I care a lot about community and discussion quality. With effort, patience, kindness, and curiousity, we can do great things. So let's invest in our culture. Let's strive to get better at learning and listening.

If I was snide or rude to you in the past, I apologize. Life is a journey. Sometimes my desire to state the truth comes too bluntly. I'm aware and error correcting.

I have been accused of writing like an LLM.

If you've made such an accusation at me, I would request that you reconsider. Consider asking "What if I'm wrong?" If you are, there is a person on the other end.

When I hear such an accusation, I have been bothered in the past. But what's the point in that? Lately, I take it as a compliment, since I often rather like how LLMs write, to the extent the sequence of tokens is organized, clear, and the result of an intelligent process.*

More generally, if one doesn't have a reliable way to get to ground truth, one is blind w.r.t. predictive accuracy. Basically, this is a fancy way of saying "recognize your own fallibility" and "calibrate yourself".

If all the above doesn't ~land~ (Claude has ruined this word for me) err.. connect with you, consider this: intellectually humility helps unlock many other valuable things.

Finally, if one can't distinguish human from machine, what follows from that? Think about it. Better yet, write.

Thanks, Xeno Phobia Extractor

* Some examples of what I mean by intelligence:

- intelligence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43236444

- general intelligence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43223521

- pressure towards AGI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41707643

- intelligence as "what machines cannot do" / no physics-based constraints to surpass human intelligence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44974963

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