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> It's a very compelling illusion of actually understanding the topic. I've seen less coherent responses on Stack Overflow and, dare I say it, Hacker News. I t

> It's a very compelling illusion of actually understanding the topic. I've seen less coherent responses on Stack Overflow and, dare I say it, Hacker News. I think you've highlighted a very interesting angle. A lot of writings by users on the internet have common grammar mistakes or more like, the apathy towards adhering to correct English grammar. After arguing and correcting people on the Internets for the past 20 years, the semantics became more urgent than the syntax, and as a result, I often read my own writing in aghast-the realization that when people write tl;dr they really meant it-because as soon as you hit submit the original meaning is lost and with our limited cognitive resources we choose to filter out only what we want to read and ignore the rest. The true test for this sort of text transformer will be to generate an equally incorrect syntax and idiosyncrasy through writing style and skew towards the use of specific group of vocabulary (ab)used by the author, meaning an entire Reddit drama thread generated purely by AIs, complete with trolling, argument traps, and generalization, the complete toolbox of an Internet keyboard warrior. edit: I finally got a response back from the generator: I typed 'lick my butt' and the result is shockingly good-its everything I'd expect from someone who would start off with that phrase: lick my butt. I don't know what kind of ass you got. I'll just crawl next to you. I'll crawl next to you like this, so that if you get a little pissed, you have time to take it easy and go back to enjoying the show. Don't make me go back to enjoying the show. You can go back to enjoying the show. You can walk with me. You can take me. You can crawl next to me. Don't go. It's okay. I'm just making you comfortable again. And, I don't want you to leave. And, it's fine. I'll let you keep my body. You can take me but don't keep me. I don't need you to keep me. That's just the opening I mentioned from when she says goodbye and leaves him for it. It has been a while since I have been "comforted;" and not comfortable in a nice way. He's gone over her body in a way that just takes her from me, into my body again; but, doesn't take her any further. She continues to leave behind me that way, but we both know that this isn't just about me anymore. It's about her. I don't know what to say to her at this point. As much as I want to go over what I experienced with her last time, I can't just let this go. After all, this wasn't a last-minute fuck because I couldn't come. It wasn't because he wasn't enjoying himself. It was because he has a girlfriend; and, he feels that she deserves to be comforted. (The way he says that doesn't work either; it's one thing if he needs me to be comforted, but it's another to tell her he wanted her too and he just needed time to enjoy himself. She deserves to be comforted too; after all, he is getting older and older. Especially that line 'last-minute fuck because I couldn't come' is completely in line with the overall tone of the generated text. You would think this post was written by a 20 something red pill poster.

Darkphibre 7y ago
>After arguing and correcting people on the Internets for the past 20 years, the semantics became more urgent than the syntax. [Continuation] By the summer of 1995 a man calling himself "Wakefield" had launched a Facebook page calling for "an event on the Day of the Dead which was to be held in Washington DC, on June 30" in which "all manner of Satanic rituals were to be performed in a mass-exhibition". The event was to be attended by more than 2000 people and was apparently intended to be an "expose" of the occult. The message of the day stated, "Satanic rituals are a symbol of the death and resurrection of human beings and the cult of Horus [as well as related concepts] is in direct opposition to Christianity and Judaism" The date was listed in the same manner so that most people would have seen it as July 1, 1995. Some claimed to see it through July 31, just as July 1 marks the... Well. I think Transformer certainly understands the cult-like nature of semantics over syntax. :)
joshka 7y ago
After arguing and correcting people on the Internets for the past 20 years, the semantics became more urgent than the syntax, and as a result, I often read my own writing in aghast-the realization that when people write tl;dr they really meant it-because as soon as you hit submit the original meaning is lost and with our limited cognitive resources we choose to filter out only what we want to read and ignore the rest. One moment is worth 2, when it's only one second worth 4, when time has a finite amount you should stop reading everything and enjoy yourself. In this way, people stop reading before they know what they're looking at, and they are in the process of filtering out their own words and expressions. "How does this change my reading?," was my initial reaction, and it turned out to very different than how I thought it should change me if people realized the literal meaning of their words. Once people stop reading, they become increasingly interested in the meaning, and so they are not only more engaged in the conversation, but they actually have become more open to their own words and expressions.

Darkphibre 7y ago

>After arguing and correcting people on the Internets for the past 20 years, the semantics became more urgent than the syntax. [Continuation] By the summer of 1995 a man calling himself "Wakefield" had launched a Facebook page calling for "an event on the Day of the Dead which was to be held in Washington DC, on June 30" in which "all manner of Satanic rituals were to be performed in a mass-exhibition". The event was to be attended by more than 2000 people and was apparently intended to be an "expose" of the occult. The message of the day stated, "Satanic rituals are a symbol of the death and resurrection of human beings and the cult of Horus [as well as related concepts] is in direct opposition to Christianity and Judaism" The date was listed in the same manner so that most people would have seen it as July 1, 1995. Some claimed to see it through July 31, just as July 1 marks the... Well. I think Transformer certainly understands the cult-like nature of semantics over syntax. :)

joshka 7y ago

After arguing and correcting people on the Internets for the past 20 years, the semantics became more urgent than the syntax, and as a result, I often read my own writing in aghast-the realization that when people write tl;dr they really meant it-because as soon as you hit submit the original meaning is lost and with our limited cognitive resources we choose to filter out only what we want to read and ignore the rest. One moment is worth 2, when it's only one second worth 4, when time has a finite amount you should stop reading everything and enjoy yourself. In this way, people stop reading before they know what they're looking at, and they are in the process of filtering out their own words and expressions. "How does this change my reading?," was my initial reaction, and it turned out to very different than how I thought it should change me if people realized the literal meaning of their words. Once people stop reading, they become increasingly interested in the meaning, and so they are not only more engaged in the conversation, but they actually have become more open to their own words and expressions.