Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
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Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
8hr ago
You're posting a number of sarcastic comments in which you fail to speak plainly. Stop it.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
13hr ago
Of all the things for me to be legendary for...
I can't speak for all the other mods, but I pretty much never look at the AAQCs folder. It's all @naraburns AFAIK.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
14hr ago
Criticizing people (and their behavior) isn't against the rules, only making personal attacks (which you didn't do).
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
2d ago
5 warnings is what you have in your mod log, regardless of whether you agree with them.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
2d ago
If you think something is not worth responding to, don't respond.
Everyone who responds by being antagonistic says (and believes) that they were provoked. You are still responsible for your response.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
2d ago
Be less antagonistic. You write a lot of AAQCs, but you also have a real problem with not being a dick when arguing with people you want to talk down to. You are not a put-upon genius forced to interact with fools. Stop acting like you are.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
3d ago
Five warnings in as many months is repeatedly, and probably a ban next time.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
3d ago
Avoid low effort comments. Especially when you've been told repeatedly not to do this.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
4d ago
must admit that explicitly using a bundle of arrows to represent strength through unity was a bit much. In a movie that was less explicitly leftist to the point of tears, it might be interpreted as some kind of dogwhistle.
Or he thinks he's cleverly paying tribute to Akira Kurosawa.
(Also, shouldn't this be in the Friday Fun Thread)?
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
7d ago
I don't keep links bookmarked like some people do. I guess I would if I wanted to come back and play gotcha later, but you know I know and you know I am not the only one who's noted this. You're fooling no one.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
7d ago
You don't get to accuse anyone of shirking. We've done this dance before and you have absolutely just faded on multiple occasions, for weeks, after someone took you down point by point. You know this is true and you know many of us remember it.
And nothing in my comment breaks the rules. I have to be civil to you. I don't have to respect your views or your tactics.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
7d ago
If you can't, or don't want to, then shut the fuck up.
Everything you say about @SecureSignals is true, but you still cannot talk to people like that. He's allowed to do his tiresome thing as long as he follows the rules, and you need to be civil when responding.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
7d ago
Crushedoranges, if you disagree with anything I have written anywhere you can hit the "reply" button and I will debate you.
People have done that. You ghost when you lose the debate, and then come back to repeat the exact same talking points a few weeks later. You've done this often enough that no one who has the wherewithal to debate you is willing to do it again, so you claim victory because no one will debate you and you pretend your arguments haven't been thoroughly dispensed with multiple times, going back years.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
7d ago
Well, I can't speak for what everyone's own personal model for what the Motte should be is. However, the mission statement that's been up forever is:
This website is a place for people who want to move past shady thinking and test their ideas in a court of people who don't all share the same biases. Our goal is to optimize for light, not heat; this is a group effort, and all commentators are asked to do their part.
I would emphasize "their ideas." To me, using an LLM to pad your posts casts doubt on how much thinking you are actually engaging in or testing, or engaging with the community.
If you view the Motte as a place to find "Truth (tm)" by any means possible, well first of all, good luck. But secondly, sure, I guess at some point that purpose could be fulfilled by people just unleashing AIs to argue with each other.
but the reason should be because the actual end result is bad
See, right now I think the end result of an LLM-written post is bad. It's visibly written by an AI, and in the same way that there is some AI art that's "good" and a lot that basically serves its purpose (draws your RPG character, generates a book cover, whatever), most of it is still in the uncanny/not-quite-human/plastic and slightly "off"/overly-polished yet much of a sameness range. I feel the same way about the majority of AI writing, including smh's post. If you see it, you see it. If you don't... shrug.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
7d ago
I am powerless to change your opinion here, but know I do what I do for principled reasons and not laziness. You assume the slop will stay slop. It will be better than you, or me, sooner than is comfortable.
When AGI happens, I'll read its output.
If it's good enough that I can't tell, whatever. It is what it is.
Right now, I can still tell.
On a personal level, I write as a hobby with pretensions of someday being published. I would never use AI for my fiction writing, even if you could prove to me that the AI writes better than me, because what's the fucking point?
Will I use AI to draft recommendation letters and consumer complaints and letters of interest and the like? Sure, why not, it's probably an AI reading them.
But this place is for human interaction. If you're not using your own words, what's the fucking point?
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
7d ago
There are definitely some hysterics who can't stand AI touching anything whatsoever. And like I've said before, if you integrate AI into your work smoothly enough that we can't tell, well, we can't tell. But I think just about everyone who read @self_made_human's OP could spot the AI signature.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
7d ago
Where is your threshold for "too much"?
I know it when I see it, and when I see AI writing, it's too much.
Come on, spare me the "But what about PHOTOSHOP????? What about SPELLCHECKERS????" I am not an AI newb, nor an AI-hater. But you should not be using AI to generate your words for posting here. That is my opinion, and it will remain my opinion.
After all, there are a lot of people making pure slop. I try not to ever become one of them.
Just 10%-20% slop. That's too much slop.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
7d ago
Criticizing his use of AI is one thing, but personal attacks are unnecessary.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
7d ago
That's not the point. LLMs would make many people's writing stronger (for some value of "strong"). I'd rather read your writing, weaker or not. Now when I read you, every point you make, every turn of phrase, every word choice, I don't know if it was you or the LLM. Sure, maybe 80% to 90% of it was you. I can't know, and that makes me not care. I can prompt ChatGPT for its sparkling shiny opinions all day long.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
7d ago
My man, I quite literally said, in the essay itself, that I used ChatGPT for help. That is not the same as using it to write an essay!
And this, unfortunately, is why I now skim past your posts without reading them.
I did not actually catch the exchange you had 10 days ago with @FCfromSSC. I just now read it to find out what you're going on about.
Bluntly, you are being blatantly dishonest and really damn obnoxious.
I am very comfortable saying this is not a "misunderstanding" or a "difference in perspectives." You're just making shit up and flinging it at the wall. You are very obviously a long-time poster pursuing a grudge (as @naraburns correctly observed in your first appearance here as a "new user"). That FC mistakenly tagged you as a Darwin alt is not surprising, but I concur with him that you are probably not Darwin. You should have just let it go at that, but you've decided to play "Hound the mod."
Enough of that shit.
Banned for a week. This is your one and only chance to drop this. If you come back still spoiling for a fight because your nose is out of joint and you demand satisfaction, you have contributed exactly nothing thus far to make your continued presence here a positive.
Note this has nothing to do you with you being (allegedly) a leftist. It has to do with you being an insufferable jerk.
ETA: Permabanned for post-ban editing, harassment in modmail, and spamming the mod queue by reporting every post on the board.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
9d ago
He got beat up pretty hard by fans for being a Mormon. He did the grovel and "I'm learning" ritual and promised to put some gay characters in his books, which he did, but he handles them about as well as he handles romance. He just can't take the Mormon out of the Cosmere.
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
9d ago
I was very meh on Absolution. Don't know why, but it just didn't do much for me.
I loved the Lensmen books as a kid. May have to give them a reread one of these days.
I did not much like Red Mars. I find KSR dry as dust.
Cormac McCarthy is very hit-or-miss for me. No Country For Old Men is fantastic, and Blood Meridian is one of my favorite books ever. But I have not much liked any of his other books, and I really disliked The Road. It was written like "Literary author thinks he's invented the post-apocalyptic novel."
Amadan
Letting the hate flow through me
9d ago
Gods, Brandon Sanderson fans.
"Angsty teen gets superpowers" may not be literally all his characters, but it's present in almost all his books (and if it's not "teen" it's "young adult").
A more accurate description of every one of his books would be "Hero who refuses to bend his/her principles figures out exploits in the magic system to p0wn opponents."
I've read about a dozen Sanderson novels, and at this point I'm pretty much done with him. He usually starts a series with a great premise and interesting characters, and by book two or three I am sick of hitting Every Single Sanderson Trope by the numbers.
No, "smug" is not against the rules.
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