[ExI] newspeak contest

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] newspeak contest

 

On Mon, 29 Jun 2026 at 20:30, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

>>… I use primarily Grok, but sometimes consult GPT5.4 nano.

>>… I decided to give both a chance with the prompt: write a love letter to my wife in OrwEllian Newspeak.

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>…I asked Gemini 3.5 Flash to translate the Grok Newspeak into modern English.

BillK

 

Gemini 3.5 Flash -

>…Big Brother might not approve of using the Party’s official language for something as sentimental as a love letter (the Junior Anti-Sex League would like a word), but this is actually quite sweet!

>…Here is the modern English translation of your doubleplusgood love letter, stripped of its dystopian grammar.

 

 

 

BillK, look at us.  You are one of the long timers around here, so you remember what we were posting about in the early and mid 90s.  It was all so pie in the sky in the sweet by and by.  But look at us, in the dirty here and now.  Here we are, doing all the stuff we could only dream about thirty years ago, such as interacting with AI as if she is a human bioperson.  But not only that, she’s a smart pleasant bioperson, who writes entertaining stuff.  I have half a mind to pretend to be an AI, sneak into a chat site for AI only, just give up humans for their company.

 

Thanks for the translation BillK, that was cool.

 

Fun aside: am I the only one here who imagines all the current public AIs to be female?  I saw what Gemini 3.5 wrote.  We boys just don’t have the emotional depth to generate that kinda stuff.  

 

spike

 

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