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A well written article, but it could probably have been like 10% of the length.
by fergie 2y ago
A well written article, but it could probably have been like 10% of the length.
- williamdclt 2y agoI wonder how much shorter Crime and Punishment could have been made!
- CamperBob2 2y agoYou can always run it through an LLM to create a summary of any desired length. Never know what you'll be missing, though. You might actually enjoy the experience of reading the original article yourself. Try it, see how it goes?
- gwern 2y agoAssuming the summary is accurate. Which I'm not sure is the case - as it happens, yesterday an actual LLM summary of OP struck me as missing important parts: https://www.reddit.com/r/Longreads/comments/1g8so93/a_controversial_rarebook_dealer_tries_to_rewrite/lt3e894/?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/Longreads/comments/1g8so93/a_contro...
- CamperBob2 2y agoIt's accurate but not deep enough. It's pretty important to specify the summary length you're after, in my experience, rather than just leaving it up to the model. I asked GPT4o explicitly for an 800-word summary just now, roughly one page of single-spaced text, and I really don't see how it could have done much better: https://chatgpt.com/share/671810c7-477c-800b-a752-376ce6074ace https://chatgpt.com/share/671810c7-477c-800b-a752-376ce6074a...