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it's pretty grim that this announcement, which is in part celebrating the legacy of an incredible artistic endeavor, was written by an LLM. reading this feels like my head is continuously being bashed in by a brick.

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I've been reading Hanselman's blog for ages. That's just the way he writes. Compare this post from 2013 (clearly pre-LLM)

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ipad-surface-ultrabook-are-we...

Where do you get that the announcement was written by an LLM - they list the authors of the article on the page.

"When Zork arrived, it didn’t just ask players to win; it asked them to imagine"

Literally the first sentence.

No one can make typos without being framed as an LLM.

What typos?

> When Zork arrived, it didn’t just ask players to win; it asked them to imagine. There were no graphics, no joystick, and no soundtrack, only words on a screen and the player’s curiosity. Yet those words built worlds more vivid than most games of their time. What made that possible wasn’t just clever writing, it was clever engineering.

Check out wikipedia's "signs of ai generated writing". Every sentence here is represented in that post. "Not just x, but y." "No x, no y, no x, just abc". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

I speak like that, and I'm not an LLM (to my knowledge!).

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