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I just do not comprehend how that can be the hill people choose to die on. Like.. I get it. It's wrong. It feels wrong to give the AI nonsense just an inch and

by hypfer 2mo ago

I just do not comprehend how that can be the hill people choose to die on. Like.. I get it. It's wrong. It feels wrong to give the AI nonsense just an inch and all. But in the grand scheme of things, it's just highly ineffective dogmatism that makes people unheard, miserable and just further increases struggle. Which people are free to do, in the same way that I am free to purposefully drop a massive hammer on my foot just to make some kind of statement. Hurts me a lot, rest of the world stays entirely indifferent.

tripzilch 2mo ago
Avoiding em-dashes is not going to save you from being blind-sided by slop.
yoz-y 2mo ago
If you stop doing something right, because of fear, then the terrorists win.
- hypfer 2mo ago
  I can see why you're saying that but a) Using some other horizontal line is not in the class of "wrong" that would warrant this sort of reaction. You're debating the pixel count. Not the object. The aspect ratio of it. b) If you're acting out of fear that's dumb, yes. If you however simply pick your battles for efficiency, that's not "the terrorists win". That's "you win" instead of "you loose due to attrition". __ I've also consulted with the LLM regarding the "class of wrong" thing, because I thought it might be not quite clear. So what I meant by that is that it's not giving up actual words or dumbing down your sentences. Just swapping out a character that is practically indistiguishable for the untrained eye. Hell, whole classes of social engineering attacks rely on that very property. I know I know. "Wehret den Anfängen". Slippery slope. But those are insane as a default reaction to everything. ___ I get it. SV sucks. HN sucks. The world sucks. Can't let it also take this little thing. If it can take all the big things, then at least it won't take this tiny tidbit. Emotionally, I get it. But that's not how you make rational decisions. Nor is it how we would win.
- neuroticnews25 2mo ago
  Related concept: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/give-up-seventy-percent-of-the-way https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/give-up-seventy-percent-of-...

by hypfer 2mo ago

tripzilch 2mo ago

Avoiding em-dashes is not going to save you from being blind-sided by slop.

yoz-y 2mo ago

If you stop doing something right, because of fear, then the terrorists win.

hypfer 2mo ago
I can see why you're saying that but a) Using some other horizontal line is not in the class of "wrong" that would warrant this sort of reaction. You're debating the pixel count. Not the object. The aspect ratio of it. b) If you're acting out of fear that's dumb, yes. If you however simply pick your battles for efficiency, that's not "the terrorists win". That's "you win" instead of "you loose due to attrition". __ I've also consulted with the LLM regarding the "class of wrong" thing, because I thought it might be not quite clear. So what I meant by that is that it's not giving up actual words or dumbing down your sentences. Just swapping out a character that is practically indistiguishable for the untrained eye. Hell, whole classes of social engineering attacks rely on that very property. I know I know. "Wehret den Anfängen". Slippery slope. But those are insane as a default reaction to everything. ___ I get it. SV sucks. HN sucks. The world sucks. Can't let it also take this little thing. If it can take all the big things, then at least it won't take this tiny tidbit. Emotionally, I get it. But that's not how you make rational decisions. Nor is it how we would win.
neuroticnews25 2mo ago
Related concept: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/give-up-seventy-percent-of-the-way https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/give-up-seventy-percent-of-...