> Why would you prefer actual aggression to passive aggression?
Probably for the same reason I disliked the Sinatra content so much, too obviously fake.
The whole of the parent comment was that single remark I quoted, before they edited the comment.
They were intending to lob a passive aggressive insult on the lighter side. They didn't like my comment, so they fired off a shot about my comment being equivalent to a questionably human, possibly mediocre GPT3 text.
I don't mind that sort of mild insult in response, I just prefer it without the unnecessary facade of the smiley.
I thought they were saying the defense was like defenses of gpt-3, that it will be good someday, or it's good if you are very selective about the output, not that your comment was poorly written.
One of those readings is just musing about the state of all this "almost there" tech, the other is just randomly insulting someone's writing.
That does seem like pretty dangerous ambiguity. Akiselev maybe wrote a blue gold dress of comments where one reading is mean-spirited. I doubt it was intentional, but could have been clearer.
For what its worth, I don’t think the OP was intending to be insulting; this seemed more like an inside joke designed to foster camaraderie.