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I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture

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  1. renyicircle · · focus · HN ↗
    The Claude output in the first one-shot counterexample attempt is hilarious. I hate its writing most of the time but this stuff is next level deep-fried slop.

    > And the control column confirms the resonance-necessity conjecture empirically: break the skeleton alignment and the joint kernel dies at the constrained window, exactly as the transversality heuristic predicted.

    > The den has air in it.

    > Drift fuel exists.

    1. 1attice · · focus · HN ↗
      Discovering that poetry was cognitive compression is alone one of the latent findings LLMs unlocked.

      You can so easily imagine this shit being read in a 90s slam poetry coffeehouse. Trust me I was there

      1. renyicircle · · focus · HN ↗
        That makes perfect sense. Using language in unorthodox ways to convey very specific concepts that only make sense to you and sound like bullshit to others.
        1. 1attice · · focus · HN ↗
          I never expected a machine to be better at articulating complex thoughts with a spare number of semantic coordinates, but then I never expected to find out that my poetry was golfing in the latent space
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