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At whose expense?
by nextworddev 1y ago
At whose expense?
- Funes- 1y agoEveryone's.
- Zak 1y agoThe article offers several options depending on the question's perspective. The commercial answer would be publishers of longer-form content, but the more sociologically important one would be that it is harming the ability of the average person to engage with long-form information, making the phenomenon costly to the whole world.
- tsunamifury 1y agoThe idea that long form = good is absurd and this type of thinking shows how over-confident this author is in their own intelligence. Information compression and storage is the baseline of our species evolution.
- Zak 1y agoAhh, it seems I made my comment too short. I don't think that long-form content is always superior to short, but I do think overconsumption of short-form content reduces peoples' ability to handle irreducible complexity.
- tsunamifury 1y agoAgree the act of compression itself is likely a huge part of intelligence. Also appreciate the joke.