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    7 months ago

    how thoughts are laid out

    Perhaps you’re noticing the lack of deixis?

    Without going too technical, deixis is to refer to something in relation to the current situation. For example, when you say “Kinda cool though, I feel like I’m becoming able to spot these.”, that “these” is discourse deixis - you’re referring to something else (bots) within your discourse based on its relative position to when you wrote that “these”.

    We humans do this all the bloody time. LLMs though almost never do it - and Ophelia_SK doesn’t, that’s why for example it repeats “debt” and “job” like a broken record.

    EDIT: there’s also the extremely linear argumentation structure. Human text is way messier.