My Plagiarism

A short meta-reflection: rereading his previous (plagiarism-themed) post, Scott realizes he unconsciously lifted the structure of a Miss Manners line ('when the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating' -> his 'they grasp it so deeply ... it is no longer called plagiarism'). Uses it to argue that all writing -- and one's style, worldview, and reasoning -- is a 'slurry' of everything one has read, blended at varying coarseness; usually fine-blended into originality, occasionally coarse enough that identifiable chunks show through. Tagged 'ai,' drawing the parallel to how models blend their inputs.

Quality 60 · Strong. Solid/Strong edge (60). A charming, self-aware micro-essay with a genuinely interesting (and, re LLMs, prescient) idea -- originality vs plagiarism as a blending-coarseness spectrum. Capped by its brevity (486 words) and single-observation scope.

Claude’s paradigm shift 42 · Moderate. Moderate (42). The blending-coarseness framing of originality, plus the AI parallel, is a mildly fresh angle.

Real-world impact 1 · Negligible. 1 -- negligible. A short writing-craft/meta reflection; within-blog, no material footprint.