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roywiggins
·3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Depends. Sometimes it's just biofuels.
roywiggins
·10 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Good news, airlines already barely profit:

https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2025-releases/2025-12-09-0...
roywiggins
·10 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Even more worrying if it's not deliberate and we are all just naturally writing like that now.
roywiggins
·10 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Sometimes that's me. I wish more submissions didn't read like AI. I worry that people can't detect tiresomely LLMy output and upvote it to the front page. I'm not mad or anything, I just find the internet less and less useful, because so much that circulates pings my personal AI detector (running in my skull). Sometimes I just close the tab in frustration but sometimes I comment, because it sucks.

(I don't actually care that much if it is LLM text, I care when something reads like it is, because it means everyone writing blogs using this style sounds like everyone else. it's alienating!)
roywiggins
·10 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
My problem is that my personal AI detector running on wetware just goes ping and it's hard to articulate why. I agree with the person you're replying to on all points but also, when I think something is AI, it's very much just a little brain ping that I would have to laboriously try to work backwards from.

LLM text often just is missing the cadence of human-written text. It never slows down or speeds up; it keeps a relentless pace. Sure, a human can write like that, and I'm sure people do, but I find it enervating to read, whether it was a human or an AI that wrote it.
roywiggins
·10 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
A shame that Pangram flags this as AI.

https://www.pangram.com/history/c0a9cde2-7a5c-4588-83a3-0269...
roywiggins
·11 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
ai; dr, unfortunately
roywiggins
·13 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Long sequences of short sentences. Not X, but Y.

And Pangram flags it, too.

https://www.pangram.com/history/126831e1-562f-4e65-9874-5250...
roywiggins
·15 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Weirdly not dissimilar from MUMPS systems.
roywiggins
·21 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
ai; dr
roywiggins
·30 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Very likely. I'm just saying, people in the CIA seeing where the tech might be going and hedging their bets is not that unlikely.
roywiggins
·30 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Common side-effect of letting Claude write your landing page.

Apparently it's mostly this:

    // ENCODE — pack(html) → one .hmml (a Uint8Array you store or send)
    //   · lifts every data: image out of the HTML into raw bytes (no base64)
    //   · gzips the HTML/CSS/JS and frames it all as one binary blob
roywiggins
·30 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Well, define "drone warfare"- the CIA and the Pentagon has been operating Predators and friends for a long while.
roywiggins
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
The idea is to expose it as a tool to your LLM agent so it can run calculations on its own initiative.
roywiggins
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
Your rewritten post is far easier for me to read now, fwiw.

LLM output has conditioned in me a near reflex response to just close a tab as soon as I smell LLM-authored text. Like, I'm not mad or anything, I just frequently find most default LLM-voiced text very unpleasant to read so I just don't continue reading.
roywiggins
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
"quietly" seems to be the new one recently
roywiggins
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
If something's a bad tool that misleads people into doing bad work, it would be good to know that.
roywiggins
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
> A simple distributional analysis of every rsync release with bug data. No model. No assumptions. Just placement.

If you want me to read your analysis, you are going to have to make it not read like Claude wrote it. What does "placement" even mean here?
roywiggins
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
Pangram seems to be tuned to avoid false positives most of the time.
roywiggins
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
it can operate at the level of a mere mathematics professor, who everyone knows are barely conscious, basically automatons. wake me up when it's Einstein