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Good. I don't want LLMs sounding human. I want the ability to shame and discredit anyone passing the job of prose to a machine. There's an art to writing, and hopefully LLMs never truly get it right.


Agreed. The only goal of these skills/tricks/requests for humanising LLM writing is to be able to pass it off as your own, because they know it's shameful and want to avoid the opprobrium.

Some will say it's just for their own quality of life when they're reading LLM output, or "just for docs", but this is an extremely marginal use case.


I don't want LLM docs either

> I want the ability to shame and discredit anyone passing the job of prose to a machine.

What about people who don’t speak your language well?


I've dealt with many people by now who would copy and paste from an LLM for that exact reason, typically entirely unaware of how obvious it was that the result came from an LLM with no style guidance, and of course completely lacking any ability to verify that their intent was faithfully conveyed.

I would rather learn their language than continue interacting like that.


I deal with people in five other countries in a daily basis, and LLMs have only been a benefit in terms of improving communication.

You claim you’d “rather learn their language”, but it’s an empty claim. How many languages have you learned for this reason?


I could kill you with a consumer knife too. What's your point?


I can run away from a knife holding psycho or fight back, a drone can fly into my bedroom. Same argument for guns really.


You can’t do it from a remote location. That’s a significant difference.


https://tl.net is a great old school forum if you like RTS games


sadly there's sites dedicated to buying accounts of all sorts (reddit, x, steam, etc...) that use an escrow-type system so both parties have little risk

It's basically super easy and trivial to buy verified accounts for many many platforms


How can I sell my old accounts?


The trouble is getting caught, and you don't list contact info on your HN profile so any potential buyers would have to leave their email address here and tell you to email them and the people running. Steve are an idiot so any email address that appears there is gonna get blacklisted different connected to a Steam account so you might want to list your email address well throwaway that's not attached to your Steam account account. You might want to list that in your profile. Just saying. I already have a Steam account.


That was a lame article. Not even an excerpt of the first use in a sentence, or why the mark became so popular.

The author clearly wanted so bad to make the jump from "the semicolon is very old" to "omg it's running your phone!!" they neglected to write anything interesting in the middle.


Java may be good, but it's boring. No joy comes from programming in Java.

I need to enjoy my work to be engaged and productive.


That is a matter of taste. I enjoy programming in Java just fine.


You can use Clojure to get all the goodness from Java and still have fun


Nobody said the 3 houses needed to be on separate properties. Just throw the 3 packages from the moving truck at the one address where all 3 live.

Being an LLM is easy!


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