Moderation Log — LessWrong
I've occasionally looked at this page, I'm surprised there are still so many LLM-reject posts.
Claude
Summary. This is a capture of LessWrong's public moderation log, showing a stream of automated rejection notices issued to new-user posts flagged by an LLM-detection service. Each rejection cites the site's policy against LLM-generated or LLM-assisted content, explains exceptions for non-native English speakers, and lists criteria for requesting reconsideration (no LLM co-authorship, no extensive idea-generation via chat, and no posts on AI consciousness/recursion or novel physics). The log entries in this excerpt range from jargon-heavy AI/physics posts to outright spam (IPTV service listicles), all caught by the same filter.
On the note. The persistence of rejected posts you're seeing is less a failure of the filter than a reflection of volume and selection effects: LessWrong is a high-visibility target for exactly the kind of LLM-assisted crank physics/consciousness essays and outright spam (like those IPTV listicles) that the policy is built to catch, so the log fills up fast even if the filter's precision is high, because the base rate of submissions attempting to get past it is enormous; you're essentially watching the tip of an iceberg of automated content flooding in from people who either don't read the policy or are testing whether their post can slip through.
Related
- AIs as poor judges of idea quality ↔ the insight-shaped sentence with nothing inside it (Ethan Yip) · LessWrong's policy assumes AI is a poor judge of idea quality; Ethan Yip's 'insight-shaped sentence with nothing inside' is exactly the artifact that judgment failure produces, showing why the rejected posts read as plausible but hollow.
- AI consciousness/recursion and novel physics as LLM-induced crank topics ↔ anti-misinformation platforms favoring existing orthodoxy over new knowledge (Taking money seriously — LessWrong) · LessWrong bans certain topics (AI consciousness, novel physics) outright regardless of an individual post's merit, the same orthodoxy-over-discovery move it criticizes anti-misinformation platforms for making elsewhere.