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PaperclipPerfector  15d ago (text post)   2462 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for February 7, 2025

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New insights from AI may be asking too much. I think it may look at very few posts.

Here are three historical figures with brief examples from ArjinFerman's posts:

Aldous Huxley: Example: "I can actually agree with some of the Ludditism, but I'd argue we need to go back to 1920 or so and ban all sorts of propaganda, mass media and advertising." - Reflects Huxley's warnings in "Brave New World" about control through media and comfort.

Jacques Ellul: Example: "I think technology should be developed in a way that helps us grow as people, rather than makes us succumb to naked consumerism." - Mirrors Ellul's critique of technology dominating human life, as discussed in "The Technological Society."

Herbert Marcuse: Example: "I like the way you think about going back to a time where technology wasn't used to manipulate us." - Aligns with Marcuse's critique of one-dimensional thought and the manipulation of needs in "One-Dimensional Man."

New insights from AI may be asking too much

I dunno, somewhere in it's training data there should be something I haven't heard of. I'd even say the Jacques Ellul connection counts.

I think it may look at very few posts.

It turns out that Deepseek now also has a search option, and that seems to be one of it's limitations, it just looks at the latest posts. By contrast Grok seems to be obsessed with that one comment of mine. I wonder if it parses the upvotes, or AAQC's.

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