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arjietoday at 4:13 PM1 replyview on HN

AI text is just a quick heuristic for garbage. But I’ve always disliked garbage. Even when it came dressed like:

How to use Monads

When David James was a young child, his mother used to tell him that you could oil vegetables before putting them in the pan. On the ranch in Eastern Kentucky David’s mornings would be spent watering, caring for the cows, and then playing with the dogs. Before he started blah blah blah…

<500 words later> and then he defined a structure called a monad with three properties…

Dude, it’s just a class of this filler text for people whose success criteria is lines of code. At least previously the filler was somewhat skippable. Now it’s interspersed with the useful parts.

But that’s fine: it’s a solved problem by just making a machine extract information. So yes, complaining about the form is passé. I’m going to put it in the ore refiner anyway and the slag goes in the pit. Away to the slag pit with David’s infernal mother.


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BeetleBtoday at 6:39 PM

> AI text is just a quick heuristic for garbage.

Thank you for being honest, and saying that the problem is not with the other party, but with your lack of resources/time to read and judge.

And, BTW, just replace "AI" in your sentence with "Human", and the statement would still be true!

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