8 comments

  • markus_zhang 7 hours ago ago

    I actually take this advice in real life. I don’t talk unless really needed. There are exceptions like to my kid, but that’s the general principle to non family/friend members.

  • FrankWilhoit 7 hours ago ago

    You want people to talk to you the way you listen. So does everyone else, and most of them do not listen the way you do.

    • asen 7 hours ago ago

      this is an instruction for LLM, not for people

      • FrankWilhoit 6 hours ago ago

        LLMs are what you get when you put people through a stack of filters.

  • pixelpoet 6 hours ago ago

    Dirac would never make that less vs fewer mistake.

    • asen 6 hours ago ago

      Agreed, thanks! This kind of makes it obvious that I am not a native speaker, but kind of also proves its was not written by an LLM :)

      Edit: fixed now: less words -> fewer words

  • asen 4 hours ago ago

    The reason i believe is good is because with very few tokens you encode two properties, for which Paul Dirac is most famous for.

    * a great scientist (which hopefully encourages researching and verifying answers)

    * a person who doesn't like to use many words at all

    The later hopefully compensates the apparent "output-prose-greediness" most models seem to have. No idea if that "token greedines" (or slop) is a result from the companies business models or inherent for the models and their training :/

  • aborsy 5 hours ago ago

    Would Dirac get a job these days?