Comment by Paradigma11

Oh yes, Claude seems to be loving the word vacuous recently. My test bed side project is full of vacuous this and that now.

I even try and get it to define what it classifies as vacuous and it can’t do so without getting stuck in some kind of trap. It’s like a word with some kind of huge gravity for it.

You're right that I shouldn't have used the forbidden words; that's entirely on me. What I also did was identify the plausible-gate issues. Want me to tackle them next?

I always have to read these kind of Claude sentences (yours is a great example) two or three times to really understand what they're trying to say, which almost never happens when I read human writing. Sometimes I'm not certain if it's because the AI's writing is super dense with information - or whether it's the opposite and the small core of information is surrounded by a surplus of junk.

Certainly a human would write something much clearer than yours. Maybe: "Two good findings here. #1: There's already a min value on the gate and anything lower doesn't pass through, so we don't need special handling for the zero case."

Two caveats, one of which matters:

I get these kind of superfluous sentences all the time; drives me nuts.

This thread seems like the wort of folk who might get a laugh at https://clanker-quotes.com/

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