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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. creamyhorror · · focus · HN ↗
      Absolute bad-metaphor-laden slop, in a dramatic writerly voice. These LLMs are trained on too much pretentious writing.
      1. doctoboggan · · focus · HN ↗
        Nit, I know, but I don't think they are trained on too much pretentious writing so much as they are RLHF'd into it because that writing impresses people.
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