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169 sats \ 9 replies \ @Scoresby OP 17h \ parent \ on: Why Does AI Write Like...That? - Sam Kriss AI
I wonder if even the pro forma replies will just go away though.
Take for example email signatures. Pretty much everybody has an auto signature at the bottom of their emails. And basically none of us want to read them. So why not jus skip that part? Email addresses are already usually our name. I think that this is already happening: many email clients put the signature in a lighter color of text or collapse it for you.
And maybe the pro forma reply should go the same way. But then there are those pro forma replies that don't feel like they should matter, because there is very little information carried in them, and yet they do matter: eg Thanks!
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I'm sure Google email suggested replies are a pretty good representation of the most useful of such replies, but I'm wondering if we get to a point where they find certain standing wave functions that can be crystallized into a single click: the thumbs up emoji is probably the best example of this.
Or do you feel that short email replies still rely on a lot of nuance, which would make me think that suggested responses aren't helpful in those cases.
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Hmm I think that a short but concise response beats an emoji when actually talking about something meaningful. For FB/insta I don't care.
Like, when it comes to email, but also on for example on GH issues and pull requests. Worst feature GitHub ever added were these emojis. Now all the coding AIs use emojis in their comments and issues and life is awful. ~lol
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Emojis in text is pretty bad in a work context and is more often than not a sign of AI
But I do like the reaction emojis. They're a quick concise way to signal things like "agree", "looking into it", "good job" etc
Those are the ones Iām talking about. There are all these little social conventions that go into those and that are tedious to think through, so when Iām offered one that sounds right I just take it.
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Right, but does the person reading such responses need you to send them? or are they still conveying enough info that they need to e said?
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I prefer not to receive those responses but my sense is that they're expected. The thumbs up emoji has done a great job of absorbing most instances of these replies though.
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I sometimes wonder if every alphabetic language is destined to become an ideogramic (don't know if this is a word) language.
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