> AI trends started in group chats
what? the current LLM tech is a product of 50+ years of NLP and ML research... it didnt just pop out of group chats somewhere
Group chats rule the world
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#82Re: Group chats rule the world
#83> This leads to one of my favorite axioms: every group chat has a n-1 group containing everyone except that annoying member. And if you think your chat doesn’t have such a group, oh boy, do I have some bad news for you.
This is directly at odds with the aforementioned moderation. The slack that I'm in has no qualms about warning toxic members of their shit, and making them ex-members if they have to. Thus the only N-1 groups are the positive kind - we're planning birthday things for the excluded member, not toxicly gossiping about them behind their back. It does take a more social aware and heavy handed moderation team, but this is a large group slack which has more features than one giant group chat.
There are private channels there for specific invite-only groups, but they're still focused on a specific topic rather than excluding that one terrible person.
The existence of an N-1 chat is a signal that the group can't do the hard thing and actually talk to that one person.
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#84If I was in any groups like this I'd mute them or leave. Even reading this guy's blog makes me exhausted.
Introverts, unite! And then quietly look at their shoes awkwardly.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aside from the usual luxury pics, planning trips and events, pics with celebrities, and high society gossip and boiling hot tea, these women are very sexual. Nearly all are married but of course that doesn’t stop them from having their men on the side. A lot of these men look like male models and the chat is littered with nude pics showing off how very well endowed they are. If you’re very good looking with good soci…
They probably cringe when hearing about my tech nerd group chats, but still eww. The female millionaires I know aren't like this... they must be US millionaires?
Millionaires is an understatement. These were extremely rich women born into wealth who basically spend their lives dressing fancy and traveling the world. Unless you’re very close to them and in their group chats you would have no chance of knowing what they’re really like behind closed doors.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But maybe there's value in solving this problem :) Traditional topics/channels? The reason why sites like HN/Reddit ... etc "work" is because you've got to click into the comments on some post to see those comments. You're not going to the hacker news front page and just getting _all_ the comments nor is some algorithm deciding which posts/comments you should see and which you'll never know about. Threads work - to…
Nope, topics don't work. Telegram added topics and you can add them to the group chat, but it killed almost every chat that I have seen add it. What happens is people start conversations on random themes and this additional friction of posting to the right topic kills the motivation to post at all. Also, people start to only open topics they like in the group, and close the group if there's nothing to see in these to…
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#87Speaking of group chats, I recalled an interesting story how MSN Messenger lost Chinese market. Back in 2003ish, MSN Messenger was THE shit in China. QQ, the competitor of MSN Messenger by Tencent, was losing ground rapidly, especially to white-collar users in big cities. To Microsoft, MSN Messenger probably was a toy, but to Tencent it was life and death. So QQ launched group chat. In addition, QQ Group Chat allowed users to drop any images, including GIFs into a chat. And man, that feature killed. Hundreds of millions of users got hooked. It was just so much fun to be creative and spread memes using this features. In the meantime, what was MSN Messenger's response? Absolutely nothing. No, it's worse than nothing. It was insulting. If I dropped a gif to a chat, MSN Messenger would always convert the gif into a 8x8 icon, and sometimes turned that gif into a static image. BTW, I'm not sure why, but big techs in the US somehow couldn't get Chinese market. Case in point, the emojis in all the chat apps, be it Apple's or Meta's or Google's or whatever, are just ugly and not expressive, when compared to WeChat's, let alone QQ's. Of course, as a Chinese user I'm biased, but that's the point: very few Chinese natives like the emojis offered by western countries (and I guess vice versa).
And then, well, there's no "and then". The rest was history. MSN Messenger quickly became a niche and lost its user base. It made Chinese companies realized that they had a chance to out compete behemoths like Microsoft, by moving fast, by moving decisively, and by being creative to fit the psyche of Chinese market.
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#88> AI trends started in group chats what? the current LLM tech is a product of 50+ years of NLP and ML research... it didnt just pop out of group chats somewhere
No, no, no - the trends are clear: it was obviously crypto first, then AI next, both brought to you by the same benevolent taste-making thought-leadership organized in elite private chat groups. /s
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#89Re: Group chats rule the world
#90Probably falling back to age old IRC might be an option.
AI Might be implemented there as well in future, but not so quick, may be!