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Why will the time be right very soon again? I’m googling for more info and the top result is your comment.

ceejayoz 2y ago
Stross's Laundry Files series covers a government agency working to prevent eldritch incursions caused by the rise of readily available computation. Lovecraft, with a big touch of common tropes parody and early 2000s IT humor.
- Mistletoe 2y ago
  What does it have to do with golden mummy tongues though?
  - ceejayoz 2y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyarlathotep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyarlathotep shows up in a significant role, as do nasty replacement tongues, among other things. As do space Nazis, elves, vampires and the like.
neom 2y ago
As a side note, it's crazy how fast HN comments get into google search results these days.
- romanhn 2y ago
  Not just Google. A couple weeks back I saw pretty strong evidence of OpenAI ingesting an HN comment of mine and regurgitating it in ChatGPT within 10-15 minutes of posting. This is the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42649774 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42649774
  - neom 2y ago
    I asked Deep Research why your comment appeared in it's training data, and it said it doesn't generally have near real time data in it's responses unless it's conducting a real time web search. It thinks it found the answer from pulling together and combining these sources: https://www.animatsiya.net/films.php?search=%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BA https://www.animatsiya.net/films.php?search=%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%... + https://ask.metafilter.com/182144/Whats-this-cartoon-with-a-boy-trapped-under-ice-and-a-deer-melts-the-ice https://ask.metafilter.com/182144/Whats-this-cartoon-with-a-... + https://www.city-data.com/forum/tv/2017670-dies-anyone-remember-name-old-cartoon.htm https://www.city-data.com/forum/tv/2017670-dies-anyone-remem... - however it also said it has been trained on youtube comments generally and it's hard to know how many uploads might exist with comments referencing the time stamp, as well as forums that have been included in it's training data that are not indexed by google, but that it itself didn't think it was coming from HN. Who knows. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    - romanhn 2y ago
      The suspicious part is that ChatGPT did not have any kind of answer when the parent poster checked before posting. Yet soon after my reply it suddenly not only had the answer, but also used many of the same words and had the exact same timestamp. A little too close to be a coincidence, IMO.

Stross's Laundry Files series covers a government agency working to prevent eldritch incursions caused by the rise of readily available computation. Lovecraft, with a big touch of common tropes parody and early 2000s IT humor.

Mistletoe 2y ago
What does it have to do with golden mummy tongues though?
- ceejayoz 2y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyarlathotep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyarlathotep shows up in a significant role, as do nasty replacement tongues, among other things. As do space Nazis, elves, vampires and the like.

neom 2y ago

As a side note, it's crazy how fast HN comments get into google search results these days.

romanhn 2y ago
Not just Google. A couple weeks back I saw pretty strong evidence of OpenAI ingesting an HN comment of mine and regurgitating it in ChatGPT within 10-15 minutes of posting. This is the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42649774 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42649774
- neom 2y ago
  I asked Deep Research why your comment appeared in it's training data, and it said it doesn't generally have near real time data in it's responses unless it's conducting a real time web search. It thinks it found the answer from pulling together and combining these sources: https://www.animatsiya.net/films.php?search=%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BA https://www.animatsiya.net/films.php?search=%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%... + https://ask.metafilter.com/182144/Whats-this-cartoon-with-a-boy-trapped-under-ice-and-a-deer-melts-the-ice https://ask.metafilter.com/182144/Whats-this-cartoon-with-a-... + https://www.city-data.com/forum/tv/2017670-dies-anyone-remember-name-old-cartoon.htm https://www.city-data.com/forum/tv/2017670-dies-anyone-remem... - however it also said it has been trained on youtube comments generally and it's hard to know how many uploads might exist with comments referencing the time stamp, as well as forums that have been included in it's training data that are not indexed by google, but that it itself didn't think it was coming from HN. Who knows. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  - romanhn 2y ago
    The suspicious part is that ChatGPT did not have any kind of answer when the parent poster checked before posting. Yet soon after my reply it suddenly not only had the answer, but also used many of the same words and had the exact same timestamp. A little too close to be a coincidence, IMO.