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Why vampires live forever

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Re: Why vampires live forever

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Post by prometheus76 »

jvalencia wrote: post #24
jagged-chisel wrote: post #16

Completely OT: In the link “what the longevity experts don’t tell you”[1] I found this: “As a devout Baptist, he couldn’t use playing cards…” And I’m wondering if I missed something in my Baptist upbringing. I have long since removed myself from any semblance of the Church and manage my own relationship with faith and any related higher beings, so it’s more a curiosity than pertinent. 1 - https://machielreyneke.com/b…

As a devout Baptist minister, this is likely about one of two things, avoiding the appearance of evil (gambling, 1 Thess 5:22 - Abstain from every form of evil), and giving up something for the sake of others (gambling addictions within the church, Rom 4:21 - or do anything that causes your brother to stumble). The reality is that most churches recognize that they were too legalistic in the past, and so now address t…

I was under the impression that the injunction against playing cards was because of their proximity to tarot/occult practices. Mormons had the same injunction against playing cards until the 80s, when the teaching was no longer promulgated. Speaking as a former Mormon...

Re: Why vampires live forever

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Post by lbrito »

Fun read but I stopped after detecting AI:

"The young blood doesn’t add youth. It removes age."

"Feeding isn’t nutrition. It’s dialysis."

Etc. Why is LLM so enamored with the "Its not x, its Y" idiom? Its so ridiculously overused its almost comical

Re: Why vampires live forever

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Post by doodpants »

lbrito wrote: post #54

Fun read but I stopped after detecting AI: "The young blood doesn’t add youth. It removes age." "Feeding isn’t nutrition. It’s dialysis." Etc. Why is LLM so enamored with the "Its not x, its Y" idiom? Its so ridiculously overused its almost comical

The flaw in trying to detect AI by its use of particular idioms is that it would have learned these idioms from its training corpus, which consists of writings from actual human beings.

In other words, some people actually write like this.

Re: Why vampires live forever

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Post by johnmwilkinson »

doodpants wrote: post #56
lbrito wrote: post #54

Fun read but I stopped after detecting AI: "The young blood doesn’t add youth. It removes age." "Feeding isn’t nutrition. It’s dialysis." Etc. Why is LLM so enamored with the "Its not x, its Y" idiom? Its so ridiculously overused its almost comical

The flaw in trying to detect AI by its use of particular idioms is that it would have learned these idioms from its training corpus, which consists of writings from actual human beings. In other words, some people actually write like this.

It’s not that people don’t write like this, it’s the over-usage and general tone.

Re: Why vampires live forever

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Post by kps »

jamilton wrote: post #13

>The public begins to associate blood transfusion with eccentric billionaires rather than with undead predators. This is a critical narrative shift. Not much of a shift...

You misunderstand. Coming out as vampires is meant to improve their reputation.

Re: Why vampires live forever

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Post by alex_young »

johnmwilkinson wrote: post #57
doodpants wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The flaw in trying to detect AI by its use of particular idioms is that it would have learned these idioms from its training corpus, which consists of writings from actual human beings. In other words, some people actually write like this.

It’s not that people don’t write like this, it’s the over-usage and general tone.

It's not that “I can detect AI” posts sound more templated than the writing they’re critiquing, it's the clankers are learning from it and adapting.
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