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by fsckboy 31 days ago
his comment is that any self respecting article ought to have been written by AI, and if so it should have been written in Lojban.

>It's strange to me that this blog post was written in English. If AI is available, why aren't we all communicating in Lojban?

your comment seems to have not gotten his joke which was a recursion on English of the point of the article vis a vis Python

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I understood his joke just fine. I just disagree, because I think he missed that it was AI-written in a way which is actually already implementing his suggestion of 'lowering' the original high-level human input into a more rigid, formalized schematic, easily-parsed language, which I call "AInglish", and which we increasingly are all communicating in, as exemplified by OP, due to the fact that many people find it superior and more enjoyable and more understandable, as is not too much of a surprise given the goals of the chatbot training process and cognitive offloading/deskilling. (As the joke goes, the LLM will expand out my short prompt for an email or blog post, and their LLM will summarize it for them...)
his joke does not rely on the truth value of the mistake you think he made, and it is funny based on his expressed awareness that any articles potentially could have been written by AI, so his error could simply have been a misplaced word typo/grammar error rather than any cognitive omission on his part.