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I’m not going crazy, right, nearly nobody aside from professional writers used em dashes prior to 2022. And the whole bolded topic intro, colon, short 1-2 sentence explanation seems way more like a product of GPT formatting than how organic humans would structure it? So much writing on the internet seems derivative nowadays (because it is, thanks to AI). I’d rather not read it though, it’s boring and feels like a sam…
No, lots of people who read a lot used em-dashes. Also, lots of people who use Macs, because it's very easy to type on a Mac (shift-option-hyphen). The reason LLMs use em-dashes is because they're well-represented in the training corpus.
Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power
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Re: Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power
#52I'd take it a step further and say this distinction is also contributing to the erosion of hobbies in younger generations. Even more so it is eroding time spent on productive / skill based hobbies and lean into consumption based hobbies. Due to the rise of influencers, social media is barely a sharing platform anymore.. its just decentralized long-tailed broadcast media. Many modern people think dining out and travel…
EDIT: The author has been changing the post in real-time to try to undermine the comments calling out the clear AI use. The article now contains an admission that AI was used and the obvious AI slop image has been cleaned up. Some of these comments won’t make sense if you’re looking at the updated article. Did you notice that this entire blog is just an LLM content farm newsletter? That the laptop in the headline ima…
Re: Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's an interesting keyboard layout, though. ± 2 3 3 2 6 7 8 0 0 = * - M W C B T Y U F O P ] [ [ [ A G G E R H J K L | / ├ examb ² X C V B N M / ꕯ └ ; Your other keyboard has even more exotic glyphs: is that APL?
I'm sorry the GenAI image prevented you from engaging with the ideas. Layout removed if that makes you and others feel better.
Comparing the two images is a good analogy. You instructed the AI to remove the keyboards, and it completely changed the entire contents of both screens, as well as the hand holding the phone. I'm not sure what app has a modular plug as its "main screen" icon, but that distracts me from the whole rest of the image: even the cardboard surface of the bottom part of the laptop. It's less clear what you were trying to convey with the image than before.
Human-to-human communication is not something that benefits from inserting generative AI in the middle. This whole article is confusing: like a collaboration between a pointillist and an impressionist, except they didn't agree on what they were trying to say, so the picture can only be understood by working backwards and trying to model the production process in your head.
> But—and this matters—the sandbox remains someone else's. The app defines the possibility space. The platform determines what's possible. Users create within the system, never of the system.
I was going to use this as an example of a paragraph I understood, but then I looked closer: I have no idea what the distinction between "within" and "of" that you're trying to draw actually is. Sure, I know what you're trying to say, but which one is meant to be "within", and which one is "of"? The slop header image is a symptom of the broken authorial process that led to this article, not the primary issue with it: the main problem is that you started out with something to say, and ended up with confusing, verbose, and semi-meaningless output.
Most people can write better than this. You can write better than this.
Re: Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power
#54I'd take it a step further and say this distinction is also contributing to the erosion of hobbies in younger generations. Even more so it is eroding time spent on productive / skill based hobbies and lean into consumption based hobbies. Due to the rise of influencers, social media is barely a sharing platform anymore.. its just decentralized long-tailed broadcast media. Many modern people think dining out and travel…
EDIT: The author has been changing the post in real-time to try to undermine the comments calling out the clear AI use. The article now contains an admission that AI was used and the obvious AI slop image has been cleaned up. Some of these comments won’t make sense if you’re looking at the updated article. Did you notice that this entire blog is just an LLM content farm newsletter? That the laptop in the headline ima…
Re: Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
EDIT: The author has been changing the post in real-time to try to undermine the comments calling out the clear AI use. The article now contains an admission that AI was used and the obvious AI slop image has been cleaned up. Some of these comments won’t make sense if you’re looking at the updated article. Did you notice that this entire blog is just an LLM content farm newsletter? That the laptop in the headline ima…
Sorry, but wear is the recursive protocol trope? Also do you know a good list of these tropes for llm spotting?
For some reason, calling things “recursive” and talking about “protocols” are common. The second post I clicked on in this blog has a section called “recursive protocol” with similar content to all of the other ChatGPT style writing. The subheading talking about “UFO markets” and all of the flowcharts purporting to describe reality are also similar to other ChatGPT fake profound output.
Re: Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power
#56This blog is an LLM newsletter content factory. It's more obvious in the other articles. Look at the heading and sub-heading of a post from a couple weeks ago: > Witnesses Carry Weights: How Reality Gets Computed > From UFO counsel to neighborhood fear to market pricing—reality emerges through weighted witnessing. A field guide to the computational machinery where intent, energy, and expectations become causal forces…
1/ So far, you've made five comments about this throughout the thread. 2/ I've added an update at the top; pasting it here as well: "My high school teacher in 2004 accused me of plagiarizing from Wikipedia because my research paper looked "too polished" for something typed on a keyboard instead of handwritten. Twenty years later, HN commenters see clean prose and assume LLM slop. Same discomfort, different decade, id…
As someone who actually clicks the links and reads the articles, I’m growing frustrated with these AI-written articles wasting my time. The content is typical of ChatGPT style idea expansion where someone puts their “ideas” into an LLM and then has the LLM generate filler content to expand it into a blog post.
I try to bring awareness of the AI generated content so others can avoid wasting their time on it as well. Content like this also gets flagged away from the front page as visitors realize what it is.
Your edited admission of using AI only confirms the accusations.
Re: Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
EDIT: The author has been changing the post in real-time to try to undermine the comments calling out the clear AI use. The article now contains an admission that AI was used and the obvious AI slop image has been cleaned up. Some of these comments won’t make sense if you’re looking at the updated article. Did you notice that this entire blog is just an LLM content farm newsletter? That the laptop in the headline ima…
Is it AI then if there’s a human author? lol. You are funny.
You have now updated the article to admit using AI to write it.
So why is it funny that I recognized it as AI?
Re: Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m not going crazy, right, nearly nobody aside from professional writers used em dashes prior to 2022. And the whole bolded topic intro, colon, short 1-2 sentence explanation seems way more like a product of GPT formatting than how organic humans would structure it? So much writing on the internet seems derivative nowadays (because it is, thanks to AI). I’d rather not read it though, it’s boring and feels like a sam…
No, lots of people who read a lot used em-dashes. Also, lots of people who use Macs, because it's very easy to type on a Mac (shift-option-hyphen). The reason LLMs use em-dashes is because they're well-represented in the training corpus.
The article has on average, about one em dash per paragraph. And “paragraph” is generous given they’re 2-3 sentences in this article.
I read a lot, and I don’t recall any authors I’ve personally read using an em dash so frequently. There would be like 3 per page in the average book if human writers used them like GPT does.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, lots of people who read a lot used em-dashes. Also, lots of people who use Macs, because it's very easy to type on a Mac (shift-option-hyphen). The reason LLMs use em-dashes is because they're well-represented in the training corpus.
Don’t forget; a double-dash on iOS keyboard gets automagically converted to an em—dash.
Re: Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power
#60This blog is an LLM newsletter content factory. It's more obvious in the other articles. Look at the heading and sub-heading of a post from a couple weeks ago: > Witnesses Carry Weights: How Reality Gets Computed > From UFO counsel to neighborhood fear to market pricing—reality emerges through weighted witnessing. A field guide to the computational machinery where intent, energy, and expectations become causal forces…
1/ So far, you've made five comments about this throughout the thread. 2/ I've added an update at the top; pasting it here as well: "My high school teacher in 2004 accused me of plagiarizing from Wikipedia because my research paper looked "too polished" for something typed on a keyboard instead of handwritten. Twenty years later, HN commenters see clean prose and assume LLM slop. Same discomfort, different decade, id…