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Follow up thought: I wonder if Claude is overtrained on academic papers, which often suffer the same kind of "prove how good I am at talking before getting to t
by causal 2mo ago
Follow up thought: I wonder if Claude is overtrained on academic papers, which often suffer the same kind of "prove how good I am at talking before getting to the point" prose.
- TheOtherHobbes 2mo agoMaybe just Calvin and Hobbes. https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/ky81y/verbing_weirds_language/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/ky81y/verbing_...
- alex_c 2mo agoThis is hilarious - this week Claude’s writing was getting so bad I had this exact comic come to mind. Briefly considered adding “Verbing weirds the English language - stop it!!!” to its instructions.
- dctoedt 2mo ago"Verbing": For some reason, to me the use of "impact" as a verb has always been fingernails on a chalkboard. But it's hard to see the distinction between that and using "access" as a verb (as in the linked C & H strip), which seems unremarkable.
- bulder 2mo agoIf it was overtrained on academic papers it'd reiterate the point multiple times for structure. Instead, it's burying the lede seemingly just to pad.
- anon7000 2mo agoIt’s way harder to read because most of Claude’s sentences are hardly communicating anything at all, or are just completely inscrutable. I feel like academic papers are just boring