| ▲ | TacticalCoder 3 hours ago |
| TFA's title is: "Taste Is All That's Left" but when I read the following: > But the ratio was never the danger. It held steady for centuries. What held the flood back was that producing the crap cost something. Bad novels still took a year to write. Bad software still took a month to build. I want to rename the title to "Blogs writing in LLMish are all that's left". Seriously, take this one: "But the ratio was never the danger.". Who the FUCK speaks like that? |
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| ▲ | glitchc an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Hemingway wrote the same way. Here's a famous example from the Old Man and the Sea: Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. The reason is simple: Short sentences are punchy. They hit hard, carry emotional weight. P.S. As evident, clearly I'm having some fun with this, but the point stands. |
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| ▲ | magicalist 20 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Short sentences were never the danger, or what the GP is referring to. | | |
| ▲ | win311fwg 3 minutes ago | parent [-] | | But understanding the GP was never the danger. Incomprehensible posts on HN have held steady for decades. What held the flood back was that producing crap was all the users could muster. Bad comments took seconds to write. The ten percent was throttled by lack of use of tools like LLMs to help refine the words into something that could be understood. |
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| ▲ | warkdarrior 8 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Correction: > The reason is simple. Short sentences are punchy. They hit hard. But they carry emotional weight. |
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| ▲ | throwaway_7274 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| More importantly, why are there always 30 people who insist that you can’t know it’s claudeslop? Or, “so what if it is,” or something like this? It boggles the mind. |
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| ▲ | nnevatie an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yep, it is slop. I got 2-3 paragraphs in and closed the tab, as too many LLMisms raised their ugly heads. |
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| ▲ | kunai an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Who the FUCK speaks like that? Walter Hartwell White, I suppose. |
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| ▲ | win311fwg an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Who the FUCK speaks like that? If we assume that it is LLM generated, as suggested, apparently a lot of people, as the LLMs were trained to mimic how people speak (write). You might find it to be unusual because you probably have never read anything written by most people. Only peculiar characters tend to get noticed. |
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| ▲ | rogerrogerr an hour ago | parent [-] | | But no _individual_ speaks like this. It is not common that a guy representative of the Average Of All People Plus Some RL writes a blog post. | | |
| ▲ | Terr_ an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | That reminds me of story where the US Air Force attempted to design a cheaper cockpit and chair that would fit the "average pilot".. but in practice it fit nobody well. They went back to the drawing-board and put in all sorts of adjustable components instead. This is likely because the individual measures being averaged like "femur length" were not independent from one-another, even where they had the benefit of being normally distributed. | |
| ▲ | win311fwg an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | The specific quote that we are talking about reads like something I wouldn't find unusual in the works of an individual. Maybe not from someone who stands out as someone who writes things that you'd actually want to read, but from an average Joe? It is likely. I, being no wordsmith myself, have written things just like that. It looks quite typical of how people write to me. In fact, I find no meaningful difference between "But no _individual_ speaks like this." and "But the ratio was never the danger.", aside from them being about different topics. They are syntactically very similar. |
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| ▲ | jasonlotito an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > Who the FUCK speaks like that? It's a blog post. It was written. The written word is different from the spoken. People don't speak like: The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. People don't speak like: In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. In fact, I can throw this question at you: "TFA's title is" Who the FUCK speaks like that? Who the FUCK uses TFA's IRL OMG WTF? Silly, isn't it? |
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| ▲ | Grosvenor an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. | |
| ▲ | pessimizer an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > It's a blog post. It was written. The person you're replying to is saying that it wasn't written. If you are the author, I will believe you that it was. If you are not the author, I have no idea why you think you know more than anyone else does. | |
| ▲ | yifanl an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes, your pedantry shows how you're very clever. Please be very clever somewhere else. | | |
| ▲ | RickS an hour ago | parent [-] | | Even if they didn't make a fair point (and I think they do), I would prefer their pedantry to your palpable contempt by a large margin. I mean "palpable" literally. My body is tenser and my heart more sad having experienced the voice you just used on that person. | | |
| ▲ | yifanl 33 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Thank you, I take great pride and effort in compressing as much emotional weight into as short a statement as possible. | |
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| ▲ | pessimizer an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I miss when people used to hide emotional fragility, and not publicly brag about being physically and emotionally devastated by an HN comment. | | |
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