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Al-Khwarizmi ◴[] No.44462070[source]
I disagree with many of the points on LLMs (but broadly agree with 80% of the post). But regardless of agreeing or not, it was a pleasure to read this because it's beautifully written, the arguments are solid, it makes you think, and the website has a personality, which is rare nowadays.

I clicked halfheartedly, started to read halfheartedly, and got sucked into a read that threw me back into the good old days of the internet.

A pity that the micropayments mentioned in the post never materialized, I'd surely throw a few bucks at the author but the only option is a subscription and I hate those.

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sunnybeetroot ◴[] No.44462499[source]
It is a nice read but something tells me it’s AI generated due to the frequent em dashes so I wouldn’t place all bets on it being entirely human written.

Edit: I apologies, the author has pre-gpt posts that use em dashes so likely it’s part of their writing style.

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1. Al-Khwarizmi ◴[] No.44462601[source]
It would be a monument to hypocrisy if this piece with this specific content were AI-generated.

Color me naive but honestly I'm pretty sure it's not, though. We all tend to be worse at distinguishing AI from human text than we think, but the text sounds genuine to me and transpires an author with a quirky personality that seems difficult to imitate by an LLM. And that could include using em dashes.