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Toxinformation

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'.

"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

Grey Swan

A large scale impactful event that, with first order second order effects, impacts over a billion people in surprising ways. Though the event is surprising, it has actually been predicted or was likely to happen based on people that call themselves futurists and economists arguing both sides of every argument. Gray swans by default tend to be negative. Covid-19 was a graceful event has defined by the The Grey Swan Guild, a global think tank that studies these types of occurrences along with Grey Rhinos, Green Swans, White Alligator, and Black Jellyfish.

ROB: I'M PRETTY SURE THAT WAS A "GREY SWAN". NO ONE EXPECTED THAT ROCKET TO CRASH INTO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.

SEAN: Stop shouting and think. According to my quick research on perplexity and our website Prediction Market.. there was a 5% chance that one of the rockets or shuttles would crash into the ISS it's just a matter of gravity. Those are actually pretty good odds I can't believe it wasn't more defense on the ISS!

by robtyrie March 29, 2024

Canadian Holiday

Noun: A sarcastic name given to the practice of people applying for government's grants related to covid-19, and then using those grants to not take on new education or work to find a new job. Also known as an Expenses Paid Canadian Holiday.

I heard that Jamie is still on Canadian Holiday, she collected a CERB loan, a CEBA grant and she's still living outside of Mexico City in that commune. Now that's what I call and all expenses paid Canadian Holiday. Is that bad? Is that wrong?

by robtyrie March 29, 2024

Mendacious Fucks

This is the name of the sports franchise that Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway invented in March of 2024 on their podcast. Although it started as a joke they were funded by Mark Cuban to build a new tier 2 world soccer team called the Mendacious Fucks. My name is an inside joke because Scott uses that handle to insult people with a big word that they don't understand. He's basically calling people liars which is kind of a fun name for an international soccer sports franchise.

Scott laid out the challenge. He was going to take on wrexham he was going to create a billion dollar Enterprise with his partner Kara all in sports by not caring about sports at all. He was the king of the Mendacious Fucks and they were playing all attack football and selling a lot of merch.

by robtyrie March 29, 2024

Extrapolidiot

A person with an insufficient knowledge of math and statistics, who chooses to predict growth of a complex exponential phenomena with linear models and grade school math. See COVIdiot Dunning Kruger, COVID19, and Bad behavior.

Boss, it's not a proposal or a brief, it's a pandemic, people may follow your advice and get hurt or as worse, hurt others. Don't be an extrapolidiot .

by robtyrie April 1, 2020

Prompt Engineer

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

Helper Agent

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.

by robtyrie April 7, 2023