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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. nonameiguess · · focus · HN ↗
        I had a manic friend in college who later became a Emmy-winning television writer. One night over a quarter century ago, he stayed up about 24 hours straight doing nothing but writing, completely free form, some of it prose, some structured rhyme, some of it dialogue with stage directions. He pinned it to his dorm walls like it was wallpaper for a week, then we took it out to the field and burned it. The surviving paper that didn't burn made up bizarre strings of words that sounded much like this, which he retyped and called it poetry. It totally worked.
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