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Play chess via Slack DMs or SMS using an ASCII board
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#13It would be cool to encode the chess board state and turn into the URL so you could hurl urls back and forth over slack to play chess just by clicking on it
but there's something charming about the ascii art over slack in this project that would miss
Re: Play chess via Slack DMs or SMS using an ASCII board
#14It would be cool to encode the chess board state and turn into the URL so you could hurl urls back and forth over slack to play chess just by clicking on it but there's something charming about the ascii art over slack in this project that would miss
this is the way to go!
making a move should automatically copy the new url to your clipboard. you can still keep the ascii charm by server side rendering the ascii chess board as an og description.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's LLMs. You can tell from the phrasing ("no X just Y", "isn't A it's B", "pure ___"), and because all of the sections except Screenshots say basically the same thing. A competent person would not write it like this and an incompetent person would not be this meticulous about grammar and formatting. I realize this sounds exactly like "I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time"…
I wonder where LLMs got this style from, since, while you did see something like it, it wasn’t nearly as widespread before the rise of ChatGPT, so not the most statistically likely form for these to be generated in. Was it trained into them in the supervised or reinforcement phases? Has it emerged from prompts extorting them to be friendly, somehow sneaking in from text message training as a result? Is it now in a se…
As far as I know, it was trained in because people preferred it in A/B testing
Re: Play chess via Slack DMs or SMS using an ASCII board
#16It would be cool to encode the chess board state and turn into the URL so you could hurl urls back and forth over slack to play chess just by clicking on it but there's something charming about the ascii art over slack in this project that would miss
this is the way to go! making a move should automatically copy the new url to your clipboard. you can still keep the ascii charm by server side rendering the ascii chess board as an og description.
made a non-ascii of this where nice og images of the board are generated!
Re: Play chess via Slack DMs or SMS using an ASCII board
#17Sometimes the best software is no software. You can do this without some emojified github readme, the text editor your messenger uses will be just fine. (If you're not a beginner it's probably fine to just use "algebraic" notation anyway.)
I thought it was just me disliking this types of readmes. Is this aislop or are people actually wasting time to paste all those emojis everywhere? It is like we are going back to hieroglyphs -- I swear if I see another rocket launch...
It's mostly AI slop, but they did exist before AI (and they were miserable back then too)
Re: Play chess via Slack DMs or SMS using an ASCII board
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's LLMs. You can tell from the phrasing ("no X just Y", "isn't A it's B", "pure ___"), and because all of the sections except Screenshots say basically the same thing. A competent person would not write it like this and an incompetent person would not be this meticulous about grammar and formatting. I realize this sounds exactly like "I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time"…
I wonder where LLMs got this style from, since, while you did see something like it, it wasn’t nearly as widespread before the rise of ChatGPT, so not the most statistically likely form for these to be generated in. Was it trained into them in the supervised or reinforcement phases? Has it emerged from prompts extorting them to be friendly, somehow sneaking in from text message training as a result? Is it now in a se…
Private chats maybe?
Re: Play chess via Slack DMs or SMS using an ASCII board
#19I used to play chess over email that way, back in 1994, using a plugin for the Thor email client on Amiga
Great times. I remember playing something like this on a telnet server on '96, I think they are still some servers running today: https://www.freechess.org/Help/HelpFiles/addresses.html