Post Aq4XxRI9qDyEtXOjUO by wendigo@metalhead.club
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(DIR) Post #Aq4Wkgt6ReUHXu2I4m by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-14T11:57:48Z
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I often struggle to read the last chapter of good fiction books. I will read an 800 page book, stop before the last 20 pages. I was musing on this habit and did a search finding a similar person on Quora. Quora has implemented AI responses. The AI response treats my personality quirk like a problem to be corrected: “If you find this pattern troubling .. Sometimes, simply acknowledging these feelings can help you push through…”A younger version of myself would have taken this advice seriously.
(DIR) Post #Aq4X8oTzrHIm3FnMdk by btuftin@social.coop
2025-01-14T12:02:03Z
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@futurebird I think I've felt like this once or twice, and I can certainly understand it. Finishing a good book can often feel like a let down. Also, I really hope the AI bubble pops before we're stuck with AI everywhere.
(DIR) Post #Aq4XThxBKT75smPSQC by DrorBedrack@mastodon.social
2025-01-14T12:05:54Z
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@futurebird I have a similar behaviour! Sometimes I avoid ending books. Also, I don't watch the final episodes of TV series. It's like, if I dont finish it, then it's still going on, it's still "alive" .
(DIR) Post #Aq4XpTH0afWciv3q76 by Jestbill@mastodon.world
2025-01-14T12:09:49Z
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@futurebird Do AI responses sometimes seem inappropriate?If you find this pattern troubling .. Sometimes, simply acknowledging these feelings can help you push through…
(DIR) Post #Aq4XxRI9qDyEtXOjUO by wendigo@metalhead.club
2025-01-14T12:11:13Z
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@futurebird I have the same problem with books and TV shows.
(DIR) Post #Aq4a8xgRwviuRxNlqK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-14T12:35:43Z
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@benh Let’s all hope with time I can correct this horrible flaw, because when people wonder about the ways we feel abnormal the only possible reason is because we recognize that abnormalities must be scrubbed away. (This is probably the most common reason such questions are asked, so the most likely response to be accepted as sufficient is one that follows the most typical patterns of the data. Sanding away all imperfections at multiple levels.)What in Gods name are we doing!
(DIR) Post #Aq4aPhjWVQwXu4nskC by swope@mstdn.plus
2025-01-14T12:38:47Z
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@futurebird Parents, have you talked to your kids about the dangerous influence of LLMs?
(DIR) Post #Aq4aWLiikR6Xetb3h2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-14T12:40:01Z
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@benh Is it fair or reasonable to blame me for expecting to read what other people have thought about a topic when I look for text about the topic online? Perhaps.But, to me, these writings without authors are worse than useless. I just wanted to know if anyone else did the same little strange thing that I do, and what they thought about it. I had not taken the time to realize that’s what I was doing— but having encountered the AI made me realize that’s it was.
(DIR) Post #Aq4aoDsGer5yXMaKP2 by 3janeTA@beige.party
2025-01-14T12:43:13Z
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@futurebird so why do you stop early? Do you know? I raras all but the last ten pages of moby dick but that’s because it was a high school reading assignment and I had take the test so 🤷
(DIR) Post #Aq4ardJAYGzEHtnI80 by funnymonkey@freeradical.zone
2025-01-14T12:43:49Z
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@futurebird The underlying model sounds like it was trained on grind culture bullshit and bad self-help.And given that the model was almost certainly trained with data stolen from the internet, that tracks.(and fwiw, I used to be firmly in camp "I mist finish every book I start." I'm now in camp "Not every book deserves all of my time.")
(DIR) Post #Aq4bWtGS8EjTeECF28 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-14T12:51:18Z
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@benh Does anyone find such responses useful at all? Are they even “responses” if they don’t represent the thoughts and views of a real person?And what if what I was looking for was not just some harmless quirk but something more serious? Something that ought to draw attention and care? The way we have handed this over it is so casual and reckless. People make mistakes but in very different ways than machines.
(DIR) Post #Aq4cPImJUJOaPo2oU4 by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2025-01-14T13:01:07Z
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@futurebird This is insidious. It's not AI explicitly spreading misinformation; it's AI spreading toxic memes through underlying assumptions. Implicit misinformation.
(DIR) Post #Aq4cWZWdcXpiNnBAAK by mina@berlin.social
2025-01-14T13:02:25Z
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@futurebirdDon't worry! Wanting to chop up your father in law is a totally normal feeling (says my cute ai girlfriend). @benh
(DIR) Post #Aq4cYAWjXFjXQkz8Yi by guyjantic@infosec.exchange
2025-01-14T13:02:45Z
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@futurebird @benh IDK about others, but I do this with many things (occasionally books): quit right before the end.
(DIR) Post #Aq4cZ24wQnaXWCOhjk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-14T13:02:55Z
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@3janeTA I think I just really enjoy thinking about “what happens next” and reading the ending closes that door in some ways. And if I really love a book the way it ends could ruin it, it is unlikely that the ending will make me like it more. Also ending are stressful to read— authors make grand and sudden things happen that can shatter the realism of the world or make me shudder and cringe at how forced and contrived they feel. So, by not reading the end I can avoid it.
(DIR) Post #Aq4d1Rb59EeYlpyjp2 by NatureMC@mastodon.online
2025-01-14T13:08:01Z
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@futurebird AI author: 'With a little training, you can manage one more page every day! But if you regularly skip pages 100 to 120, we advise you to buy our Coach App or take part in the retreat with Dr Readpsych. Only transfer pure gold!'Real author: It's nothing special. Many do that. There are also people who artificially delay reading the end or stop a book after one page only. (Only authors must keep writing until their last page. 😭 )
(DIR) Post #Aq4d3er6p9sOTDWyK8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-14T13:08:08Z
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@mina @benh Just stay focused and positive. Never lose sight of your goal and chop a little more off each day and you will complete your task. Do not be to hard on yourself if you don’t chop a lot off of him on some days. What matters is that you keep chopping consistently. If you are having difficulty chopping him up perhaps sharper knives or a food processor may make the task easier, here are the top five knife sets (amazon links)
(DIR) Post #Aq4dSESg5rrrqloypM by mina@berlin.social
2025-01-14T13:12:51Z
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@futurebirdYou definitely write too well to be a human. @benh
(DIR) Post #Aq4fZ9WZ34xKTN4CJ6 by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2025-01-14T13:36:31Z
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@futurebird I am remind of why I stopped contributing to Quora.
(DIR) Post #Aq4gxgG55yYmtrcHxo by dan613@ottawa.place
2025-01-14T13:52:06Z
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@futurebird I don't get it. Now you have less reason to spend time on their site (fewer ad views). I don't recall how ad-heavy Quora is, though. If they are supported by subscriptions, I still don't see how LLMs are cheaper than just letting you search.
(DIR) Post #Aq4iJeHVE70l5qJvxA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-14T14:07:22Z
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@dan613 They keep adding AI to everything to seem like they are cutting edge. It even came up in some of the student submissions to the hackathon… multiple teams wrote that they wanted to “add AI” in their “future development” paragraph. I didn’t hold this against them— in one case it made a little sense. But for most of the projects it made no sense at all— so this didn’t help them to win. But maybe a different set of judges would have been impressed with the buzz words.
(DIR) Post #Aq4l5U7cVBWhOPdThA by cavyherd@wandering.shop
2025-01-14T14:38:01Z
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@futurebird @benh I have a friend who periodically brings up AI as a way to address various problems or questions. It always catches me by surprise, bc he is otherwise pretty clueful. My plan is, next time he brings this up, to request: "Can we please just—not? Next time you feel the impulse to suggest AI for something, could you, like go scream it into a pillow or something & leave me free of it?"Maddening.
(DIR) Post #Aq4l8wAsexI1GUo6UK by BilldeWorde7a@mastodon.social
2025-01-14T14:38:59Z
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@futurebird I’ve never had this problem with individual books but almost 10 years later I still haven’t read Terry Pratchett’s final book, The Sheperd’s Crown. I’ve read all his others multiple times but somehow there’s this sense that once I read the last one something will have ended in a way I seem to have a hard time accepting.
(DIR) Post #Aq5REIlSIJOIqi9gBs by rustoleumlove@mastodon.online
2025-01-14T22:30:35Z
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@futurebird @3janeTA keep reading the way you wanna read, for sure.but some thoughts:i'm sure you know this, but there are lots of different kinds of endings.some are very ambiguous. some are whimpers.and omfg, SERIES have become SO POPULAR in books! i cannot tell you how many times i've thought about reading something only to find it is like #4 or #7 in some series. so .. they dont have to end, not really 😂
(DIR) Post #Aq5UYbZgMtA6qG1OAy by paulc@mstdn.social
2025-01-14T23:07:50Z
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@futurebird @3janeTA all is true but I always read to thee end. If the author mails it then it is worth the read. Only a disappointment if the author messes up the landing.
(DIR) Post #Aq5YGJ3srM4c1sg5tg by jannem@fosstodon.org
2025-01-14T23:49:24Z
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@futurebird @3janeTA I haven't read Terry Pratchetts last book. And I don't think I ever will. As long as it's unread, his world hasn't yet ended for me. Perhaps a similar way of thinking?
(DIR) Post #Aq6S5ftpChYx6hTpMO by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-01-15T10:14:59Z
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@futurebird @3janeTA I don't think there's many times when I've read nearly all of a book and stopped shortly before the ending.But it often seems the ending is the least fun part of a novel; there's cultural pressure on the author to bring all the threads together in a neat, cinematic closure, a complex and challenging task, which often ends up looking like either a mess, or an artificially slick and unnatural piece of plastic, since closure is irrelevant to the real world.
(DIR) Post #Aq6bDENeIlpnf96kwy by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2025-01-15T11:57:04Z
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@futurebird @3janeTA My kid didn't like to see the ends of movies and TV shows when she was very little. She'd become agitated and stop the stream or the DVD right before the ending, sometimes seconds before.I've noped out of many video games right before the end for a different reason: they end with a climactic boss fight whose difficulty is scaled out of all proportion to the rest of the game, and since it's at the end, it's over the line where the balance between frustration and the potential reward for finishing the fight is no longer in favor of going on.