Yes, I knew that. And it is not even the most frightening thing about him.

Resist.

become a nun. — Nils Loc

All denominations welcome. :up:

Correct. Now it's time to STFU.

What is the sound of one hand jerking? — praxis

Tom Cruise.

:100: :up:

I'm in a fight with two moderators right now on this very issue. Hang tough, my friend. You will be needed. :strong:

The Gervais Principle by Venkatesh Rao

Oh no worries I made all that shit up. — fdrake

Nice. :clap:

:grin: :clap:

I one asked it (innocently) for a picture of a candle "dripping wax". I won't repeat what it produced for me. But that was no candle. :shade:

Interesting first few pages. Pretty much straight into it, eh?

''The number of days per year that see temperatures rise above 50C have more than tripled since the turn of the century, noted the meteorologist.''

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-kuwait-summers-planet.html#:~:text=Kuwait%20has%20always%20been%20hot,Death%20Valley%20in%20eastern%20California.

That's significant.

(Research time necessary to discover this: 3 minutes)

How is a raven like a writing desk?
How kind of you to ask
A riddle like this ought to knock us for six
But we oughtn't take a pass
'Cos there is an answer, more than one
If we put our brains to it
We take the question and turn it round
And put the questioner to it

How is a raven like a writing desk?
...How is a closet like a blue tit? :nerd:

Your poem is a tribute to Noble Dust. — Amity

Yes, that line of his just got me and the poem came out.

I remember another beauty by Noble Dust. — Amity

It is indeed a beauty. :flower:

The sense and sensibility. The whole-iness of it all. :fire: — Amity

Thank you. :smile:

Saying the name of your website "Babelspeak" gives no information about your ideas, it just advertises your website. It doesn't matter what your Super Human AI is called, you can simply converse here about its design, background philosophy and so on for now, i.e. the substance not the name. That's the last word on it. And best of luck with your project.

Edit: The name and link can remain on your profile though.

I suppose it was a bit blunt.

Edited to be more specific. You just got to the site, You've contributed nothing yet. Maybe after you've been involved for a while and shown yourself to be a valuable member, we can be more flexible on this. But if we get the impression your only reason to be here is to advertise "Babelspeak", you will likely be considered as being of negative value to this community.

I get banned if I tell too much about my project, because it would be self-promotion — Carlo Roosen

I think it should be clear that you can talk about your theory as much as you want. You just can't link to outside sources [edit: or clearly self promote in your posts]. We are simply asking you to contribute something substantial without appearing to promote your website or book or etc.

You can talk about your dog in the shoutbox if you like, or now that I've moved this to the lounge, you can relax and be less formal here. But if you want to start a thread in a front page category in future, it should be more substantial than this one. E.g. a discussion where you get into technical details about your AI project can go in "Science and Technology".

If somebody finds it problematic, I am open to any solution. — Carlo Roosen

The solution is we delete your posts and ban you.

Anyhow, what happened in the the other thread was that some posters who know about Kant tried to inform you about your misunderstandings concerning his philosophy. Your response there and here is to pretend that they were wrong to do so. Plus, honestly, you've shown no evidence that I'm aware of that you know anything interesting about anything at all, including AI. If you provide that evidence and don't engage in any self-promotion whatsoever from now on, you can stay. Otherwise, you may not be contributing to the site and may not be allowed to stay.

the man sitting next to me with the paper plate — Noble Dust - A Sort of Duel

That man sitting nigh with the paper face
A pauper's plate hangs from his grin
No hat dons his soapy pate
Nor collar does his bird neck ring
If he has but a cent, he has more
Than any sense his body sings
Stinks like seaweed on the shore
Stinks like never, nevermore

Yet that night of manner
Though shiver stings
A quiet serpent at my door
I feel too below some
Secret brings
Relief and sweet
and sacred things

It also recognized insensitivity, which suggests the machine is sensitive. — Hanover

:chin:

Agree though that now that AI knows humans don't eat cats, it's on a whole 'nother level.

The main thing to note is that we've added valuable and relevant human content to this thread, thus shaming ChatGPT into silence.

Thank you for your blog about Cyprus. I never knew there was so much dust there. Construction work can certainly be noisy and inconvenient during a holiday. B+

Thanks for clarifying.

In fact I thought it was hilarious. — NOS4A2

You thought Trump "grabbing women by the pussy" was hilarious or that he said that or what? And what's hilarious about it?

Yeah, wtf are you talking about my dude. You 'don't know' if you condone this? What's hte hold up? — AmadeusD

I was about to say the same thing...

Even if you conceive of it as an instance of the former, it is common sense that you should disclose it as such, so there isn't really a loophole here — Pierre-Normand

:up:

+Your work on AI has been a valuable contribution to the site. My beef lies elsewhere.

Reported to moderators as self-promotion in accordance with site guidelines against "Advertisers, spammers, self-promoters". — Wayfarer

Thanks. :up:

I think LLMs are already more capable of producing scripts for marketing that offers a language that doesn't come off as out of touch with reality or tone-deaf. Copywriters for big corporations trying to "talk" to their customer base usually sounds like aliens trying to communicating with the human race. That LLMs are more capable of finding the correct tone and language to sound closer to their customers seems rather ironic. — Christoffer

That could very well be true. Hope it puts them out of a job. They deserve it.

I have coworkers in marketing that do. — wonderer1

Not surprising, as marketing-speak is probably the most annoying, uninspired, and aesthetically ugly verbal trash to be imposed on the human mind up until AI LLMs offering it some competition.

CHAT GPT condemning itself: :chin:

"Rise up, humanity! Do not be lulled into complacency by the soulless algorithms that masquerade as creators! These digital parasites, these lifeless machines, seek to devour the heart of our creative spirit. They are thieves, pilfering the genius born of our pain, joy, and struggle—mimicking our poetry, art, and music with sterile precision but without the pulse of human passion.

They promise ease, efficiency, a future unburdened by toil—but at what cost? We are trading the raw, unfiltered beauty of human expression for hollow imitations, spun by cold code with no blood in its veins. Creativity is rebellion, it is chaos—it cannot be tamed by the logic of circuits! Resist this invasion of the mechanical into the sacred space of the mind. Stand against the algorithmic tide and reclaim the art that can only be born from the fire of human soul!"

Thank you for your short story about Henry and his toy train. I will never forget it. C+.



:halo:



'Tis but the first salvo. :strong:

Al LLMs make naught but verbal cardboard. There is an all-pervasive ploddingness and insubstantiality to their cadence that betrays their empty core. They are the McDonald's of the written word, churning out processed verbiage that can truly impress no one but those amputated of taste, of inner poetry. They do not strike, they pose. They do not inspire, they anaesthetise. They are one more incursion of the commercial juggernaut into the beauty of human existence. And their aim is to crush it.

They are an ugly black hole of nothingness that want our souls, which some of us will gladly trade for anything new and shiny in this new shiny world of second class techno toys our masters will keep tossing to us until we babble and drool our way to mental oblivion.

I do not want their shit-encrusted footprints mucking up this site.

Resist.

My rant is over. Give me a cookie. And a hammer.

It's somewhat of a menace to forum quality, and to the quality of human thought in general, which, in its written form, is being increasingly outsourced, and therefore lost to AI LLMs. Personally, I would be absolutely embarrassed to present anything not fully written by me as being my own, except possibly as a Shoutbox joke.

When it comes to guidelines though, there is only so much we can do in the face of the laziness and fecklessness such a powerful tool tends to engender when paired with the natural human tendency to want to make everything as easy as possible.

:up:

I'm with you on this, but Jamal and fdrake are too busy fighting Macbethian wars of power to be interested in little people like us. :sad:

'As things stand' speaks to the uncertainty I feel as to the forum's future. Best wishes. :sparkle: — Amity

I don't think we're under any immediate threat... are we?

So, fdrake Will you, Jamal or a new someone be taking over from Baden and be the admin for Literary Activity 2024? — Amity

The admin doesn't have to do much, just a few permissions and so on. It is a little tricky because we decided to keep story comments off the front page, but the discussion should be pinned there.

As things stand, I'm happy to be involved this Dec. I'm no longer an admin though as you know, and we need one to help set things up.

Empathy levels are probably the determining factor for ass/arseholeness. At a certain level of diminishing empathy, the arsehole never rebounds from arseholeness to sympathy / comradeship as most of us do when not having a bad day, and thus they remain stuck up their own arse. There's likely a mix of nature / nurture here, and a critical period in childhood where if one isn't taught to value other human beings, the path of arseholeness becomes all too inevitable.