The sneering and nihilist tone is very off putting. But not nearly as much as the boomer brained conception of the world's information model pre 2004, which was not nearly as good as those who invoke Murrow and Cronkite believe it was.
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#12Can someone give me a deeper understanding of what this post means or the backstory behind it?
McSweeney's is a satirical website, at the intellectual level the New Yorker cartoons aspire to, except that it's sometimes funny.
If you need context on why "Wikipedia" would write a smug letter taunting the world's experts and teachers on their predictions of it have aged, ... HN presumably has a limit on the text in a single post, so just read the entire intenet or something.
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#14The sneering and nihilist tone is very off putting. But not nearly as much as the boomer brained conception of the world's information model pre 2004, which was not nearly as good as those who invoke Murrow and Cronkite believe it was.
> The sneering and nihilist tone is very off putting
You don't seem to be familiar with McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Fair enough, it's not to everyone's taste and doesn't try to be.
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#15Especially relevant today with the release of grokipedia
It’s so good. I spent 2 hours reading articles on there last night and the consistency was excellent, although a little verbose at times.
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#17Especially relevant today with the release of grokipedia
oh...no.
I thought this was a joke, but I googled it and it's not.
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#18What is there to apologize for, what do you think LLMs use for cheating?
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#20What is there to apologize for, what do you think LLMs use for cheating?
"Cheating" is not something LLMs do, LLMs are something a human could use for cheating. But what's your point?