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boxomcfoxoon The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing

Well, I don't believe him. It is Claude all the way through. There are more markers than just those. I covered some in my more comprehensive review of it, but tbf that one is a bit of a mess.

I don't see how my point about the erroneous date makes your point. He POSTED IT with that date, and only changed it AFTER someone pointed it out, then BLOCKED them.

If he did write it by hand though, that means he is admitting to plagiarising the sources, and also to framing that makes absolutely no sense, like saying Schwartz didn't say something that he literally did say. So, great job I guess!

I fully believe that he used only a general prompt, and anything in the essay that seems specific, Claude has mined from the sources. I am going to try to reverse engineer the prompt.

boxomcfoxoon The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing

Nope. It was actually written entirely by Claude. https://boxobarks.leaflet.pub/3mj42airv3s2o#fingerprints-of-...

The framing of the essay around learning through "grunt work" is not deep, it's simply that this specific phrase appeared in two of the sources. Anything that looks like insight is plagiarised directly from the sources in some fashion. I've covered in my evidence the pivot phrases where direct summaries of the essay incorrectly appear to transition to the author's own ideas, but there are parts right through the essay that come from the sources. No deep thinking by the prompter required.

boxomcfoxoon The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing

This essay was extruded in its entirety from Claude.

https://boxobarks.leaflet.pub/3mj42airv3s2o#fingerprints-of-...

boxomcfoxoon The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing

The post was written by Claude. The semicolon in the Dune quote proves it: the only possible reason for that to be there is if the 'author' regex replaced all of the em dashes to obfuscate the source. https://boxobarks.leaflet.pub/3misaejnoqs2k