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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. fwip · · focus · HN ↗
        This sort of thing is why STEM students need more humanities classes. The idea that poetry is semantically denser than prose is, like, obvious, to anybody who cares about poetry.
        1. 1attice · · focus · HN ↗
          Not what I was actually pointing to, but thanks; I'll pass the critique along to my old MA thesis advisor. ;)
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