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New comment by grahamnorton39 in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

grahamnorton39 — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:36:09 +0000

Or the thing where they have a bombastic display of numbers, rehashing either emphatically trivial information, or information presented elsewhere, as if they’re the most important figures in the universe. e.g.

> *0* hedge fund owners. Zero

or including the date Spirit collapsed (despite already mentioning it earlier on the page!). Why not also include “*6* letters in ‘Spirit’” while you’re at it?

New comment by grahamnorton39 in "Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury"

grahamnorton39 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:28:21 +0000

For what it’s worth, gptzero.me rates it as entirely AI generated, with 100% confidence. It’s not perfect, but it’s a pretty strong signal.

Certain aspects of how it’s structured and written do also seem AI-generated—for instance, the simultaneously persuasive but explanatorily equivocal tone is pretty typical of current LLMs. Also, there are just some text formatting features that are pretty rare for humans to use—for instance, using the nice-looking Unicode 1/2 fraction glyph, which isn’t really in keeping with the otherwise unpolished maths formatting.

It’s a bit sad that AI writing is now so good as to seem almost authentic, if not for the giveaway of a few subtle stylistic quirks.

New comment by grahamnorton39 in "From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease"

grahamnorton39 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:29:57 +0000

Actually, sounds like it’s written entirely by an LLM, and so do their other comments

New comment by grahamnorton39 in "I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model"

grahamnorton39 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:25:48 +0000

While hollow, it is also bad (and absurd) enough to be quite entertaining. It’s from an era where this wasn’t far off the state of the art for coming up with machine-generated text—context that makes it quite a bit funnier than if it were generated by an LLM today.

That said, it’s obviously not to everyone’s tastes!