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iainharper

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    I wrote this partly because nobody seems to know about Gödel who is arguably a more important figure than Turing. The piece follows four threads where formal limits show up in AI p…

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    A detailed breakdown of why AI-generated prose feels so “uncanny”and flat. The argument is that because LLMs calculate probability distributions, they naturally gravitate toward th…

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