I of course understand the joke, but I’ll give someone else the pleasure of explaining it…

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    When posting links to helpful websites rather than answering the question yourself, it’s a good idea to actually read the answer on the helpful website first.

    You know, in case there’s a big banner across the top saying “This answer is a useless pile of trash generated by an LLM, please ignore it” (mildly paraphrasing).

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      The header on explainxkcd is always something funny, because the volunteers are not yet ready to say thst they habe finished the explanation.

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      The LLM answer was deleted even before I posted the link. As mentioned the header is always a joke, and in this case it’s referencing that, but over the next few days I expect that link to become increasingly useful.

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        I mean, it wasn’t deleted before you posted the link, because I clicked the link and saw it, but I do see that it’s been updated now.

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          I mean the actual text that was LLM generated was deleted. The header had been left mentioning it as a joke. Note the discussion section:

          “… But I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume this mostly vapid explanation is as good as no explanation, and remove it for now. 108.162.216.132 05:42, 2 January 2025 (UTC)