Jasmine Sun
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Jasmine Sun’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hard Fork · ‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing · 20 Mar 2026
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They are truly great corporate email writers.
They are much better at the whole like passive aggressive thing than I am.
At the same time, I do think, like you said, there is a technical challenge that has to do largely with verifiability is like there are people who have spent years.
decades of their lives attempting to articulate what makes Shakespeare Shakespeare or what makes a Neruda poem a Neruda poem.
And they will still not know in any kind of certain way.
They will still get into debates with their fellow academics and literary critics about which writer is better than the other.
And because these things are subjective, because they are ineffable, because they are hard to put in a
Oh, wouldn't be the first time.
But that short story, if you remember, I'm sure you guys recall, had some great lines like talking about the seams of mirrors or Thursday.
The what was it?
While you're looking it up, like, you know, the thing about AI writing is like it comes up with all these fun metaphors and they are like kind of surprising sometimes with the metaphors.
But also the language is not grounded in the life.
And that was my other thing is aside from the verifiability, fundamentally, when I think about the writers who I really love, when I think about whether it's journalists or poets or whatever, like they are writing from life, right?
Like a journalist goes out and talks to people and they like see stuff.
and observe, like, the color of the sky in a particular way.
Or, like, a poet is thinking about personal experiences that they've had.
Their writing has stakes.
It comes from an emotional place.
And the fact that, like, LLMs, while being very talented, grammatically pristine, whatever, they don't have lives.
That means that all of the metaphors they choose, all of the words they choose, the examples they choose, they're just ungrounded, right?
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