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William Whitaker's Words [1] is the best resource I've ever come across for this. 'Fulgere' is 'to shine' [2]. [1] https://latin-words.com [2] https://latin-words.com/word/latin/fu…

> ...attracting the attention of many players, including the president of the United States. Donald Trump’s sons are collaborating with the family of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutn…

Art requires intentionality, and this is most clear in long-form fiction. Without guiding intention, you can't have consistent characters, or satisfying plots, or meaningful themes…

That's what I'm saying; even the 'trashiest' of human literature is an awful lot more sophisticated than AI madlibs.

You're underselling those books and overselling AI; people have tried generating romantasy and power fantasies, and it's very obvious that it's not up to par. People want tropes, s…

> There will come a time, very soon, where you wont be able to tell the difference, and what then? People have been saying this for a while, and--particularly with long-form fictio…

There's a continual push from AI enthusiasts to have their work considered equal (or superior) to human output. While that continues, you'll get response articles.

There are bad teachers, sure. There are also bad students who think that the issue was that they weren't being taught when it was actually that they weren't trying to learn.

> I hated the question of teachers asking: "What does the author wanted to tell us with this story." Because -> The author never wrote that down. And deriving their intentions from…

No one is stopping you doing that, but you probably aren't someone who should go dominate discussion in a hobbyist arts group.

I'm not disputing that it's a hard thing to do, but we had decompilers before; "miracle" is rather stretching it. Even granting that framing though, the claimed increase in product…

I'm pleased for you, but these tools have been out for many, many weeks, and there are many, many people claiming incredible productivity gains. Where's the rest of it?

> if you're not seeing dramatic change, I suspect you're not looking If the people claiming that everything has changed were even a fraction as productive as they think, then it wo…

> Rationality isn't some sort of absolute parameter, it's determined wrt available information The available information is very clear that cellphone towers are not mind control an…

You aren't minding your own business (or, apparently, reading replies carefully). If you were minding your own business, then this petty spite > If this upsets you, I like it even …

This is an example of the same problem as the article; you're treating trust as entirely unrelated to reality. It can get out-of-step, but that's not the only possibility, and it's…

People are upset for lots of reasons, but that's not actually important for this discussion, which is about the fact that your support for AI is apparently conditional on them bein…

The article is interesting, but I think it dances around what should be a central point, only approaching it obliquely. A lot of the opposition to data centers isn't about specific…

Nonsense. You were very clear. I wouldn't have any problem with you being interested in this tech if it wasn't driven by spite. Lots of people manage this. But you said > After rea…

Please take this as a sincere comment, rather than an attack: what you're describing is much more likely to be a problem you need to work on, than an issue with humanity as a whole…

> I don't think anyone who has spent any time around me would describe me as having anything but a pretty clear-eyed view of the current abilities of LLMs You are literally arguing…

How many maths problems does one have to solve before becoming god?

I do think it's significant that the supporters of this kind of technology seem to be unusually spiteful. This doesn't happen with all tech; people who like VR don't like it becaus…

The LessWrong/"rationality" crowd aren't compromising their values; they just have bad values that lead to negative outcomes, masked by high-minded rhetoric that they themselves on…

> Anyone who has used Fable for anything particularly difficult will have seen that it's miles ahead of Opus 5.0, yet the majority of benchmarks are completely unable to capture th…