Interestingly (refreshingly?) pg's succinctness doesn't come naturally. Early iterations of sentences are riddled with filler words - "that", "immediately", "ve

Interestingly (refreshingly?) pg's succinctness doesn't come naturally. Early iterations of sentences are riddled with filler words - "that", "immediately", "very" - which are culled. So the trick is to go back and specifically look for words which can be deleted. It looks like pg tends to refine sentences before moving to the next one. Consider the "I'm not claiming that you only need..." line near the beginning, which went through a ton of revision before being nixed. And at the end of the essay, everything was revised again. This contrasts with how I sometimes wrote essays in school: grid out lots of paragraphs, meet my word length requirement, and then go back and revise. Kinda like a waterfall method. This would be a neat feature for, say, HN comments. April Fool's day or something. It'd be fun to see the history of a given comment. Or the thought process behind it. It might even yield interesting metrics: maybe a heavily-edited comment would indicate a higher quality than one which was dashed off, regardless of length.