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  1. As a recent shift-vert to @AskLumo: is there a button for turning off the #sycophancy? I have modified the "style" in the one Project on my free plan. I don't want to include anti-sycophancy prompts with every other inquiry.

    It feels yucky to have my ego stroked by a machine, and I don't need it ~ I need clear, objective perspective on my blind spots.

    I see this is a "known bug", so consider this my ticket: #global #antisycophancy #settings please.

    #AI #tech #bubbles #confirmationbias

  2. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could do us no harm.
     
    [Si nous ne nous flattions point nous-mêmes, la flatterie des autres ne nous pourroit nuire.]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶152 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #adulation #blandishment #flattery #praise #selfcongratulations #selfdeception #selfesteem #selfglorification #selfpraising #selfregard #sycophancy

  3. SCENE: INTERIOR, HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTION OFFICE, RUN-DOWN. MONDAY MORNING.

    Executive Assistant: Hey, Brett?

    Director: Morning, Jennifer. What have you got for me?

    EA: Well, we have the opening weekend numbers.

    D: And?

    EA: They're ... mixed. There's some bright spots overseas. Australia did fifty.

    D: Fifty million?

    EA: Uh, no. Fifty. Fifty tickets.

    D: All weekend? The whole country?

    EA: Ya. I know.

    D: You said there were some bright spots, though?

    EA: That was a bright spot. It was worse elsewhere.

    D: How can it be worse than 50 tickets for a whole country?

    EA: Well, some open-source intelligence type people on the 'net proved that almost every single ticket sold in the UK was to a movie reviewer, because we wouldn't give them advanced access to it.

    D: "Almost"? So at least a few regular folks bought tickets?

    EA: ... maybe. Those were tickets where no-one showed at the theatre, so they couldn't determine if it was film critics or not.

    D: Damn. How were the reviews?

    EA: Uh, let's just say "not good" and leave it at that for a bit.

    D: ... Okay. Well, how about here at home? Surely we sold some tickets here, at least in MAGA states? What's the news here in the good ol' USA?

    EA: The Director's Guild took out a hit on you.

    #Hollywood #HappyEnding #StoryTime #OnceUponATimeInMAGAstan #BoxOfficeBomb #sycophancy #Trump #Melania #MAGA #critic #FilmCritic #MovieCritic #BoxOffice #director #PuffPiece #USPol