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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.
by 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 agoI’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.