“GPT-3 Nonfiction § Perlis, ‘Epigrams On Programming’”, Gwern2020-06-19 (GPT non-fiction, mind)⁠:

Nonfiction writing by OpenAI’s GPT-3 model, testing logic, commonsense reasoning, anagrams, PDF/OCR cleaning, creative nonfiction, etc

The sayings of Alan Perlis (“Epigrams in Programming” 1982_42ya) are proverbial in CS—so famous that sampling produces difficulty in plagiarizing both Perlis & other programmer sayings, even when I try shuffling the epigram prompt to make spitting out memorized epigrams less likely:

• Anagrams
• Logic
• The Database Prompt
• Parity
• Verbal Counting
• Concept Blending
• Coq Proofs
• ASCII Art
• PDF Cleaning
• Meta-Prompts
• Common-Sense Knowledge
  • Animal Eyes
  • Weights
  • 2020’, Gwern2020” id=”toc-bender-koller-2020”>Bender & Koller2020
    • Word Arithmetic
    • Bear Attacks
  • 2020’, Gwern2020” id=”toc-marcus-2020”>Marcus2020
  • Marcus & Davis2020
  • Marcus2022: The Old Cow Died
  • 2020’, Gwern2020” id=”toc-ferrucci-2020”>Ferrucci2020
• Expressing Uncertainty
  • “Yo Be Real”
    • Hofstadter & Bender2022
  • Calibration
    • Postfixed Probabilities
    • Postfixed Kesselman Estimative Words
    • Prefixed Kesselman Estimative Words
    • Prefixed Probabilities
• “Why Deep Learning Will Never Truly X”
• Arxiv Paper
• Overcomplicated Explanations
• Epigrams & Proverbs
  • “Vectors”, Richardson
  • Perlis, “Epigrams On Programming”
  • Umeshisms
• Movie/Book Plot Summaries
  • Cowboy Bebop Episodes
• Problematic Things
• Dwarf Fortress Changelog
• Board Games
• Art Criticism
• Individual Imitations
  • Paul Graham
  • Gwern Branwen
• Two-Digit Arithmetic