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Story begins: >The appendix is not, in fact, useless >It was the first day of spring break in 1992 in Phoenix, and 12-year-old Heather Smith was excited for h
by IAmNotACellist 3y ago
Story begins:
>The appendix is not, in fact, useless
>It was the first day of spring break in 1992 in Phoenix, and 12-year-old Heather Smith was excited for her family's upcoming ski trip...
Immediate skip.
- notfed 3y agoThis is why many of us are excited about LLMs. This.
- knodi123 3y ago"Finally, I'll be able to automate turning a short science paragraph into a 10 page story with human interest content!"
- lobsterthief 3y agoYep, it goes both ways.
- delfinom 3y ago* with additional fluff content because Google mandated it to show up in search results. Seriously, the reason why all recipe sites online suddenly became autobiographies was a policy change by google prioritizing such.
- quickthrower2 3y agoUntil Google uses an LLM on every indexed entry. Then people might start writing stuff for that which might correlate more with what users want to read!
- avg_dev 3y agoI wish an LLM had obviated this thread from the discussion
- leptons 3y agoSo you won't have to write 10 paragraphs of inane filler, a computer will do it for you?
- sva_ 3y agoAlmost like they were going to suggest their cooking recipe 20 paragraphs later.
- adolph 3y ago> The human appendix averages 9 cm (3.5 in) in length . . . . The diameter of the appendix is 6 mm (0.24 in) . . . You'd need a bunch of appendii for a meal. Maybe one could pan fry them with mushrooms and serve atop pasta.
- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoNo, no. You stuff it. It's the filet mignon of sausage casing.
- Culonavirus 3y agoStuff it with ground placenta and herbs.
- dvsfish 3y agoThat's very funny, thanks for that one haha :)
- fngjdflmdflg 3y ago+1. I was bit by an article yesterday[0] whose content begins 13 paragraphs in. Seems like this article starts only seven, shorter paragraphs in, which is more tolerable but still annoying. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39248326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39248326
- delecti 3y agoAt least that one presented itself as a story they were telling, rather than a simple factual answer. A headline about an anatomy professor detailing the uses of the appendix doesn't seem like it'll be a meandering tale about that professor's personal experience suffering with appendicitis more than 30 years ago.
- shortrounddev2 3y agoHumans retain knowledge better if it's attached to a story
- jedberg 3y agoLuckily they labeled the sections so I just skipped to the middle with all the good stuff.
- pentae 3y agoThis is what happens when content is curated for Google and not human beings
- pcchristie 3y agoHow does Google preference articles with these sorts of framings/intros?
- ghosty141 3y agoWhats the issue? Its just 1 small paragraph that goves a bit of background about the researcher. This isnt a scientific paper so a tiny bit of fluff isnt so bad.