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simianwords • yesterday at 10:52 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

>Because the entire point is the LLM cannot understand text about text.

you have asked for an LLM to read a single interview and produce text that sounds similar to the author based on the techniques on that single interview.

https://claude.ai/share/cec7b1e5-0213-4548-887f-c31653a6ad67 here is the attempt. i don't think i could have done much better.

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tovej • today at 8:52 AM

There is no actual short story behind the link? moon_landing_turpeinen.md cannot be opened.

You could not have done better? Love it. You didn't even bother rewriting my post before pasting it into the box. The post isn't addressed as a prompt, it's my giving you the requirements of what to prompt.

Also, because you did that, you've actually provided evidence for my argument: notice that my attitudes about LLMs are reflected in the LLM output. E.g.:

  "Now — the honest problem the challenge identifies: I'm reconstructing a description of a style, not internalizing the rhythm and texture of actual prose. A human who's read the book would have absorbed cadences, sentence lengths, paragraph structures, the specific ratio of concrete detail to abstraction — all the things that live below the level of "technique described in interviews.""
That's precisely because it can't separate metatext from text. It's just copying the vibe of what I'm saying, instead of understanding the message behind the text and trying to apply it. It also hallucinates somewhat here, because it's argument is about humans absorbing the text rather than the metatext. But that's also to be expected from a syntax-level tool like an LLM.

The end result is... nothing. You failed the task and you ended up supporting my point. But I appreciate that you took the time to do this experiment.

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