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• stephen_g 1y ago
  Really? You claim that praising an analogy would never happen in normal conversation before 2022? Seems fairly normal to potentially start with "that's a good way of putting it, but [...]" since forever...
  • namaria 1y ago
    I claim specifically that "I love this analogy" and "I love your analogy" have become noticeably more common in HN since 2022.
• tomhow 1y ago
  Please don't do this here. If a comment seems unfit for HN, please flag it and email us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can have a look. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44287157 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44287157 and marked it off topic.
  • namaria 1y ago
    I did not say it was unfit and I don't see how discussing writing styles and the influence of LLMs on it is off topic on a thread about the effects of LLMs on cognition. I don't believe I was impolite or making a personal attack. I had a relevant point and I made it clearly and in a civil manner. I strongly disagree with your assessment.
    • tomhow 1y ago
      OK, I may have been too quick to pattern-match on characterising someone's writing as being LLM-generated. Sorry for that. However we do want to be careful about criticising someone’s writing style; the guidelines ask us to avoid that. Also, suspicions about the changing frequency of certain phrases in HN comments can easily be tested: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&prefix=false&query=%22I%20love%20your%20analogy%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&prefix=false&query=%22... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&prefix=true&query=%22I%20love%20this%20analogy%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&prefix=true&query=%22I...