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OrangePilledyesterday at 10:58 PM1 replyview on HN

This is a sound personal assessment.

The section about being "glazed" into action resonates. Hidden within this concept I think is something profound about human motivation, innuendo and all.

> AI generated prose is at best boring, and at worst genuinely unappealing. I’m continually tempted, because in theory it should work well. The AI has perfect spelling and grammar, has more than enough context to produce article-length content, and can do in seconds what takes me hours.

I have a thesis in mind...that there is something fundamental to the human spirit that relishes a sort of friction that LLMs cannot observe or reproduce on their own.


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lstoddtoday at 2:57 AM

> that there is something fundamental to the human spirit that relishes a sort of friction that LLMs cannot observe or reproduce on their own.

    Whatever happens, we have got
    The Maxim gun, and they have not.