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  ethanj8011
  Scored 100% on a Pangram of the first few paragraphs.Things that alerted me. (Note that any one of these things could be fine and explainable, but so many in short order makes it obvious).> And it rang. We both did our jobs.What is the human's job here? Waking up?> the whole morning minute by minute, as if someone had laid it out on a table and labeled every piece.Labored metaphor that doesn't add anything. Laid out a minute? On a table? Even if we accept the non physical metaphor for style, how does that add anything on top of "minute by minute".> I made two pieces of toast. The left one burned. The left one in my toaster always burns; my toaster has a favorite side.This sort of short staccato phrasing is an LLM smell. It's hard to describe why precisely and how it varies from natural human text, but LLMs like to do this when writing fiction, especially when told to "write with a good style, don't write like an LLM."
• CobrastanJorji
  > Will it rain over forty percent of the city? Will it rain for forty percent of the day? Or does the speaker just not know and is too shy to say so?Unrelated, but to answer his question, it's the probability that a random spot in the covered area will get at least a smidge of rain at some point in the covered time period. A 10% chance of rain can mean either that the forecaster is 100% sure that exactly 10% of the area will get rain, or it can mean that the forecaster sees a large rainstorm nearby which would cover the whole area if it arrived, but which only has a 10% chance of arriving. Or anything in between. If there's a rain cloud meandering over the city, covering 1% of the city at a time, and over the whole day it randomly walks over 10% of the city, that's also a 10% chance.
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  justonceokay
  Living in a totally conceptual space all day has major downsides on your ability to enjoy your meat suit. Meat suit firmware can only apply updates when you are offline. A lot of us are walking around with severe security vulnerabilities and runtime bugs.
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  aeontech
  Reading this story after staring at Claude-prose for weeks is a breath of fresh air, honestly.Thank you for sharing.
• rsyring
  > About the author...Once, at the Nürburgring, he nearly collided with Kimi Räikkönen.Anyone else here interested in road course tracking (HPDE) or racing? If so, where do you go?I'm in the US Midwest and have been to Putnam Park, NCM, mid-Ohio, Pitt Race (private now...sad), and Ozark's.
• ilaksh
  What year is this set in? 2027? 2028? A lot of it feels like present day.About the future: I don't believe it's really necessary to mix traffic and pedestrians on the same road. Certainly not 3000 pound vehicles and pedestrians. I think at some point we will start new cities with completely different assumptions from what we have now.
• Piterniel
  > Will it rain over forty percent of the city?Yes! x forecaster confidence
• charles_f
  That was very good, thank you!
• ramesh31
  This is like a checklist of bad writing cliches
• saagarjha
  I am very amused that the agent speaks exactly like an agent in this world too
• Hovertruck
  Very well written, bravo
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