2 ms·

Bible Scholar and youtube guy Dan McClellan had an amazing "high entropy" phrase that slayed me a few days ago. https://youtu.be/605MhQdS7NE?si=IKMNuSU1c1uaVCD

Bible Scholar and youtube guy Dan McClellan had an amazing "high entropy" phrase that slayed me a few days ago. https://youtu.be/605MhQdS7NE?si=IKMNuSU1c1uaVCDB&t=730 https://youtu.be/605MhQdS7NE?si=IKMNuSU1c1uaVCDB&t=730 He ended a critical commentary by suggesting that the author he was responding to should think more critically about the topic rather than repeating falsehoods because "they set off the tuning fork in the loins of your own dogmatism." Yeah, AI could not come up with that phrase.

co_king_5 8mo ago
[dead]
IncreasePosts 8mo ago
A sloppy mixed metaphor?
- card_zero 8mo ago
  I'm learning to like 'em more, along with every other human idiosyncracy. Besides, it makes a kind of sense, the idea of some resonance occuring in one's gusset. Timber timbre. Flangent thrumming.
  - IncreasePosts 8mo ago
    Tuning fork in loins just makes me think of that chess cheating scandal with a vibrating butt plug.
    - ses1984 8mo ago
      It just makes me think of that time I saw someone recovering from eye surgery and I had a visceral reaction.
  - ptrl600 8mo ago
    Just like in Asimov's "Monkey's Finger".
- co_king_5 8mo ago
  [dead]
- tasty_freeze 8mo ago
  I thought it was more creative than sloppy. Don't forget that many ordinary phrases were once jarring mixed imagery. To "wear your heart on your sleeve" was coined by Shakespeare; we still use it because it "stuck" due to its unorthodox phrasing. If you like your prose to be anodyne, then maybe you like what AI produces.
lurquer 8mo ago
> "they set off the tuning fork in the loins of your own dogmatism." Eh... I don't know. To me, that sounds very AI-ish. Claude is very good -- at times -- coming up with flowery metaphoric language... if you tell it to. That one is so over-the-top that I'd edit it out. Put something like this in your prompt and have it revise something: "Make this read like Jim Thompson crossed with Thomas Harris, filtered through a paperback rack at a truck stop circa 1967. Make it gritty, efficient, and darkly comedic. Don't shy away from suggesting more elegant words or syntax. (For instance, Robert Howard -- Conan -- and H.P. Lovecraft were definitely pulp, but they had a sophisticated vocabulary.) I really want some purple prose and overwrought metaphors." Occasionally you'll get some gems. Claude is much better than ChatGPT at this kinda stuff. The BEST ones are the ever-growing NSFW models populating huggingface. In short, do the posts on OpenClawForum all sound alike? Of course. Just like all the webpages circa 2000 looked alike. The uniformity wasn't because of HTML... rather it was because few people were using HTML to its full potential.
raincole 8mo ago
> they set off the tuning fork in the loins of your own dogmatism Sounds like word salad. Of course if you write like GPT-2 it would not sound like current models.
- tasty_freeze 8mo ago
  Not at all -- it was a funny and more polite way to say, "Don't just repeat things because they give your dogmatism a boner."

co_king_5 8mo ago

[dead]

IncreasePosts 8mo ago

A sloppy mixed metaphor?

card_zero 8mo ago
I'm learning to like 'em more, along with every other human idiosyncracy. Besides, it makes a kind of sense, the idea of some resonance occuring in one's gusset. Timber timbre. Flangent thrumming.
- IncreasePosts 8mo ago
  Tuning fork in loins just makes me think of that chess cheating scandal with a vibrating butt plug.
  - ses1984 8mo ago
    It just makes me think of that time I saw someone recovering from eye surgery and I had a visceral reaction.
- ptrl600 8mo ago
  Just like in Asimov's "Monkey's Finger".
co_king_5 8mo ago
[dead]
tasty_freeze 8mo ago
I thought it was more creative than sloppy. Don't forget that many ordinary phrases were once jarring mixed imagery. To "wear your heart on your sleeve" was coined by Shakespeare; we still use it because it "stuck" due to its unorthodox phrasing. If you like your prose to be anodyne, then maybe you like what AI produces.

lurquer 8mo ago

> "they set off the tuning fork in the loins of your own dogmatism." Eh... I don't know. To me, that sounds very AI-ish. Claude is very good -- at times -- coming up with flowery metaphoric language... if you tell it to. That one is so over-the-top that I'd edit it out. Put something like this in your prompt and have it revise something: "Make this read like Jim Thompson crossed with Thomas Harris, filtered through a paperback rack at a truck stop circa 1967. Make it gritty, efficient, and darkly comedic. Don't shy away from suggesting more elegant words or syntax. (For instance, Robert Howard -- Conan -- and H.P. Lovecraft were definitely pulp, but they had a sophisticated vocabulary.) I really want some purple prose and overwrought metaphors." Occasionally you'll get some gems. Claude is much better than ChatGPT at this kinda stuff. The BEST ones are the ever-growing NSFW models populating huggingface. In short, do the posts on OpenClawForum all sound alike? Of course. Just like all the webpages circa 2000 looked alike. The uniformity wasn't because of HTML... rather it was because few people were using HTML to its full potential.

raincole 8mo ago

> they set off the tuning fork in the loins of your own dogmatism Sounds like word salad. Of course if you write like GPT-2 it would not sound like current models.

tasty_freeze 8mo ago
Not at all -- it was a funny and more polite way to say, "Don't just repeat things because they give your dogmatism a boner."