alt Hacker NewsWriting tip: you do not need to have LLMs expand your ideas into a longer form for you. Spreading out your ideas across a longer post does not make them better.
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You think this was written by AI? I'm curious, why? Anytime I'm about to read a long post I generally paste it into a few detectors for sanity, but none of them flagged anything for this one. I read the entirety and thought it was pretty compelling - long maybe, but thoughtful. I appreciated the historical quotes interjected, and didn't find the prose suspect.
Isn't the original post in Chinese? English is probably llm translated - like the whole blog
My boss pays me for the lines of code, right?
Maybe you don't understand, if we didn't have LLMs expanding our ideas into longer form we wouldn't have anything to give to LLMs to summarize.
I enjoyed the fact that AI was used to deliver the anti-AI message.
"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." - Blaise Pascal
No, but it satisfies a number of algorithms that drive traffic to websites better, and there are honestly people who will upvote something that starts strong and is long without reading the whole thing, who wouldn't upvote that same strong start if it wasn't padded with filler to make it look more exhausitive.
Not a fan either but there are real game theoretic reasons to do it.