In order to go to Infiniiiiting and beyond. Have Rex and woody get the zargle type one flux repair module for a type 3 warp cleared space craft. Then the evil forces of Lord Zedd and Emperror Zurg can be thwarted. I'll be around all week.
On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 5:18 PM Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > Nick - > > i used to faint-dead when people used "inform" to mean "shape" as in,"My > thinking was informed by Glen's concept, Steelmanning," but I am trying to > get over that. Turns out it's a perfectly valid meaning of the verb, and I > don't have a leg to stand on. I still hate it, but I hate it quietly. I > don't object when people say it. I just think about ways to kill them > later. > > <grin> I will try to let that inform my articulations and constructions > herein, henceforth </grin> > > FWIW I did punch this meta-answer through GPT-4 to get feedback on its > grammaricity (my neologism for grammatically correct) and it gave me basic > permission to use it but with myriad warnings about possible misconstruals. > > And for recursive fascination, GPT-4 offered the following rewrite of the > above: > > "For what it's worth, I submitted this meta-answer to GPT-4 for feedback > on its grammaticality, and it provided suggestions, cautioning me about > possible misunderstandings." > > I could probably benefit from a GPT-4 based agent-filter to my FriAM posts > (or all my writing)... but doing so seems to risk getting closer to the > fall-line of one slippery slope or another, whether inviting AI to become > my overlord or risking becoming post/transhuman. I'll save the tangential > riff this is triggering for a followup post (which I may or may not > actually release into the FriAMstreamOconsciousness)... > > - Steve > > *"I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not > sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant"* > > vs GPT's attempt to deconvolute this affected (attributed to John > McCloskey) convolution: > > *"You might have misunderstood my intended meaning, despite believing you > understood what I said."* > > > > > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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