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"...the value isn't compression. It's structure." "...that consistency is real value." "A few findings...are worth flagging here." I know this smell. I'm not
by encody 5mo ago
"...the value isn't compression. It's structure."
"...that consistency is real value."
"A few findings...are worth flagging here."
I know this smell. I'm not sure if this is AI or merely the natural result of overwhelming immersion in AI output that is "backpropagating" its way into organic communication.
On a completely related note, I've been enjoying classic fiction a lot more recently. Moby Dick is actually pretty funny.
- adrianN 5mo agoA long time ago I slogged through a complete edition of Moby Dick and found it really difficult to read. There are many good passages but they are hidden between endless pages about things that don’t move the plot forward and are only interesting from a sort of historian’s perspective, e.g. treatises about the understanding of whale biology at the time.
- tkgally 5mo agoI couldn’t get through the book, either, the first couple of times I tried to read it. But on my third attempt I came to think that the obsession with whales itself, both Ahab’s and the author’s, was maybe more important than the plot. In any case, it’s a strange, fascinating book.
- abrookewood 5mo agoI'm stuck on my first attempt. Maybe I'll try again, but it is very rare for me to not finish a book.
- tkgally 5mo agoI should have noted that it was twenty years between my second, unsuccessful attempt at the book and my ultimately successful one. Maybe sometimes one has to become a different person to get it.
- abrookewood 5mo agoYou give me hope!
- triage8004 5mo agoCatch-22 is hilarious