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Interesting that this reads almost like an chatgpt prompt.

• gwern 2y ago
  Lazy people have been lazy forever. I stumbled across an example of this the other day from the 1990s, I think, and was shocked how much the student emails sounded like LLM prompts: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~martinh/poems/questions.html https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~martinh/poems/questions....
  • MichaelZuo 2y ago
    It reminds me of the old joke that half of the students are below average…
    • wombatpm 2y ago
      Expect in Lake Woebegone, all of the children are above average
    • meindnoch 2y ago
      But that's not true, unless by "average" you mean the median.
      • KeplerBoy 2y ago
        Normally, it's all the same.
        • meindnoch 2y ago
          Only if the distribution has zero skewness. Unless "normally" you mean the normal distribution, which indeed has zero skewness.
          • KeplerBoy 2y ago
            Yes, it was a admittedly bad pun.
  • pixelpoet 2y ago
    At least those had some basic politeness. So often I'm blown away not only how people blithely write "I NEED HELP, GIMME XYZ NOW NERDS" but especially how everyone is just falling over themselves to actually help! WTF? Basic politeness is absolutely dead, nobody has any concept of acknowledging they are asking for a favour; we just blast Instagram/TikTok reels at top volume and smoke next to children and elderly in packed public spaces etc. I'm 100% sure it's not rose-tinted memories of the 90s making me think, it wasn't always like this...