant digits of trace elements which are in the range of .01 % of the sun. I could be off by orders of magnitude all over the place and it would still disappear.

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upvoteby spacedcowboy5 hours ago|
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Not sure about that. You can't have an eclipse without both the moon and the sun. Ergo, the eclipse is the totality (sorry!) of the sun and moon, or sun+moon (+very specific boundary conditions).

Still think it was a good response :)

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upvoteby mcny17 hours ago|
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Wait so moon plus sun != sun plus moon? :Thinking:
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upvoteby chii15 hours ago|
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celestial objects don't need to obey algebraic commutativity!
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upvoteby direwolf2010 hours ago|
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I wonder if SCP-1313 does
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upvoteby dcrazy17 hours ago|
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This thread reminds me of Scribblenauts, the game where you conjure objects to solve puzzles by describing them. I suspect it was an inspiration for Baba Is You.
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upvoteby Der_Einzige17 hours ago|
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Scribblenauts was also an early precursor to modern GenAI/word embeddings. I constantly bring it up in discussions of the history of AI for this reason.
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upvoteby veqq15 hours ago|
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Could you explain? :3
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upvoteby lkjdsklf15 hours ago|
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Here i was, like an idiot, thinking it was moon light
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upvoteby tessierashpool98 hours ago|
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but then eclipse + moon = sun, which doesn't make much sense either :/
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upvoteby AuryGlenz16 hours ago|
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Or potentially a sun that lasts slightly longer?
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upvoteby nkrisc6 hours ago|
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The set of celestial objects visible to the naked eye during the day.
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upvoteby geuis18 hours ago|
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Not obvious. Astronomers are actively looking for signatures of exomoons around exoplanets. So "sun plus moon" could mean that too.
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upvoteby xattt18 hours ago|
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The OP said moon + sun, rather than sun + moon. We have no idea yet if celestial math is non-communicative.
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upvoteby BenjiWiebe16 hours ago|
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*commutative
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upvoteby tbrownaw16 hours ago|
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Well, that too.
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upvoteby godelski14 hours ago|
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Well you find the signature by looking for a dip in but sun's luminosity. So minus might be the better relationship here
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upvoteby jraph11 hours ago|
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Moon plus sun would be sun because the sun would be an absorbing element.
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upvoteby acka11 hours ago|
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Moon implies there is a planet the moon is orbiting. So unless the planet and its moon are too close to the sun the long term result could also be: solar system.
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upvoteby jraph11 hours ago|
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This goes to show how that plus operation is awfully defined.
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upvoteby speed_spread8 hours ago|
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That's operator overloading for you.
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upvoteby IsTom10 hours ago|
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INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER.
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upvoteby idk112 hours ago|
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As an aside, one of my very nice family members like tarot card reading, and I think you'd get an extremely different answer for - "What's moon plus sun?" - something like I would guess as they're opposites - "Mixed signals or insecurity get resolved by openness and real communication." - It's kind of fascinating, the range of answers to that question. As a couple of other people have mentioned, it could mean loads of things. I thought I'd add one in there.

I'll just add that if you think this advice applies to you, it's the - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect

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upvoteby layer86 hours ago|
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> Almost as hilarious as asking "What's moon plus sun?"

It’s a reasonable Tarot question.

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upvoteby TimByte6 hours ago|
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The scary part isn't "LLMs doing sums." It's that the same deterministic model, same weights, same prompt, same OS, produces different floating-point tensors on different devices
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upvoteby nonoesp10 hours ago|
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> What's moon plus sun?

"Monsoon," says ChatGPT.

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upvoteby embedding-shape9 hours ago|
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"moonsun" says JavaScript, 1-0 to JS I'd say.
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upvoteby fatheranton19 hours ago|
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