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DonHopkins 5 days ago

Well if you write paragraphs of redundant repetitive parenthetical text yourself (like I tend to do), that meanders around and repeats the point again and again (oh there I go again), like both you and I obviously do (and I'm doing now), then LLMs can be useful for condensing and sharpening it.

For example, your post could have been just one paragraph and said the same thing. Do you purposefully write so verbosely as a virtue signal of authenticity?

And no, readers can't just ask the LLM to reproduce the same slop, because they don't have the verbose, redundant (there I go again) original source text that it's condensing. And even if they did, they would not bother reading it, because it's tl;dr and full of typos.

Nobody wants to read pages of repetitive human generated slop, either.

PS:

>I thought my english was fine but then somebody pointed it out and I try to fix my grammar and now its second nature to me writing.

Since you asked for somebody to point it out:

Use it's when it's a contraction for "it is" or "it has," and use its when it's a possessive pronoun showing ownership. A helpful trick is to try replacing the word with "it is" or "it has" in the sentence; if it still makes sense, use "it's".

Full disclosure, in case you can't tell: the paragraph above was LLM generated. Did you find it helpful, was it tl;dr, or did you dislike "its" style?

whynotmakealt 3 days ago | parent [-]

Yes, I can agree that the words I use can be redundant sometimes, I am a human and I have its flaws, I really like to type long essays, Yeah.

To be really honest, I can understand your view-point even if it conflicts with mine if you aren't being offensive, since personally, I think that there is no point of this offense-defense thing.

Off topic but How's your day going man?

Listen, I will tell you why I write in the way I write, You might say this authenticity but I believe it being honest, I want to give someone access to the thoughts I am thinking the way they come, so I would consider it raw.

Usually its not for them but for me, for knowing how far or backwards I would go in life. I write this because I anticipate reading it in the future but I sure haven't read as much in other places.

HN does feel like a place where someone could write 3 paragraphs to some basic question and still feel accepted or read , to be really honest.

> Nobody wants to read pages of repetitive human generated slop, either.

You raise a good point, I have been a bit selfish in writing these posts, I write it for myself and not for the other person, I thought the other person would appreciate my honesty of typing what I write but the point of it being human slop might make sense too lol

> And no, readers can't just ask the LLM to reproduce the same slop, because they don't have the verbose, redundant (there I go again) original source text that it's condensing. And even if they did, they would not bother reading it, because it's tl;dr and full of typos.

Sorry but either its me but I can't seem to understand what you mean by this? Like, do you mean nobody would bother pasting human slop to get tldr's ?

I don't know what to say since I am not getting what you are trying to tell me here but I am curious for sure.

> Since you asked for somebody to point it out:

I didn't really ask but sure, I will take it. I guess I make less mistakes overall though so that's nice. I am not perfect and I am comfortable knowing that yet I think that my writing could be sharpened, yes. There is no denying in that.

> Full disclosure, in case you can't tell: the paragraph above was LLM generated. Did you find it helpful, was it tl;dr, or did you dislike "its" style?

I would still would've preferred your real message even if it could've been choppy to be really honest.

I feel like If I might not leave an imprint on the world, might as well leave the fingerprint saying I was there and this is a way which helps me feel that way. It is (theraptic?) even to write long sentences, they sooth me. I do it for myself. I wasn't trying to virtue signal though, personally its more that even after anything, I still feel like using LLM's in article formations etc. is just a cheap shortcut to what?? , to me its the fact that I can point to this article and be decently comfortable knowing that I wrote it and not an LLM.

I just can't trust LLM texts that much and the only reason I am giving yours so much is because I would appreciate the opportunity to grow and I am willing to read any criticism you provide me if I can meaningfully work on.