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New-Age Bullshit Generator (2014)

23 points by lawrenceyan 8y ago

tugberkk 8y ago
This is pretty fun. The site also links to http://www.wisdomofchopra.com http://www.wisdomofchopra.com which is also gold.
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Animats 8y ago
These have been around for decades. They're still not very good. GPT2, though. That really is good. And it's so simple. They just trained a big neural net to predict the next word given some text. It's like autocomplete. 8 million web pages in the training set. You give it a sentence to get it started, and you get some good paragraphs.[1] Somebody should train that on Stack Overflow and use it for tech support. [1] https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/ https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/
yesenadam 8y ago
Hey, looks awesome! Only.."REIONIZE ELECTRONS" really doesn't sound New Agey at all. I don't think a new age person has ever said "electron"..I read a lot of New Age stuff a long time ago, and my mother was a full-blown New Ager. David Spangler, it seemed to me, had the most full-blown New Age rhetoric going on; I think he created that millennial-vibe writing. Aquarian..manifestation..cosmic consciousness etc. Can't find his stuff online now, I've got some of his early pamphlets floating around somewhere I think. Never read them, but they're just classic. :-) I can't imitate the jargon now, it's been too long. (25 years or so) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Spangler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Spangler Based solely on stuff from that Spangler page, mostly his book titles, how about "REIMAGINE THE WORLD", "MANIFEST INCARNATION", "CO-CREATE MIRACLE OF REBIRTH", "RECRAFT SACRED HOME" or something. You can't go wrong :-) But yeah, very cool, I never read much Chopra.. <<"Quantum" means a reflowering of the psychic>> as I read on your Generator, I think, is awesome. (None of the other New Agey-type stuff I can think of features quite such classic New Age ranting as Spangler, e.g. writers: Wayne Dyer, Louise Hay, Jean Houston channelled: Sanaya Roman, Elixir/Eileen Caddy, Emmanuel, Lazaris pre-New Age: Annie Besant, Rudolf Steiner, Alice Bailey, Swedenborg, Jung)
- dorkwood 8y ago
  I don't know, "ionisation" seems to be a pretty big topic of conversation among new-age types. I once knew someone who liked to visit the ocean because of all the "positive ions" there. What are positive ions, anyway? Are they good for you? I don't even know myself.
  - yesenadam 8y ago
    Yes, I didn't say they don't say "ions". :-) They have those bedside-table machines that make them. Probably not many New Agers know ions have anything to do with electrons. It's a strange combination of reverence for science (any new age book written by a PhD sells better) and contempt for and ignorance of it. I read some description of New Thought's students (19th C movement very like New Age) as people who had never been known before to be students of anything. Suddenly here's a Royal Road to the secrets of the universe, and those scientists are all too close-minded to listen...
  - 33degrees 8y ago
    It’s negative ions from oceans that are supposed to be good for you, they’re purported to help against depression and other mood disorders. Studies have not shown conclusive proof that it works.

23 points by lawrenceyan 8y ago

This is pretty fun. The site also links to http://www.wisdomofchopra.com http://www.wisdomofchopra.com which is also gold.

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Animats 8y ago

These have been around for decades. They're still not very good. GPT2, though. That really is good. And it's so simple. They just trained a big neural net to predict the next word given some text. It's like autocomplete. 8 million web pages in the training set. You give it a sentence to get it started, and you get some good paragraphs.[1] Somebody should train that on Stack Overflow and use it for tech support. [1] https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/ https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/

yesenadam 8y ago

Hey, looks awesome! Only.."REIONIZE ELECTRONS" really doesn't sound New Agey at all. I don't think a new age person has ever said "electron"..I read a lot of New Age stuff a long time ago, and my mother was a full-blown New Ager. David Spangler, it seemed to me, had the most full-blown New Age rhetoric going on; I think he created that millennial-vibe writing. Aquarian..manifestation..cosmic consciousness etc. Can't find his stuff online now, I've got some of his early pamphlets floating around somewhere I think. Never read them, but they're just classic. :-) I can't imitate the jargon now, it's been too long. (25 years or so) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Spangler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Spangler Based solely on stuff from that Spangler page, mostly his book titles, how about "REIMAGINE THE WORLD", "MANIFEST INCARNATION", "CO-CREATE MIRACLE OF REBIRTH", "RECRAFT SACRED HOME" or something. You can't go wrong :-) But yeah, very cool, I never read much Chopra.. <<"Quantum" means a reflowering of the psychic>> as I read on your Generator, I think, is awesome. (None of the other New Agey-type stuff I can think of features quite such classic New Age ranting as Spangler, e.g. writers: Wayne Dyer, Louise Hay, Jean Houston channelled: Sanaya Roman, Elixir/Eileen Caddy, Emmanuel, Lazaris pre-New Age: Annie Besant, Rudolf Steiner, Alice Bailey, Swedenborg, Jung)

dorkwood 8y ago
I don't know, "ionisation" seems to be a pretty big topic of conversation among new-age types. I once knew someone who liked to visit the ocean because of all the "positive ions" there. What are positive ions, anyway? Are they good for you? I don't even know myself.
- yesenadam 8y ago
  Yes, I didn't say they don't say "ions". :-) They have those bedside-table machines that make them. Probably not many New Agers know ions have anything to do with electrons. It's a strange combination of reverence for science (any new age book written by a PhD sells better) and contempt for and ignorance of it. I read some description of New Thought's students (19th C movement very like New Age) as people who had never been known before to be students of anything. Suddenly here's a Royal Road to the secrets of the universe, and those scientists are all too close-minded to listen...
- 33degrees 8y ago
  It’s negative ions from oceans that are supposed to be good for you, they’re purported to help against depression and other mood disorders. Studies have not shown conclusive proof that it works.