<div dir="ltr">In order to go to Infiniiiiting and beyond. Have Rex and woody get the zargle type one flux repair module for a type 3 warp cleared space craft. Then the evil forces of Lord Zedd and Emperror Zurg can be thwarted.<div>I'll be around all week.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 5:18 PM Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div>i used to faint-dead when people used "inform" to mean
"shape" as in,"My thinking was informed by Glen's concept,
Steelmanning," but I am trying to get over that. Turns out
it's a perfectly valid meaning of the verb, and I don't have a
leg to stand on. I still hate it, but I hate it quietly. I
don't object when people say it. I just think about ways to
kill them later. <br>
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<p><grin> I will try to let that inform my articulations and
constructions herein, henceforth </grin></p>
<p>FWIW I did punch this meta-answer through GPT-4 to get feedback
on its grammaricity (my neologism for grammatically correct) and
it gave me basic permission to use it but with myriad warnings
about possible misconstruals.</p>
<p>And for recursive fascination, GPT-4 offered the following
rewrite of the above:</p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(55,65,81);font-family:Söhne,ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">"For what it's worth, I submitted this meta-answer to GPT-4 for feedback on its grammaticality, and it provided suggestions, cautioning me about possible misunderstandings."</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(55,65,81);font-family:Söhne,ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">I could probably benefit from a GPT-4 based agent-filter to my FriAM posts (or all my writing)... but doing so seems to risk getting closer to the fall-line of one slippery slope or another, whether inviting AI to become my overlord or risking becoming post/transhuman. I'll save the tangential riff this is triggering for a followup post (which I may or may not actually release into the FriAMstreamOconsciousness)... </span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(55,65,81);font-family:Söhne,ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">- Steve</span></p>
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<p><i><span style="color:rgb(55,65,81);font-family:Söhne,ui-sans-serif,system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Noto Sans",sans-serif,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">"I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant"</span></i></p>
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GPT's attempt to deconvolute this affected (attributed to John
McCloskey) convolution:<br>
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