It's confirmed that Claude was involved: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247127#48248070
True. And the article is not great anyways.
But the claim was that it "makes zero sense".
Convince me that "Sir Terry Pratchett, who knew more about furniture than most" makes sense.
The fact that he used the word "furniture" in a quoted sentence from one of his books does not convince me.
I don't really want to defend the article.
My initial reading was that the author intended to imply that philisophizing about memories was a repeated thing in Pratchetts writings. Which - given my limited exposure - seemed plausible to me.
Good article? Definitely not. But I've also read similar try-hard / pseudo literary blog posts pre AI.
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Is this (ironically) the new ad hominem?
I guess it would be something like an “ad inhominem,” but that something was AI generated is a legitimate gripe so I hope we don’t start using that phrase.
definitively, no. it’s not against the person for their characteristics, but the composition of the content they’re sharing.
i think it’s more like accurately pointing out a logical fallacy, i.e., an assertion that thought was not properly applied which results in nonsense.
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