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It's honestly weird Claude converges on this language because it's incredibly wordy and hard to parse. One would think semantic density would win out in training.
Who knows. I wish ant harshly penalized speaking litotically because it’s essentially reward hacking as it can often be read multiple ways. It’s also annoying as a human because Claude et al rate their own writing very highly, putting human LLM interactions at a disadvantage to human->LLM LLM interactions.
Thanks for teaching me the word ”litotically”!