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How information theory saved my word game

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Re: How information theory saved my word game

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Post by jamwise »

terabytest wrote: post #9

I have the feeling that this article was hurt rather than helped by being written using LLMs. It was really hard to follow, and even though I read it hoping to learn something new, I left feeling more confused than when I started. The feeling while reading was that the prose was trying to hold my hand but had absolutely no empathy for the build up of my understanding over the article. It’s a bit like when, as a child…

Seems like others feel the same. I guess getting an LLM to help with editing was a bad choice. Thanks for the feedback.

Re: How information theory saved my word game

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Post by jamwise »

stavros wrote: post #10
jamwise wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well it certainly was a wall. That's how I kept describing it to my partner, I was hitting a wall.

Yes but I'm fairly sure you didn't use the words "this isn't a speed problem. It is a wall" when talking to your partner. I liked the post, I just don't like Claude writing every article I read, just like I didn't like every website I visited looking like Bootstrap.

Yeah that's fair. I might dust off my draft and re-edit myself, I foolishly thought this would lead to a better post, and I guess am not as attuned to the AI smell as others.

Re: How information theory saved my word game

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Post by tapland »

jamwise wrote: post #12
stavros wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes but I'm fairly sure you didn't use the words "this isn't a speed problem. It is a wall" when talking to your partner. I liked the post, I just don't like Claude writing every article I read, just like I didn't like every website I visited looking like Bootstrap.

Yeah that's fair. I might dust off my draft and re-edit myself, I foolishly thought this would lead to a better post, and I guess am not as attuned to the AI smell as others.

That's fair. When you start to notice the smell, it reeks. Put some time into it, it doesn't have to be perfectly worded, it will be a fun read

Re: How information theory saved my word game

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Post by Michelangelo11 »

tapland wrote: post #13
jamwise wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah that's fair. I might dust off my draft and re-edit myself, I foolishly thought this would lead to a better post, and I guess am not as attuned to the AI smell as others.

That's fair. When you start to notice the smell, it reeks. Put some time into it, it doesn't have to be perfectly worded, it will be a fun read

I agree, and I'm completely sure it will be better than this, so long as you say just what you want to say.

Re: How information theory saved my word game

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Post by busymom0 »

Michelangelo11 wrote: post #4

> Marshall McLuhan gets the credit for the medium is the message, but Claude Shannon had beaten him to a colder version of it years earlier: to a machine moving your words, the meaning doesn’t matter at all; only the medium does, and which of its signals can be told apart. Bravo and Delta survive a bad line; B and D don’t. > I didn’t arrive there as a mathematician; I’m not one. > This wasn’t a speed problem I could…

A few hours ago, on another post, I had someone explain/teach me why another article may be written by LLM and they pointed out the "It's not X, it's Y" thing. Since I read that comment, I instantly picked that up in this post article too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48739555

Re: How information theory saved my word game

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Post by throawayonthe »

busymom0 wrote: post #18
Michelangelo11 wrote: post #4

> Marshall McLuhan gets the credit for the medium is the message, but Claude Shannon had beaten him to a colder version of it years earlier: to a machine moving your words, the meaning doesn’t matter at all; only the medium does, and which of its signals can be told apart. Bravo and Delta survive a bad line; B and D don’t. > I didn’t arrive there as a mathematician; I’m not one. > This wasn’t a speed problem I could…

A few hours ago, on another post, I had someone explain/teach me why another article may be written by LLM and they pointed out the "It's not X, it's Y" thing. Since I read that comment, I instantly picked that up in this post article too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48739555

which really sucks, because it's a good structure for emphasis in some limited situations, but now human writers that use it correctly get accused of being LLMs
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