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> However, we are still at a stage of divergent opinions without any definitive conclusion. Okay, I know picking people's sentences apart has fallen out of fas
by lutusp 3y ago
> However, we are still at a stage of divergent opinions without any definitive conclusion.
Okay, I know picking people's sentences apart has fallen out of fashion, but:
"Divergent opinions" are ... opinions.
A "definitive conclusion" is ... a conclusion.
I see more examples, but I wanted to make a point: I miss the days when fewer words conveyed more meaning. From the classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style: "Make every word count."
About brevity of expression, I must add this (possibly apocryphal) story about Ernest Hemingway. In the 1920s Hemingway and his Paris friends had a contest: who could write the shortest readable short story? Hemingway won with this entry:
For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.
- apineda 3y agoFrom an alternative viewpoint, this could be seen as descriptive of a community. Opinions could be shared or not, hence "divergent" as an adjective to describe the community. Similar with conclusions people have drawn and "definitive" may refer to a larger consensus among the community. Fun to think about.
- 93po 3y agoThe author uses "divergent opinions" to provide balance, showing both skeptics and supporters of LLMs in data analysis. Similarly, the notion of a definitive conclusion highlights that while conclusions may exist, they might lack solid foundations. Also just for you I copied and pasted my original comment into ChatGPT to make it more brief ;) as an aside, asking chatGPT 3.5 to make similar stories to "For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn." had very bad results and completely failed to do a single meaningful example of "common item with uncommon description that tells a story"