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well, I'm 90% shitpoasting...
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> Democratization is bad.
if by this you mean "lowering the cost of entry", i disagree (which i think this is very different than this AI tool ridiculousness, about which i do agree you).
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16/ Let me rephrase: - quality follows a power law - there are arbitrary cut-off points. Publishing Inc. used to cut off the bottom 95%. Ability to focus and stick words together currently cuts off the bottom 50%. - lowering cost of entry is good - effective search is too
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17/ Barriers to entry impacts search quality. All barriers to entry have both false positives and false negatives. High barriers to entry have tons of false negatives (good books excluded). Low barriers to entry reduce false negatives and create false positives. >>>
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18/ By which I mean, if you picked a random SF book off the shelf in 1990, 90% would have been good, 1% bad. If you pick a random SF book off of kindle today, 90% are bad. GPT tools that allow more creation will make this worse. 99% will be bad.
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19/ E.g. look at the text that @lexirad CHOSE to highlight of what great work her tool can do. This is TERRIBLE. https://twitter.com/Lexirad/status/1314271681939034112 …
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20/ I mean, it's not as bad as Brometheus tier, I admit that, but it's still not the kind of thing anyone should be reading. (side note: wonder if the GPT-3 will write a book on how to write as poorly as it writes?)
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21/ well, sure, but I didn't want to insult what's-his-name quite that severelyhttps://twitter.com/ndwpdx/status/1314582099609874433 …
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22/ this is why I'm designing two new languages for Aristillus 3 and 4 (along with unicode to print them in)https://twitter.com/disapprover69/status/1314582175615004672 …
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23/ I did, at first. ...but then he wrote on a book on how to write as good as he does, and he holds himself up as an authority on quality writing, and this angers me. >>> RT
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24/ Standards are real. BadAuthor loudly preaching that he writes well & that others can write as well as him is the artistic version of a 400 lb person preaching body positivity and selling a diet plan based around ice cream and Doritos. It offends Decency, Art, and Truth.
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25/ Those of us who care about quality are reading and re-reading Gene Wolfe, Swanwick, and others. Studying Shakespeare. Reading history and ancient epics. Striving to polish our craft. And talentless hacks suffering from Dunning Kreuger are lying to the impressionable.
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