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Fauxparadox; (noun) /fō-ˈpärə-ˌdäks/
Etymology:
From the French word "faux" meaning "false" + the Greek word "paradoxos" meaning "contrary to expectation."
Definition:
A situation or statement that appears to be paradoxical or contradictory at first glance but can be resolved or explained with deeper analysis or additional information. Fauxparadoxes are often found as part of false conspiracy theories to attract acolytes.
Etymology:
From the French word "faux" meaning "false" + the Greek word "paradoxos" meaning "contrary to expectation."
Definition:
A situation or statement that appears to be paradoxical or contradictory at first glance but can be resolved or explained with deeper analysis or additional information. Fauxparadoxes are often found as part of false conspiracy theories to attract acolytes.
Sylvia: Rob, when you mentioned the the term fauxparadox, it reminded me of the classic "chicken or the egg" dilemma. But with modern evolutionary biology, we understand that it's more of a fauxparadox since birds evolved from reptiles, suggesting the egg came first.
Rob: Exactly, Sylvia! It's fascinating how many things we perceive as paradoxes can be clarified with a bit more knowledge or a different perspective. People attach too much weight to what they think is a paradox, when what you have to do is try to solve it with more observation and the scientific method. Most paradoxes are simply hard problems and thought experiments. A Fauxparadox is a playground for grifters the naïve and fools.
Rob: Exactly, Sylvia! It's fascinating how many things we perceive as paradoxes can be clarified with a bit more knowledge or a different perspective. People attach too much weight to what they think is a paradox, when what you have to do is try to solve it with more observation and the scientific method. Most paradoxes are simply hard problems and thought experiments. A Fauxparadox is a playground for grifters the naïve and fools.
by robtyrie August 20, 2023
Get the Fauxparadox mug.Toxinformation
1. The dissemination of information that is harmful or detrimental to the mental, emotional, or social well-being of individuals, communities, or societies. This information, often false or misleading, can induce stress, anxiety, or other negative psychological effects, akin to a toxic substance causing physical illness.
2. Information that, due to its false, misleading, or malicious nature, contributes to a toxic environment, undermining mental health, promoting conflict, or impairing informed decision-making.
**Etymology**:
Early 21st century: portmanteau of the English words 'toxic' and 'information'.
1. The dissemination of information that is harmful or detrimental to the mental, emotional, or social well-being of individuals, communities, or societies. This information, often false or misleading, can induce stress, anxiety, or other negative psychological effects, akin to a toxic substance causing physical illness.
2. Information that, due to its false, misleading, or malicious nature, contributes to a toxic environment, undermining mental health, promoting conflict, or impairing informed decision-making.
**Etymology**:
Early 21st century: portmanteau of the English words 'toxic' and 'information'.
"I could not believe the lies coming out that paper. Sean, the constant barrage of toxinformation on social media platforms has been linked to increased levels of anxiety and social polarization. We have to call Sylvia and Antonia and cover this is a Silicon Humanists Podcast"
by robtyrie July 11, 2023
Get the Toxinformation mug.Helper agent Is it new idea that is part of prompt engineering and things like ChaptGPT. A helper agent can be added to a conversation with the AI algorithm, help agents can provide a view or a check after an answer is generated. Helper agents improve the ChatGPT's correctness and limits hallucinations.
Tim: What do you mean helper agent?
Rob: It just add another character into the chain of thought.... Just ask ChatGPT a question and in that question say had an "empathy" helper agent to focus on empathy to your conversation and after the answer is generated, assess the answer for empathy and suggest improvements to the generation. It's simple right?
Tim: Ah, no.
Rob: It just add another character into the chain of thought.... Just ask ChatGPT a question and in that question say had an "empathy" helper agent to focus on empathy to your conversation and after the answer is generated, assess the answer for empathy and suggest improvements to the generation. It's simple right?
Tim: Ah, no.
by robtyrie April 7, 2023
Get the Helper Agent mug.Reflexion, is a new method of getting ChatGPT and any autoregressive GPT to check its work, AFTER it generates answer. The answers, now that it is in STM, is used in a prompt, following any generation. It can be used multiple times. Answers get better and there are less are what some people call “Hallucinations”. See: Helper Agent. This was not coined by any symbolic ai scientist.
Tammy: Refection, Ok you made that up! I call BS!?!
Rob: No… its is real… there’s research, it’s reflection with an “X”… REFLEXION makes the AI do recursion. you cna use it to check ChatGPT and get it to tell the truth and corrrect itself… It’s the opposite. It reduces the BS
Tammy: This… you need! Wait. What? Recursion??? That’s amazing!
Rob: No… its is real… there’s research, it’s reflection with an “X”… REFLEXION makes the AI do recursion. you cna use it to check ChatGPT and get it to tell the truth and corrrect itself… It’s the opposite. It reduces the BS
Tammy: This… you need! Wait. What? Recursion??? That’s amazing!
by robtyrie April 7, 2023
Get the Reflexion mug.A new job. A person that design methods to create prompts for generative pre-trained transformer algorithms. Also anyone who can write prompts that create useful, delightful and good digital object.
Rob quit is job as a consultant and now he's doing a full time gig at the Art Gallery of Ontario generating art workshops and curated coffee table books. It's a prompt engineer's dream job.
by robtyrie January 2, 2023
Get the Prompt Engineer mug.The verb to use when some one generates a digital artifact using a generative pre-trained transformer machine learning algorithm, such as Stable Diffusion or OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Bill didn't really write that book about AI, he just genned it on the weekend and self-published it on Amazon Kindle. Still is it worth $4.99 as a period piece? Probably.
by robtyrie January 2, 2023
Get the Genned mug.We think therefore we are. in Latin. Akin to "Cogito Ergo Sum" from Descartes, but expanded to how communities think and change. Confablamur was used as a term for conversation. This is where the English term confab comes from no doubt. Shakespeare did not coin it.
"Confablamur ergo sumus" , remember that Sarah, we have gone way beyond , "I think therefore I am" . Thinking and not conversing with your peers is like listening to one hand clapping. Good luck with that zester.
by robtyrie December 1, 2021
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