[robertkarl]

Ironically, parts of this read as if Sam prompted it with "Write AI bad, but in 16th grade language." What is homogeneously portentous cack?

> The language of angels does a surprisingly good job at minor tasks like describing how hydroelectric dams work. When it comes to more complicated things, like human feelings, it flounders. All the weird metaphors and overheated rhetoric are bluffing, a great cloud of likely-seeming language, and if this homogeneously portentous cack feels empty or contradictory it’s because the machine has no earthly idea what’s going on or what it ought to say.

I prompted Opus with 'Add another paragraph about the language of angels; add flowery, 16th grade-level writing. use your thesaurus. add a creative typo or extraneous punctuation mark to prove you're not an llm writing it. as Sam would.'

> Aquinas thought the angels each constituted their own species, every one a unique and irreducible form of intellect; our angel is the opposite, a single species cosplaying as ten thousand authors and manageing to be none of them. It is the great collectiviser of voice, the Brezhnev of prose style, enforcing a grey and undifferentiated adequacy from which no sentence is permitted to defect.

[ghghgfdfgh]

I think he meant “pretentious,” not “portentous.” Either way, it is somewhat ironic that that sentence is incoherent.