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Comment by Clubber

3 days ago

You can run it through AI to summarize it down to a sentence or two. It's like the telephone game but with computers.

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rpigab  2 days ago

I'll buy the AI LLM that finds the prompt that was used based on the output, and replaces posts and emails by their prompt so I can actually understand the intention of the author and not spend my whole afternoon going through all bullet points with highly redundant information.

/s, of course, but not that unrealistic.

  • TeMPOraL  2 days ago

    Not that /s, really. If you think about it, what a person writing a long-winded e-mail full of redundant text is doing, is the same work LLM is - they have a prompt in their mind, and they're generating text that "sounds nice" out of it.

    AI or not, it would be better if they just sent their prompt instead.

  • babyshake  2 days ago

    If you don't have the original input, how would you determine the prompt that was used to generate the output?

chrisandchris  3 days ago

Then why did you even write more than two sentences in the first place, if nothing else matters? Why didn't you write a summary-line at the beginning, consisting of two sentences?

AI will not replace human thinking, even though many people seem to believe and put their brain on stand-by.

It feels like someone wants to transport water from A to B and transports it as steam, just because _we can _.

  • fijiaarone  2 days ago

    If AI doesn’t replace human thinking, we will have to find something else that does, or just go without.

  • lazide  2 days ago

    This is the really hilarious ‘engineer thinking’ vs ‘normie’ thinking difference which rears its head sometimes.

    after all, what’s the point of a giving someone a bunch of cheap flashy gifts for Christmas (instead of say, socks) either?

    As long as we can all pretend they were thoughtful and meaningful, and someone isn’t using AI when making it (or just picking random crap off the shelf, and they removed the price tags) or using AI when reading it (aka making a big show of opening it, and then throwing them in the trash immediately after the person leaves), then we all get along. It even looks like we’re doing a ton of work/spending a ton of money to make the other person happy.

    Not that anyone does any of the things I’m describing, just being hypothetical, obviously.

    I suspect it will be obvious enough shortly it will go the way of the ‘popcorn bucket’ fad or the like, but for now…

    • watwut  2 days ago

      "Normies" actually prefer to get a paragraph long email rather then three pages saying the same thing. AI is NOT adding just a few socially expected niceties. It adds huge amount of fluff.

      And what "normies" do with that is skimming it, ignoring majority of it and answering random part.

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    • TeMPOraL  2 days ago

      > after all, what’s the point of a giving someone a bunch of cheap flashy gifts for Christmas (instead of say, socks) either?

      Making them feel good and "seen", obviously. This is perfectly expressible in "engineer thinking" (I won't say "quantifiable", because there's this meme that engineers see things in binary, whereas the reality is, math is perfectly fine with fuzzy ideas and uncertainty - it's the normies that can't handle those).

      Hell, there are some game-theoretic approaches to maximize social ROI on gifts, but I won't go into those, especially that they tend to flip the sign on the return if the recipient learns about them.