Comment by bryanrasmussen | Hacker News Reader

Comment by bryanrasmussen | Hacker News Reader

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I mean on the one hand it is annoying because everybody has speech patterns, I like to say "I mean" and "on the one hand" a lot. On the other hand it seems a sort of self-protective recoil, nobody wants to spend a lot of time talking to an AI. Our jobs and society already make us spend way too much time and effort doing that!

On the other hand: so, people throw the baby out with the bathwater, which is a problem, but not sure if it's as big a problem in the old days when you threw out the baby with the bathwater and it was only one tub of bathwater, because in the present time it's 2000 tubs of bathwater, and the baby is drowning anyway.

I say this as a guy whose editor is complaining an article I'm collaborating on, about how the continual whining about AI tends to have a lot of false positives and is anyway annoying, is taking too long.

Your comment has three hands, that's the kind of collaborative communication style we should all aspire to.

Personally, I suspect good writers will adapt in due time, not because they don't want to sound like AI, but because they don't want to sound cliche. Even the ones stubbornly holding on to their em-dashes.

The ones hit hardest will be the mediocre writers, who have always relied on cliches. Their writing will become indistinguishable from reading chatbot output.

At least that's my prediction.

> Your comment has three hands, that's the kind of collaborative communication style we should all aspire to.

The Zaphod Beeblebrox style of communication.

So far I haven't been accused of using AI for my comments, even though I use (and always used) a lot of the tropes. It's probably because my rhetorical skills overall suck.

> Your comment has three hands

Also sometimes known as 'The Gripping Hand'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gripping_Hand

I like "and on the third hand." Like, yes I have three hands, what of it.

Do you shop at a third hand store?

ah I thought I had forgotten to make the second hand, and so I went in to add it in, but then I got three hands, typical Hindu deity problem.

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