> The "It's not X -- it's Y" pattern, often with an em dash. The single most commonly identified AI writing tell. Man I f*cking hate it. AI uses this to create false profundity by framing everything as a surprising reframe. One in a piece can be effective; ten in a blog post is a genuine insult to the reader. Before LLMs, people simply did not write like this at scale. Includes the causal variant "not because X, but because Y" where every explanation is framed as a surprise reveal, the em-dash dismissal "X -- not Y", and the cross-sentence reframe where the same noun is negated then repositioned: "The question isn't X. The question is Y."
The information is hard to read because I had to run an https://tropes.fyi/ filter over the essay to make it readable.
Question to you all, muds tends to have a unix style interface, has anyone done a replacement for this uiux that fits … the class of 2019 first year computer science student that doesn’t understand files and needs a different uiux.
> The Omnissiah's design is flawless and has no contradiction. Any discrepancies in our interpretation of the universe merely confirm the perfection of the Omnissiah's design and our own informational inadequacy.[58]
I don't use tla+ to model real-world systems anymore, Claude is able to model systems in Lean 4 and the binary executable can handle real input or I can directly generate c / rust on proofs with numeric types that have ring structure (integers, rationals, bits).
Ah! So it's the total light output of the light not the specific color. So it means I can use regular colours but dimmer. That would make late night color editing better.
The information is hard to read because I had to run an https://tropes.fyi/ filter over the essay to make it readable.