Comment by yiren

5 hours ago

I did read it, found it mildly informative/interesting, then saw your comment, read the link, and pasted in two paragraphs into Pangram 4... ouch! I guess I'm not LLM-weary enough?

https://www.pangram.com/history/25773627-adfa-4efb-8c10-f4fd...

When you read something like this

> Change it to 300 and run it again. You get a different pitch and nothing breaks, because at this level there are no notes yet, just a number.

does it make sense? Or perhaps it just seems like something easy enough to skim past without worrying about whether it makes sense?

Before LMs, I would have assumed that a person intentionally wrote that sentence, and perhaps spent some time trying to understand what could possibly "break" if there were "notes" rather than "just a number." Now there is a simpler explanation: the sentence actually doesn't mean anything.

  • It's a very idiosyncratic (and often irritating) style, but I don't find it particularly difficult to understand. It's not meaningless, just weirdly phrased.