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

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32 points rntn | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 17:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | 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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jdlshore ◴[30 Aug 25 19:30 UTC] No.45077325[source]▶
A criticism like yours can be found every time an essay like this reaches the HN front page. Not all writing is meant to inform, and some people have trouble understanding that.
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mpalmer ◴[30 Aug 25 19:44 UTC] No.45077445[source]▶
If you think my comment is about my not being sufficiently informed by the piece, I really don't know what to tell you.
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1. exe34 ◴[30 Aug 25 21:58 UTC] No.45078346[source]▶
that's two pieces of writing that you've taken literally. If you've always had issues with other people being dumb, I recommend looking into autism.

edit: I've counted a couple more down the page - you really do see the world in black and white. get tested, it'll help. it helped me.