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by Veen 1y ago
I use it as a proofreader, not to improve my writing. It’s difficult to proofread your own work, and Grammarly is a useful assistant. Plus, I’m British and I often write on behalf of American clients. I’m pretty good at following US English
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by Veen 1y ago
As someone who makes a living by writing, this myth about em dashes is annoying. I have always used them. But now I have to avoid them so clients don't think my work is AI-generated. I don't believe this article is largely AI-gene
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by Veen 1y ago
It would imply that when dealing with complex systems, models and conceptual frameworks are, at the very best, useful approximations. It would also imply that it is foolhardy to ignore phenomena simply because they are not comprehensible wi
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by Veen 1y ago
You could just ask it: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/5f4cb680-9a99-4781-8803-9... (No idea how good that is. I just gave it your comment)
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by Veen 1y ago
I think perhaps the confusion is in the other direction, but I’ve learned not to hold unmerited high-handedness against autists.
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by Veen 1y ago
If all that’s been shown is that LLM consciousness is not impossible then the point barely seems worth making. One tends to assume that interlocutors are trying to do more than point out the bleeding obvious.
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by Veen 1y ago
The actual conclusion: "We've established that computers can be conscious, so LLMs might be" The foregoing argument does not establish that computers can be conscious. It assumes consciousness arises from purely physical inte
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by Veen 1y ago
The "as far as we know" in premise one is hand-waving the critical point. We don't know how or if conscious arises from purely physical systems. It may be physical, but inadequately replicated by computer systems (it may be n
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by Veen 1y ago
Pepys wasn't the average man, though. That's why I specified a man of his time and class. He was a successful and increasingly powerful man on the edges of Restoration court and aristocratic culture, in which such behaviour was
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by Veen 1y ago
Perhaps you should reconsider your assumption that everyone is as ignorant of history and psychology as you appear to be.
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by Veen 1y ago
Yes, Pepys was a charming, fascinating, funny, highly intelligent man who was also a rapist.
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by Veen 1y ago
Pepys attitudes and behaviours in that regard were unremarkable for a man of his time and class. It would have been more surprising - and more worth commenting on - if he’d anachronistically endorsed modern standards of sexual propriety.
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by Veen 1y ago
One commonly observed midwit behaviour is to make arguments based on the dictionary definition of a word, having failed to understand that there is a complex set of cultural and social connotations implied by its use. In the case of the mid
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by Veen 1y ago
The writing is the point. A well-structured, well-argued, and well-written article indicates the writer has devoted considerable time to understanding and thinking through the topic — if they haven't, it quickly becomes obvious. A seri
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by Veen 1y ago
It is, but that doesn't alleviate you of personal agency or accountability.
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by Veen 1y ago
It does work. Your problem may be different, but it temporarily stopped working for me because I set "Search Engine to Redirect" in the Kagi Extension to Google (because my browser search engine default was Google). My "!g&qu
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by Veen 1y ago
The British Vale voice changed for the worse too. It used to be warm and friendly, but today there’s much more uptalk and she sounds rather snarky, like she’d really rather not be taking to you at all. Not an improvement.
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by Veen 1y ago
In general, it’s unwise to take corporate comms at face value. Think about what Andreessen Horowitz would like investors and founders to believe and how it would like them to behave. Then consider the post as if it were an attempt instil
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by Veen 1y ago
Coming up with new ways to describe things is what scholars do. That's compounded by the fact that they rarely like the "popular" terminology for what they study — it's always more complicated and fragmented and interest
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by Veen 1y ago
We shouldn't be too quick to jump to "AI did it." People write redundant paragraphs and sentences in articles all the time because they're led to believe that every article needs a conclusion that sums up what's alr
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by Veen 1y ago
Provoking a negative emotional reaction is pretty much what offensive means. What else would it mean to be offended? For example, I have a negative emotional reaction when strangers on the internet tell me I might want to "do some refl
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by Veen 1y ago
The working class used to have working men’s clubs, but they no longer serve the same purpose.
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by Veen 1y ago
James VI and I, not IV and I.
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by Veen 1y ago
They aren’t optimising for speed, sharing, or searchability. Notes of this type aren’t an inadequate database, but a tool for thinking. Note-takers visualize and symbolise their thinking while they work through a problem. Writing and drawin
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by Veen 1y ago
Perhaps it's not really intended to be of widespread practical use. It's useful to the person who made it because it powers his website. But sometimes people do stuff just because they think it's fun or cool. Or as a sort of
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by Veen 1y ago
I would like to imagine that pg's obsession with pared-down, simple sentences is a post-traumatic stress response to an early encounter with Kant's prose.
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by Veen 1y ago
Perhaps, but 20 years after Rorty's death, he's largely forgotten. I think it unlikely the same will be true of MacIntyre two-decades hence.
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by Veen 1y ago
There's a footnote right at the bottom that says: [1] Also, AI be damned, we are going to keep using em dashes!
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by Veen 1y ago
That’s not bad writing; it's intentional ambiguity. Alephic wants potential clients to understand that they do "AI stuff," so when a company is looking for help with "AI stuff", they can say, "Yes! Of course we
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by Veen 1y ago
Science isn't the only form of empiricism. In this case, the writer is reporting what she has learned through a long process of observation, a useful form of experience. No doubt in the process she has formed ideas, watched to see if t

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