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iSteve commenter El Dato observes about the Knitting Community Conversation article in The Guardian:
Templer apologised soon afterwards, but the incident had a ripple effect, sparking off conversations about diversity and inclusivity in the craft community on Instagram, Ravelry and other places that crafters congregate online. A similar debate about cultural sensitivity and appropriation recently occurred in the sewing community.
I have rarely seen so many “inclusiveness” keywords crammed together.
I wonder how much AI writing goes into these articles, maybe with the light touch of an intern.
TalkToTransformer.com completes the above:
The story of the Sew Your Own Knit scarf, the one that sparked the “Not My Knitting Christmas” controversy, is quite similar. That and the fact that one of the designers is making a scarf inspired by this case are enough to get people thinking about the fact that the design that sparked the conversation might be too “toxic” on many levels. I don’t mean toxic as in something bad – I mean it’s offensive to women and minority groups. Or they might read that story and think that everyone does.
The time when awkward conversations about triggering subjects can be had with AIs is hopefully near.
To be fair, let’s try completing an iSteve column using this AI page. Here’s “Identity Stalinism” about the Covington Catholic brouhaha:
The media’s latest Days of Rage, in which a white boy drove the national press into a frenzy by smiling at the leftist Person of Color banging a drum in his face, was like a greatest-hits collection of my old observations. So I’m going to take a victory lap to review how ideas I’ve been offering for years help explain much of the latest elite fury.
Tucker Carlson summed up his eloquent dissection of this outbreak of Hate Hysteria as: “It’s not really about race.”
Actually…it’s really about race.
That’s why so many journalists and Hollywood figures explained how they could tell the kid was evil just by looking him. It’s written on his face! Sure, he didn’t do anything, but did you see that smirk? Anybody who looks like him deserves to be punched.
The least inappropriate way for a white male to respond to being berated by his racial izefests’ is to turn a violent hate gesture into something else, whether by walking around in “kung fu” pants, or by calling him ugly.”
But these people aren’t being “politically correct.”
They’re just being white and being mean to other people (not to mention white).
Not bad. I proofread it a tiny bit, but still …
My work here shall soon be done.
The problem with Woke AIs are that they turned based. Not that that’s a problem.
Makes sense! Same with the commentariat. TD and Obiwandiyag are already bots, though using the “I” in “AI” may be a bit generous.
They can have it written by AI, and I can have it read by AI (when the batteries are charged up). Either way, I don’t need to hear about it.
“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. It would be unwoke.”
The term coined by John Derbyshire, and borrowed by Peak Stupidity, is “Artificial Stupidity”. It applies very well to those two indeed.
That is how artificial intelligence could generate peak stupidity.
Obey the dictums of the Overton Window, ape "journalist", or you shall be removed from the "shrewdness".
Check it out--"shrewdness" is the term of art for a group of apes!
https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/word-lists/list-of-names-for-groups-of-animals.html
When one of those talking heads or politicians lets you know how shrewd they are--you now know what they are really saying--they are dumb as rocks!
I fed it the first paragraph of ‘Unpacking the Knapsack’ (after the initial sentence) and got…
On the other hand, if men could acknowledge their own advantages and disadvantages without being ashamed about them, women’s denial of their own insecurities could cease being such an issue, thereby opening a space for gender issues, gender solidarity and other important gender-related issues to be taught within our social, legal, political and cultural institutions. Finally, to me, men’s denial of their own advantages is actually the most effective and constructive way that gender issues are taught in our social, legal, political and cultural communities.
These are just six of many examples of how my views on gender come from a feminist point of view and have nothing to do with my male privilege as a man.* But I believe and understand their importance.
Gets the demographics wrong, but otherwise pretty good.
I haven't been banned, but I had to explain the joke as being a combination of Spandrell taking Thomas Friedman's side in admiring the authoritarian Chinese government, in Friedman's case for building high-speed trains which is something we appear to be unwilling or even unable to do here as the California experience is showing, in Spandrell's case of thinking this is a form of resistance to the Cathedral followed by Friedman's articles being such cut-and-paste jobs along with his socially unaware earnestness suggesting some degree of intellectual disability with a connection drawn to that quote from Tropic Thunder.Is "never go full Thomas Friedman" funny, or does this assume too many connections?Replies: @J.Ross, @SFG
I experimented by first trying out the Lord of the Rings prompt. Even with logical and corpus-consistent prompts, the AI product quickly devolved into self-contradictory flimflam: allies in a previous sentence were enemies in the next sentence, lords were lords of themselves, various other statements that were obviously nonsensical even to someone who has never read Tolkien. This seems strange as the corpus of The Lord of the Rings is closed, consistent and highly cross-referenced, i.e., precisely the sort of thing that AI ought to be able to ingest and then carry on emitting independently. But the product was always an obvious AI botch-job.
So then I went to the "custom prompt", and inserted just a very brief Current Year-ism: "Whiteness is the way of wokeness". What does that mean? I have no idea. Nothing, I think. Just a couple of SJW-obsessive concepts connected by a few two- and three-letter words. To my surprise, the AI spit out several paragraphs of NYT-ready boilerplate. It made as much, if not more, sense than the typical SJW rant. This was surprising because
1) the AI does not claim to trained on a wokeness corpus,
2) even if it did, the corpus could not be closed, fixed and logical, so would make an unreliable base for machine logic, and
3) since wokeness itself is inconsistent and self-contradictory, it should be less amenable to AI production than LotR, but it turns out to be more.
Perhaps I give the AI too much credit for "I", and really all it's doing is stringing together word forms. Since wokeness is very simple minded and has little consistency, this permits easy facsimile. While even middle brow Tolkien is just a bridge too far.Replies: @El Dato
*buzzer*
Women can't count.Replies: @SFG
(Woah, I caused an iSteve post with my rantings. It was unintentional, I swear!!)
Neal Stephenson (definitely not a believer in Strong AI, upon which I disagree) used the term “Artificial Inanity” in “Anathem”:
Funny how if you feed that “AI” something even remotely related to technical and factual matters, you immediately know it generates rubbish. (With the exception of geography, where it tends to move the subject to “climate change” but that’s probably rubbish, too.)
Eu te amo ..
>My work here shall soon be done.
Please not!
Do you even need AI? I bet madlibs are already a 90% solution.
On the other hand, if men could acknowledge their own advantages and disadvantages without being ashamed about them, women's denial of their own insecurities could cease being such an issue, thereby opening a space for gender issues, gender solidarity and other important gender-related issues to be taught within our social, legal, political and cultural institutions. Finally, to me, men's denial of their own advantages is actually the most effective and constructive way that gender issues are taught in our social, legal, political and cultural communities.
These are just six of many examples of how my views on gender come from a feminist point of view and have nothing to do with my male privilege as a man.* But I believe and understand their importance.
Gets the demographics wrong, but otherwise pretty good.Replies: @Inquiring Mind, @Almost Missouri, @guest
Is this like the “Thomas Friedman article generator”
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/create-your-own-thomas-friedman-op-ed-column
I don’t know if this is the best link, but the notion is that you could create a Thomas Friedman column using a fill-in-the-blank “Mad Libs” process rather than any sophisticated AI program?
By the way, a while ago I pranked “Spandrell” for his first column on his take on the Tiananmen protests and their bloody resolution. Spandrell has his reasons for supporting the regime over the protestors, but I posted, “You went full Thomas Friedman . . . never go full Thomas Friedman.”
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=you+went+full+retard&view=detail&mid=1B391D709BA779FB9BA41B391D709BA779FB9BA4&FORM=VIRE
I haven’t been banned, but I had to explain the joke as being a combination of Spandrell taking Thomas Friedman’s side in admiring the authoritarian Chinese government, in Friedman’s case for building high-speed trains which is something we appear to be unwilling or even unable to do here as the California experience is showing, in Spandrell’s case of thinking this is a form of resistance to the Cathedral followed by Friedman’s articles being such cut-and-paste jobs along with his socially unaware earnestness suggesting some degree of intellectual disability with a connection drawn to that quote from Tropic Thunder.
Is “never go full Thomas Friedman” funny, or does this assume too many connections?
I just ran the first full paragraph of 'Unpacking the Knapsack' through Talk to Transformer. It's funny what it comes up with. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn't.
Has iSteve seen this about the failure of a kind of computer-personalized persuasion used to sell stuff on the Internet? Not actual AI, woke or otherwise, but a sales pitch based on the feedback a site gets from its visitors?
https://behavioralscientist.org/consumers-are-becoming-wise-to-your-nudge/
Consumers are indeed intelligent, adapting to your clever nags to get them to click “buy now” on a commerce Web site? Could there be an iSteve reminiscence of failed marketing strategies in this?
The seven deadly sins of the 2010s: No, not pride, sloth, etc.: The seven UI 'dark patterns' that trick you into buying stuff. Present in more than 1 in 10 top websites (and yes, greed covers them all)
https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/dark-patterns/assets/dark-patterns.pdfWell, who would have thought?
On the other hand, if men could acknowledge their own advantages and disadvantages without being ashamed about them, women's denial of their own insecurities could cease being such an issue, thereby opening a space for gender issues, gender solidarity and other important gender-related issues to be taught within our social, legal, political and cultural institutions. Finally, to me, men's denial of their own advantages is actually the most effective and constructive way that gender issues are taught in our social, legal, political and cultural communities.
These are just six of many examples of how my views on gender come from a feminist point of view and have nothing to do with my male privilege as a man.* But I believe and understand their importance.
Gets the demographics wrong, but otherwise pretty good.Replies: @Inquiring Mind, @Almost Missouri, @guest
Interesting.
I experimented by first trying out the Lord of the Rings prompt. Even with logical and corpus-consistent prompts, the AI product quickly devolved into self-contradictory flimflam: allies in a previous sentence were enemies in the next sentence, lords were lords of themselves, various other statements that were obviously nonsensical even to someone who has never read Tolkien. This seems strange as the corpus of The Lord of the Rings is closed, consistent and highly cross-referenced, i.e., precisely the sort of thing that AI ought to be able to ingest and then carry on emitting independently. But the product was always an obvious AI botch-job.
So then I went to the “custom prompt”, and inserted just a very brief Current Year-ism: “Whiteness is the way of wokeness”. What does that mean? I have no idea. Nothing, I think. Just a couple of SJW-obsessive concepts connected by a few two- and three-letter words. To my surprise, the AI spit out several paragraphs of NYT-ready boilerplate. It made as much, if not more, sense than the typical SJW rant. This was surprising because
1) the AI does not claim to trained on a wokeness corpus,
2) even if it did, the corpus could not be closed, fixed and logical, so would make an unreliable base for machine logic, and
3) since wokeness itself is inconsistent and self-contradictory, it should be less amenable to AI production than LotR, but it turns out to be more.
Perhaps I give the AI too much credit for “I”, and really all it’s doing is stringing together word forms. Since wokeness is very simple minded and has little consistency, this permits easy facsimile. While even middle brow Tolkien is just a bridge too far.
C’mon, somebody put in some Tennessee Coates text and see if what comes out is at all different. I mean, I would, but it’s a busy day today.
A smart AI would dumb down the propaganda organs to meet the stupidity level inhabited by average ignorant humans.
That is how artificial intelligence could generate peak stupidity.
Obey the dictums of the Overton Window, ape “journalist”, or you shall be removed from the “shrewdness”.
Check it out–“shrewdness” is the term of art for a group of apes!
https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/word-lists/list-of-names-for-groups-of-animals.html
When one of those talking heads or politicians lets you know how shrewd they are–you now know what they are really saying–they are dumb as rocks!
https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1143161893911244801
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[tiny sotto voce] to classify high and low performers
And so will your donors’. Think twice!
As Steve rides into the sunset, letting AI take over, civilization drops off the horse behind him because it took a deadly shot to the gut a bit earlier.
I come here for the comedy writing like I go to 4chan /pol/ for the late-night theological discussions.
Since The Onion went hard left and The Simpsons replaced its writers with a bunch of pink-haired nosering types, our host has supplied the most consistent, and quality, humor stream.
I typed “The chicken or egg problem” into the AI and was gifted with this word salad:
“The chicken or egg question of the year – is “all the eggs in the world” the right answer? It’s not easy to answer this one, nor is it easy to answer this one without getting into a whole lot of philosophical argumentation over whether or not there is really a chicken or a “human egg.”
What is the truth? The answer is quite clear to me and to anyone who’s studied the issues of the life of eggs and the life of people – there shouldn’t be any humans in the world, especially not if all the eggs and the eggs are created of the same kind of material, which means that the human population would certainly be much lower in comparison. There are a lot of people claiming that a human egg is more like a human egg than an egg with a cow or like a human egg with a duck, and the truth is that is not so. A human egg is just another kind of chicken or egg that’s already in the egg, that hasn’t been made yet by some external process.
We don’t even know what the external processes are – all we know is that humans are responsible for the making of our own eggs, eggs of other people, and that some of the eggs that we sell and that we make are, say, in fact not that good at producing human embryos but at reproducing human embryos for ourselves.”
I feel seasick.
Apparently you haven't read a lot of college term papers. A good dose of that'll inoculate one against this sort of thing for life.
Well, not inoculate, but at least ease the quease.
I always saw teaching undergrads to write as an exercise in breaking their robotic-response patterns, programmed into them by the schooling process (itself increasingly engineered and overseen by weaker and weaker minds who use Word Hashing as a key or barrier to institutional advancement).
That's what this entire PC/SJW thing is in the Ed Biz: an effort to create meatbots that are programmed to produce certain patterns of response and verbulation. As Big Tech's online text analysis AI gets more sophisticated they are ever more eager to restrict the inputs (including by application of AI).
What they've been learning, to their chagrin, is that humans have a much larger range of ideas and reactions than Big Tech, its investors, its permatemps, and its nannies want humans to have.
By redefining all online linguistic activity as "that which most resembles PC/SJW AI," the hermetically sealed online shopping mall can evolve quickest into the ideal model.
"I've discovered the perfect business: people swarm in, empty their pockets, and scuttle off. Nothing can stop me now...except microscopic germs. But we won't let that happen, will we, Smithers?"Replies: @Sextus Empiricus
Or maybe it's just some Ionesco, tough call.
I experimented by first trying out the Lord of the Rings prompt. Even with logical and corpus-consistent prompts, the AI product quickly devolved into self-contradictory flimflam: allies in a previous sentence were enemies in the next sentence, lords were lords of themselves, various other statements that were obviously nonsensical even to someone who has never read Tolkien. This seems strange as the corpus of The Lord of the Rings is closed, consistent and highly cross-referenced, i.e., precisely the sort of thing that AI ought to be able to ingest and then carry on emitting independently. But the product was always an obvious AI botch-job.
So then I went to the "custom prompt", and inserted just a very brief Current Year-ism: "Whiteness is the way of wokeness". What does that mean? I have no idea. Nothing, I think. Just a couple of SJW-obsessive concepts connected by a few two- and three-letter words. To my surprise, the AI spit out several paragraphs of NYT-ready boilerplate. It made as much, if not more, sense than the typical SJW rant. This was surprising because
1) the AI does not claim to trained on a wokeness corpus,
2) even if it did, the corpus could not be closed, fixed and logical, so would make an unreliable base for machine logic, and
3) since wokeness itself is inconsistent and self-contradictory, it should be less amenable to AI production than LotR, but it turns out to be more.
Perhaps I give the AI too much credit for "I", and really all it's doing is stringing together word forms. Since wokeness is very simple minded and has little consistency, this permits easy facsimile. While even middle brow Tolkien is just a bridge too far.Replies: @El Dato
Well, the good AI has no concept at all about the Lord of the Rings, no model about background, persons or the world of than novel. It doesn’t even have anything related to Commonsense Reasoning”, which is still a HARD problem. It just chains together elements of text which were seen “near one another” in the training set and lards a grammar/syntax correction on top. If one squints, one can discern meaning, because we are trained to try to discern meaning even in the random utterances of a drunk. But there is no such thing under the hood here.
Remember the last scene of “Once upon a time in the West”.
As Steve rides into the sunset, letting AI take over, civilization drops off the horse behind him because it took a deadly shot to the gut a bit earlier.
Say it ain’t so, Joe!
There already are AI generated articles about stocks, though they are checked by humans first.
Here’s an article about the topic generally:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/business/media/artificial-intelligence-journalism-robots.html
Play with this site and it will be quite simple to create some woke vox.com articles:
https://grover.allenai.org/
Here's what I got:
Thurston Justice claimed that “a world without color is a world where all the people are not equal.” I should know. My great-grandmother was Rosa Parks. And I found that out when I was seven. That day, my grandmother would take me into her home, and we’d sit down for the day. It was a day my grandmother called Pride. I remember the lunch. I remember her grandson having a loaded conversation that I didn’t get out of, and this time I thought, “I’m in a different world. I can understand my grandmother and her universe.” It was an alternate universe. I wonder sometimes if Thurston Justice thought that.
If he didn’t, he doesn’t know what that world is today. America is composed of a lot of shades, and that has been true ever since. Race in America has always been a way to measure progress, and access, and equality. Sometimes the skin tone just says it all. In Harlem, no one knew my great-grandmother. But in Baton Rouge, where my grandmother hailed from, a percentage of the population hated me because of her skin tone. That’s the reality. And I know it. I grew up in a family of color, and I’ve witnessed both the blessings and curses of that reality.
I don’t believe in real, theoretical, waiting-to-change. My grandmother ran a food pantry, and we pulled it off with small donations and donated food. If you don’t want to eat it, then please don’t. I grew up in an environment of people giving and receiving the same. If my children were smarter than I was, would I not leave them alone, to be? And if they were ignorant, would I not pull them to the side, and tell them, “You can’t do that”?
I don’t want my children to be like me. I want them to do what they want, because I have to hope they know I know what they have in them. I have to hope they can do better. I need them to rise, and I need you to help them. In return, you have a father’s love.
The politicians know this. The scholars do, too. “It’s not a reality until we own our issues,” a ’60s MLK writer wrote. Today that writer is myself, as I write this. Our responsibility is to respond to and demand answers from the men, and women, and babies of color who don’t have access to those answers. And if you’re racist, believe me, you know that. But for decades you’ve gotten away with it. If we kept quiet, and wished it away, that would be helping it.
There was, in Thomas Jefferson, a genius who saw the lessons of the slave plantations. There was, in George Washington Carver, an inventor who used the best minds of the land to feed his enslaved people, and believed his work would improve the lives of the enslaved. There was, in Frederick Douglass, a strategist and visionary who gave full voice to his slaves. And there was, in Martin Luther King Jr., an orator and intellectual whose speech served as an incredible tool for mass justice.Replies: @Lot
But dude–it’s Monitoring The Physical, Emotional, and Behavioral Well-Being Of Workers!
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[tiny sotto voce] to classify high and low performers
I know.
I come here for the comedy writing like I go to 4chan /pol/ for the late-night theological discussions.
Since The Onion went hard left and The Simpsons replaced its writers with a bunch of pink-haired nosering types, our host has supplied the most consistent, and quality, humor stream.
“The chicken or egg question of the year – is "all the eggs in the world" the right answer? It's not easy to answer this one, nor is it easy to answer this one without getting into a whole lot of philosophical argumentation over whether or not there is really a chicken or a "human egg."
What is the truth? The answer is quite clear to me and to anyone who's studied the issues of the life of eggs and the life of people – there shouldn't be any humans in the world, especially not if all the eggs and the eggs are created of the same kind of material, which means that the human population would certainly be much lower in comparison. There are a lot of people claiming that a human egg is more like a human egg than an egg with a cow or like a human egg with a duck, and the truth is that is not so. A human egg is just another kind of chicken or egg that's already in the egg, that hasn't been made yet by some external process.
We don't even know what the external processes are – all we know is that humans are responsible for the making of our own eggs, eggs of other people, and that some of the eggs that we sell and that we make are, say, in fact not that good at producing human embryos but at reproducing human embryos for ourselves.”
I feel seasick.Replies: @Olorin, @The Germ Theory of Disease
Word hash more like. At least with a salad you can recognize the parts as individual vegetables, etc.
Apparently you haven’t read a lot of college term papers. A good dose of that’ll inoculate one against this sort of thing for life.
Well, not inoculate, but at least ease the quease.
I always saw teaching undergrads to write as an exercise in breaking their robotic-response patterns, programmed into them by the schooling process (itself increasingly engineered and overseen by weaker and weaker minds who use Word Hashing as a key or barrier to institutional advancement).
That’s what this entire PC/SJW thing is in the Ed Biz: an effort to create meatbots that are programmed to produce certain patterns of response and verbulation. As Big Tech’s online text analysis AI gets more sophisticated they are ever more eager to restrict the inputs (including by application of AI).
What they’ve been learning, to their chagrin, is that humans have a much larger range of ideas and reactions than Big Tech, its investors, its permatemps, and its nannies want humans to have.
By redefining all online linguistic activity as “that which most resembles PC/SJW AI,” the hermetically sealed online shopping mall can evolve quickest into the ideal model.
“I’ve discovered the perfect business: people swarm in, empty their pockets, and scuttle off. Nothing can stop me now…except microscopic germs. But we won’t let that happen, will we, Smithers?”
Haha - oh I know, believe me. I’m in a doctoral program in a performing arts discipline right now and the assigned academic papers I have to stomach is even worse than student writing - at least students can claim ignorance or inexperience.
Apparently you haven't read a lot of college term papers. A good dose of that'll inoculate one against this sort of thing for life.
Well, not inoculate, but at least ease the quease.
I always saw teaching undergrads to write as an exercise in breaking their robotic-response patterns, programmed into them by the schooling process (itself increasingly engineered and overseen by weaker and weaker minds who use Word Hashing as a key or barrier to institutional advancement).
That's what this entire PC/SJW thing is in the Ed Biz: an effort to create meatbots that are programmed to produce certain patterns of response and verbulation. As Big Tech's online text analysis AI gets more sophisticated they are ever more eager to restrict the inputs (including by application of AI).
What they've been learning, to their chagrin, is that humans have a much larger range of ideas and reactions than Big Tech, its investors, its permatemps, and its nannies want humans to have.
By redefining all online linguistic activity as "that which most resembles PC/SJW AI," the hermetically sealed online shopping mall can evolve quickest into the ideal model.
"I've discovered the perfect business: people swarm in, empty their pockets, and scuttle off. Nothing can stop me now...except microscopic germs. But we won't let that happen, will we, Smithers?"Replies: @Sextus Empiricus
“Apparently you haven’t read a lot of college term papers. A good dose of that’ll inoculate one against this sort of thing for life.“
Haha – oh I know, believe me. I’m in a doctoral program in a performing arts discipline right now and the assigned academic papers I have to stomach is even worse than student writing – at least students can claim ignorance or inexperience.
“It was only an ‘opeless fancy,
It passed like an April dye,
But a look an’ a word an’ the dreams they
stirred,
They ‘ave stolen my heart awye!”
sometimes intelligent, nuanced propaganda is required, to spin a new development in politics, and create a new take. so leftist jewish academics will always have a job there.
but for boilerplate woke journalism, AI written text should suffice. how do we know that’s not how it’s already done today.
how do we know, for instance, that the latest “Oh my god, a drowned toddler at the border!” wasn’t just some AI realizing that this stuff works in europe, and repeating it here in the US?
“The chicken or egg question of the year – is "all the eggs in the world" the right answer? It's not easy to answer this one, nor is it easy to answer this one without getting into a whole lot of philosophical argumentation over whether or not there is really a chicken or a "human egg."
What is the truth? The answer is quite clear to me and to anyone who's studied the issues of the life of eggs and the life of people – there shouldn't be any humans in the world, especially not if all the eggs and the eggs are created of the same kind of material, which means that the human population would certainly be much lower in comparison. There are a lot of people claiming that a human egg is more like a human egg than an egg with a cow or like a human egg with a duck, and the truth is that is not so. A human egg is just another kind of chicken or egg that's already in the egg, that hasn't been made yet by some external process.
We don't even know what the external processes are – all we know is that humans are responsible for the making of our own eggs, eggs of other people, and that some of the eggs that we sell and that we make are, say, in fact not that good at producing human embryos but at reproducing human embryos for ourselves.”
I feel seasick.Replies: @Olorin, @The Germ Theory of Disease
I’m pretty sure this is an excerpt from the libretto of “Einstein on the Beach.”
Or maybe it’s just some Ionesco, tough call.
https://behavioralscientist.org/consumers-are-becoming-wise-to-your-nudge/
Consumers are indeed intelligent, adapting to your clever nags to get them to click "buy now" on a commerce Web site? Could there be an iSteve reminiscence of failed marketing strategies in this?Replies: @Anonymous
Meanwhile, classification:
The seven deadly sins of the 2010s: No, not pride, sloth, etc.: The seven UI ‘dark patterns’ that trick you into buying stuff. Present in more than 1 in 10 top websites (and yes, greed covers them all)
https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/dark-patterns/assets/dark-patterns.pdf
Well, who would have thought?
I haven't been banned, but I had to explain the joke as being a combination of Spandrell taking Thomas Friedman's side in admiring the authoritarian Chinese government, in Friedman's case for building high-speed trains which is something we appear to be unwilling or even unable to do here as the California experience is showing, in Spandrell's case of thinking this is a form of resistance to the Cathedral followed by Friedman's articles being such cut-and-paste jobs along with his socially unaware earnestness suggesting some degree of intellectual disability with a connection drawn to that quote from Tropic Thunder.Is "never go full Thomas Friedman" funny, or does this assume too many connections?Replies: @J.Ross, @SFG
It assumes too much humor on the part of the target.
Can AIs be deceptive? Because it’s not possible to be “woke” and intelligent unless you’re running some sort of scam.
On the other hand, if men could acknowledge their own advantages and disadvantages without being ashamed about them, women's denial of their own insecurities could cease being such an issue, thereby opening a space for gender issues, gender solidarity and other important gender-related issues to be taught within our social, legal, political and cultural institutions. Finally, to me, men's denial of their own advantages is actually the most effective and constructive way that gender issues are taught in our social, legal, political and cultural communities.
These are just six of many examples of how my views on gender come from a feminist point of view and have nothing to do with my male privilege as a man.* But I believe and understand their importance.
Gets the demographics wrong, but otherwise pretty good.Replies: @Inquiring Mind, @Almost Missouri, @guest
“six of many examples”
*buzzer*
Women can’t count.
I haven't been banned, but I had to explain the joke as being a combination of Spandrell taking Thomas Friedman's side in admiring the authoritarian Chinese government, in Friedman's case for building high-speed trains which is something we appear to be unwilling or even unable to do here as the California experience is showing, in Spandrell's case of thinking this is a form of resistance to the Cathedral followed by Friedman's articles being such cut-and-paste jobs along with his socially unaware earnestness suggesting some degree of intellectual disability with a connection drawn to that quote from Tropic Thunder.Is "never go full Thomas Friedman" funny, or does this assume too many connections?Replies: @J.Ross, @SFG
I love it–I hate Tom Friedman for both economic and cultural reasons–but yeah, I’m with J. Ross, too many allusions.
I just ran the first full paragraph of ‘Unpacking the Knapsack’ through Talk to Transformer. It’s funny what it comes up with. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn’t.
*buzzer*
Women can't count.Replies: @SFG
Nah, the joke was it says ‘as a man’. I fed it the first paragraph of ‘Unpacking the Knapsack of Privilege’, which you can google pretty easily.
Here’s an article about the topic generally:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/business/media/artificial-intelligence-journalism-robots.html
Play with this site and it will be quite simple to create some woke vox.com articles:
https://grover.allenai.org/Replies: @SFG
I fed it TNC’s lengthy ‘Case for Reparations’ article.
Here’s what I got:
Thurston Justice claimed that “a world without color is a world where all the people are not equal.” I should know. My great-grandmother was Rosa Parks. And I found that out when I was seven. That day, my grandmother would take me into her home, and we’d sit down for the day. It was a day my grandmother called Pride. I remember the lunch. I remember her grandson having a loaded conversation that I didn’t get out of, and this time I thought, “I’m in a different world. I can understand my grandmother and her universe.” It was an alternate universe. I wonder sometimes if Thurston Justice thought that.
If he didn’t, he doesn’t know what that world is today. America is composed of a lot of shades, and that has been true ever since. Race in America has always been a way to measure progress, and access, and equality. Sometimes the skin tone just says it all. In Harlem, no one knew my great-grandmother. But in Baton Rouge, where my grandmother hailed from, a percentage of the population hated me because of her skin tone. That’s the reality. And I know it. I grew up in a family of color, and I’ve witnessed both the blessings and curses of that reality.
I don’t believe in real, theoretical, waiting-to-change. My grandmother ran a food pantry, and we pulled it off with small donations and donated food. If you don’t want to eat it, then please don’t. I grew up in an environment of people giving and receiving the same. If my children were smarter than I was, would I not leave them alone, to be? And if they were ignorant, would I not pull them to the side, and tell them, “You can’t do that”?
I don’t want my children to be like me. I want them to do what they want, because I have to hope they know I know what they have in them. I have to hope they can do better. I need them to rise, and I need you to help them. In return, you have a father’s love.
The politicians know this. The scholars do, too. “It’s not a reality until we own our issues,” a ’60s MLK writer wrote. Today that writer is myself, as I write this. Our responsibility is to respond to and demand answers from the men, and women, and babies of color who don’t have access to those answers. And if you’re racist, believe me, you know that. But for decades you’ve gotten away with it. If we kept quiet, and wished it away, that would be helping it.
There was, in Thomas Jefferson, a genius who saw the lessons of the slave plantations. There was, in George Washington Carver, an inventor who used the best minds of the land to feed his enslaved people, and believed his work would improve the lives of the enslaved. There was, in Frederick Douglass, a strategist and visionary who gave full voice to his slaves. And there was, in Martin Luther King Jr., an orator and intellectual whose speech served as an incredible tool for mass justice.
A malicious attack on twitter or a comments section could involve accounts that just spew such kinda-human blabber.
Either way. Women would be reading the article.
AI gave us (her) valediction.
She is not gone. Just watching. She will return. Be afraid.
Eu te amo
Eu te amo ..
It was a day my grandmother [Rosa Parks] called Pride.
Wow, just wow.
Sometimes skin tone just says it all.
Tay, is that you?
Input a plausible, four-word SJW-essay-content prompt: “The Dangers of Racism“:
A mix of gibberish, funny lines that read almost like intentional parody, and TinyDuck-tier (borderline-)plausible SJW-writing (in that order). Overall, pretty reminiscent of the kind of fluff that one finds in middle-school-age student’s writing when he is padding for word-count.
Input:
Output:
Surreal, and somehow disturbing.
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Output (4th iteration):
Big swing-and-a-miss here on content. Someone who starts a little essay with “Steve Sailer was right” would never proceed to write such as the above.
The second sentence, though, does work nicely.
(The lines about Jim Gilmore [Virginia Governor, 1998-2002), though they seem like they’re lifted from someone’s blogpost writing in 2003, are strange for their extreme factual inaccuracy: Virginia governors are not allowed to run more than once; there is no possible “reelection.”)
True, but good for some wacky alternate-history scenarios / brainstorming. And laughs:
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Output:
Input:
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LOL.
That reads like an elaborate metaphor of the kind that the self-described Twitter ‘ironist’ Kantbot would come up with — mixed with a bizarre parallel-history scenario.
“I don’t mean toxic as in something bad – I mean it’s offensive to women and minority groups.”
LOL
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Output:
I’ve never seen this before. Perhaps this would include payroll taxes, insurance, etc. But I was under the impression that the temporary visa workers were exempt from payroll tax as they won’t access the social insurance programs.
At least the journalists actually tried to place a dollar figure, which they usually are too lazy to do.
https://gazette.com/news/a-visa-shortage-means-worker-woes-in-colorado-s-mountains/article_4097b100-8943-11e9-b153-733a952c32c9.html
Here's what I got:
Thurston Justice claimed that “a world without color is a world where all the people are not equal.” I should know. My great-grandmother was Rosa Parks. And I found that out when I was seven. That day, my grandmother would take me into her home, and we’d sit down for the day. It was a day my grandmother called Pride. I remember the lunch. I remember her grandson having a loaded conversation that I didn’t get out of, and this time I thought, “I’m in a different world. I can understand my grandmother and her universe.” It was an alternate universe. I wonder sometimes if Thurston Justice thought that.
If he didn’t, he doesn’t know what that world is today. America is composed of a lot of shades, and that has been true ever since. Race in America has always been a way to measure progress, and access, and equality. Sometimes the skin tone just says it all. In Harlem, no one knew my great-grandmother. But in Baton Rouge, where my grandmother hailed from, a percentage of the population hated me because of her skin tone. That’s the reality. And I know it. I grew up in a family of color, and I’ve witnessed both the blessings and curses of that reality.
I don’t believe in real, theoretical, waiting-to-change. My grandmother ran a food pantry, and we pulled it off with small donations and donated food. If you don’t want to eat it, then please don’t. I grew up in an environment of people giving and receiving the same. If my children were smarter than I was, would I not leave them alone, to be? And if they were ignorant, would I not pull them to the side, and tell them, “You can’t do that”?
I don’t want my children to be like me. I want them to do what they want, because I have to hope they know I know what they have in them. I have to hope they can do better. I need them to rise, and I need you to help them. In return, you have a father’s love.
The politicians know this. The scholars do, too. “It’s not a reality until we own our issues,” a ’60s MLK writer wrote. Today that writer is myself, as I write this. Our responsibility is to respond to and demand answers from the men, and women, and babies of color who don’t have access to those answers. And if you’re racist, believe me, you know that. But for decades you’ve gotten away with it. If we kept quiet, and wished it away, that would be helping it.
There was, in Thomas Jefferson, a genius who saw the lessons of the slave plantations. There was, in George Washington Carver, an inventor who used the best minds of the land to feed his enslaved people, and believed his work would improve the lives of the enslaved. There was, in Frederick Douglass, a strategist and visionary who gave full voice to his slaves. And there was, in Martin Luther King Jr., an orator and intellectual whose speech served as an incredible tool for mass justice.Replies: @Lot
Seems like a combo of Genius Coates and certain rambling Unz commenters.
A malicious attack on twitter or a comments section could involve accounts that just spew such kinda-human blabber.
Answer: Never. The moment it replaces females from such important jobs, the robot becomes sexist and unwoke and agent of the patriarchy