Comment by Sanzig
10 hours ago
Input: the Gettysburg Address.
Output:
87 years ago, our founders launched a disruptive startup on this continent—a new nation built on the core values of liberty and the mission-driven proposition that "all men are created equal."
Right now, we’re facing a major pivot point in a great civil war, testing whether this organization, or any venture with such a strong culture and vision, can truly scale and endure. We’re currently on-site at a key battlefield of this conflict. We’ve gathered here to dedicate a portion of this space as a final resting place for the team members who gave everything to ensure the brand could live on. It’s the right strategic move.
But looking at the bigger picture, we can’t actually "brand" or "consecrate" this ground. The high-performers, both living and dead, who put in the work here have already established its value far beyond our ability to add or detract. The world won't remember our status updates, but it will never forget their execution.
It’s up to us—the remaining stakeholders—to stay dedicated to the massive project ahead of us. We need to take inspiration from these top-tier contributors and double down on the cause they were so passionate about. We are here to resolve that their efforts won't be a sunk cost; that this nation will undergo a digital transformation of freedom; and that a customer-centric government—of the people, by the people, for the people—will never be disrupted out of existence. #Leadership #Vision #Legacy #GrowthMindset
To be presented as a talk track to the Gettysburg Powerpoint: https://norvig.com/Gettysburg/
>The world won't remember our status updates, but it will never forget their execution.
PMs btfo
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What is the "LinkedIn Lexicon"?
It’s a high-impact communication style that injects massive energy into every phrase until they literally explode with value!
stating questions as fact, love it.
This is great. My only gripe is that it's still way too smart compared to most of the stuff I see on LinkedIn. If it had wrapped up with a "it's not X, it's Y", would've been perfect.
It also doesn't have enough "not" contrasts. "Not to remember what we say here, but to remember what was done here."
Then again maybe the quality of Lincoln's literacy defies it.
> Then again maybe the quality of Lincoln's literacy defies it.
I think so. My first thought reading this output is that I should ask the LLM to first write in the style of Lincoln and then slightly modernize the prose.
Everybody else looks for em dashes. For me that is the number 1 tell of AI.
Anybody else being annoyed by all this focus on em-dash use to detect AI? In no time, the bad guys will tell their BS machines to avoid em-dashes and "it's not X it's Y" and whatever else people use as "tell-tale signs" and eventually the training data will have picked up on that too. And people who genuinely use em-dashes for taste reasons or are otherwise using expressions considered typical for AI are getting a bad rep.
This is all just demonstrating the helplessness that's coming to our society w.r.t. dealing with gen AI output. Looking for em-dashes is not the solution and distracts from actually having to deal with the problem. (Which is not a technical but a social one. You can't solve it with tech.)
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Stumbles here and there but
> We’ve gathered here to dedicate a portion of this space as a final resting place for the team members who gave everything to ensure the brand could live on. It’s the right strategic move.
Brilliant.
This literally reads like Erlich from Silicon Valley.
This made me laugh out loud.
"all men are created equal."
I love that this is in quotes.
It is literally a quotation from an earlier piece of writing...
Increasingly, this is the case, though.
What does it mean for two people to be "equal"? Obviously, it cannot mean they are equal in strength and in quality. There are people who are excellent, and excellent in many ways, and people who are mediocre or poor in quality in many ways. People are also morally diverse, ranging from the virtuous and the saintly to the thuggish and the depraved.
No, this equality is an equality of basic human dignity. It rests with human nature: our dignity is rooted in our rationality and freedom to make chose. Incidentally, this is also the basis for human rights.
Historically, however, most cultures did not believe in human equality or equality of dignity. You only see that with a robust account of natural law and in its fullness within the Imago Dei; living up to it is another matter. Liberalism [0], as an offshoot of this tradition, takes for granted this notion, but when pressed, it has trouble offering justification. That's why political appeals to equality now appear more frantic and strident. When there is an underlying uneasiness about the rational basis of one's convictions, this often transmutes into emotional defensiveness. But mere assertion has little force. Over time, emotion and pure assertion does not maintain its grip, which makes these quotes that much more interesting.
[0] Another fun case are materialists who simultaneously believe in equality. If there is anything that would dash the very notion of equality, it is materialism.