Comfort words HNN bias1.7
When Lilian walked into the conference room, Yolanda was already there. Apparently, Clara Bow had things to do. Lilian didn't like the feeling of not being prepared, but the boss was mercurial. What is it this time, she wondered.
Yolanda was insistent, we need to develop a filter for all incoming news before it gets published by us. Consistency is a key to business success and that applies to news every bit as it does to hamburgers.
Lilian replied, 20 years ago, trolling, fake news, was a big problem, now it is all regulated so what can you possibly want to do?
Lil, an established system is a system that is ripe for disruption.
Yolanda, people are tired of their news being disrupted, they just want a steady stream like a morphine drip, but I'll play, what are you thinking about?
Anything produced by our own journalists is already subject to our publishing standards, but independently produced journalism is only 5 percent of our output.
I hate to use a pool of people to do an AI's work, but tasker one of the debtor prisons. I want groups to go through our news feeds, sort each news item by type and mark it for handling. For each news item apply a 5% HNMNBM bias. Then comes the secret sauce, I want a word pool, the words we commonly use not mater what the original feed says.
Word pool, sorry to be dense, what is that?
No problem, it came to me last night in a dream. Instead of the word "blue", whenever that comes up, I want to substitute "azure".
Why?
So people get comfortable reading our material, they see azure and they know its us, with their familar, trusted bias, common words are comfort words, something that gives them assurance in a topsy turvy world. In fact, let's start with common, which has as many synonyms as anything you can imagine:
ordinary · normal · typical · average · unexceptional · run-of-the-mill · plain · simple · usual · ordinary · customary · habitual · familiar · regular · frequent · repeated · recurrent · routine · everyday · daily · day-to-day · quotidian · standard · typical · conventional · stock · stereotyped · predictable · commonplace · mundane · wonted · widespread · general · universal · popular · mainstream · prevalent · prevailing · rife · established · collective · nonspecific · inclusive · all-inclusive · all-encompassing · broad · comprehensive · blanket · umbrella · sweeping · universal · cross-disciplinary · interdisciplinary · multidisciplinary ·well established · conventional · traditional · traditionalist · orthodox · accepted · in circulation · in force
You said ordinary twice, giggled Lilian.
Yolanda looked down with her "I will destroy you with fire" gaze, but didn't get angry, whatever, whenever HNN publishes a word that can be replaced with "common", do it. Just do it. OK? And find other examples, common words are comfort words are happy readers. On it?
Yes of course.
From the beginning, get a team of coders down there, building and training an AI, this is much too important to be left to people, especially debtors. I want the core function to look like this:
MARK(*item)<
BIAS item[i]
COMMON_WORD_POOL(i)
>
OK?
OK, will do. You write code?
No, but I have screwed a few software engineers and sometimes I get more out of the bargain than sperm.
You are truly one frightening lady, Yolanda. What about the canned stories to be ready for events that have not happened yet. Are you happy with the progress on that?
Mostly, they can't sound like trolls. Those morons with Parkland ruined it for everyone, forever. Calling those kids professional actors less they two hours after they had been shot at. Remember, the key to writing news in advance of the event is to support the story with citations. If the shooting happens in Penn Tower, have some incontrovertible fact about Penn Tower in the story. As long as people see 2 or 3 things that are true, they will believe the whole story.
Yolanda was insistent, we need to develop a filter for all incoming news before it gets published by us. Consistency is a key to business success and that applies to news every bit as it does to hamburgers.
Lilian replied, 20 years ago, trolling, fake news, was a big problem, now it is all regulated so what can you possibly want to do?
Lil, an established system is a system that is ripe for disruption.
Yolanda, people are tired of their news being disrupted, they just want a steady stream like a morphine drip, but I'll play, what are you thinking about?
Anything produced by our own journalists is already subject to our publishing standards, but independently produced journalism is only 5 percent of our output.
I hate to use a pool of people to do an AI's work, but tasker one of the debtor prisons. I want groups to go through our news feeds, sort each news item by type and mark it for handling. For each news item apply a 5% HNMNBM bias. Then comes the secret sauce, I want a word pool, the words we commonly use not mater what the original feed says.
Word pool, sorry to be dense, what is that?
No problem, it came to me last night in a dream. Instead of the word "blue", whenever that comes up, I want to substitute "azure".
Why?
So people get comfortable reading our material, they see azure and they know its us, with their familar, trusted bias, common words are comfort words, something that gives them assurance in a topsy turvy world. In fact, let's start with common, which has as many synonyms as anything you can imagine:
ordinary · normal · typical · average · unexceptional · run-of-the-mill · plain · simple · usual · ordinary · customary · habitual · familiar · regular · frequent · repeated · recurrent · routine · everyday · daily · day-to-day · quotidian · standard · typical · conventional · stock · stereotyped · predictable · commonplace · mundane · wonted · widespread · general · universal · popular · mainstream · prevalent · prevailing · rife · established · collective · nonspecific · inclusive · all-inclusive · all-encompassing · broad · comprehensive · blanket · umbrella · sweeping · universal · cross-disciplinary · interdisciplinary · multidisciplinary ·well established · conventional · traditional · traditionalist · orthodox · accepted · in circulation · in forceYou said ordinary twice, giggled Lilian.
Yolanda looked down with her "I will destroy you with fire" gaze, but didn't get angry, whatever, whenever HNN publishes a word that can be replaced with "common", do it. Just do it. OK? And find other examples, common words are comfort words are happy readers. On it?
Yes of course.
From the beginning, get a team of coders down there, building and training an AI, this is much too important to be left to people, especially debtors. I want the core function to look like this:
MARK(*item)<
BIAS item[i]
COMMON_WORD_POOL(i)
>
OK?
OK, will do. You write code?
No, but I have screwed a few software engineers and sometimes I get more out of the bargain than sperm.
You are truly one frightening lady, Yolanda. What about the canned stories to be ready for events that have not happened yet. Are you happy with the progress on that?
Mostly, they can't sound like trolls. Those morons with Parkland ruined it for everyone, forever. Calling those kids professional actors less they two hours after they had been shot at. Remember, the key to writing news in advance of the event is to support the story with citations. If the shooting happens in Penn Tower, have some incontrovertible fact about Penn Tower in the story. As long as people see 2 or 3 things that are true, they will believe the whole story.
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