The Lost Art of Carrying Loads

absoluteunit1 wrote: post #4

Interesting article. But I don't know if I am imagining it; I'm starting to feel Claude's (AI) writing everywhere. Like this sentence for example: > The genius of the gaucho’s system isn’t storage. It’s integration. The x isn't y. Its z.

Yes. I missed that specific bit, but, the more I read on, the less it felt like a nice in-flight magazine-tier diversion and the more it felt like I was reading the result of asking Claude to write an essay about the bearing of loads.

(Which makes me personally a lot less interested in reading it.)

Re: The Lost Art of Carrying Loads

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Post by naravara » Wed, Sep 02, 2026, 1:22 PM UTC

absoluteunit1 wrote: post #4

Interesting article. But I don't know if I am imagining it; I'm starting to feel Claude's (AI) writing everywhere. Like this sentence for example: > The genius of the gaucho’s system isn’t storage. It’s integration. The x isn't y. Its z.

Yeah as soon as I hit the gaucho section my clanker alarm started going off like crazy.

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Post by throwaway173738 » Wed, Sep 02, 2026, 1:23 PM UTC

absoluteunit1 wrote: post #4

Interesting article. But I don't know if I am imagining it; I'm starting to feel Claude's (AI) writing everywhere. Like this sentence for example: > The genius of the gaucho’s system isn’t storage. It’s integration. The x isn't y. Its z.

Yeah the writing tastes like processed food. There’s no substance just “here’s some stuff people do” but nothing about why it works or where you could learn more.

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Post by buellerbueller » Wed, Sep 02, 2026, 1:24 PM UTC

absoluteunit1 wrote: post #4

Interesting article. But I don't know if I am imagining it; I'm starting to feel Claude's (AI) writing everywhere. Like this sentence for example: > The genius of the gaucho’s system isn’t storage. It’s integration. The x isn't y. Its z.

Assuming it is AI-written, who cares? Would the article have been written if AI hadn't authored it? Did you derive less utility from the article than had it not been written at all?

Bunch of Veruca Salts here. I want ALL the entertainment/information, I want it NOW, I'll pirate it if I have to, and GOD FORBID IT USE AI.

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Post by oidar » Wed, Sep 02, 2026, 1:27 PM UTC

Thanks for the essay Claude. It’s good info, just something feels off. It doesn’t feel like a person wrote this article… what are 10 options to fix this?

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Post by kakacik » Wed, Sep 02, 2026, 1:28 PM UTC

buellerbueller wrote: post #8

absoluteunit1 wrote: post #4

Interesting article. But I don't know if I am imagining it; I'm starting to feel Claude's (AI) writing everywhere. Like this sentence for example: > The genius of the gaucho’s system isn’t storage. It’s integration. The x isn't y. Its z.

Assuming it is AI-written, who cares? Would the article have been written if AI hadn't authored it? Did you derive less utility from the article than had it not been written at all? Bunch of Veruca Salts here. I want ALL the entertainment/information, I want it NOW, I'll pirate it if I have to, and GOD FORBID IT USE AI.

While I agree that the topic is actually pretty interesting and any decent info > no info, in more general terms we pay with the most important commodity we have - our free time.

So just because something is free doesn't mean people automatically flock in masses for it and have uncritical relationship with it.