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You didn't really explain what that does for you. Why do you paste it into an LLM?

zozbot234 6mo ago
I'm not sure if you're familiar with public domain texts from around the 19th or early 20th century, but they were not intended to be skimmed or speed-read the way we'd skim a modern text prior to getting into a more attentive close-reading. Even their short magazine articles were actually the near-equivalent to our scholarly papers, and were often read aloud at length in parlor gatherings. So having a LLM split the text into manageable sections for you and provide a hint of what each lengthy wall-of-text paragraph will be about is actually a huge gain in readability.
- smallerize 6mo ago
  Oh well that was the whole point to me. If I wanted to read something that's not from 1911 I could just do that lol
- keane 6mo ago
  Mostly from a bit further back but you might enjoy https://earlymoderntexts.com/texts https://earlymoderntexts.com/texts
- BigTTYGothGF 6mo ago
  The trick is to have a basic level of literacy and then you don't need the machine to chew it up for you like a mother bird.
- qmr 6mo ago
  > So having a LLM split the text into manageable sections for you and provide a hint of what each lengthy wall-of-text paragraph will be about is actually a huge gain in readability. Perhaps your attention span needs improvement.
- Dylan16807 6mo ago
  So before you were talking about summarizing whole articles and asking the LLM to find the things that would be "beyond the pale", but now you're just suggesting using it to insert paragraph breaks and section headings?
  - zozbot234 6mo ago
    The LLM will easily do both for you. Particularly the thinking it does when constructing the summary generally involves a structured close reading of your text, and you can easily think of it as providing "paragraph breaks and section headings".
    - smallerize 6mo ago
      I think the word "summarization" might be throwing people off. This is like an expansion.
    - Dylan16807 6mo ago
      Sure it could do both, but the question is what are you suggesting? If you're suggesting it alter the text beyond organizing it, people are going to be upset. And your first suggestion sounded like that.

I'm not sure if you're familiar with public domain texts from around the 19th or early 20th century, but they were not intended to be skimmed or speed-read the way we'd skim a modern text prior to getting into a more attentive close-reading. Even their short magazine articles were actually the near-equivalent to our scholarly papers, and were often read aloud at length in parlor gatherings. So having a LLM split the text into manageable sections for you and provide a hint of what each lengthy wall-of-text paragraph will be about is actually a huge gain in readability.

smallerize 6mo ago
Oh well that was the whole point to me. If I wanted to read something that's not from 1911 I could just do that lol
keane 6mo ago
Mostly from a bit further back but you might enjoy https://earlymoderntexts.com/texts https://earlymoderntexts.com/texts
BigTTYGothGF 6mo ago
The trick is to have a basic level of literacy and then you don't need the machine to chew it up for you like a mother bird.
qmr 6mo ago
> So having a LLM split the text into manageable sections for you and provide a hint of what each lengthy wall-of-text paragraph will be about is actually a huge gain in readability. Perhaps your attention span needs improvement.
Dylan16807 6mo ago
So before you were talking about summarizing whole articles and asking the LLM to find the things that would be "beyond the pale", but now you're just suggesting using it to insert paragraph breaks and section headings?
- zozbot234 6mo ago
  The LLM will easily do both for you. Particularly the thinking it does when constructing the summary generally involves a structured close reading of your text, and you can easily think of it as providing "paragraph breaks and section headings".
  - smallerize 6mo ago
    I think the word "summarization" might be throwing people off. This is like an expansion.
  - Dylan16807 6mo ago
    Sure it could do both, but the question is what are you suggesting? If you're suggesting it alter the text beyond organizing it, people are going to be upset. And your first suggestion sounded like that.