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Also weird that they just repeated back exactly ChatGPT. How lazy can you be?

jojobas 3y ago
You'd be surprised. After all, if we were not lazy we'd be still digging the ground with our bare hands. "How do I get X while doing less work" is a kind of laze that defines human.
- lukifer 3y ago
  The engineer’s three virtues: Laziness, Impatience, Hubris https://wiki.c2.com/?LazinessImpatienceHubris https://wiki.c2.com/?LazinessImpatienceHubris
  - hef19898 3y ago
    laziness can be a good thing! Real lazy people put in a lot of effort to achieve the same outcome working less!
    - robertlagrant 3y ago
      Sounds as though you've read the page before.
    - WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
      Procrastination too. I've had things go off the rails because procrastination wasn't allowed to manifest opportunities.
- red75prime 3y ago
  > "How do I get X while doing less work" And we'd still be using neanderthal tools if everyone just copy-pasted previous work.
sn41 3y ago
Reminds me of Ron Burgundy!
- cromulent 3y ago
  Absolutely. Reminded me of Chris Pratt's famous P&R flu scene ad lib "Leslie, I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have network connectivity problems".
vidarh 3y ago
Many years ago I had someone copy and paste two pages from an Oracle manual, complete with formatting, in response to an e-mailed screening question about MySQL that required a one line answer. It was just an initial screening where we had relatively low expectations and halfway expected a lot of people to search - letting a few too many people through was ok, we just wanted to whittle down the pool. But after that we realised the screening worked even better when we input random sentences from the answers into Google and used it to weed out the people who were not just dishonest enough to give a verbatim answer from somewhere without disclosing it, but who very often did so in ways that meant they got it horribly wrong. E.g. another example was the guy who copied and pasted a forum post. Not only was the answer wrong, but it was followed on the forum by a large number of responses from other people explaining why it was wrong.

You'd be surprised. After all, if we were not lazy we'd be still digging the ground with our bare hands. "How do I get X while doing less work" is a kind of laze that defines human.

lukifer 3y ago
The engineer’s three virtues: Laziness, Impatience, Hubris https://wiki.c2.com/?LazinessImpatienceHubris https://wiki.c2.com/?LazinessImpatienceHubris
- hef19898 3y ago
  laziness can be a good thing! Real lazy people put in a lot of effort to achieve the same outcome working less!
  - robertlagrant 3y ago
    Sounds as though you've read the page before.
  - WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
    Procrastination too. I've had things go off the rails because procrastination wasn't allowed to manifest opportunities.
red75prime 3y ago
> "How do I get X while doing less work" And we'd still be using neanderthal tools if everyone just copy-pasted previous work.

sn41 3y ago

Reminds me of Ron Burgundy!

cromulent 3y ago
Absolutely. Reminded me of Chris Pratt's famous P&R flu scene ad lib "Leslie, I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have network connectivity problems".

vidarh 3y ago

Many years ago I had someone copy and paste two pages from an Oracle manual, complete with formatting, in response to an e-mailed screening question about MySQL that required a one line answer. It was just an initial screening where we had relatively low expectations and halfway expected a lot of people to search - letting a few too many people through was ok, we just wanted to whittle down the pool. But after that we realised the screening worked even better when we input random sentences from the answers into Google and used it to weed out the people who were not just dishonest enough to give a verbatim answer from somewhere without disclosing it, but who very often did so in ways that meant they got it horribly wrong. E.g. another example was the guy who copied and pasted a forum post. Not only was the answer wrong, but it was followed on the forum by a large number of responses from other people explaining why it was wrong.