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Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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Post by mikesabat »

cco wrote: post #5

100% shipped to show off to family during Christmas. I'll definitely give it a go, I wonder if this lands better with those aged 50+ who are more used to phone calls rather than chat.

Aren't they doing a 12 days of Christmas thing where they release new features for 12 days? This would fit into that idea.

I was thinking earlier today that an agent listening to my calls would be helpful. I was on the phone with a financial institution that will require some followup. Being able to sync in an agent to transcribe and remind me would be valuable.

I understand this isn't that.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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Post by crazygringo »

wfme wrote: post #275
crazygringo wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't often know if a movie is good until you've finished it, because it all depends on how the story came together in the end. You can spend 2 hours watching a moving, emotional story that teaches you something new about the human condition and the choices we make in our lives. Or you can spend 2 hours that turns out to be full of plot holes and inconsistent characters, where nothing makes sense in the end and y…

Life is about more than optimizing the movies you watch. Watching a bad movie is not going to harm you. Maybe you'll take something away, maybe you won't. Much like having a bad day is unlikely to ruin your life - it'll just give some nice context to the good days. And we're talking about watching them on the plane, so the "busy person" argument really doesn't apply here.

> Life is about more than optimizing the movies you watch.

Where did I say it wasn't? That's a straw man.

But if you're going to watch a movie for the next two hours, then yeah -- your life is going to be about that movie. So why not choose wisely?

> Watching a bad movie is not going to harm you. Maybe you'll take something away, maybe you won't.

Straw man again. And again -- why not choose quality instead of choosing ignorance and rolling the dice?

> Much like having a bad day is unlikely to ruin your life - it'll just give some nice context to the good days.

Again, straw man. Nobody's talking about ruining your life. But why intentionally choose a bad movie...?

> And we're talking about watching them on the plane, so the "busy person" argument really doesn't apply here.

To the contrary. For a lot of busy people, the plane is one of the few moments they have time to watch a movie. So it sure does apply.

You're arguing in favor of choosing bad things, because it's not going to ruin your life. Huh? Shouldn't we have a higher bar for the things we try to choose to spend our time on? You're describing standards that are the lowest of the low -- as long as it doesn't harm you, it's fine. Don't seek anything better. Yikes. I've rarely come across a life philosophy more depressing.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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Post by aoeusnth1 »

wfme wrote: post #275
crazygringo wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't often know if a movie is good until you've finished it, because it all depends on how the story came together in the end. You can spend 2 hours watching a moving, emotional story that teaches you something new about the human condition and the choices we make in our lives. Or you can spend 2 hours that turns out to be full of plot holes and inconsistent characters, where nothing makes sense in the end and y…

Life is about more than optimizing the movies you watch. Watching a bad movie is not going to harm you. Maybe you'll take something away, maybe you won't. Much like having a bad day is unlikely to ruin your life - it'll just give some nice context to the good days. And we're talking about watching them on the plane, so the "busy person" argument really doesn't apply here.

OP: good movies are better than bad movies. Replies: you buffoon, you actual clown. How dare you value good things more than bad things.

I can’t take this knee jerk response seriously. Why wouldn’t good movies be more worthwhile than bad movies? How is this even controversial?

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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Post by aviperl »

xattt wrote: post #2

Memories of GOOG411! And probably same purpose of this. (1) (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOOG-411

The best part of GOOG411 was that they would connect you to the phone number, free of charge, across borders.

List a business with a Google voice number and you can call in, check messages, and _dial out_ from Google voice. Free international calls!

I was in school in Canada where we had a payphone in a hallway. People heard me randomly saying "Funny Business Name, City State ... Connect me" into the phone so much, it became a running joke.

When I eventually got my own phone, I transferred the number and I still have it.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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Post by listenallyall »

wfme wrote: post #275
crazygringo wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't often know if a movie is good until you've finished it, because it all depends on how the story came together in the end. You can spend 2 hours watching a moving, emotional story that teaches you something new about the human condition and the choices we make in our lives. Or you can spend 2 hours that turns out to be full of plot holes and inconsistent characters, where nothing makes sense in the end and y…

Life is about more than optimizing the movies you watch. Watching a bad movie is not going to harm you. Maybe you'll take something away, maybe you won't. Much like having a bad day is unlikely to ruin your life - it'll just give some nice context to the good days. And we're talking about watching them on the plane, so the "busy person" argument really doesn't apply here.

You aren't wrong but it's not an argument you're going to win. A bad restaurant or a dumpy hotel, etc won't kill you either, yet most people rely heavily on crowdsourced reviews. It's just a part of the culture today, given how prevalent ratings are. This isnt 1940, so suggesting, out of the blue, "just go watch the movie regardless if it is any good" isn't going to convince someone to do so.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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Post by hyperdimension »

mbauman wrote: post #52
xattt wrote: post #2

Memories of GOOG411! And probably same purpose of this. (1) (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOOG-411

GOOG411 was actually very helpful in the dumbphone/limited-cell-data era! I'm not sure why I'd use this now. It also brings back memories of trying random (and known) 800 numbers from payphones.

I spent so much time as a kid in front of a payphone dialing 1-800-XXX-9999 numbers. That and wardialing (NPA) XXX-9999 numbers in my area code.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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Post by th0ma5 »

JadeNB wrote: post #266
th0ma5 wrote: post #258

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If I invested money into a film, I would want its representation in the world to reflect what the movie is about at the very least.

> If I invested money into a film, I would want its representation in the world to reflect what the movie is about at the very least. Sure, but that's the filmmaker's interest. As someone sitting on a plane trying to decide whether to watch a movie, I care about my interest, not that of the person who made it. I'm not particularly arguing for the use of ChatGPT here (I wouldn't use it), just that the risks it usually…

You're forgetting the information hazard of five years from now someone mentioning a movie and you saying "oh I didn't want to watch that because of the car chase" and everyone looks at you funny because it is a film set in the 1700s about a carriage driver.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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Post by jazzyjackson »

crazygringo wrote: post #256
frakt0x90 wrote: post #215

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I get it's just an example, but are we really this far gone? Just watch a random movie and if you don't like it, pick another. This is such an extreme micro-optimization of a small experience.

You don't often know if a movie is good until you've finished it, because it all depends on how the story came together in the end. You can spend 2 hours watching a moving, emotional story that teaches you something new about the human condition and the choices we make in our lives. Or you can spend 2 hours that turns out to be full of plot holes and inconsistent characters, where nothing makes sense in the end and y…

To me, unanimous positivity means a boring movie that takes no risks. I'd rather watch a people-love-it-or-hate-it film.

Usually tho I just watch trailers and judge the actors' chemistry to decide if I would enjoy watching those characters. What other people thought of it is not especially relevant. Particularly on flights I've watched some amazing foreign content that I just would not have stumbled upon if I was just watching whatever topped rotten tomatoes.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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Post by jazzyjackson »

aoeusnth1 wrote: post #293
wfme wrote: post #275

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Life is about more than optimizing the movies you watch. Watching a bad movie is not going to harm you. Maybe you'll take something away, maybe you won't. Much like having a bad day is unlikely to ruin your life - it'll just give some nice context to the good days. And we're talking about watching them on the plane, so the "busy person" argument really doesn't apply here.

OP: good movies are better than bad movies. Replies: you buffoon, you actual clown. How dare you value good things more than bad things. I can’t take this knee jerk response seriously. Why wouldn’t good movies be more worthwhile than bad movies? How is this even controversial?

Because whether a movie is good or not is not an objective, one dimensional thing that can be represented by a score on rotten tomatoes?
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