Comment by gerdesj
6 hours ago
This is AI slop, sadly. Here's a sentence that very few humans might scribe:
"But what if one were to look at the question empirically, say in effect just by enumerating possible programs and explicitly seeing how fast they are, etc.?"
It is absolutely rammed with m dashes, which is not conclusive. For me, a bit of a clanger is that the writer might have decided to instruct the beastie to go fast and loose with grammar "norms". So, we have loads and loads of sentences starting off with a conjunction (and, but).
It just gets worse. The article is huge - it's over 17,000 words. I've skimmed it and its awful.
Please don't do this.
> Here's a sentence that very few humans might scribe:
having watched many wolfram videos that's absolutely how he speaks
Nah, it’s just Wolfram being Wolfram. He was generating this scale and style of content well before LLMs were a thing. He usually has some interesting ideas buried in the massive walls of text he creates. Some people can’t get past the style and personality though (I can’t blame them…).
false; wolfram has been circling the topic of "small yet mighty" rule-based systems for decades, and this is his writing style. if you don't like the topic or the style, you are welcome to move on from it with whatever grace you can muster up.
> This is AI slop, sadly. Here's a sentence that very few humans might scribe:
> "But what if one were to look at the question empirically, say in effect just by enumerating possible programs and explicitly seeing how fast they are, etc.?"
I don't think much of Wolfram's writing, but this seems to me to be just the way that scientists write. I wouldn't blink if I encountered it in a scientific paper. (Well, I'm a mathematician, so I don't know for sure what experimental-science or even theoretical CS papers look like, but I certainly wouldn't blink if I encountered it in a math paper.)
Yep totally normal sentence for this type of writing, for better or for worse. One can’t really complain when AI slop just reflects human writing