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  • Read.

    The.

    Thread.

    You claimed to have read the evidence.

    Read it.

    Closely.

    A very large proportion of respondents took it straight. Apparently it was not funny to a lot of people.

    So if a large number of people didn’t “get” your joke (presuming the joke isn’t something deeply technical like half the jokes, say, of XKCD), your joke just sucked. Or it wasn’t a joke until people reacted badly. One of the two.


  • Or option three, which happened here: someone attempted satire or dark humor and didn’t realize society had degenerated so much that people were genuinely, seriously, advocating for the satirical claim.

    Oh? This was his first time on Twitter then? If so, the error is forgivable.

    No, wait. It isn’t. Reader’s Digest has been doing “condensed books” in its magazines since the 1930s. People have been pitching things like Coles Notes since 1948 and Cliffs Notes since 1958. And even in the world of tech there’s been Blinkist since 2013.

    So expressing surprise to negative reactions to opining that LLMbeciles are “good” for summarizing complex novels given – checks notes – almost a century of people gleefully doing just that is either ignorance of staggering proportions or disingenuousness of even more staggering proportions.

    This was pretty much a Schrodinger’s Joke.






  • Perplexity does those weird runtime errors all the time. Just hit refresh. It eventually wakes up.

    OP, LLMs don’t “know” shit.

    You’ll find me making this exact point, incidentally, right here in this forum. I’m well aware that LLMbeciles know literally nothing. And that the “reasoning” models don’t do anything that even slightly resembles reasoning.


  • I did one better!

    Give me an elevator pitch of the top 10,000 works of literature and philosophy throughout history. Ima speed-run me into a sage this afternoon.

    Humanity wrestles with meaning, morality, power, suffering, love, and the search for truth—across every age and culture, we tell stories and ask questions to understand ourselves, each other, and the world, forever torn between hope and despair, freedom and fate, reason and mystery.

    I’m now a sage!



  • This guy made a joke that reads identically to the kinds of things people have been saying without a hint of humour since the ignoble days of Reader’s Digest Condensed Books up to, yes, people saying almost exactly the same thing as he said here and people took him at face value. This is despite knowing that Poe’s Law is a thing.

    How terrible.

    Generally if people don’t “get” your joke, there’s one of two things likely happening:

    1. Your joke wasn’t funny.
    2. This was a Schrodinger’s Joke: serious until someone says something bad about it after which it becomes “Gosh, all y’all just can’t take a joke!”

  • OK, I’m taking it all back. This really works!

    Country Work & Author Elevator Pitch
    Russia Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) A married woman’s passionate affair shatters her life and exposes the hypocrisy of high society[5].
    Nigeria Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe) A proud Igbo leader’s world unravels as colonialism and tradition collide.
    France Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) An ex-convict’s quest for redemption transforms lives amid revolution and injustice.
    Japan The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu) A nobleman’s romantic adventures reveal the beauty and fragility of Heian court life.
    Colombia One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez) Generations of a family grapple with love, loss, and magical fate in a mythical town.
    United States To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) A young girl confronts racism and injustice in the Deep South through her father’s courage[5].
    Germany Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) A scholar makes a deal with the devil, risking his soul for ultimate knowledge and pleasure.
    India The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy) Twins recall a childhood tragedy that forever alters their family in postcolonial Kerala.
    China Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin) A noble family’s rise and fall mirrors the fleeting beauty and sorrow of love and fortune.
    Italy The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri) A journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise reveals the soul’s path to redemption.

    I am now a great knower of literature from all around the world!

    Who knew that 石头记 was so simple in the end?! Why did 曹雪芹 spend so much effort writing such a simple observation!?