alt Hacker News… and “That’s not x. That’s y.” Certain LLMs wield powerful stylistic devices all the time to a point where they become irrelevant and cringe.
I see it as a good sign that we can learn to recognize the pattern and adapt but there are probably more subtle things we don’t see.
I have run the piece through an impromptu stylistic device detector. It found 15 different, each used multiple times and likened the writing style as a mix of Ezra Klein, Hannah Arendt, Zeynep Tufekci, George Orwell (“especially in the contrastive clarity”).
A) I certainly don’t see enough of the tells.
B) what happens to our language if everything is written as if it’s competing for a Pulitzer’s Price?