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@JohnAN Oh, it all comes and goes, so thx, and to be fair, I’m generally reliably flakey. ❥❉

@gregmoore Yes. Similar criticism leveled at real world architecture, rather than soft world, might incline one to think "Cinder blocks and tin keep the rain out...good enough."

@gregmoore Yes, for all the utility value it may provide some (see previous comment in this thread...), it seems a high price in exchange for degrading truth finding ability for almost everyone in aggregate.

And that some seek to reduce the conversation to "What are we gonna do about this?" as if it were weather we’re discussing, is very troubling to me. These AI’s didn’t just fucking think themselves up. There is agency here. There should legal ramifications for responsibility attached.

Also, smuggled in is the premise that information is always unreliable or at least unpredictable, which of course makes it less expensive to keep many happy in their data hot tubs, blissfully unaware that there even could be other information out there...reliable, predictable, like, say, scientific discovery with its iterative error correction.

Garsh, it just goes on and on...

@annahavron I’ll chime in here that, as @pcora mentioned, it can be quite useful for very particular queries. I’m getting pretty good results on configuration file settings for open source software—great to avoid multipage, scroll and scan, just to find kinda what you were looking for—but also for anything that requires more than one typical search pass to locate.

You can say, please give me this complex set of intersecting subsets, emphasize this, exclude that, in that format most familiar, a string of words. Or you can boolean your ascii around in circles, hitch up a thesaurus, and a git to a’googlin’!

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