Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury

Re:Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Me... by Smaug123 on Saturday April 04, 2026 @02:43AM (#47636502)

Nah, it's totally Claude. No human writes the bulleted list in https://github.com/RokoMijic/MercurialDyson/blob/4f6cb3c0b5b..., or "The thermal management problem that naively prohibits rapid disassembly is resolved by three key insights…". The whole thing reeks of Claude, but chapters 12 and 13 are probably the clearest slam-dunks.

If you want to compare styles, https://github.com/Smaug123/gospel/blob/764996d20e11674f9221... is similarly written almost entirely by Opus (4.5 rather than 4.6) with some strong LessWrong-o-sphere background prompting and the instruction to be terse. The styles are practically identical.

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Re:Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Me... by LoganDark on Saturday April 04, 2026 @05:39AM (#47637487)

> DI containers mean the call site doesn't tell you what's called. Instead: pass values in, get values out.

That one is obviously LLM.

Before I left the comment, I reviewed some of this user's commit history to about a decade back, and they genuinely write like this. Though I think this is the first long-form content I've seen from them.

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Re:Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Me... by rmijic on Saturday April 04, 2026 @04:02PM (#47642796)

I have plenty of long-form content on my blog at transhumanaxiology Less Wrong profile roko and X/rokomijic

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