I took this post down, given that some people have been downvoting it heavily.
Writing my thoughts here as a retrospective:
I think one reason it got downvoted is that I used Claude as part of the writing process and it was too disjointed/obvious (because I wanted to rush the post out), but I didn’t think it was that bad and I did try to point out that it was speculative in the parts that mattered. One comment specifically pointed out that it felt like a lot was written by an LLM, but I didn’t think I relied on Claude that much and I rewrote the parts that included LLM writing. I also don’t feel as strongly about using this as a reason to dislike a piece of writing, though I understand the current issue of LLM slop.
However, I wonder if some people downvoted it because they see it as infohazardous. My goal was to try to determine if photonic computing would become a big factor at some point (which might be relevant from a forecasting and governance perspective) and put out something quick for discussion rather than spending much longer researching and re-writing. I agreed with what I shared. But I may need to adjust my expectations as to what people prefer as things worth sharing on LessWrong.
I took this post down, given that some people have been downvoting it heavily.
Writing my thoughts here as a retrospective:
I think one reason it got downvoted is that I used Claude as part of the writing process and it was too disjointed/obvious (because I wanted to rush the post out), but I didn’t think it was that bad and I did try to point out that it was speculative in the parts that mattered. One comment specifically pointed out that it felt like a lot was written by an LLM, but I didn’t think I relied on Claude that much and I rewrote the parts that included LLM writing. I also don’t feel as strongly about using this as a reason to dislike a piece of writing, though I understand the current issue of LLM slop.
However, I wonder if some people downvoted it because they see it as infohazardous. My goal was to try to determine if photonic computing would become a big factor at some point (which might be relevant from a forecasting and governance perspective) and put out something quick for discussion rather than spending much longer researching and re-writing. I agreed with what I shared. But I may need to adjust my expectations as to what people prefer as things worth sharing on LessWrong.