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Something felt a little "off" about the text of this article, but this fragment raised the most suspicion: demonstrate mechanical empathy with the 68k platform
by userbinator 2y ago
Something felt a little "off" about the text of this article, but this fragment raised the most suspicion:
demonstrate mechanical empathy with the 68k platform
- garbagewoman 2y agoSuspicion of what?
- userbinator 2y agoDoesn't sound like something a native nor non-native English speaker would write.
- TickleSteve 2y agoThe correct phrase is "mechanical sympathy" but it means effectively the same. Its relatively well known in software optimisation and means tailoring the design of the software to match the characteristics of the hardware.
- fragmede 2y agoSympathy involves understanding someone’s feelings from your own perspective and feeling sorry for their situation. Empathy means putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, imagining their feelings and experiencing their emotions as if they were your own. Based on those definitions, mechanical empathy seems more correct. It describes the ability to understand and intuitively sense how machines or mechanical systems work, almost like understanding.
- fragmede 2y agoYour detector is off. Mechanical empathy and sympathy; whichever is correct, both predate ChatGPT. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=mechanical%20empathy,mechanical%20sympathy&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=m... It's a good phrase that describes when someone really knows their car and can just tell how its "feeling".
- astrange 2y agoCorrect phrase is "mechanical sympathy" but I think this is an intentional joke.
- ghusbands 2y agoWhat are you trying to imply? That is was written entirely by LLMs or such? It has none of the usual tells. Or perhaps that an LLM was used to help? Yeah, that is possible, but not problematic. I think it is mostly just a somewhat dry, academic style.