At 2026-11-12T16:24:26+0000, Deri wrote:
> On Thursday, 12 November 2026 14:41:30 Greenwich Mean Time G. Branden
> Robinson wrote:
> > Thus, there at least are two things I'd have no problem with, which,
> > given the tenor of this thread, might surprise people.
> > 
> > 1.  Deri putting a comment in gropdf.pl along these lines.
> > 
> >     # I once did this differently but the groff maintainer is a prat.
> 
> I rushed to grep any of those words in gropdf.pl, alas absent, but
> watch out for my next push. ;-)

I'll steel myself.  ;-)

> On peoples' accents: I spoke to 'gemini' once - asking it a question -
> its response was "Do one". (I'd love to know what it thought I said to
> it - it certainly wasn't a question with multiple choice answers).
> Usually I have about 75% success rate in people I don't know
> understanding my speech (face- to-face - a bit lower on the phone
> because they are trying to work out if I'm inebriated or not). For
> LLMs its 0%, so much for "super intelligence"!

That's a pretty dark insight into what big tech companies think the
social utility of LLMs _isn't_.  :-/

Regards,
Branden

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