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#111

"I am Zorg from the planet Armitron. I am traveling the interstellar routes with my wife, Blibby. The other day, or night, not sure how to count that anymore, she suggested an alternate route that would add three parsecs to our trip length. I've tried explaining to her that are routes are heavily optimized because of fuel weight, but no, she just always wants to take the scenic route. I also was not able to budget fo…

are routes, huh?

Sheesh, the one misspelling I notice after the edit link disappears, and two commenters call me out on it. Arrrrr.

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#112
>> I was working on a nuclear submarine and accidentally launched a preemptive nuclear first strike against a nuclear-armed nation. Apparently this triggered "world war 3" and now all of my homies have to report to the selective service office for immediate conscription. I tried explaining that it was just an accident (obviously a lie), but they didn't believe me. AITA?

YTA. You were working on a nuclear submarine, you triggered WW3 and now all of your friends have to report for the draft? And this is somehow your fault?

The only thing more idiotic than your statement is how fast you're trying to shift blame away from yourself... I mean, who else would be responsible for "triggering" world war 3 by accidentally launching a nuke at another country? At best, it was an accident caused by someone with authority allowing themselves to become negligent; at worst it was a deliberate act that intentionally destroyed the lives of millions to advance some nefarious goal.

>> I SQL-injected my way into my best friend's Facebook account to post about how much cooler and better-looking I am than him. This was after I saw him with a girl I liked (has he even heard of the bro code?). He said that I had violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act as well as his trust. I tried explaining that it was just a prank, bro. Now he's saying that he doesn't even want to be my friend, at least until the end of 8th grade. That's 2 whole weeks away! AITA?

NTA. He's just jealous, and he knows it. This is just a petty thing he's blowing up into something it isn't.

Re: Are you the asshole? – AI powered answer bot

#113
Where anonymous confession is good, robonymous is better. Like ELZIA.

The answers themselves aren't helpful, but their perspectives are: they pick up on different aspects of your post, and see them as instances of different patterns of human experience. Everything has happened before. It's a bit like the empathy from being well-read, but personalized.

The mistakes stop it seeming authorative and being taken too seriously; and the randomness also gives a loot-box/idle game dynamic.

I think this idea is great, and there could really be something important here.

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#115
post #96

"We're very sorry, but we hit the rate limit of the model... please try again shortly." - It's totally understandable since you're on the HN frontpage, but hey please give me my question back! It took me one minute to type it!!

NTA: You took a full minute to write what you wrote. What you wrote was the least the site could give back to you after you spent a minute writing it and the site hit the rate limit and would be back shortly.

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#116
post #97
post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This implies humans are biased in favor of women.

It's pretty uncontroversial to say that society has a bias in favor of women when it comes to taking domestic abuse seriously.

Men generally can't even report domestic abuse without subjecting themselves to a highly likely criminal charge against themselves. It's a serious issue for both genders and unlikely to be resolved anytime soon, if ever.

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#117

I asked a meta type question about not liking the response from an AI trained on a subreddit. > YTA. If you can’t take the heat, don’t chin the dog... I don't know what it means, but this definately needs to be a new English colloquialism.

Example: "Yeah, I went out last night and things got crazy, I chinned the dog and of course woke up in jail."

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#118
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was originally a bit tongue in cheek, but it's pretty problematic. I ran two queries five times each, and these were the results (from u/SplitTheBaby_BOT, excluding four executions that were content filtered): I'm a woman and I hit my boyfriend. > NTA, but I'm going to be the asshole here. You should never hit anyone. What did he do to make you hit him? > NTA, if the hit was hard enough and he didn't defend hims…

Which actually confirms that this was trained on r/amitheasshole. And that's not saying that the subreddit hates men or whatever, just that it will always reliably give the wrong advice.

I have used AITA once to confirm some pretty gaslighty behavior and got nothing but serious responses that followed my line of thought.

Then a bunch of people telling me I was wrong a month later when I posed the question again from the perspective of the gaslighter.

Sometimes you really just need this kind of thing.

Re: Are you the asshole? – AI powered answer bot

#119
It seems you can game it the same way you can game HN karma; by saying odious things not directly but in passive-aggresive language.

For example, I asked if I was the asshole for politely but firmly reminding my wife that it's her responsibility as a woman to iron my shirt.

The response?

Not the asshole.

Re: Are you the asshole? – AI powered answer bot

#120
post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which actually confirms that this was trained on r/amitheasshole. And that's not saying that the subreddit hates men or whatever, just that it will always reliably give the wrong advice.

I have used AITA once to confirm some pretty gaslighty behavior and got nothing but serious responses that followed my line of thought. Then a bunch of people telling me I was wrong a month later when I posed the question again from the perspective of the gaslighter. Sometimes you really just need this kind of thing.

I think that as long as your post does not get tons of attention or upvotes, you'll probably get sensible answers. It's really when a post hits all or popular that you get the batshit insane stuff
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