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"That alignment is what produces the sense of recognition. I already had the shape of the idea. The model supplied a clean verbal form."
It's all LLM's. Nobody writes like this.
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I was having a similar odd sense of something being off, then got to
> This is not new. Writing has always done this for me. What is different is the speed. I can probe half-formed thoughts, discard bad formulations, and try again without much friction. That encourages a kind of thinking I might have otherwise skipped.
This is a mess. The triple enumeration, twice in a row, right in the middle of a message that warranted a more coherent train of thought. That is, they want to say they already experienced similar gains before from writing as an activity, but the llm conversations are better. Better in what way? Faster, and "less friction". What? What is even the friction in... writing? What made it slow as well, like, are you not writing prompts?
The LLM-ness of the formatting is literally getting in the way of the message. Maybe OOP didn't notice before publishing, but they successfully argued the opposite. Their communication got worse.
https://www.pangram.com/history/89da46c7-113e-4a27-8f3f-dbc8...