Way Status:

Genderfluid AMAB. Pronouns: any of he/she/they. I tag very inconsistently, sorry.

sexhaver:

sexhaver:

“chatGPT will confidently spit out information cobbled together from various sources in its dataset that sounds correct even when it blatantly isn’t”

correct! that’s why it’s important to remember that chatbots don’t have any sort of inherent fact-checking

“this means it’s LYING to you! why, i work at a library, and just the other day, i had three college students submit lists of entirely nonexistent articles that chatGPT had cited as sources!”

well i think “lying” is anthropomorphizing it a little bit too m- oh my god what the fuck graduate students are using chatGPT as a resource? for writing PAPERS???? and not even googling the articles they asked you for first??? and you think the issue here is fucking CHATGPT???????

an addendum:

  1. yes, i am aware that some of the fault here lies with the producers of these chatbots, who hype them up to the point of outright lying about their capabilities. that barely increases my sympathy towards people who take chatGPT output and assume it’s true without even doing the bare minimum of followup legwork to confirm it. if Microsoft ran ads telling people that “gullible” was written on the ceiling, there would still be dozens of thinkpieces by the end of the day about how you’re not allowed to laugh at anyone who fell for it because It Says A Lot About Our Society.
  2. using chatGPT (or any other chatbot trained on a sufficiently broad dataset) to write your college paper is academic dishonesty, lazy, a bad idea, liable to get you suspended or expelled, and generally just shooting yourself in the foot with a Howitzer. it is NOT plagiarism. how are you going to complain about how chatGPT invents new sentences that were never in the material it claims they were from, and then in the same breath say that it’s just blindly copying stuff? which one is it? yes, chatGPT synthesizes ideas and phrases from multiple existing papers to produce novel-sounding output. you also do this. come on guys we went over this whole plagiarism thing with artbots, don’t make me tap the sign about how IP law is not your friend.
  3. after perusing the notes, i have come to the conclusion that teachers should be paid ten thousand dollars per second as compensation for having to grade this shit

centrally-unplanned:

charliejaneanders:

“Imagine what it would look like if ChatGPT were a lossless algorithm. If that were the case, it would always answer questions by providing a verbatim quote from a relevant Web page. We would probably regard the software as only a slight improvement over a conventional search engine, and be less impressed by it. The fact that ChatGPT rephrases material from the Web instead of quoting it word for word makes it seem like a student expressing ideas in her own words, rather than simply regurgitating what she’s read; it creates the illusion that ChatGPT understands the material. In human students, rote memorization isn’t an indicator of genuine learning, so ChatGPT’s inability to produce exact quotes from Web pages is precisely what makes us think that it has learned something. When we’re dealing with sequences of words, lossy compression looks smarter than lossless compression.”

Ted Chiang’s essay about ChatGPT is required reading

This is one of those statements that is both true, and also I have terrible news for you about the median learning outcomes for most students.

cannibalchicken:
“your friends love you, your brain is just mean
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All these people, while clearly well meaning, should have done more to help their friend feel comfortable.
It’s not just that his brain is mean. It’s that he was standing in the...

cannibalchicken:

your friends love you, your brain is just mean

All these people, while clearly well meaning, should have done more to help their friend feel comfortable.

It’s not just that his brain is mean. It’s that he was standing in the corner at a social function with nothing to do but see a bunch of happy people partying. Nobody would wanna come back to the party in that situation, right?

Anonymous asked:

I’m sure it’s constantly mentioned (especially to you) but it’s funny how Ash and the gang are able to immediately tell that James’ fiancée looks identical to Jessie given their track record of not being able to recognize Jessie even when she’s wearing less of an effective disguise.

Just makes me imagine a slice of life bit where ash encounters the two of them back to back and Ash still can’t recognize Jessie even in his own home but when he randomly walks by Jessebelle in town, arm in arm with some random guy, he goes “Oh my god Jessie is cheating on my mom!”

yamujiburo:

i honestly think that’s why it makes sense why they never call out jessie’s disguises. they’ve seen someone who looks EXACTLY like her, so who’s to say there aren’t more! they wouldn’t wanna assume hahaha

Remember Ash lives in a world where the Nurse Joys and Officer Jennys exist.

atheostic:

dandy-daisylion:

atheostic:

Me: *mentions Yahweh in a post about the Abrahamic god*

Christian, Jew or Muslim: Who tf is Yahweh?*

My brain, every time:

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By which I mean this exact image pops into my head

(Why do I, an atheist, know more about who you worship than you do?!)

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* Not an exaggeration. This is a direct quote from an interaction a while back.

hi, jew here, fun fact!!!! this is because that name is *super duper special sacred* to jews! like, never gets said out loud except for one day a year *in the Temple, by the Head Priest* kind of sacred! so sacred we have numerous different ways of talking around it so we don’t accidentally say it!! because we believe that this is the Most Sacred of all the names of G-d that are knowable to humanity, and saying it is like literally invoking G-d’s direct attention *at you right now*. and you had damn well better be sure that you are interested in that kind of attention. the kind of attention that, according to our history and folklore, can do shit like spontaneously draw your soul back to Heaven, requiring G-d to place it back in your body personally.


also it isn’t actually pronounced like that, Yahw*h is just a bad english transliteration that’s not really recognizable as being the same word.


so. yeah. that’s why the jews don’t recognize it.

Ok, fair enough when it comes to theist Jews.

But when it’s so unrecognizable to Jews that I’ve had several Jews on this site type in Yahweh without censoring like you did shouldn’t it be said at least enough to teach people what not to say? Because they’re not observing the rule about not saying the tetragrammaton since they don’t know about it.

As to whether it’s a bad anglicization of the name – it wouldn’t surprise me considering how bad English is at anglicizing things, but it is considered to be the name of the Abrahamic god in anglophone theological academia. (The two things aren’t mutually exclusive, after all)

So, the four letter name of God is spelled “Yud Hey Vav Hey” in Hebrew, letters that are roughly equivalent in English to “YHVH”.

First complication: that second letter, at least in modern Hebrew, is “Vav” not “Waw”, and its pronunciation is “V” not “W”. I don’t know where the W originates, but it was always consistently pronounced this way in Hebrew school and I’m pretty confident it’s not a dialect thing either.

Second complication: you might notice that none of those letters are vowels. That’s because Hebrew is written with an abjad, a type of character set that doesn’t include vowels. This is only partly true in practice: there are a few “silent letters” that are really secretly vowel containers. But none of those appear in this word. So we don’t know any of the vowels.

Third: while “vav” has an ordinary consonant pronunciation, it also in some circumstances can be completely replaced by an “oo” sound. Not “voo”, just “oo”.

Fourth: the letter “hey” at the end of a word is often silent, in the sense of being one of those vowel container letters. Honestly it’s very similar to how I have to write “eh” with an “h” in English and can’t just convey that sound with “e” unambiguously.

Fifth: the letter “hey” is never silent in the middle of a word. It also usually takes a vowel afterwards when pronounced.

So, some of the possible pronunciations are “Yeehoo”, “Yaheveh”, “Yeehovoh”, “Yeheevah”, “Yihava”, etc, etc. The list just goes on and on. “Yahveh”, notably, is not one of the possibilities. “Yaheveh” is about as close as you can reasonably get.

janmisali:

janmisali:

you know what. after seeing Another blazed poll about this I’m gonna just

do you play The Game (mind game)?

unsure what game this is referring to

everyone who is aware of The Game is playing it (this is cool)

everyone who is aware of The Game is playing it (this bothers me)

everyone who is aware of The Game is playing it (I feel neutral about this)

I play The Game, but by choice

I am aware of The Game, but have chosen not to play

I stopped playing in a more convoluted way

I want to be performatively angry at this post

I am sincerely angry at this post

[show results]

if you want to act angry in the notes fine but PLEASE be clear about if the anger is sincere not, because I can’t tell, and that’s (part of) the point of this poll. I want to know if people who get angry about this are doing it as a bit or not

I wish there was a specific option for that one XKCD cuz as currently written I think it will get split across “chose to stop” and “more convoluted way”.