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lovichtoday at 2:52 AM1 replyview on HN

I got about halfway through this article until I started wondering why it was so long and going in loops. Then I ctrl+f'd.

` just `, (spaces on either side matter), 11 instances, most seem to be `isnt just`, `wasnt just`, `doesnt just` type pattern

`-`, an en dash instead of an emdash but 59 instances.

This article is either from a clanker and I am pissed off at wasting my time reading it, or from someone who writes like a clanker, and I am pissed off at wasting my time reading it.


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akprasadtoday at 3:05 AM

Maybe it's just the frequency illusion, but "X. Not Y." in particular is a pattern I strongly associate with LLM writing.

> That’s confabulation. Not a metaphor. The same phenomenon.

> Published. Replicated. Not fringe.

> Not to validate it. Not to refute it. Not to engage with its content at all.

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