“running your texts through the genericizer” - what a lovely way to put it!
Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all
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Re: Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are many possibilities. There are assistive technologies of various levels of quality, there is human assistance, and then there is simply being unable to participate. Chris McCausland says he relies a lot less on others due to AI. It has been quite effective in showing how diversity can influence opinions when he has been on radio programs and offered his perspective. There have been conversations which have s…
That's a recurring thing through Star Trek. Geordi's visor saved a whole civilization once. I'm not actually sure what you're referring to in Discovery despite watching the whole thing.
Geordie's thing was mostly superpower-but-you-look-idiotic.
Discovery was just so ham fisted when they tried to make points and missed massive opportunities when they could have been done organicity because of the situation.
I really thought the first extra plus future season was going to be a comment on colonialism, but no they just turned up, said they were the more civilised ones and y'all should join our new improved federation. The opportunity was just sitting there to show people figuring out their own culture and not appreciating an interloper dictating how their lives should be simply because they have a fancy starship.
Not to mention declaring their ship sentient because it dreams. It just screams 'conform to our expectations of what sentience should be and we will accept you as a person' They portrayed the exact opposite of what they intended.
(sorry for the rant, I was mauled by a Federation as a child)
Re: Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all
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Re: Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's nothing stopping you from doing that with an LLM. I get more insights refining a draft through prompts than I ever did writing because there's more of it. The end stage of that process rarely sees the light of day because the artifact wasn't the point. For writing as thinking with trouble starting from scratch, LLMs are the most important technology to emerge in my lifetime. Microblogging filled that gap in a…
>> you will not have that delightful experience of encountering something unexpected along the way to filling it. > There's nothing stopping you from doing that with an LLM. There may be, though. The LLM's initial output may anchor your thinking in insidious ways that may not be obvious at all especially since you're feeling productive. I bet the lack of confidence around starting would also increase over time every…
Not so far.
I'm not talking about using a default mode LLM with LinkedIn Standard Obsequious Bullshit as a conversational imperative that emerges from simple prompts interacting with the heaviest weights. It pushes back because I told it to and it has redirects around common LLM failure modes, and modes unique to how I use them. That's in a set of instructions I've had a bunch of different models tear apart so I could put it back together better.
I treat it and describe it as a language coprocessor, not a buddy. The instructions are the kernel I boot it with.
Re: Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a recurring thing through Star Trek. Geordi's visor saved a whole civilization once. I'm not actually sure what you're referring to in Discovery despite watching the whole thing.
Geordie's thing was mostly superpower-but-you-look-idiotic. Discovery was just so ham fisted when they tried to make points and missed massive opportunities when they could have been done organicity because of the situation. I really thought the first extra plus future season was going to be a comment on colonialism, but no they just turned up, said they were the more civilised ones and y'all should join our new impr…
That's okay. I see what you mean though. Starfleet Academy has done a decent job addressing that with some issues I hope they'll deal with in season 2.
Re: Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a recurring thing through Star Trek. Geordi's visor saved a whole civilization once. I'm not actually sure what you're referring to in Discovery despite watching the whole thing.
Geordie's thing was mostly superpower-but-you-look-idiotic. Discovery was just so ham fisted when they tried to make points and missed massive opportunities when they could have been done organicity because of the situation. I really thought the first extra plus future season was going to be a comment on colonialism, but no they just turned up, said they were the more civilised ones and y'all should join our new impr…
> Geordie's thing was mostly superpower-but-you-look-idiotic.
I always thought it was one of those banana hair clips, spray painted gold.
As an admirer of low budget creativity, it’s very inspiring. But it still looks ridiculous.
Re: Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all
#107I totally agreed with you. I'm French (nobody is perfect ^^), I'm not so fluent in english and I'm dyslexic, that why I often write my message, then I ask to Claude to translate it in english because i'm feeling I will lose the credibility of my message if there is too much mistake... But you're right, so this message is not translated by LLM :D
It's perfectly fine to run your English text through an LLM if you're not sure about grammar/spelling. That's also how you learn to improve.
Your post is comprehensible but has multiple mistakes and they are a distraction (which is fine in this context, but in other contexts it might hinder communication).
Re: Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all
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> Remember, you're always one misunderstood message away from being fired. If this is true, you really want to be fired. That is a horrendous work environment, and you should quit if at all possible. Most workplaces (any certainly any good workplace) will seek to understand, not fire you immediately.
Blessed are those who haven't worked corproate.
I have worked plenty of corporate jobs; Morgan Stanley, KBC Financial Products, Apple, Synopsys, the intelligence community (not corporate, but just as bad).
Never once was I "one misunderstood message" away from getting canned. I would have quit immediately if that were true. I understand not everyone can quit, but more people can than do.
Nobody deserves to work under that kind lack of of psychological safety, and certainly anyone on Slack and not in a factory has more of a choice.
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#109I find that AI is very useful for getting me past the 'blank page' writing block, but inevitably it writes in ways I would never, and so I end up editing it heavily. But, for me, a boy with ADHD, editing something is infinitely easier than writing it from scratch . I think this is the opposite of how most people tend to use LLMs, and I actually think my way is the "better" way. My issue has never been the act of writ…
I can relate to the inclination, but so many new insights and moments of inspiration are necessarily confined to that painstaking iterative line-by-line process of real writing. When you are simply prompting and editing, you will fill the page (and it might even sound like “you”), but you will not have that delightful experience of encountering something unexpected along the way to filling it.
I think you missed my point. I don't go back and have AI re-edit my drafts, on average. I have it give me some words that are on a page so I can say 'this sucks' and engage in writing myself, as opposed to continuing to stare at a blank page.
The quality of the AI's writing actually doesn't matter, for me, as much as it might for others, as a result. I write my own stuff. I just find AI helpful to activate me to do it.
Re: Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all
#110I find that AI is very useful for getting me past the 'blank page' writing block, but inevitably it writes in ways I would never, and so I end up editing it heavily. But, for me, a boy with ADHD, editing something is infinitely easier than writing it from scratch . I think this is the opposite of how most people tend to use LLMs, and I actually think my way is the "better" way. My issue has never been the act of writ…
I can relate to the inclination, but so many new insights and moments of inspiration are necessarily confined to that painstaking iterative line-by-line process of real writing. When you are simply prompting and editing, you will fill the page (and it might even sound like “you”), but you will not have that delightful experience of encountering something unexpected along the way to filling it.
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