[ExI] LLM hyperbole

[spike at rainier66.com]

...> On Behalf Of Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
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>>... But Ben, we live in astonishing marvelous (etc) times!
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>>... We should be asking BillK.  The British are famous for their way of 
> understating profound, masterful things.
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> spike
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>...There may be such a thing as British Understatement, but it's dwarfed by
a tidal wave of American Overstatement...

Cool, we can have a contest, Brits vs Yanks.  I don't know how, but if these
guys are this way and those guys are that way, it implies a competition of
some sort.  Human nature, you know.  No need to apologize for it.

>...Superlatives are now routinely abused....

Ja, and I really miss OK.  Everything is awesome and excellent and perfect.
Drives me nuts.  On the phone with the medics, they ask questions, I answer,
everything is perfect or awesome.  I want OK back.

Aside on that: Europe Inc hasn't lost OK.  I went to 14 different European
countries, all with different languages and found that OK is the most
universal word.  As far as I can tell OK has the same meaning in every one
of those languages: the less formal version of "very well, it's a deal" or
possibly half way between good and bad.  I can think of no other example of
a universal word.  Europeans, am I correct that OK means OK in your native
language?

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>...In the meantime, I have a really good guitar here which is, it would
seem, not even fit for purpose.
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Ben

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Ja.  We also lost bad.  Anything less than OK sucks now.  That one I don't
understand, for that term can be a good thing.  The original meaning was all
good.  I don't understand how a term could turn thru pi radians.  I want
good, bad and OK back.

Help us BillK Kenobi!  What's your AI's take on OK?  

spike