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Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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Post by cindyllm » Sat, May 23, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

bigfishrunning wrote: post #431

whattheheckheck wrote: post #425

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree robots do not have a race in the most literal, autistic interpetation of the sentence. It's the shape of the behavior. It translates from a primordial belief systems that enables someone to say its okay to position themselves above something. The word robot originates from the Czech term robotnik, meaning "forced worker," which is derived from robota, denoting forced labor or drudgery performed by feudal serf…

> Remember history? Its not okay to subjugate human beings? AI systems are not human beings. They also have no feelings. Despite the marketing, they have no agency. I position myself above inanimate objects. I position you, and everyone else, above them as well.

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Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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Post by joxdosba » Sun, May 24, 2026, 2:50 PM UTC

idle_zealot wrote: post #261

nlawalker wrote: post #128

I've decided that I'm done being pissy about this kind of response, or thinking that it's something that can be coached away. I choose to look at it like any other cultural communication difference - something that you learn about, try to give some grace to, and work a little harder to bridge (unless you're defusing a bomb, performing surgery, flying an airplane etc.). In this person's communication culture, they are…

> I choose to look at it like any other cultural communication difference There's a way to tell if this is actually the case: can you find the members of this culture that like getting slopgrenaded? A communication culture needs both speakers and listeners. I see the speakers, I have yet to see the listeners. I could just be missing them though. In the case that the listeners are greatly outnumbered by the speakers w…

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Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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Post by Aeolun » Sun, May 24, 2026, 4:16 PM UTC

BeetleB wrote: post #220

Aeolun wrote: post #75

I think what is interesting is that we keep needing these pages to teach people how not being an asshole works. I don't really understand why it is so hard to understand not to do (what I consider to be) impolite stupid shit.

> I don't really understand why it is so hard to understand not to do (what I consider to be) impolite stupid shit. Tip 1: Starting off by denigrating folks who do this is not a way to make people change. More often than not, it amplifies the behavior you don't like. Tip 2: It helps to indicate you understand the perspective of why people do it before asking others to change. Reading your comment, I really doubt you…

> I really doubt you understand their perspective

I do not. That is rather the point of the original message xD

My problem is having to explain this stuff to adults in the first place. Somewhere in your first 12 years of live you should have learned not to do things like this (e.g. most people figure it out in elementary school)