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In the spirit of the fondly-remembered "Cloud-to-Butt" plugin, I propose a new tool that transforms mentions of AI and LLMs to something else. But what shape should our word transformer take? While scatology is nice, I bed we can come up with something more clever than "ChatGPT-to-Poop"
BTW, take 1d6 psychic damage when you realize that Cloud-to-Butt was released more than ten years ago
ChatGPT-to-third world employee? Bit too long, we prob can find a non-offensive shorter word for that.
global southerner? edit: nah I don't like it.
We could ask a LLM and see what they want us to call them. ;)
@o7___o7 @dgerard cloud-to-butt, you say? https://mastodon.me.uk/@pikesley/111007434026223446
That must have been a glorious day!
Haha that’s a fantastic trophy to have :D
It's difficult thinking of something better than butt, or even anything that isn't butt-adjacent (poop sandwich is my goto)
My pitch would be something garbage related. Hot wet trash, maybe?
Garbage Juice?
Ok my real pitch is: something that can have agency, so that when the word substitution happens, you still have a parseable sentence, most of the time. Take “Garbage Ape” (from the heathcliff comics I guess), for example:
Though it’s hard to pick a thing that conjures the right image.
Piss Juicebox (ok that is scatological, this is SO HARD)
LessWrong doesn't let you download if your user agent isn't a browser. Did y'all know about this?
$ curl https://www.lesswrong.com
<html>
<head><title>403 Forbidden</title></head>
$ curl https://www.lesswrong.com -A "Mozilla"
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
It blocks at least Wget and Curl, but works for other unusual UA strings like "Hello".
As of 2023 this was because of a default AWS firewall rule: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gidrFxE5hdQWCrXxn/why-is-lesswrong-blocking-wget-and-curl-scrape?commentId=jzyz4sZ82bw2MgZNW
Speaking more generally, Wget's recursive crawl can cause problems if run with inadequate rate limiting. e.g. here's what wikipedia's robots.txt says:
#
# Sorry, wget in its recursive mode is a frequent problem.
# Please read the man page and use it properly; there is a
# --wait option you can use to set the delay between hits,
# for instance.
#
User-agent: wget
Disallow: /