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> the author broke a social contract by probably putting less effort into writing this than I did reading it.

I seriously doubt that.

First, the author documented a substantial effort (testing, emails, references to documentation.)

Second, I also used AI to evaluate if this was written by AI, and my AI said it was not.

> Broken sentences that a model wouldn't produce. "The value is while you are on ChatGPT and tied to your ChatGPT account" is missing a word. "Loading that code, sends __obi to OpenAI" has a comma splitting subject from verb. "By the virtue of loading the tag the identifier is disclosed" is non-idiomatic. LLMs are fluent to a fault; these are the fingerprints of a fast human writer, possibly a non-native English speaker.

Third, I read it. Whilst it is not well written, it is succinct. It is novel. It has a few detailed references. It lacks many of the hallmarks of AI. It makes a number of novel yet falsifiable claims.

I challenge you to come up with a blog post with these qualities that can be created in under 15 minutes via AI.

While I commend you on actually using an AI tool to validate your assumption, rather than simply hurling AI slop accusations based purely on vibes, I do think you and your AI tool are likely incorrect.


> created in under 15 minutes

This is an artificial constraint that does not serve the reader. Where did the 15 minute constraint come from?


> by probably putting less effort into writing this than I did reading it.

How long do you estimate it took him to read the article?


> Second, I also used AI to evaluate if this was written by AI, and my AI said it was not.

every day I'm more and more reminded that the level of intelligence of the average human even on hn is so low that it makes sense why LLMs took over so hard. Asking an LLM like an oracle as if it could naturally distinguish between LLM writing and human writing.. it's a statistical likelihood next token predictor. LLMs can't even play chess without constantly making illegal moves. They are not intelligent.. and unfortunately, I have bad news for you: neither are you.


It took Ernő Rubik four years to develop the cube.

He immediately scrambled it, then spent the next month figuring out if it could be solved.

Luckily no one told him there were 43 quintillion valid combinations.


Solved theoretically? I figure you could at least intuit that reversing all the moves in the scramble in reverse order would solve it.


The above makes everything sound very intentionally done towards the end result. He came about making the cube for finding ways to tackle the engineering challenge of building a device which moves in such levels if freedom, ended up scrambling it, and then spent a month figuring out how to treat the scrambled state as a puzzle to be solved. Messing with it gave him insight into just how complex a puzzle it was and the rest goes from there.


He spent the next month coming up with an algorithm to solve it, not knowing if such an algorithm was even possible.

After he sold the puzzle, he traveled around to various conferences, to prove it could be solved.


This is exactly correct. Here is what the latest issue covers:

His exfiltration of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro was swift, effective and - as we found in our follow-up reporting - surprisingly popular among Venezuelans (plo). But then the 47th president threw himself into a new venture, a major attack on Iran. Far from being a surgical strike à la Caracas, it rapidly spiralled into a regional conflagration which threatened to blast the global economy off its hinges. We have analysed the build-up and fall-out of the Iran war in forensic detail in an infographic extravaganza (p70). While Trump loomed large throughout the quarter, adding an Ice operation in Minneapolis (p30) and unseemly wranglings over Greenland (p50) into the headline-grabbing mix, his was not the only game in town. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested (P66), a football final turned into theatrical chaos (p40), the power of Al gave hope to sufferers of ultra-rare diseases (p80) and victory was declared over ferrets on a Northern Irish island (p100). Meanwhile Nasa scientists announced fascinating revelations drawn from their analysis of a thimbleful of space dust obtained at great expense from a four billion-year-old asteroid (p56).

edit: you can see some samples on their website: https://www.slow-journalism.com/back-issue/62-jan-mar-2026


The satirically brilliant Genius AI detector correctly indicates it is not AI

https://geniusaidetector.com/


Early internet wisdom was "don't feed the trolls" - I never realized trolling was from fishing.


I dunno if it even is because isn't that spelt trawling? just looked it up and they're both correct fishing terms sigh


Trolling is typically done on lakes with fishing lines cast from the back of a boat. A trolling motor sets the boat speed. Trawling usually takes place at sea, with larger boats and wide nets.

https://www.trollingmotors.net/


Trawling is done by dragging nets along the seabed causing massive damage with huge inefficient polluting fuel-guzzling 1000 horsepower diesel engines.

Trolling is as the other guy says where you putter along with minimum effort and a tiny engine pulling a couple of baited lines through the water, seeing if you pass through a patch where anyone bites.

Trawling is far more analogous to the AI scrapers, hammering the absolute shit out of the ecosystem and throwing almost everything they scoop up away with no regard for the consequences.


Funny.

The didge forces you to learn circular breathing, it's cheaper, it is easier to learn, and is easier to play well. Plus I think it sounds better. Everyone should learn to play the didgeridoo. Bagpipes are a whole another level, and feel more like a practical joke gone horribly wrong (Sorry Gran.)


AI is your Google and your yellow rubber ducky (rubber duck debugging) all rolled into one.


Absolutely. It can also be your brain if you let it, so…don’t let it.

It’s an absolutely fantastic educational tool if you choose to use it that way.


So are you saying we should ...

... Put down the duckie[0]?

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acBixR_JRuM


Curse you for this ear worm of a song, but also my brain keeps wanting to interpret this as "duck... You're bad at your job and will never amount to anything. Your mother is ashamed of you and you're the reason your father is an alcoholic." hahaha


We intuitively think large documents show significant thought.

I don't just mean the readers.

The generators of slop often think this is useful.

Things have changed.

Our intuition has not.


> Fake because no uber eats order is under 30$


Not as long as I get discounts for over $30! I want those 15%, even if I have to pay 10 bucks more! Wait a second...


“If cracking propagates with continued use and strain, the wheel stud could eventually separate from the wheel hub.”

That quote is from Tesla, in the linked article. That says the wheel can fall off.


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