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Why does putting your name on it have to imply you wrote every word, and not instead, just attach your reputation to it, and say that you stand behind the words that are in it, regardless of who/what wrote the words? If we look at things that way, we can continue as we always have evaluating the content, pedagogy, etc. and associate good and bad content, pedagogy, etc with the author and know that when we see that author's name we'll know what we should expect (regardless of who wrote the individual words).

I'm imagining something more like the way we treat movie directors. When I see Michael Bay vs. Quentin Tarantino, I don't think that those people wrote the film, or set up every camera shot in minute detail, or designed the costumes, etc. but I know that they had a hand in arranging for all of that and it will all ultimately come through with their unique stamp on it.


You're proposing a new way that we could treat authorship that's different from how we currently treat authorship. There's an argument to be had about whether that would be better than our current system. My vote would be no, but I'm not claiming it's obvious one way or the other.

But regardless of whether you think your new system would be better, it's not the current system. Surely the question of whether someone is lying by putting their name on a book they didn't write can't depend on some hypothetical future change to the meaning of authorship that hasn't happened yet.


What do you mean "the" or "our" current system? That's entirely your interpretation, and we've always had a sliding scale of "non-authorship" from editors to ghostwriters. AI models are the same; you can use them in a heavily directed way (basically, as an editor, or in an outsourcing capacity for e.g. illustrations), or in a hands off way that you just endorse.

Editors can not say they are author.

This is just anecdotal and I might be doing it wrong but I made jev and laya versions of a simple semantic grep tool (https://github.com/lgastako/jevplay) and played with them a bit, and at first it seemed like laya was comparable (eg on queries like "this is a mans name" or "this is a womans name" on names.txt) but the more I played with it, eg. "this is a vegetable" on foods.txt the further the gap widened in favor of jev. Then I started trying variations of the query eg simply "mans name" and for the most part laya just fell apart and didn't return anything useful for a lot of stuff. I was hoping to find that laya was competitive because it's much faster to have the model running locally but it's just not, yet.


I guess repeating a mistake helps make it more obvious too.


With enough repitation you might get repitition.


Use repetition to avoid trepidation if you have low reputation.


Or even repetition, repetition.


Mr Smith agrees.


I've never used D, but it appears to be valid syntax. https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#postconditions


I'm not asking about the syntax, I'm asking about the logic where a value can be equal to itself plus another value when the pre-condition is that it must be > 0.


The syntax is correct but I made a logical error since balance is being compared to itself (as opposed to the new balance at the end).


Yes.


I live in DC, on the other side of the country and I've heard about him, so I think you are underestimating his renown.


The same understanding still exists, from https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/wiki/detailed_rul...:

> The purpose of this subreddit is to simplify complex concepts in a way that is accessible for laypeople.

> The first thing to note about this is that this forum is not literally meant for 5-year-olds. Do not post questions that an actual 5-year-old would ask, and do not respond as though you're talking to a child.


This doesn't need to be posted on every post. Everyone that cares is well aware. It's like saying "this was written in english" on every post.


Why should I bother reading something that the “author” couldn’t even be bothered to write themselves?


Similarly, why should I be bothered reading this kind of comment in each and every discussion thread?

What does it contribute? I can read and discern this for myself, I can then stop reading or decide I don’t care.

Seriously, at some point all you “ai writing sleuths” should just get your own discussion thread together. It’s been months of this , we get it already.

(Not directly just at you, but anyone who feels the need to drop these comments in every thread)


> why should I be bothered reading this kind of comment in each and every discussion thread?

To help other people who don't care about it so they can skip it. A subject tag would be nicer.

> It’s been months of this , we get it already.

And I am tired of the constant barrage of AI proselytizing.


I'm not saying you should, I'm saying you shouldn't clutter up every thread with this type of useless comment. It just detracts from the people that do want to engage with it.


he's sharing an idea, not "text". text is just a medium.


Looks fine to me in Chrome on Mac.


It may very well be the case that it makes trade-offs that turn of lots of programmers but I don't think it's popularity directly implies it by definition, rather just that it implies there's something about it that prevents lots of programmers from taking it up en masse, and I think that's perhaps just the fact that it is so different from what everyone's used to and it takes some time to adapt to it enough to be able to appreciate the tradeoffs.


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