vonunov

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by vonunov 5mo ago
Not always or inherently, I would say, but if you can't help consciously noticing how much a piece uses tricolons, or negative parallel constructions, or dashes offsetting punchy clauses at the ends of sentences, then the style has pro
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by vonunov 5mo ago
In my experience, and as someone who has technically been a professional copy editor before (in the sense that I got paid by someone to perform line/copy editing of some material or other, but definitely not who or what you would thi
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by vonunov 5mo ago
The robot can be made to write any such thing In the interest of not occupying significant page/screen height with LLM output, example prompts+responses here: https://dpaste.com/H9DXKNYQH.txt
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by vonunov 5mo ago
Surely it hasn't escaped your notice that the LLMs don't tend to stick to just the one set of idioms/devices. They're constantly running new batches of them into the ground
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by vonunov 5mo ago
I don't want to make this about people's faith or whatever, but to put it frankly, I've heard a lot of contemporary Christian music, I don't care for it, and [I like to think] I can reliably recognize it in three notes
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by vonunov 6mo ago
(I would drop this somewhere more relevant but apparently replying to a thing from 17 days ago would be necroing here + PMs are hard or something) >[1] With what prompt!? I like the terse output! Do share... Not sure if it's complet
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by vonunov 6mo ago
Just off the top of my head, an offense of impersonation will have an element along the lines of "doing [a] thing[s] such that a reasonable person [does/would] believe you're a real cop", which [optimistically] would not
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by vonunov 6mo ago
the FCC doesn't seem to think so
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by vonunov 6mo ago
>And, just as I can now recognize Christian music in three notes or less, I can spot ChatGPT output without necessarily even reading any one contiguous string of it. I can just tell by the shape or something.¹ 1. https://v-n-n
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by vonunov 7mo ago
Well, I mean, kind of https://i.vgy.me/UtZJt0.png
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by vonunov 7mo ago
If it has any regularity to it, then LLMs will, so to speak, figure it out. Maybe if you do it like a game of Mao¹ you could make it a little bit harder for them. 1. https://everything2.com/node/e2node/How%20to%20p
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by vonunov 7mo ago
If you also want a thing to do typewriting on, later-model word processors (e.g., Smith Corona PWP series) tend to have a feature that auto-types text entered and edited earlier. It'll have the imprinting insofar as the type impacts th
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by vonunov 8mo ago
I finally got all the nits picked out, except it seems to erroneously point out supposed section reference errors: ---- Reference to 'Section 13.1.3' but there is no Section 13 in the document - this appears to be a copy-paste err
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by vonunov 8mo ago
> disingenuous pretending at human experience; alluding vaguely to " that [relatable experience]" and hoping we won't notice that there is clearly no actual knowledge of the qualia it tries to invoke > subtly detached
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by vonunov 8mo ago
You're really on to something there (-:
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by vonunov 8mo ago
Interesting, thanks. Notwithstanding all I've said, I've also struggled with a nebulous sense that there's something to handwriting, possibly bordering on "sacred", to be a bit dramatic about it. This has resulted i
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by vonunov 8mo ago
https://i.vgy.me/JuGzDb.png (user input marked)
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by vonunov 8mo ago
I suspect it's to do with fluency, at least partially. Have you looked into how it goes for very fluent typists? Problem is, I suspect you might get enough fluency that typing isn't distracting as compared to handwriting only at s
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by vonunov 8mo ago
Chicago says to format dashes like this—and ellipses . . . like this. . . . AP says to format dashes like this — and ellipses ... like this. ... Who's "correct"?
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by vonunov 8mo ago
Embrace the double hyphen -- it's still attested in Garner's ;)
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by vonunov 8mo ago
Yes, the LLMs have made great progress in that regard. It wasn't too long ago that the majority of dashes seen in LLM material could have been commas, periods, or nothing at all with no loss of tone or meaning, and almost none were use
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by vonunov 8mo ago
Trivia Madness!:1 4 lyf
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by vonunov 8mo ago
Now I'm just burning to know how the debate about which way to round it went down
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by vonunov 8mo ago
Are we talking about with OTR? You're meant to verify fingerprints out of band as usual. Without, I guess you check if they've authenticated to nickserv if there are services. Or do your own checks or heuristics.
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by vonunov 8mo ago
or what
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by vonunov 8mo ago
∙ Paragraphs: 32; ∙ Sentence-level rule of three: 9; ∙ Paragraph-level rule of three: 10; ∙ Parallel contrast: 11; ∙ Dramatic sentence-initial conjunction (polysyndeton): 6; ∙ Literary conjunctionless list (asyndeton): 9; ∙ Foo x, foo y, [f
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by vonunov 8mo ago
I was wondering. Maybe "refined", as a derivative of the verb?
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by vonunov 8mo ago
https://i.vgy.me/Q5qIIP.png
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by vonunov 9mo ago
"The queue is a thing that tends to happen when you're trying to design policy with the aim of limiting/regulating immigration to amounts that wouldn't be problematic or unmanageable in some way, but the queue itself sho
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by vonunov 9mo ago
> no /pop command

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