This is delightful. Read it.
ALSO I believe I have found one of the sources of claude’s “load bearing” tic — the author Elizabeth Van Nostrand’s blog https://acesounderglass.com/2019/12/11/hows-that-epistemic-s... uses the phrase “load bearing facts” in a comprehensible way, and was written by someone rationalist adjacent writing in their own voice.
Seriously, this is big. I’m going to pester claude as to whether or not it’s copying Elizabeth.