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Over a decade ago, I posted A Pandeist responds to Lewis Loflin "Debunking Panendeism"; and while I don't know if Loflin took the criticism leveled there to heart, he seems to have realized his original work was sufficiently deficient to need to be given another try, posting a rewritten essay at the same address -- only this time, he enlisted a superior intellect, with an acknowledgment at the end that "Grok, an AI by xAI, helped smooth this takedown."

The problem is that Grok is complete shit when it comes to writing stuff of this sort in the English language. I've tooled around with Grok enough myself to know, so much so that as I was reading Loflin's "new" essay, I thought to myself, "this isn't writing, this is Grok" before I ever saw the acknowledgement to that effect.

A typical selection of the badness of Grok's writing is on display here:

That’s Voltaire’s Prime Moveratheist

I had a bonfire up at the spot at the tail end of winter. I invited some local friends and all the direct neighbors, and held court outside of the shipping container with a table of refreshments as visitors trickled in by ones and twos throughout the day. The pile, a massive cone of spoils from the logging, was ready to go up after being tarped over to dry for over a year. A cardboard box full of dryer lint, scrapwood, and old motor oil was chucked up top, and last year's gasoline was dribbled down in a

Antinatalism is the philosophical belief that procreation is morally unjustifiable. It applies primarily to human procreation, though some antinatalists apply these principles to all sentient life. Antinatalism as a concept extends far back into human history, and has been grappled with, in one way or another, by many of the world's religious traditions. Modern Philosopher David Benatar sums up antinatalism nicely in a series of axiological deductions, found in his book, "Better Never to

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