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This is one of those great moments where I read an article and find an author. Kim Samek has another article here: https://catapult.co/stories/egg-mother-kim-samek-short-story It takes some work, but there’s something about this author’s voice. I’m a big fan. If anyone is familiar with this author, I would truly appreciate more links/information/etc.
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It's very intentional. Great writing leaves gaps for the reader to fill with elements and interpretations from their own life. This comment thread makes it clear it worked -- amphetamine users see it as a story about amphetamines. People who care about gender thought it was a gender story. People with social anxiety see it as a story about masking. I watch and read too much sci-fi so interpreted it more literally, th…
> This comment thread makes it clear it worked -- amphetamine users see it as a story about amphetamines. People who care about gender thought it was a gender story. People with social anxiety see it as a story about masking. You're making a lot of assumptions there. Just because people make a guess doesn't mean that guess is based on their own life. And reaching as far as you need to find an interpretation is also s…
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Except in the narrowest sense of "writing" meaning to put words on a page in grammatical order, it can't really be compared to learning to perform a mechanical chore like long division. It's more comparable to learning numeracy. To learn to write is to learn how to structure thoughts in human language, just as to learn math is to learn to structure thoughts in a universal framework built on logic. One could make the…
Sure, basic writing is probably still important, but more nuanced things, for instance, do students really now need to learn the form of an argumentative essay? That is/was a good skill to have. But now or in the future one could say i want an argument essay for why we should build this feature. i'd just get ChatGPT to do it.
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> Honest question–is Michelle a real person the author is recounting events about or is this some kind of literary device? Maybe my brain isn’t working today but I gave up halfway through this without getting it. Its explicitly fiction, so “real” is…perhaps not the right word. I think the story is intended to be read literally as fiction; its a fictional world where “puppeteers” that can somehow temporarily exist wit…
If it were a gender transition story, it reads more like a previous generation where therapists were more inclined to tell people to try to bury themselves in living the life of a person they’re not. And it plays out predictably in that case, in that the person not becoming who they truly are appear to be better than before, until it all comes falling apart. But I don’t think that’s the intent of the story — I think…
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I have not quite stayed tuned in to all the chatGPT comings-and-goings. But examples like this are just stunning. This is just the most incredible cognition "act" ever. It's impressive not just because it's convincing but mainly because the answer is far superior to the answer I'd provide given the same prompt. I am so impressed and so terrified of what will happen when the ne'er-do-wells start using this for whateve…
I suspect that's simply a stock regurgitated PR-speak answer saying nothing with replaced by "puppeteer". I've seen a zillion reponses like this from lazy students (although, to be fair, the grammar is quite a bit better). It should get a "D", but honestly I'd have a hard time throwing that down given the coherence of the grammar. I'd probably have to give it a "C" by comparison to the rest of the class. This why I r…
dude it’s real. and it’s good. and you’re terrible.
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Also a boon. I asked it for a 50 question multiple choice test on Canadian history and it assembled a remarkably good test.
I just tried a quiz of 15 multiple choice questions on New Zealand history, and I asked it to indicate the correct answer. It made a couple of glaring errors, which was disappointing.
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could you slightly break it down for those of us with sleep deprivation from mini-me's in the home?
Here's ChatGPT answering what the word "puppeteer" means in this article: The metaphor of the "puppeteer" in the story could be interpreted in a variety of ways. The author doesn't explicitly state what the puppeteer represents, but given the context of the story and the themes it explores, there are a few possibilities. One interpretation is that the puppeteer represents societal and cultural expectations that dicta…
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Here's ChatGPT answering what the word "puppeteer" means in this article: The metaphor of the "puppeteer" in the story could be interpreted in a variety of ways. The author doesn't explicitly state what the puppeteer represents, but given the context of the story and the themes it explores, there are a few possibilities. One interpretation is that the puppeteer represents societal and cultural expectations that dicta…
I have not quite stayed tuned in to all the chatGPT comings-and-goings. But examples like this are just stunning. This is just the most incredible cognition "act" ever. It's impressive not just because it's convincing but mainly because the answer is far superior to the answer I'd provide given the same prompt. I am so impressed and so terrified of what will happen when the ne'er-do-wells start using this for whateve…
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I just tried a quiz of 15 multiple choice questions on New Zealand history, and I asked it to indicate the correct answer. It made a couple of glaring errors, which was disappointing.
So you’re saying you had to think, and that the AI did not take your job, but possibly alleviated some of the work in it?
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If it were a gender transition story, it reads more like a previous generation where therapists were more inclined to tell people to try to bury themselves in living the life of a person they’re not. And it plays out predictably in that case, in that the person not becoming who they truly are appear to be better than before, until it all comes falling apart. But I don’t think that’s the intent of the story — I think…
A ridiculous presumption, you ARE always. If anything its how you want to be seen by others. Which is fine, we all seek attention, or certain treatment.