lurquer

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by lurquer 1mo ago
Bingo. There is an assumption that there is a single red/green list of tokens that the provider will allow people to use to verify if something is AI. In reality, there can be billions of red/green lists. It is trivial to test a p
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by lurquer 4mo ago
Depends on the type of writing. Blogs and the like? LLM generates prose that, to me anyway. is unbearable. However, in fiction I’ve found it a useful collaborator. There have been more than a few occasions when, given some notes of how I w
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by lurquer 4mo ago
The ‘study’ is fluff. Paraphrase: Amongst primates there is a correlation between brain size and bipedalism with handedness… (unless you exclude humans, in which case there isn’t.) That’s like saying: “Alongst animals there is a correlation
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by lurquer 5mo ago
The sad thing is that IF — by chance — one of those 66 had schizophrenia, the headline would undoubtedly read “Blind children are FOUR TIMES more likely to develop Schizophrenia!”
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by lurquer 5mo ago
“…tracking nearly half a million children born in Western Australia between 1980 and 2001. Of those, 1,870 developed schizophrenia, but not one of the 66 children with cortical blindness did.” Using this data, one would expect to see only 0
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by lurquer 6mo ago
> Off the top of your head, what technological advancements did the different space programs bring? Gemini? Apollo? Soyuz? The space shuttle? Tang
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by lurquer 7mo ago
Yep. But that prompt I used was just a quirky. You can explicitly force it to avoid THAT structure as well. Just do what the smart ?ie, devious) middle-schoolers do: find a list of all the tell-tale ‘marks’ of AI content, and explicitly inc
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by lurquer 7mo ago
The same snobs who were telling us that "The Old Man and the Sea" (written in the style of a fifth-grader) is 'art'... the same people telling us that "Finnegan's Wake" (written in the style of a fifth-gra
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by lurquer 7mo ago
This is what I don't grok... Your sample sounds exactly like an LLM. (If you wrote it yourself, kudos.) But, it needn't sound like this. For example, I can have Opus rewrite that block of text into something far more elegant (see
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by lurquer 7mo ago
Do you think the original article was NOT written (or at least heavily revised) by AI? What does the following even mean? “diluting the semantic density and specific gravity of the argument.” Or this beaut: “By accepting these ablated outpu
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by lurquer 7mo ago
Are you sure? Here's the OP article (first part... don't want to spam the thread) written in much cooler style... ------ The Lobotomist in the Machine They gave the first disease a name. Hallucination, they called it — like the ma
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by lurquer 7mo ago
> "they set off the tuning fork in the loins of your own dogmatism." Eh... I don't know. To me, that sounds very AI-ish. Claude is very good -- at times -- coming up with flowery metaphoric language... if you tell it to. T
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by lurquer 7mo ago
Indeed. Wholeheartedly agree. Just as it’s on you to pick the word you want when using Roger’s Thesaurus. My workflow, when using it for writing, is different than when coding. When coding, I want an answer that works and is robust. When wr
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by lurquer 7mo ago
One shouldn’t expect the ‘joke’ to have identical tone. (As if that’s even measurable.) The point was simply that these examples are not trending towards the average or ‘ablating’ things as the article puts it. They seem fairly creative, so
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by lurquer 7mo ago
Because HN isn't a literary forum. Maybe it sucks. Maybe it doesn't. But, I notice a curious pretentiousness when it comes to some people's assumptions about their ability to identify LLM prose. Obviously, the generic first-p
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by lurquer 7mo ago
> And THAT is a sentence an LLM would not write. Really? Here's some alternatives. Some are clunky. But, some aren't. …just like you can tell whose pubes those are on the shared bar of soap without launching a formal investigat
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by lurquer 7mo ago
My point is simply that the tell-tale marks of LLM prose can be remediated through prompts. I have a very large ‘default prompt’ that explicitly deals with the more obnoxious grammatical structures emblematic of LLMs. I would wager I deal w
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by lurquer 7mo ago
Nonsense. I’ve written bland prose for a story and AI made it much better by revising it with a prompt such as this: “Make the vocabulary and grammar more sophisticated and add in interesting metaphors. Rewrite it in the style of a successf
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by lurquer 7mo ago
Why just the mother? What about her absentee father?
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by lurquer 9mo ago
> Reminds me of "Those darn cars! Everybody knows that trains and horses are the way to travel."… … said nobody ever.
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by lurquer 10mo ago
None of which has anything to do with the ‘last days of the Roman Republic.’ Feel free to panic and tear your hair out… that’s what both sides do. Boring. The post, however, make some pretentious analogy to the Roman Republic. The analogy w
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by lurquer 10mo ago
> You’ve got an executive branch stacking all open positions in judicial and legislative branches with their political appointees. The judicial branch is composed of Judges who are confirmed by the Senate… not the executive branch. And t
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by lurquer 10mo ago
Good grief. The shutdown is a temporary budget squabble in a stable democracy; a banal political stunt that has happened every few years for the past few decades. Rome’s dysfunction meant civil wars, assassinations, generals seizing poWer,
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by lurquer 11mo ago
What’s so ‘new’ about it?
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by lurquer 11mo ago
In C++, I’ve noticed that ChatGPT is fixated on unordered_maps. No matter the situation, when I ask what container would be wise to use, it’s always inordered_maps. Even when you tell it the container will have at most a few hundred element
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by lurquer 11mo ago
> it's just hard to go up. Eh. Going up is easy. A Frenchman, a sheep, duck, and rooster solved the whole ‘up’ thing over two centuries ago. But going DOWN? That’s far more difficult. What wonders may lie beneath our feet: vast cave
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by lurquer 1y ago
Very cool
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by lurquer 1y ago
Perhaps there was some ambiguity in your post. The verses speak for themselves. If they support your views, good.
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by lurquer 1y ago
Are you suggesting the scriptures do not obligate church leaders to protect the flock from heresy? 1 Timothy 6:20–21 – “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding the profane novelties of words and oppositions of knowled
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by lurquer 1y ago
> There is no disadvantage to being able to synthesise vitamin C, and no advantage in dropping the trait. So why did the trait of that mutant primate spread throughout the entire population? There should instead be a mixture of those who

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