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The blog post is not just beige— it's filled with em dashes, and here's why that matters.

Have you ever read a book? Like try reading 'The psychology of money'. You will know they exist in almost every literature... every fiction and non-fiction book... Authors use them a lot in their writings. I hope you will find it useful: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-...

AI can do a surprisingly good job at philosophy. I think that the "knowledge join" LLMs are so good at helps the of philosophical works.

That said, the post is pretty boring.

This is the Platonic ideal of an LLM-generated blog post; it's pages long, it uses a lot of flowery language, and communicates almost zero actual information. I can't disagree with the premise, because the premise melts away when you try to pin it down, like cotton candy washed in a stream by a raccoon.

Congratulations, person who wrote the prompt that caused a machine to generate this article, you have truly achieved some sort of perfect something.

The blog post does the “It’s not X, it’s Y” pattern a few times. It’s hard not to assume the post is just produced by an LLM.

It’s frustrating not knowing whether I’m reading the musings of a real person, or the output of an LLM.

I've taken the stance that garbage is garbage, whether written by a human or an AI. It's not like the internet wasn't chock full of insipid philosophy and astroturfing before LLMs were around. It seems like people are starting to read everything on the internet with a much more critical eye because of LLMs, and I think that might be a good thing. As someone who's always been cynical, I say: welcome everyone! It sucks over here, but it sucked over there too, you just didn't know it.

But yes, this was almost certainly LLM. In real humans, the quality of thought has a stronger correlation with the quality of writing.

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