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The Delusion Machine – What happened when I fed my soul into an LLM

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32 points rntn | 2 comments | 30 Aug 25 17:13 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mpalmer ◴[30 Aug 25 18:35 UTC] No.45076965[source]▶
The author's point could be made far more succinctly and clearly than this. I found the writing indulgent, overcomplicated and unfocused.

Overwrought prose (so many lists of three or more things! Why?) that takes fully half of its word count to get to the point, which is that LLMs are appeasing and solicitous by default. Not sure what else I'm supposed to take away.

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1. vunderba ◴[30 Aug 25 18:49 UTC] No.45077049[source]▶
I had similar thoughts reading the piece - particularly as a writer who prioritizes the idea more than the decorative prose in which it is draped, but it might be better to think of this article as an "interpretation" comparable to Glenn Gould, Sviatoslav Richter, or Wanda Landowska performing the Well-Tempered Clavier.
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2. mpalmer ◴[30 Aug 25 18:52 UTC] No.45077073[source]▶
All the more important for the work to have clarity and economy, not just point of view.