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Comment by martin-t

5 months ago

Thanks for the reply.

> reply to tweets of other people with a relevant Twitter thread I had already written

I noticed I also have topics I talk about regularly and this would be really nice. Some things only need one high-effort explanation and then linking to that.

Using LLMs would in theory save some effort by rephrasing to it doesn't look copy pasted but I am strongly opposed to the mild reality distortion they are prone to doing (like hallucinating random tidbits which never happened, using "A big part of this" as a rhetorical device instead of an actual quantity, etc.) in addition to flat out lying and other mis-generation (I don't call it hallucinations since this is normal operation, not something exceptional).

> Some things only need one high-effort explanation and then linking to that.

I mentioned in a sibling thread that I do this on Twitter (and it's a lot of fun to get to re-use old threads for new audiences).

> Using LLMs would in theory save some effort by rephrasing to it doesn't look copy pasted but I am strongly opposed to the mild reality distortion they are prone to doing

Same thoughts from me. There is also a bit of "John Henry" [0] in that I want to keep my brain strong in this skill versus letting the machines take it away.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)