Fuck AI

Finally a healthy way of tasting wine! /s

I used to say this about social media when everyone was going off about Critical Race Theory and saying all these "gotchas" that were addressed in the book: Just read the book. Don't listen to random people to tell you how to think, just read it and form an opinion. If the entire thought process could be summarized in a tweet, then author would've done that. It's a book because you need that much information to understand it.

Not looking good for us all.

Finding sources is part of the research process btw.

As a poor person in the US, I treat Geoguessr like a virtual street tour around random parts of the world. Actually traveling would be nice, but seeing real life on street view is fascinating in its own way.

VR does kind of scratch this itch a bit. I've done flyovers/360 tours of places I've lived and visited and its certainly more immersive than photos.

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War and Peace is funny.

Almost a thousand? (idk i read it in high school) pages about how Great Man theory is bunk, the individual doesn’t matter, but we get drawn into the drama of individuals for the entire bulk of the thing.

Ivan Illych is the better of his work.

Yes, but you see, now they can "read" the outline, and end up with just enough memory of it to reference the work in a condescendingly authoritative opinion about it.

This guy made a joke that reads identically to the kinds of things people have been saying without a hint of humour since the ignoble days of Reader's Digest Condensed Books up to, yes, people saying almost exactly the same thing as he said here and people took him at face value. This is despite knowing that Poe's Law is a thing.

How terrible.

Generally if people don't "get" your joke, there's one of two things likely happening:

1. Your joke wasn't funny.
2. This was a Schrodinger's Joke: serious until someone says something bad about it after which it becomes "Gosh, all y'all just can't take a joke!"

I remember studying a Broadway play for drama class in middle school, and the original plan was to go watch it alongside our studying of it. However, 9/11 had just happened, and the idea of going to New York City at that time scared enough parents that the fieldtrip was cancelled.

The teacher lamented that we weren't going to get the full, proper experience of the play without seeing it performed live. Even reading it in a classroom was considered a low bar.

And now, here we are, expecting AI to summarize a script, a script which already fails to capture everything the play would've provided.

We're making copies of copies, and nobody's refilling the toner.

I think thats the whole thing people love about AI, it was the same with the expensive pictures. Tech lads thinking they were early with the secret sauce no one had found. The boys just wanna feel like they are the smart ones for once.

There's so many movies I get recommended which are just awful. Reading the Wikipedia entry and plot is often all I need to understand if it's worth it or not.

I always discover that one or two episodes in. It's always that it's a good idea executed poorly.
The fan wiki is great when you just want more of the idea but to skip the cruddy details.

The best part is that they don't even need to be real books! Here's one from DeepSeek: "The book 'Lunar Employment for Undergraduates' by Kurt Langer offers practical advice and strategies for finding employment after completing undergraduate studies in Southern Africa."

No thanks. I'd rather feed a robot and have it vomit into my mouth.

to kill a mockingbird: a book about justice properly administered in the american deep south.

We are flirting with Poe's Law, yes. But I have seen people express similar thoughts in dead earnestness dating as far back as Reader's Digest condensed books, so for decades people have been looking for shortcuts to comprehension of art.

OP, LLMs don't "know" shit. When they say something that conforms to a preexisting bias of yours, that's nothing. That should affect the strength of your argument in no capacity. It's not a knowledge base; it's a transformer model that exists to tell you what you're most likely to want to hear given what's come before.

The part of the anti-AI crowd who denounce rampant, uncritical use of LLMs but who also shit their pants and clap every time an LLM says something against LLMs tells me they don't have even a bare minimum understanding of machine learning or of cognitive biases like confirmation bias.

(Your link results in an internal runtime error btw.)