I literally assumed a scissor statement meant “cut and paste” because these dipshits suck at naming things and I only have so much of my brain to dedicate to their garbage
If they knew any language other than English or were actually creative their names might have more flair. As it is, we're stuck with the neologisms of an 11th-grade High School newspaper writer
I can’t speak for lesbian porn specifically, but porn dialog generally is probably one of the few areas of written speech that could be automated via AI without anyone really noticing that anything changes. Least of all because it’s usually skipped over anyways.
He’s joking, but please don’t remind me about scissor statements at 1pm on a workday when I can’t take the anti-parrot countermeasure.
It’s a joke, a reference to a SlateStarCodex post (“Sort by Controversial”, IIRC).
“Scissor statements” are the dialogue in lesbian porn, right?
I don’t know what Yudkowsky means and I refuse to find out, because whatever definition he made up, it will be worse than “dialogue in lesbian porn”.
the tweet