The Voynich Manuscript: Understanding the Untranslatable with Lisa Fagin Davis

[JoeyB]

Note: I use Claude Opus (Anthropic) to assist with drafting and formulating the English-language text of my posts.

Torsten, are you using an LLM to **draft** or just to *rewrite* these critiques? There’s a noticeable change in presentation. Your 2018 debates and replies with/to Emma May Smith (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) were human, really human, conventional englishg and repetitive phrasing like “something the statistic tells us.” Your critiques of full papers in 2024 like the criticism of the Atlantic article (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) has human writing like “uniformly distributed words doesn't exist.”

But now things have changed. Your 2026 podcast critique You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. has seven numbered objections, each opening “Davis states,” with repeated demands for published support. Your 10 September response You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. on the Naibbe rebuttal similarly arranges its argument into neatly mirrored categories: “Two raise density and raise entropy” and “Two lower entropy and lower density.”

You're not writing the way you used to. The rules banning ai generetd theories and posts should apply not just to article and news and revelations of decipherment but also to critiques and criticisms of peoples research claims.

And it SUCKS that you're doing this becauyse your pre-2025 posts, while blunt AF and maybe a little harsh at times, contain a lot of good points and insight. And (I at least) can;t get past the (seemingly) AI outlined and structured and manufactured prose of these new things you're posting and maybr you have some good criticisms but frankly I refuse to read them because they get presented in AI metaphorical and idomatic wrappers that makes me distrust everything it is trying to convey.

End rant. I hate this stuff.