However, the plausible assumption has begun to tremble since we had a curated post whose author admitted to generating it by using Claude Opus 4.1 and substantially editing the output.
TBF “being a curated post on LW” doesn’t exclude anything from being also a mix and match of arguments already said by others. One of the most common criticisms of LW I’ve seen is that it’s a community reinventing a lot of already said philosophical wheels (which personally I don’t think is a great dunk; exploring and reinventing things for yourself is often the best way to engage with them at a deep level).
TBF “being a curated post on LW” doesn’t exclude anything from being also a mix and match of arguments already said by others. One of the most common criticisms of LW I’ve seen is that it’s a community reinventing a lot of already said philosophical wheels (which personally I don’t think is a great dunk; exploring and reinventing things for yourself is often the best way to engage with them at a deep level).