[ExI] need a term: was RE: What is "Elemental Redness"?

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Tue May 2 11:13:24 UTC 2023


Since 'philosopher' means 'love of wisdom', and 'mis' is a prefix meaning
'hate', then what we want is missophy.  bill w

On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 8:43 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] need a term: was RE: What is "Elemental Redness"?
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> On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 5:12 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> Adrian, I know you are a clever composer of verse (we don’t do that much
> in this forum any more (why?))  It occurred to me that ChatGPT has ruined
> poetry, by being generally better at it than most of us.  However… there is
> something in that verse that is a dead giveaway you wrote this yourself
> rather than asking ChatGPT.  Tell me if I err, and if correct, what do you
> suppose was my big clue?  Correction two big clues.
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> >…I'm guessing that one clue is that you've seen my style before, an
> aspect that you have yet to see any AI quite match…  Adrian
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> Ja, that would make three clues: you have been one to have a creative
> sensa huma.
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> There was a small typo in the original which GPT wouldn’t make, but the
> first thing I noticed is that bit about the computronium brick.  I really
> don’t think GPT could coaxed into comparing itself to a computronium
> brick.  That was a cool humanism, if I may add alternative definition to
> that already used term.
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> Since about 20 years ago, we have entered a far more somber time.  It
> reminds me of what a historian wrote about the Victorian Era of English
> history: It was a relatively humorless age, with gaity and jocularity
> generally disdained, considered beneath the dignity of the more noble
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> Compared to 25 years ago, we appear to have entered a neo-Victorian era,
> but without an actual queen to mark the end of it with her demise.
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