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Is this a real comment?

globular-toast 6y ago
It's real in the sense that it's honest, yes. Do you doubt that? I see it's downvoted despite containing no offensive language and merely being an honest account of my life. I wonder why that is. At least I can say I'm not just spouting stuff that makes the echo chamber happy. I love programming and I love machines. Designing and building them gives me a purpose in life. I also have a primitive desire to mate. Does any of that offend you?
- mlthoughts2018 6y ago
  It expresses at least one idea that people find morally reprehensible. It being honest is not a redeeming quality. Additionally, looking through your comment history, I feel your comments are really written by a human, but they do have a very eerie similarity to comments written by GPT2 bots.
  - globular-toast 6y ago
    What part is morally reprehensible? It's fascinating that you doubt whether people like me could actually exist.
    - mlthoughts2018 6y ago
      I did not say your comment _is_ morally reprehensible, only that it’s widely and commonly believed to be morally reprehensible by many people. I decline to state my personal normative view about it. That part is when you refer to having a new relationship partner as getting “a younger model.” I do not have any trouble believing you exist and I believe people like you are reasonably widespread. I only meant to indicate the cadence and style of your written comments has a great degree of similarity with the text generated by GPT2 bots.
      - globular-toast 6y ago
        It's fascinating but also quite scary that you would probably believe me if I told you I was a bot. It seems that those bots are so good now that if you read some human output with the idea that it might be a bot (because e.g. someone asked if it's "real") that you can't actually tell. That provides a whole new way for echo chambers to extinguish dissenting views.
        mlthoughts2018 6y ago
        I agree with your comment for sure. But I also think it’s interesting that your natural style of communication is so readily emulated by bots. I don’t think it’s true of all people generally. Some people are just more bot-like in their internal processes I think.
        globular-toast 6y ago
        I'm pretty autistic. In a way I am a bot who has learned to be more "human" to get what I want in life. Naturally I'm a complete recluse, but I found that didn't make me happy.
- mattbee 6y ago
  I'd think people are offended to know someone - even on a message board - who is happy to speak so publicly and callously about their intimate partners. It makes this place seem glum and regressive. It's the opposite path to achievement described in the article.

It's real in the sense that it's honest, yes. Do you doubt that? I see it's downvoted despite containing no offensive language and merely being an honest account of my life. I wonder why that is. At least I can say I'm not just spouting stuff that makes the echo chamber happy. I love programming and I love machines. Designing and building them gives me a purpose in life. I also have a primitive desire to mate. Does any of that offend you?

mlthoughts2018 6y ago
It expresses at least one idea that people find morally reprehensible. It being honest is not a redeeming quality. Additionally, looking through your comment history, I feel your comments are really written by a human, but they do have a very eerie similarity to comments written by GPT2 bots.
- globular-toast 6y ago
  What part is morally reprehensible? It's fascinating that you doubt whether people like me could actually exist.
  - mlthoughts2018 6y ago
    I did not say your comment _is_ morally reprehensible, only that it’s widely and commonly believed to be morally reprehensible by many people. I decline to state my personal normative view about it. That part is when you refer to having a new relationship partner as getting “a younger model.” I do not have any trouble believing you exist and I believe people like you are reasonably widespread. I only meant to indicate the cadence and style of your written comments has a great degree of similarity with the text generated by GPT2 bots.
    - globular-toast 6y ago
      It's fascinating but also quite scary that you would probably believe me if I told you I was a bot. It seems that those bots are so good now that if you read some human output with the idea that it might be a bot (because e.g. someone asked if it's "real") that you can't actually tell. That provides a whole new way for echo chambers to extinguish dissenting views.
      - mlthoughts2018 6y ago
        I agree with your comment for sure. But I also think it’s interesting that your natural style of communication is so readily emulated by bots. I don’t think it’s true of all people generally. Some people are just more bot-like in their internal processes I think.
        globular-toast 6y ago
        I'm pretty autistic. In a way I am a bot who has learned to be more "human" to get what I want in life. Naturally I'm a complete recluse, but I found that didn't make me happy.
mattbee 6y ago
I'd think people are offended to know someone - even on a message board - who is happy to speak so publicly and callously about their intimate partners. It makes this place seem glum and regressive. It's the opposite path to achievement described in the article.