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It’s the marine equivalent of “forests die worldwide.” You might not know why you need them, but you’ll probably miss them when they’re gone

You're just looking for the study of rhetoric. LLMs have clustered on certain rhetorical patterns/gestures, probably because of a combination of frequency in input and bias in training. But rhetoric also concerns the logical structures that underpin communicative techniques, and it's this logical infrastructure that's shaky or bizarre in LLM content (like the GP noticing how "pushback" always resolves without further examination).

Could you explain what you think veganism is or means?

How many working class people would be happier and less stressed if they had high-quality transit to replace their car bills?

Cars are enclosed sofas that move around. Could car dominance be contributing to obesity?

HN has a disproportionate quantity of 23yo founders trying to vibe-code the "Stripe for pickleball gyms" or whatever. Don't fret about it

Bizarre perspective. Imagine if you were hiring a chef and you found out they mostly do not go in the kitchen?

Claude has been a big boost to my sense of competency. I get to point out so many poor solutions in slop PRs now

Electric cars are the savior of the auto industry, not of the climate. It needs to become viable for most people to get around without cars at all. The intensity of their resource consumption, both for manufacture and for infrastructure, independent of their fuel source, cannot scale up for the world population.

I'm often so flustered to be interrupted by yet-another-marketing-modal that I will just close the tab and abandon whatever task, or purchase, I was undertaking. They are actively harmful to my holistic state-of-mind and make me into a more agitated and cynical user of the web.

Who are the people who decided this is how 90% of web pages should act, and how did they win? Do so many people really sign up for newsletters when prompted?

What about a future where carbon emissions follow the same trend as carbon emissions for the last 50 years

I once tasked an LLM with correcting a badly-OCR'd text, and it went beast mode on that. Like setting an animal finally free in its habitat. But that kind of work won't propel a stock valuation :(

Best I ever feel is when I'm walking 4+ miles daily. The phenotypic human body (not to dismiss any individual's disabilities or idiosyncracies) is top-to-bottom built to walk long distances, and bipedalism is an older trait of our evolutionary lineage than a lot of the other qualities we take as "human."

This really stuck with me from studying comparative primate physiology as an undergrad. The human leg and foot is a total outlier in comparison to any other primate's limbs. Our bodies are incredibly specialized for walking and running.

None of the best or most famous poets of the last two centuries ever made a living off of their poetry. That's not why anyone does it.