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I once had a scriptures class where I had to hit word count on an essay and replaced every instance of “Jesus” with “Jesus the only begotten Son of God who died

by arjie 3mo ago

I once had a scriptures class where I had to hit word count on an essay and replaced every instance of “Jesus” with “Jesus the only begotten Son of God who died on the cross so that we may be saved from our sins”. So, yes, humans can also expand text in a mechanical way. I just don’t want to read expanded text. So really the question is “is this text expanded?”. Pre-LLM very little was. Post-LLM much is and has certain distinct flavours that are detectable. But I’m happy to say that I also don’t like human expanded text and the content in OP certainly reads expanded. It’s like inlining functions everywhere and then writing unrelated comments around them. Not interesting. After all, if I just want to read text there are reams of content marketing blog posts and SEO keyword concatenations that I could go read. Or to put it in a different way: SaaS dropshipping shemale singles near you this one mother found a puppy buy crypto toys cheap car loans zero down furniture sale foreclosure mesothelioma lawyers car Trump USAID ethereum get rich quick

AnimalMuppet 3mo ago
Hmm. Expanded text. You have just explained why I hate the writing style of the New Yorker. And when you put it that way, it makes me think of steganography. That's a form of "expanding" the text, and it seems like it might be a useful way to think about the problem. Somewhere hidden in that wall of text is an actual message... but I don't want to have to go find it.
- arjie 3mo ago
  I’m fond of the New Yorker’s fiction section but there is this genre of “long-form writing” purporting to be non-fiction which is just text expansion that I too dislike. I think The Atlantic is probably the top example of this and I, like you, cannot stand it. Write into the LLM summarizer machine if I feel the slightest inclination to read it, which I usually don’t. I like this “steganography” interpretation.

by arjie 3mo ago

AnimalMuppet 3mo ago

Hmm. Expanded text. You have just explained why I hate the writing style of the New Yorker. And when you put it that way, it makes me think of steganography. That's a form of "expanding" the text, and it seems like it might be a useful way to think about the problem. Somewhere hidden in that wall of text is an actual message... but I don't want to have to go find it.

arjie 3mo ago
I’m fond of the New Yorker’s fiction section but there is this genre of “long-form writing” purporting to be non-fiction which is just text expansion that I too dislike. I think The Atlantic is probably the top example of this and I, like you, cannot stand it. Write into the LLM summarizer machine if I feel the slightest inclination to read it, which I usually don’t. I like this “steganography” interpretation.