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supermattyesterday at 9:24 PM4 repliesview on HN

> which is barely any at all

Clearly you either didn't read it, misunderstood it, disbelieved it, or just DGAF :)


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swatcoderyesterday at 9:33 PM

What I read is that you're self-conscious about your writing style and that you find the LLM processed version of your own stream of thoughts to be helpful to you yourself.

Which is fine for you, but doesn't change that many people can get more insight out of your original text than they can out of the generated adaptation, and can do so with more interest and less fatigue.

And indeed, you don't have to care about that. But one would think that in publishing or sharing your writing at all, you do in fact have some investment in whether people receive those insights that you have. Otherwise, you could just keep the AI writings to yourself in the first place.

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minimaxiryesterday at 9:40 PM

Many different people in this HN submission have given you similar feedback: given that, you should consider that your priors are not correct.

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miyojiyesterday at 9:43 PM

No, I did read it, and I think I understood it. My summary in my own words is that you find that LLMs can massage your writing and reduce the stress of communication. Did I believe it? Well...

You have an account on HN dating back to 2013 with over 6000 comment karma, you clearly didn't have trouble communicating like a normal person for a decade on this website before the advent of LLMs. Your spelling and grammar in posts predating LLMs are also far better than what you've produced in this prompt, so I'm tempted to think that you're exaggerating your inability to communicate normally to make a point.

But even so, the original wall of text communicates the point much more strongly and sincerely than the LLM trash.

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