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0 pointsnh23423fefe11mo ago0 comments

no by query syntax i mean what people have called google fu.

yeah seems the same to me. type some stuff, read the response, evaluate, loop or break. cool you hate ai and dont want to learn a new pattern. but you say i dont want to think which doesnt make sense. you are thinking just as hard.

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nkrisc11mo ago

> what people have called google fu

I don’t know what that means in any specific sense.

I don’t want to think about how to interact with the search mechanism. It’s the same problem with using voice assistants like Siri - I have to think about how to construct my query so that it will be parsed correctly.

With most search engines I can just type in disparate terms that might be related. The order doesn’t matter, the phrasing doesn’t matter, I don’t need to give it instructions on how to respond, etc.

nh23423fefeOP11mo ago

> I don’t know what that means

ironic

> I don’t want to think about how to interact with the search mechanism.

so then why did you proceed to describe a process whereby you iterative construct high entropy tokens to submit to a search engine because you have an internal model of their indexing process by ad hoc interactions for years?

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