[margalabargala]

Thanks, Claude.

The premise was never unclear, the complaint is about sentence structure.

[adrian_b]

You are delusional if you believe that you can distinguish AI-generated texts from human-generated texts, because obviously you can't.

[margalabargala]

I didn't try to, I just make assumptions about long walls of text that manage to entirely miss the point.

Assuming you actually put time into what you wrote would be the less charitable interpretation.

[Arainach]

> Is it war in general that accelerates material technology, or simply WWII

The reply did not miss the point, it was addressing a question directly posed in the original comment.

[defrost]

As the poser of the obviously rhetorical question in question ...

for many speakers of English as a first language seeped in the conventions of English conversation, storytelling, and literature it was a clear juxtaposition intended to single out the ridiculous proposition that technology advances during wartime are somehow tied to WWII alone.

Have a look at the original sentence again, it's absolutely a clunker, very probably the product of a clanker (or of an ESL human).

[margalabargala]

It didn't, though, the question you quoted is a rhetorical question posed to point out the awkwardness of the original piece's phrasing.

By taking the question seriously, you and the person I replied to both have missed the point.