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Depends on the type of writing. Blogs and the like? LLM generates prose that, to me anyway. is unbearable. However, in fiction I’ve found it a useful collaborator. There have been …

The ‘study’ is fluff. Paraphrase: Amongst primates there is a correlation between brain size and bipedalism with handedness… (unless you exclude humans, in which case there isn’t.)…

The sad thing is that IF — by chance — one of those 66 had schizophrenia, the headline would undoubtedly read “Blind children are FOUR TIMES more likely to develop Schizophrenia!”

“…tracking nearly half a million children born in Western Australia between 1980 and 2001. Of those, 1,870 developed schizophrenia, but not one of the 66 children with cortical bli…

> Off the top of your head, what technological advancements did the different space programs bring? Gemini? Apollo? Soyuz? The space shuttle? Tang

Yep. But that prompt I used was just a quirky. You can explicitly force it to avoid THAT structure as well. Just do what the smart ?ie, devious) middle-schoolers do: find a list of…

The same snobs who were telling us that "The Old Man and the Sea" (written in the style of a fifth-grader) is 'art'... the same people telling us that "Finnegan's Wake" (written in…

This is what I don't grok... Your sample sounds exactly like an LLM. (If you wrote it yourself, kudos.) But, it needn't sound like this. For example, I can have Opus rewrite that b…

Do you think the original article was NOT written (or at least heavily revised) by AI? What does the following even mean? “diluting the semantic density and specific gravity of the…

Are you sure? Here's the OP article (first part... don't want to spam the thread) written in much cooler style... ------ The Lobotomist in the Machine They gave the first disease a…

> "they set off the tuning fork in the loins of your own dogmatism." Eh... I don't know. To me, that sounds very AI-ish. Claude is very good -- at times -- coming up with flowery m…

Indeed. Wholeheartedly agree. Just as it’s on you to pick the word you want when using Roger’s Thesaurus. My workflow, when using it for writing, is different than when coding. Whe…

One shouldn’t expect the ‘joke’ to have identical tone. (As if that’s even measurable.) The point was simply that these examples are not trending towards the average or ‘ablating’ …

Because HN isn't a literary forum. Maybe it sucks. Maybe it doesn't. But, I notice a curious pretentiousness when it comes to some people's assumptions about their ability to ident…

> And THAT is a sentence an LLM would not write. Really? Here's some alternatives. Some are clunky. But, some aren't. …just like you can tell whose pubes those are on the shared ba…

My point is simply that the tell-tale marks of LLM prose can be remediated through prompts. I have a very large ‘default prompt’ that explicitly deals with the more obnoxious gramm…

Nonsense. I’ve written bland prose for a story and AI made it much better by revising it with a prompt such as this: “Make the vocabulary and grammar more sophisticated and add in …

Why just the mother? What about her absentee father?

> Reminds me of "Those darn cars! Everybody knows that trains and horses are the way to travel."… … said nobody ever.

None of which has anything to do with the ‘last days of the Roman Republic.’ Feel free to panic and tear your hair out… that’s what both sides do. Boring. The post, however, make s…

> You’ve got an executive branch stacking all open positions in judicial and legislative branches with their political appointees. The judicial branch is composed of Judges who are…

Good grief. The shutdown is a temporary budget squabble in a stable democracy; a banal political stunt that has happened every few years for the past few decades. Rome’s dysfunctio…

What’s so ‘new’ about it?

In C++, I’ve noticed that ChatGPT is fixated on unordered_maps. No matter the situation, when I ask what container would be wise to use, it’s always inordered_maps. Even when you t…

> it's just hard to go up. Eh. Going up is easy. A Frenchman, a sheep, duck, and rooster solved the whole ‘up’ thing over two centuries ago. But going DOWN? That’s far more difficu…