> So what if they are? Then they'd just be stupid, futile thoughts leading exactly nowhere.

FYI, spammers love LLM generated posting because it allows them to "season" accounts on sites like Hacker News and Reddit without much effort. Post enough plausible-sounding comments without getting caught and you have another account to use for your upvote army, which is a service you can now sell to desperate marketing people who promised their boss they'd get on the front page of HN. This was already a problem with manual accounts but it took a lot of work to generate the comments and content.

That's the "so what"

It's always enlightening to remember where Hans Asperger worked, and under what sociocultural circumstances that absolutely proverbial syndrome was first conceived.

GP evidently has some very subtle sort of expectations as to what authentic human expression must look like, which however seem to extend only as far as things like word choice and word order. (If that's all you ever notice about words, congrats, you're either a replicant or have a bad case of "learned literacy in USA" syndrome.)

This makes me want to point out that neither the means nor the purpose of the kind of communication which GP seems to implicitly expect (from random strangers) are even considered to be a real thing in many places and by many people.

I do happen to find that sort of thing way more coughinterestingcough than the whole "howdy stranger, are you AI or just a pseud" routine that HN posters seem to get such a huge kick out of.

Sure looks like one of the most basic moves of ideological manipulation: how about we solved the Turing Test "the wrong way around" by reducing the tester's ability to tell apart human from machine output, instead of building a more convincing language machine? Yay, expectations subverted! (While, in reality, both happen simultaneously.)

Disclaimer: this post was written by a certified paperclip optimizer.