jkf
1d ago
You’d still be you.
It's actually very much in doubt to what extent "you" resides in your brain specifically -- the nervous system is much more complicated than that.
Cis men who have taken oestrogen (more common in the past to treat testicular or prostate cancer)
You don't think that those symptoms could be related to, y'know -- having cancer at all?
jkf
1d ago
I also wanted to hear what the better informed have to say, and providing a basis for discussion makes me feel the mission is accomplished.
You generated (by my count) one substantive response about SEZs, a couple of 1-2 sentence replies about China in general, and 20 pages of complaints about your slop. (plus a couple about how nice Hong Kong is and whether it's OK to speak Cantonese there)
"Less boring than Reuters" is not the bar we are aiming for with top level posts AFAIK?
Even if this were true, is "yeah my post was kind of bad, but at least it generated good discussion" a valid excuse for rule-breaking now?
jkf
2d ago
I'm pushing 50 and still have mine -- they are... not particularly straight, only partially emerged and conventional dental advice is certainly to remove them.
I haven't got any solid impression of the consequences of not doing so though, and therefore haven't -- seems fine. YMMV.
jkf
2d ago
Most men can't easily tell the difference between 5'10 and 6' either.
To be fair, most people can put height in about 5 bins -- way taller, a little taller, same height, a little shorter, and really short -- compared to themselves.
Just that to the average woman, "way taller" covers a lot of ground. (and "a little bit taller" from what I hear is mostly fine)
jkf
2d ago
He's the one who said it was intrinsically boring! If the LLM made something super-interesting super-boring instead, he should definitely not be using it!
jkf
2d ago
Of course. Have I ever struck you as being not into introspection or lacking self-awareness?
Kind of? You are getting quite a lot of feedback right now that this particular writing is worse than your less-LLM-inflected (infected?) pieces, and are continuing to bluster on about how great it is.
I'm sure someone could make it exciting, that someone might not be me. I settled for accurate journalism with Chinese characteristics.
So why are you doing it? Is there some shortage of actual journalism about China that needs addressing so badly that boring prooompted longposts on the Motte are required?
You could always, like -- write about something that isn't boring?
jkf
2d ago
Well I can say that this latest post was super-boring to read -- you say that this is not so important to you, which is kind of a weird thing for somebody who wants to be a writer to say. Unless you are writing strictly for your own entertainment, in which case there seems no need to make the product public?
In any case, given that you consider a boring end product undesirable to at least a certain degree, maybe consider the extent to which the LLM's "help" with your writing was actually having the effect of making it more boring to read before "writing" any more of these pieces?
I thought the rule was something like "you can use AI, but not too much" -- you have generated 20 pages of complaints, is that not a sign that it might be a little too much?
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