I would say that many of the sentences in this essay are not worth reading. Most of them are of the form described, eg not x but y
Eg
> This suggests that the EM structure isn’t just an analogy — it’s the natural grain of the optimization landscape
I don't care if someone uses llm. But it shows a lack of care to do it in this blatant way without noting it. Eg at work I'll often link prompt-response in docs as an appendix, but I will call out the provenance
If you find those sentences to be helpful, great! I find it decreases the signal in the article and makes me skim it. If you're wondering why people complain, it's because sharing a post intended to be skimmed without saying, hey you should skim this, is a little disrespectful of someone's time
> This suggests that the EM structure isn’t just an analogy — it’s the natural grain of the optimization landscape
As someone in the field, this means nothing, and I'm very suspicious of the article as a whole because it has so many sentences like this.