Six years ago today, after 19 years with Boing Boing, during which time I wrote tens of thousands of blog posts, I started a new, solo blog, with the semi-ironic name "Pluralistic."
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Also: what do you imagine "bias" means when you're talking about identifying missing punctuation marks or repeated words?
@pluralistic @ced @bencurthoys I didn’t ask to get included in whatever it is you two are hashing out but I’d appreciate if you tagged me out of it in the future.
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@pluralistic @ced @bencurthoys I didn’t ask to get included in whatever it is you two are hashing out but I’d appreciate if you tagged me out of it in the future.
@baldur sorry about that !@pluralistic @bencurthoys
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Checking your own work for punctuation errors doesn't have an impact on "cognition, jobs, education, etc."
As to tempting: I have had a grammar checker in my word-processor for at least a decade and have literally never once been tempted to use it.
ok, that was a “general” you, not a “you” you. Foreign language and all.
I mean, once you (not *you*) have an LLM in your text editor, it’ll be tempting to ask him to aid in research, then to aid in writing, then to write for you, or do your homework for you.
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That's how we make good tech: not by insisting all its inputs be free from sin, but by purging that wickedness by *liberating* the technology from its monstrous forebears and making free and open versions of it:
Purity culture is such an obvious trap, an artifact of the neoliberal ideology that insists that the solution to all our problems is to shop very carefully, thus reducing all politics to personal consumption choices:
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@pluralistic I am going to put my response simply.
WE DO NOT OPEN SOURCE THE IRON MADEN.
