I think your title should be ‘I Asked Claude What Paul Fussell Would Have To Say If I Asked Him For Writing Advice’ because I feel quite clickbaited.
I had no idea who Paul Fussell was prior to reading your article, so my introduction to him was getting misled that you actually asked some presumably impressive writer for writing advice, and my time reading your article would be spent reading words from a prestigious writer, not an LLM.
I understand that Lesswrong has very lax rules specifically for titles and I think it’s fine and kind of interesting because authors get to give their articles engaging titles. I don’t think it’s fine and kind of interesting when someone lies in their title to make a post centered around the output of a Claude prompt.
I think your title should be ‘I Asked Claude What Paul Fussell Would Have To Say If I Asked Him For Writing Advice’ because I feel quite clickbaited.
I had no idea who Paul Fussell was prior to reading your article, so my introduction to him was getting misled that you actually asked some presumably impressive writer for writing advice, and my time reading your article would be spent reading words from a prestigious writer, not an LLM.
I understand that Lesswrong has very lax rules specifically for titles and I think it’s fine and kind of interesting because authors get to give their articles engaging titles. I don’t think it’s fine and kind of interesting when someone lies in their title to make a post centered around the output of a Claude prompt.
That’s a fair point. I know who Paul Fussell is, so it was obvious to me he’s dead, but I understand how it’s clickbait from your point of view.
I edited the title.