Hi. I’m Gareth McCaughan. I’ve been a consistent reader and occasional commenter since the Overcoming Bias days. My LW username is “gjm” (not “Gjm” despite the wiki software’s preference for that capitalization). Elsewehere I generally go by one of “g”, “gjm”, or “gjm11”. The URL listed here is for my website and blog, neither of which has been substantially updated in about the last four years. I live near Cambridge (UK) and work for a small technology company in Cambridge. My business cards say “mathematician” but in practice my work is a mixture of simulation, data analysis, algorithm design, software development, problem-solving, and whatever random engineering no one else is doing. I am married and have a daughter born in mid-2006. The best way to contact me is by email: firstname dot lastname at pobox dot com. I am happy to be emailed out of the blue by interesting people. If you are an LW regular you are probably an interesting person in the relevant sense even if you think you aren’t.
If you’re wondering why some of my old posts and comments are at surprisingly negative scores, it’s because for some time I was the favourite target of old-LW’s resident neoreactionary troll, sockpuppeteer and mass-downvoter.
Not very surprisingly, I felt that every single one of the Wordtune versions was strictly worse than your original that it took as input.
(That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s useless. It might improve worse-written text. Some of its rewrites might be usable as the basis for something better. Sometimes you might want badly-written text of a kind it’s good at creating; e.g., it looks like asking it to be “formal” produces some of the same pathologies humans sometimes produce when trying to write formally, so if you needed examples of that kind of bad writing you could maybe get some with Wordtune. Not that there’s any shortage of examples elsewhere.)