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john_strinlaitoday at 1:27 PM3 repliesview on HN

i typically enjoy a good profanity-laden rant, but something about this particular one feels very forced. this sentence, for example: "[...] What if someone points one out in my writing?”. Bitch, please.". i cant really put my finger on why, but it almost feels like the author wrote their rant, then came back afterwards with a quota of fuck/shit/bitch they wanted to meet, placing them wherever they could.

in any case, i mostly agree with the author that ai has co-opted too many things to be concerned about it anymore. i remember being linked a list of "1,000 words not to use" because ai used them a lot (e.g. "delve", "absolutely", etc.) and the venn diagram with the 1,000 most common english words was practically a circle. you would be unintelligible if you rigorously avoided them all. now i just write without care of my ai-similarity score.


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assimpleaspossitoday at 6:38 PM

>i typically enjoy a good profanity-laden rant, but something about this particular one feels very forced.

Profanity for the sake of profanity is lame and immature.

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neuroticnews25today at 1:39 PM

>you would be unintelligible if you rigorously avoided them all

You could write naturally and then let an LLM translate avoiding the 1000 words, with verification harness or maybe a custom sampler.

jimbokuntoday at 1:30 PM

It smacks of “Hitler also loved…(some innocuous thing).”