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Comment by Planktonne

18 hours ago

> are you disagreeing with them all

Yes. I think an LLM can be useful for trivial or functional tasks, but for expressing complex positions, it's worse than useless. It's absolutely valid to dismiss LLM-generated prose, and people who who think they're doing 'assisted authorship' tend to be mistaken.

I'm not saying you are incapable of thought; I'm saying that you've abdicated that by transmitting through an LLM.

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supermatt  17 hours ago

> Yes

Well you are of course entitled to disagree.

> I'm not saying you are incapable of thought; I'm saying that you've abdicated that by transmitting through an LLM.

What you actually said was that I "didn't put any meaningful thought into it". Thats the INPUT, not OUTPUT. Anyway. I think we're as far as we are going to get with this "discussion". Have a good evening!

  • simoncion  16 hours ago

    > What you actually said was that I "didn't put any meaningful thought into it".

    What he literally said was [0][1]

      You submitted thoughtless pap; of course it didn't get any traction.
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  > What was thoughtless about it?
  
  You didn't put any meaningful thought into it.

    > Thats the INPUT, not OUTPUT.

    You didn't submit the input, you submitted the output. In actual fact, Planktonne asserted that the input that you did not publish would have been much more strongly preferred to the output that you did publish: [2]

      I would a thousand times rather read your stream of consciousness, even though I disagree with it, than the bland pulp of the LLM output. In every way that matters, it's stronger and communicating far more.

    [0] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338082>

    • supermatt  13 hours ago

      > You didn't submit the input, you submitted the output

      I submit BOTH the input AND the output - that was the ENTIRE point of the post.

      Honestly, I beat myself up for years over having a reading disability - whereas it’s evident some of you don’t even make the effort to read yet still feel they have something to say.