[jrflowers]

Tl;dr:

Over sixteen thousand words about how the author doesn’t really use language models very much but might in the future

[amoss]

I would imagine that the target audience has an attention span and literacy level that allows reading sixteen thousand words without too much trouble.

[jrflowers]

I like the idea that people are downvoting and not rebutting a summary because they think that an accurate summary will cause folks to not read sixteen thousand words that they would otherwise. It’s kind of agreement by dissent

[AnimalMuppet]

Either they actually wrote all that on their own, or they had an LLM spew it. Either way, why? They had a valid point; you don't have to use LLMs to write your stuff. Why bury that point in this insane pile of verbiage?

But thanks for saving the rest of us. This is why I read the comments first.

[logicprog]

Because it was, even if you disagree with it, beautifully written, emotionally resonant, full of funny jokes and cute stories and metaphors, and states well — and encapsulates — all of the nuances and sub-arguments of its side of the argument?

[mirawelner]

...because reading and writing well-written prose is meaningful and enjoyable?

It feels like half the people here do not read or write in their free time, which would be understandable if this were not primarily a site for software engineers who write (sorta) as a job

[xigoi]

Because the article says much more than that and your LLM summary misses all the nuance.

[jrflowers]

>Either they actually wrote all that on their own, or they had an LLM spew it. Either way, why?

I mostly skimmed it. It’s entirely feasible that the author buried a confession about getting away with manslaughter or whatever that I missed somewhere in a few sentences in the middle of that novella though. It does begin with several paragraphs essentially telling you not to read the post and has a lot of completely unnecessary exposition (for example the section on Luddites)

Edit: I want to point out that I went over the post with my own eyeballs and brain

[wewewedxfgdf]

A tweet might have sufficed?

[adampunk]

Bully for them I guess. Thanks for finishing that.