I’m mildly annoyed/confused/amused (depending on time of day) whenever I see an username that looks a lot like my own (eg Li***, or just L**** with five letters) on a quick scan on LessWrong and other internet forums,
Because I often scroll past the username quickly so it’s easy for me to have indexical uncertainty, and think I said something that I in fact did not say, like a prefilled LLM.
One of my life aspirations is to post something offensively stupid somewhere, forget about the post, randomly encounter it later, fail to recognize it as mine and write an outraged reply to it.
I’m mildly annoyed/confused/amused (depending on time of day) whenever I see an username that looks a lot like my own (eg Li***, or just L**** with five letters) on a quick scan on LessWrong and other internet forums,
Because I often scroll past the username quickly so it’s easy for me to have indexical uncertainty, and think I said something that I in fact did not say, like a prefilled LLM.
Guessing this is in reaction to @Liface’s shortform today?
I keep thinking I wrote it! And then correcting myself!
(I’ve also experienced this with Larks and Lizka. Probably others too)
I’ve been Liface on the innanet since 1999 (http://rinkworks.com/rinkforum/view.cgi?post=11955) so you must duel me for the Li*** prefix, Linch 😁
(swords emoji for dueling)
Profile pictures solve this.
One of my life aspirations is to post something offensively stupid somewhere, forget about the post, randomly encounter it later, fail to recognize it as mine and write an outraged reply to it.