The Secret Service did want a sarcasm detector.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/secret-service-wants-a-sarcasm...
Like an AI Could Ever Spot Sarcasm
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fair enough, I edited the comment I posted there to take out the sarcasm and just kept the note on how to make the page readable. OK now?
Put it back in. We love sarcasm!
OK, chief! I even stepped it up and called it "scrawny text" for good measure.
I am like a politician waffling and flip-flopping as the polling winds blow to and fro.
Hmm... Chicken and waffles sounds pretty good right now!
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#43> That was especially true for tweets that include numbers; their accuracy rate of 80 percent more than triples previous efforts. Which is to say that previous efforts had only half of the true positives a random number generator would have had. Neat.
Sounds like previous efforts might even have been outperformed by a naive algorithm that purely looked for one word sentences like "right", "totally" and "neat" :-)
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#44Yes, this is exactly what we need.
"Why stop now just when I’m hating it?" - Marvin the paranoid android
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#45Like a human being could ever read that text. If you're having as much trouble reading it as I was, open the developer tools and on the body style, remove "DINPro" from the font-family, turn off the font-weight: 300 or change it to 400, and increase the font-size to 16px or whatever size you like. If the AIs ever do take over, my one request is that they use plenty of sarcasm when they talk about designers who think…
It actually looks quite nice in Firefox, it is hard to read in Chrome though. Maybe they have the one last web design team that primarily tests in FF? :D
awful on mobile safari. and then if you zoom in to read it, a line no longer fits on the screen
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#46Like a human being could ever read that text. If you're having as much trouble reading it as I was, open the developer tools and on the body style, remove "DINPro" from the font-family, turn off the font-weight: 300 or change it to 400, and increase the font-size to 16px or whatever size you like. If the AIs ever do take over, my one request is that they use plenty of sarcasm when they talk about designers who think…
I find reader mode to be easier than modifying CSS, and it's built in to all major browsers (except desktop Chrome, funnily enough...)
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#47Sarcasm is a great tool. But there are a couple of people I know who never turn off their "Sarcastic tone", and it becomes impossible to tell what's genuine and what's bullshit. I try to tell them that their noise-to-signal ratio is bad, but they um... react defensively.
The key thing about using sarcasm is that you should never direct it at someone you're talking to. Doing that is a great way to make someone instantly dislike you.
Sarcasm as a form of humor is too easy to do. You don't have to be clever. You just have to look down on someone/something and then caricature it. Whoever does that too much just seems unlikable.
When you're actually clever or subtle about it, people tend to enjoy the twist that makes the joke.
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#48The point of sarcasm is to hide your true intent except for people who are sufficiently aligned with you to be able to decode it correctly.
If computers can decode sarcasm then it is not effective. Then sarcasm will evolve.
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#49Like a human being could ever read that text. If you're having as much trouble reading it as I was, open the developer tools and on the body style, remove "DINPro" from the font-family, turn off the font-weight: 300 or change it to 400, and increase the font-size to 16px or whatever size you like. If the AIs ever do take over, my one request is that they use plenty of sarcasm when they talk about designers who think…
I find reader mode to be easier than modifying CSS, and it's built in to all major browsers (except desktop Chrome, funnily enough...)
So that's what the Luxo lamp in my Chrome toolbar is for! (I have the Evernote extension installed in Chrome, and it includes Clearly as well.)
It's funny, I've hardly ever used that thing. Like a dummy I forget it's there, and instead I go in and hack the CSS (mostly removing styles) and then post sarcastic comments about it.
But you're right, I just clicked the Luxo lamp and the whole page became perfectly readable.
And then I dragged the Luxo lamp over to the left where my most-used extensions are, so I'll remember it next time.
Thanks for the tip!
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#50If humans can’t identify sarcasm, why would you expect AI to? It’s like expecting AI to read handwriting, when people can’t even do that 100% of the time.
People didn’t expect to be humbled by a machine at the game of Go either. Yet here we are.