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amelius • today at 7:35 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

It's like reading legalese.

Or reading patents.

Terrible ... like someone put in effort to make it unreadable.


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JackFr • today at 7:47 PM

Well that’s exactly the authors’ claim. Legalese and patents intent is not to facilitate communication but to maintain a claim under the most bad faith, hostile reading.

AI language, it seems, is optimized to support reasoning from the interior monologue.

ben_w • today at 7:49 PM

I thought patents were deliberately bad? Like, the point is to get the protection, despite paying as little lip service as possible to the "it's in society's interest that inventions get published" side of it?